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</div><div style="padding: 4px 50px 0px; position: relative;">climategate: </div><div style="padding: 4px 50px 0px; position: relative;">...As the words leave his fingers and become electric ones and zeros in the information cloud, other people start responding. One of the first is James Delingpole of London's Daily Telegraph: "If you own any shares in alternative-energy companies I should start dumping them NOW." Morano's Google alerts pick up the new tidbit and he slaps on another headline and adds it to his Web page. Then other people pick up his stuff and he writes about that and someone else writes about that until it's all swirling around like a digital dust devil in a Michael Crichton novel. Soon Morano's caution begins to fade:...</div><div style="padding: 4px 50px 0px; position: relative;"></div><div style="padding: 4px 50px 0px; position: relative;"> =SEE CLIMATEGATE amplify ecsalator eg NRO2X<div id="printHeader" style="font-size: small; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px 0px 10px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">http://www.esquire.com/features/marc-morano-0410</div><div id="printBody" style="font-size: small; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><div id="printHeadline" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 style="margin-bottom: 0.5em;">This Man Wants to Convince You Global Warming Is a Hoax</h1><h2 style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em;">Marc Morano broke the Swift Boat story and effectively stalled John Kerry's presidential run. Now he is working against an even bigger enemy: belief in climate change. Somehow, he seems to be winning.</h2><div id="byline" style="font-weight: bold;">By John H. Richardson</div></div><div class="firstPage" style="margin: 10px 0px;"><div class="imageContainer left" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;"><div class="imageCredit" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Marc MoranoMackenzie Stroh</div></div><div class="articleContent" style=""><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-left: 5px; float: right;">Early on the morning of November 17, Gavin Schmidt sat down at his computer and entered his password. It didn't work. Strange, he thought. He tried a few other accounts and none of them worked, either. Now he was alarmed. As a leading climatologist with NASA’s Goddard Institute in Manhattan, he’d been hacked before. He was used to e-mails from people who disapproved of his work, threatening e-mails that detailed the romantic life he was going to have in prison. So he knew what to do: He logged in via the Unix shell command.A second later, the computer logged him off — and locked him out. Someone was in there, fighting him in real time. Schmidt sent an emergency message to his Web server:"WE ARE BEING HACKED RIGHT NOW."When they started the system up again, hours later, Schmidt found a forged Web page and a link to a file holding thousands of what looked like private e-mails written by some leading climatologists who study global warming. In addition to being a massive theft, it was a dark joke. Because the Goddard Institute is the professional home of James Hansen, the scientist famous for first sounding the alarm on rising temperatures back in 1988, and these particular e-mails had been compiled as part of a bitter Freedom of Information fight launched by contrarians who insist that global warming is a hoax, the hacker was posting the e-mails as a malicious tweak. He came in via a misconfigured proxy server in Turkey that was on a list of the proxy servers people use if they want to hide their tracks.[C8 CARSON WIKI?]But the hacker had moved on. He'd been working on this for weeks, maybe longer, risking prison on charges of industrial espionage. A few hours later, he posted this note on a blog called The Air Vent:"We feel that climate science is, in the current situation, too important to be kept under wraps. We hereby release a random selection of correspondence, code, and documents. Hopefully it will give some insight into the science and the people behind it."This is a limited time offer, download now."Two days later, Marc Morano is riding up the Pacific Coast Highway in the back of a rental car, a big cheerful guy with five o'clock shadow that makes him look like Barney Rubble. He was eleven when his older brother got him a job on the Reagan campaign placing [BUYING TIME FOR ADS?] sound bites with radio stations, which eventually led to a job with Rush Limbaugh and three years as communications director for Senator James Inhofe, where he made the words Global warming is a hoax world famous. Now he's forty-one and he's enjoying the downtime between political speeches, catching glimpses of the California ocean — on these lecture tours, he just runs and runs and runs until all he wants is a quiet place to drink a beer and smoke a cigar.But a call comes in from Anthony Watts, a retired TV weatherman who runs one of the leading contrarian blogs, and he has astonishing news about some e-mails from theClimate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in England. There's explosive stuff there — in one, a scientist actually rejoices over a contrarian's death. How's that for scientific detachment? Another says he's using a trick to "hide the decline" in temperature. A trick!It's exactly what the contrarians have been saying for years. The leading global-warming scientists are scamming the