America's 25 Coldest Cities

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[DManA]

Media Gallery: America's coldest Cities

[DManA]

Folks here are miffed that we only placed 9th.

[ken5050]

Last few days..Tampa might make the list...

[Ev Reeman]

By: Mark Tapscott 12/15/10 6:03 PM
Editorial Page Editor
You think the most essential purpose of journalism and the reason the Founders included freedom of the press in the First Amendment was to insure independent reporting about government, politicians, and public policy issues, right?
Well, you must be wrong because Fox News Washington Bureau Chief Bill Sammon is getting a raft of garbage from liberal activists masquerading as journalists at Media Matters, some liberal bloggers and a scattering of real journalists who ought to know better.
Why? Politico’s headline captures the controversy perfectly: “Fox editor urged climate skepticism.”
A journalist being skeptical? Who would ever have thought such a thing could be. I don’t know, maybe anybody who has heard this (attributed long ago to a crusty desk editor at the illustrious City News Bureau in Chicago): “If your mother tells you she loves you, check it out.”
In other words, we journalists are paid to BE SKEPTICAL.
For the record, here’s what Sammon said in a Dec. 8, 2009, memo to his reporting staff shortly after the Climategate global warming email scandal erupted:
“Given the controversy over the veracity of climate change data, we should refrain from asserting that the planet has warmed (or cooled) in any given period without IMMEDIATELY pointing out that such theories are based upon data that critics have called into question. It is not our place as journalists to assert such notions as facts, especially as this debate intensifies.”
Now I am from out of town and all, but Sammon’s injuction sounds to me exactly like what editors are supposed to tell their charges – report what A claims and what B says about what A claims, but keep your personal views about both A and B out of it.
Note that Sammon includes both those who say the planet has warmed – i.e. global warming advocates – and those who claim the opposite, that the planet has cooled – global warming critics. How much more even-handed – dare I say it, fair and balanced? – can the guy be?
There is also the factual nature of Sammon’s statement that critics question data. Critics DO question the data for a warming planet. He doesn’t demand that his reporters agree with the critics about the data or tell viewers that the critics are right and the global warming advocates are wrong.
Yet, Salon’s headline claims the Fox news executive was “again caught demanding conservative spin.” And the lead that follows makes another false statement, claiming Sammon directed his “anchors and reporters to adopt right-wing spin when discussing the news.”
Are these people so arrogant as to think the rest of us are too stupid to see that Salon totally and completely misrepresented Sammon’s comment?
The back story here, of course, is that Media Matters is doing exactly what billionaire radical liberal financier George Soros paid it $1 million to do, which is to trash Fox News at every opportunity no matter what the facts might be in any given situation.
Watching this campaign unfold, it becomes clear that Fox News drives today’s extremist liberals into the same sort of eye-bulging, irrational, spittle-flying, blind rage that we saw back in the 1950s from the far right whack-jobs in the John Birch Society who claimed Ike was either a fool or a card-carrying commie.
Now, just so everybody reading this knows: Sammon is a former White House reporter for The Examiner. I count him as a friend, a respected colleague and a solid journalist. And Fox News puts me in front of a camera as a talking head once in a while.
So how long you think it will be before Sammon’s critics claim my comments here aren’t credible as a result? The reality is that the left-leaning MSNBC folks sit me down in front of their cameras to bloviate far more frequently than Fox does. Go figure.
So here’s something to ponder when the paid Fox detractors at Media Matters tell you Sammon and I are both former Washington Timesmen and are thus Republican mouthpieces:
I was inducted into the First Amendment Center’s Freedom of Information Hall of Fame a few years ago. I mention this not to boast, but because I was among a bunch of very smart people for whom I have great respect - even though they came predominantly from the liberal side of things.
But I don’t recall seeing anybody from Media Matters among the inductees.

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2010/12/mark-tapscott-oh-horror-fox-bureau-chief-told-reporters-be-skeptical#ixzz18HVYtGpu

[Biggirl]

Hartford, CT be one of those cites. Not surprised at all.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

There must have been a population requirement to get on the list. You can’t tell me that Sioux City Iowa is colder than I-Falls Minnesota.....

