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Obama Czar Rattner Decries 'Climate-Change Deniers'—But Flies Big Private Jet
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 01/29/2013 9:07:15 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

I hate to criticize a fellow pilot, but when one engages in such sky-high hypocrisy, well . . .

On Morning Joe today, former Obama car czar Steve Rattner, a very successful hedge fund manager, decried "climate-change denier[s]." This is the same Rattner who, at last report, owned a "15,000-square-foot mansion on Martha’s Vineyard, to which [he] flies regularly on a Dassault Falcon 2000 jet [see file photo] he pilots himself." Rattner wrung his hands over the fact that we're "putting millions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere every day." But just earlier this week, the New York Times ran a story entitled "Your Biggest Carbon Sin May Be Air Travel."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: climatechange; czar; decries; jet; morningjoe; obama; privatejet; rattner; steverattner

1 posted on 01/29/2013 9:07:22 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: netmilsmom; Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; Diogenesis; MEG33; PGalt; ...

Let the little people reduce their carbon footprint! Hypocrisy ping to the Today show list.


2 posted on 01/29/2013 9:09:06 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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To: netmilsmom; Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; Diogenesis; MEG33; PGalt; ...

Let the little people reduce their carbon footprint! Hypocrisy ping to the Today show list.


3 posted on 01/29/2013 9:09:32 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

It is only us little people that are supposed to give up the technology that eases our lives for a reasonable price. We must sacrifice so that our BETTERS may have the freedom to use any all technology to travel to anywhere on the globe to warn us about using the same technology ourselves. Remember some Animals are more equal than others.


4 posted on 01/29/2013 9:12:47 AM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

“...some animals are more equal than others...”


6 posted on 01/29/2013 9:16:03 AM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Our President took two round trips to Hawaii in ten days.

When he flies it isn’t one plane in the air either, but several.

Then think of all the pollution from the gunpowder he burns shooting skeet at Camp David.I bet his Golf cart runs off gas too.


8 posted on 01/29/2013 9:21:09 AM PST by Venturer
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
It's like Ted Turner Jr (R-Charelston, SC), who is running for Tim Scott's vacant seat, said about his liberal daddy:

“He drives a Prius to the Challenger (one of Ted's big private jetliners).”

9 posted on 01/29/2013 9:24:52 AM PST by Happy Rain
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To: who knows what evil?

Is this the same RATner that likes to quote chairman mao? I believe it’s the one that starts with “government begins at the muzzle of a gun”??


10 posted on 01/29/2013 9:34:40 AM PST by duffee (NO poll tax, NO tax on firearms, ammunition or gun safes. NO gun free zones)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Steve Rattner, supporter of death panels, Wally Cox without a sense of humor, and a major hypocrite. But why be critical?


11 posted on 01/29/2013 9:36:22 AM PST by miss marmelstein ( Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: who knows what evil?

And 90% of leftists accept that as right and necessary.


12 posted on 01/29/2013 9:37:34 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The serfs must sacrifice to serve their masters.


13 posted on 01/29/2013 9:38:03 AM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Rattner? Figures.
14 posted on 01/29/2013 9:52:45 AM PST by JPG (Stay strong.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Rules for thee, but not for me.


15 posted on 01/29/2013 10:15:35 AM PST by YHAOS
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Climate Change is all about making the rich richer and the poor poorer. Just ask Al Gore. And no, they do not care what happens to the poor.


16 posted on 01/29/2013 11:38:13 AM PST by justa-hairyape
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To: reg45
The serfs must sacrifice to serve their masters.

True statement, but not in the way you're implying. The fact is, these czars and cronies of Obama's don't give one whit about being "green." They only say that in order to help the shadow-government masters gain more and more control of the people. The object is to strangle the free market while taxing business and people more. The media is perfectly okay with that.

17 posted on 01/29/2013 2:14:11 PM PST by subterfuge (CBS NBC ABC FOX AP-- all no different than Pravda.)
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