John McCaslin's TownHall.com column today deals with an investigation by Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) who is on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. Seems Michael T. Eckhart, president of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) sent a rather nasty letter to Marlo Lewis of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) because Lewis is a global warming skeptic.
"It is my intention to destroy your career as a liar," Mr. Eckhart wrote. "If you produce one more editorial against climate change, I will launch a campaign against your professional integrity. I will call you a liar and charlatan to the Harvard community of which you and I are members. I will call you out as a man who has been bought by Corporate America. Go ahead, guy. Take me on."
More on how this person respects debate and honest disagreement:
He said he would give CEI, which advocates "sound science," 90 days to reverse its "position" on global warming, "or I will take every action I can think of to shut you down," including filing complaints with the Internal Revenue Service "on the basis that CEI is really a lobbyist for the energy industry."
People on the Right are frequently accused of the modern cardinal sin: intolerance. This illustrates that, at the very least, intolerance is just as rampant on the Left. In fact, while conservatives often adamantly disagree with liberals, seldom do you seem them seeking to "destroy" people or shut down other policy groups.
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