[DManA]

The DailyBeast could have a law suit on their hands. You don’t mess with those I-Falls folks when it comes to their cold.

[Uncle Miltie]

Fargo is #4, doncha know. Well, there you go there then now eh?

[who knows what evil?]

Can someone post the list? I really don’t want to click on a link to that site...

[fullchroma]

Beautiful images of all the chilly cities EXCEPT Wasilla Alaska (#14) which features a remarkably ugly generic shopping area. Harris-Teeter, Fred Meyer and Blockbuster really say: ALASKA.

[mylife]

I love hiking in the snow in winter, out in the woods on a sunny windless day.

[Domandred]

My folks just moved to Bismarck, ND (#3) two months ago. They’ll be coming to Boise, ID for balmy warm weather.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

There’s that joke about the old farmer from Moorehead, MN, who moved to Fargo (just across the Red River) because he couldn’t stand Minnesota winters.

[Freee-dame]

Beautiful images of all the chilly cities EXCEPT Wasilla Alaska (#14) which features a remarkably ugly generic shopping area.

Media bias and hatred for Sarah Palin is so pervasive. Not even the weather channel on TV is a safe haven from it any more.

[Jack Hydrazine]

1699
(parody of “1999” by The Artist Formerly Known as Prince)
Sing along http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63z7dFcgraA

I was textin’ when I wrote this
Forgive me if it goes astray

But when I woke up this mornin’
Coulda sworn it was the Earth’s Day

The sky was all snowy
Granola peeps protestin’ everywhere

Tryin’ 2 run from the AGdub
U know I didn’t even care

‘Cuz they say one seven zero zero protest over
Doh! Out of time
So tonight I’m gonna ice skate like it’s 1699

I was skiing when I wrote this
So sue me if I go 2 fast

But ice is just a party
And ice wasn’t meant 2 last

Warming is all around us
My mind says prepare 2 fight

So if I gotta die
I’m gonna listen 2 Al Gore tonight

Yeah, they say one seven zero zero protest over
Doh! Out of time
So tonight I’m gonna ice skate like it’s 1699
Yeah

Lemme tell ya somethin’
If U didn’t come 2 protest
Don’t bother knockin’ on my door
Al goes a’lying on the TV
And baby he’s ready 2 roar

Yeah, everybody’s got a car
We could all die any day
But before I’ll let that happen
I’ll take their car away

They say one seven zero zero protest over
Doh! Out of time
We’re runnin’ outta time
So tonight we gonna, we gonna (Tonight I’m gonna ice skate like it’s 1699)

Say it 1 more time
One seven zero zero protest over
Doh! Out of time
No, no
So tonight we gonna, we gonna (Tonight I’m gonna ice skate like it’s 1699)

Alright, it’s 1699
You say it, 1699
1699
1699 don’t stop, don’t stop, say it 1 more time

One seven zero zero protest over
Doh! out of time
Yeah, Yeah
So tonight we gonna, we gonna (Tonight I’m gonna ice skate like it’s 1699)

Yeah, 1699
Don’tcha wanna go
1699
Don’tcha wanna go
1699
We could all die any day
I do wanna die
rather than breathe my life away

[Jack Hydrazine]

GUESS WHAT?!?!? The planet’s got a fever! And the only prescription...is more cowbell!

[maine yankee]

I love hiking in the snow in winter, out in the woods on a sunny windless day.

Two winters ago we did the backcountry trail at both Arches and Canyon lands. Very easy to do with cramp-ons and poles.

Plenty of sunshine. Nobody in the park. Went hours without seeing another person.

[ApplegateRanch]

No list.

25 separate, ranking-ordered, pages, one city per page.

Ad server bonanaza for them; usless to anyone interested in information.

I was willing to give them one rare click, but this is a game I don’t play.

[who knows what evil?]

I was willing to give them one rare click, but this is a game I don’t play.

Seen that before...not playing that game, either.

[ASOC]

LOL

Ft Yukon hit -53 this last week, gonna get real cold soon....

[Sawdring]

Embarrass always seems to be the coldest in Minnesota.