DeSmogBlog parody hits the target
DeSmogBlog — a nasty Web site that exists wholly for the purpose of smearing global warming skeptics in general and the Heartland Institute in particular — gets its due in a Web site parody:
TORONTO — Heard about the environmental activist Web site DeSmogBlog? Don’t miss its parody site DeSoggyBog.
DeSoggyBog spoofs the real site with declarations such as: “You’re a pack of miserable liars” and “If you disagree with us you’re scum.”
Like the tyrannical Dolores Umbridge in the fifth Harry Potter novel, DeSoggyBog thinks those with alternative points-of-view should be compelled to write: “I must not tell lies.”
The parody site was created by Donna Laframboise, a former Vice President of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. “DeSmogBlog is the ugly underbelly of the global warming movement,” says Ms. Laframboise. “This is a Website that repudiates free speech on every page – in the same breath that it accuses others of undermining democracy.”
A paragraph-by-paragraph critique of DeSmogBlog’s anti-free-speech proclamations appears here.
Adds Ms. Laframboise: “When global warming activists insist their cause is more important than other people’s free speech, we all need to worry.”
Ms. Laframboise is also the creator of NOconsensus.org, which she describes as working notes for her forthcoming book: Not So Fast: 10 Things You Need to Know About the Global Warming Debate.
Jim Peden says:
September 1st, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Many a truth is spoken in jest. I have consistently observed that those who have absolutely no scientific basis for Anthropogenic Global Warming Alarmism ( or Cooling, or Whatever ) traditionally turn to Character Assassination or other forms of Ad Hominem attack. If you don’t like the message, attack the messenger. To date, the Great Global Warming Hoax has cost our economy about 31 Billion Dollars in seeking a cure for a nonexistent disease. Come to think of it, DeSmogBlog has all the characteristics of a disease….