More Globe Bias
Peter J. Howe checks in today with a story about Bush 41 installing a windmill at his Maine Home.
Of course no story on the Bushes can be approved for publication in the Globe without some negative slant. In this case, Howe snidely notes:
his choice of watercraft remains a 28-foot Cigarette speedboat powered by two gas-chugging 185-horsepower engines.
And of course a swipe at Bush 43 always is in order:
His son may be known as a big friend to Big Oil
What you will never read in the Globe and what I’m sure will come as a surprise to everyone who reads this is that Bush 43 is the most environmentally friendly politician in history when it comes to his own home.
The 4,000-square-foot house is a model of environmental rectitude.
Geothermal heat pumps located in a central closet circulate water through pipes buried 300 feet deep in the ground where the temperature is a constant 67 degrees; the water heats the house in the winter and cools it in the summer. Systems such as the one in this “eco-friendly” dwelling use about 25% of the electricity that traditional heating and cooling systems utilize.
A 25,000-gallon underground cistern collects rainwater gathered from roof runs; wastewater from sinks, toilets and showers goes into underground purifying tanks and is also funneled into the cistern. The water from the cistern is used to irrigate the landscaping surrounding the four-bedroom home. Plants and flowers native to the high prairie area blend the structure into the surrounding ecosystem.
No, this is not the home of some eccentrically wealthy eco-freak trying to shame his fellow citizens into following the pristineness of his self-righteous example. And no, it is not the wilderness retreat of the Sierra Club or the Natural Resources Defense Council, a haven where tree-huggers plot political strategy.
This is President George W. Bush’s “Texas White House” outside the small town of Crawford.
I’m skipping the link since the rest of the article is just tree-hugging nonsense.
Nope, no mention of this in the mainstream press. Even a story about Bush 41 installing a windmill has to include slaps at his “gas guzzling cigarette boat” and his “friend of big oil son”.
What about the Globe’s favorite son, John Kerry? What is his “choice of watercraft”? He of the enviromentalists wet dream of a book “This Moment on Earth”.
From his web site:
Now, in this passionate and personal book, Teresa and John shine the spotlight on an inspiring cross-section of these new environmental pioneers and offer a guide on how you too can get involved to protect the world that we all know and love.
His choice of watercraft? Do they make Hybrid boats? Surely Kerry must be a fan of sailing on the cool breezes of Nantucket sound, emitting nary an ounce of carbon. Right? RIGHT?????
Wrong. Like algore and other big mouth do as I say not as I do limousine Liberals, Kerry does not walk the talk. That’s for others, not the aristocrats like him.
On Nantucket, Kerry has 4 boats docked/moored within 1/2 mile of each other. 2 small Boston Whalers moored a few hundred feet off the beach in front of his seconds wife’s first husband’s house along with a “cigarrete boat” with gas guzzling twin 225 Yamaha engines. (He used to have American made Mercury’s on board until he lost the presidential election. Now it’s Japanese made Yamaha’s)
He also has a 40 some odd foot Hinkley docked at The White Elephant Hotel inside Nantucket Harbor. 4 boats for 1 family. All spewing carbon and guzzling fuel. And this is just 1 of his houses. There’s the Beacon Hill house. The Idaho house. The Private Jet. A fleet of jeeps/suv’s. You get the picture.
Bush 41 puts up a windmill and gets snide commentary from Peter Howe in the Globe about his 1 boat. John Kerry writes a book on environmental activism while spitting out Carbon faster than Monica Lewinsky spit out Bill Clinton and not a word out of the Globe on the hypocrisy.
Just more of the same from The Globe.