Pete Ashdown's radio ads are gaining attention. The Republican host of Utah's highest rated radio show liked the radio ads and put Pete on the air this morning to talk about them. Also, today, Ashdown released his first video ads on the web.
Two days, two straight smart statements by Senator Orrin Hatch. While talking to a group of downwinders (residents of Southern Utah exposed to nuclear radiation during 30 years of nuclear testing in Southern Nevada), he said: "I am up for election and if there is someone who can do better, I'd like to meet the SOB."
Well, here is what Pete Ashdown thought about his deceased mother being called that name and other things Hatch said in the article.
In an interview published in today's Salt Lake Tribune, Hatch said this about global climate change: "In fact, let's call it science fiction." This was after he said he has read the authoritative treatise on climate change, Michael Crichton's NOVEL State of Fear and "took note of the scientific citations at the end of the book." The article also said: "Hatch said more research is needed and the politics need to be stripped from the discussion so decision-makers can zero in on the truth about climate change."
Another example of how Senator Hatch lives in Bizarro world: science fiction novels by a medical doctor are to be recognized as scientific; however, peer-reviewed wittings actual environmental scientists, meteorologists, climatologists, and others are to be dismissed as falsehoods. He also continues into the Bizarro world by wishing politics to be stripped from the discussion, but simultaneously injects political rhetoric into the discussion. I wonder if Orrin will come out in favor of dinosaur parks or warn us of Yul Brynner robots next.
In an amazing article, Senator Orrin Hatch, said Saturday: "'Nobody denies that [Saddam Hussein] was supporting al-Qaida.' In a clear attack on Democrats, Hatch added, 'Well, I shouldn't say nobody. Nobody with brains.'"
I haven't read the entire Senate Intelligence Committee report (which Hatch signed on to) regarding Pre-war intelligence, but I wonder what it said about that connection.
