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On the Public Record blog: Nunes has the good sense to turn off his comments, at least.

Posted by: Maven on March 15, 2010 at 7:04 am

From the On the Public Record blog:

“t is hard to know whether Representative Devin Nunes writes his blog himself. The posts are all in the first person singular, and one should assume that someone claiming to write a blog is the real author. On the other hand, don’t elected people have staff for stuff like this? And he writes pretty good for an ag business major with a masters in agriculture. I sat in a lot of classes with ag majors and I didn’t come away thinking of them as writers. I wonder because I found his recent post deeply strange, and wanted to talk about what it reveals of the author.

First, the title:
Unnatural Greenies: The Two Faces of Radical Environmentalism

“Radical environmentalism” is an attempt at a new catchphrase, right? I’ve seen it around more in the past six months. I’m not sure what it is supposed to convey. Some combination of the Earth Liberation Front and Center for Biological Diversity, only in body paint? Is it in implied contrast to mainstream environmentalism, which the speaker can mostly accept, so long as it sticks to anti-litter campaigns and de-oiling birds? Supposed to imply that the speaker is reasonable and could treat with reasonable environmentalist, but not these radical ones? The opener, “Unnatural greenies”, only reinforces that, although I suspect it is more supposed to be clever. Like, greenies are supposed to be “natural”, but these aren’t, get it? Heh heh. … “

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March 15, 2010 · Filed Under Uncategorized

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