Archive for April 8th, 2008

Consider the source

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Matt at Pooflingers Anonymous has a post up about an event that seems almost foreign to someone living in the Deep South – a school is being sued because a teacher was allegedly critical of a student’s religion in the classroom.  I agree with Matt’s assessment – a teacher has no business either promoting or denigrating a religion in the classroom, since the teacher is in a position of power and is acting as a government employee.

The only problem I have with the story so far is the source: OneNewsNow.  It’s a site that, if I didn’t know better, I would have thought came from the same folks who brought us Landover Baptist.

Whether it’s a story about prayer in public schools, workplace restrictions on Christians or battles for biblical truth within our denominations, the American Family News Network (AFN) is here to tell you what the newsmakers are saying.

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At OneNewsNow.com, you will get your news from reporters you can trust to give the latest news without the liberal bias that characterizes so much of the “mainstream” media.

Workplace restrictions on Christians? In America? Where do they get this stuff? Anyway, I started poking around on the site, and thought I’d see what they thought about scientific matters.  This article caught my eye: Environmental expert chides media for reports on Antarctic ice breakage.

Although an ice chunk seven times larger than Manhattan has collapsed in the Antarctic, one environmental expert is saying there’s nothing to be alarmed about.

So who’s OneNewsNow’s environmental expert?

Marc Morano is the resident authority on global warming with the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works minority staff. He says media coverage of the ice collapse was both “shameful” and “embarrassing,”

With this guy being described as an “environmental expert” and a “resident authority” on climate, he must be a pretty impressive climate scientist, right?

Morano was “previously known as Rush Limbaugh’s ‘Man in Washington,’ as reporter and producer for the Rush Limbaugh Television Show

… which would certainly make him an expert on hot air.  How that makes him an expert in the field of climate science, I’m not certain.