Heartland's Joe Bast lashes out at Institute's own "friends"
Wed, 2012-05-16 16:51Richard Littlemore Richard Littlemore's
picture  Heartland's Joe Bast lashes out at Institute's own
"friends"   In a letter to one of the "scholars" who have asked
to be removed from the list of "Heartland experts"
(BigCityLiberal is keeping a good headcount here), Bast
complains that his institute has always tried to stay "above the
fray," and it's now being victimized "by ideological extremists
as part of the ongoing attack on us and our donors."  In that
light, Bast scolds his former supporter:   But what tactics?
Heartland started all this with a billboard campaign advocating
a message that "the most prominent advocates of global warming
aren't scientists. They are murderers, tyrants and madmen." The
single billboard that actually featured in the campaign showed a
picture of the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, with a sign saying, "I
still believe in global warming. Do you?"  Bast now says of that
image: "We took it down immediate