world. Billions of dollars in green energy and CO2 restrictions and it all comes down to their reputations and their grant money.So Watts is posting a note on his Web site: "The details on this are still sketchy, we'll probably never know what went on. But it appears that University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit has been hacked and many many files have been released by the hacker or person unknown...""Many many" files is right. There are thousands of them, nearly a million words total. Fortunately, the hacker took the time to draw up an annotated list. Watts is posting some of the juiciest.The timing is perfect. The United Nations climate conference starts in Copenhagen in three weeks. The activists are pushing for a 40 percent cut in CO2 emissions within ten years, a revolutionary number. The eyes of the world are open wide and suddenly here's this tremendous gift: Climate-gate, they'll call it. With any luck, it will be just like the story that put Morano on the map, the one he wrote in a hurry late on a Friday afternoon in the spring of 2004 that was supposed to be the beginning of a vacation. He was working at the time for the right-wing CNS News service, and his boss wanted a pound of flesh before he left, as bosses do, so he made some calls and a contact suggested he call a guy named John O'Neill down in Texas. A few minutes later O'Neill was on the phone, sounding surprised. Yeah, he was leading a group called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, hundreds of them, all ready to declare that John Kerry was unfit to be commander in chief. Yeah, nineteen of them had actually served with Kerry. They even had his commanding officer, who said he'd had thorn pricks that were worse than some of Kerry's wounds.Morano knew it was big. He stayed late, digging through clips and calling Kerry's office for comment. "You asked for a pound of flesh," he told his editor. "I may have given you several."The story ran on Monday under the headline "KERRY UNFIT TO BE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF," SAY FORMER MILITARY COLLEAGUES, when Morano was down in North Carolina, at Nag's Head with his two baby girls. It blew up into international news, turning the Swift Boaters' press conference into a mob scene, the beginning of the end for Kerry, who simply didn't understand what he was up against. It didn't matter that the claims of the Swift Boaters would later be documented to be lavishly financed lies; the actual truth was a lumbering dinosaur in the face of a blitzkrieg. Morano followed it with stories like KERRY'S MEETING WITH COMMUNISTS VIOLATED U. S. LAW and FBI FILES SHOW KERRY MET WITH COMMUNISTS MORE THAN ONCE.But that was when he still had some institutional support behind him. Now he's all alone in a hotel room with a laptop, a phone, and a BlackBerry, and his only weapon is a Web site called <a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">ClimateDepot.com</a>.Listen and learn, pilgrim. This is how the information wars are fought in the age of the Internet, when an isolated outside voice can swing the debate and change the world. The story starts with Hansen's congressional testimony back in '88: "The greenhouse effect has been detected and it is changing our climate now." Within a few years, the fossil-fuel industry was fighting back with films like The Greening of Planet Earth, which said that more CO2 would actually be good for farmers. Big Oil and Big Coal funded sympathetic think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and the Competitive Enterprise Institute and also outright front groups with names like Friends of Science and the Global Climate Coalition, all of which came up with an endless stream of arguments for why global warming wasn't happening and even if it was, nothing should be done about it. Some of their criticisms were valid, like questioning the more extreme predictions for ocean-level rise or the dubious link to hurricanes, and they were certainly right to bring up the cost-benefit analysis of cap-and-trade. But as the science piled up, each bit of evidence more convincing than the last, more and more people were starting to believe that global warming was real.The first turning point was 1997, when the nations of the world agreed to limit their CO2 emissions at the Kyoto Protocol. A year later, the American Petroleum Institute hired a conservative PR expert named Steve Milloy to develop a "Global Climate Science Communications Action Plan." They had to tell a better story and tell it fast. They had to change the narrative. Milloy ran a Web site called Junk Science, joined in time by Climate Audit and Ice Cap and a thousand others, all hammering the same message — ignore global warming. There was even an evangelical-Christian faction, led by something called the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation. Then,in 2006, Al Gore killed them with An Inconvenient Truth. On one side you had a Nobel-prize-winning vice-president, the world's leading scientists, a Hollywood cheering section, and a growing public consensus. On the other, a handful of legitimate scientists and a small but noisy group of amateurs, ideologues, and cranks. At the peak of the consensus, 84 percent of Americans thought global warming was a threat. The only thing they agreed on more was the existence of God.Then Morano got hired as the communications director for Jim Inhofe, the dyspeptic senator from Oklahoma. Setting to work, he began compiling so many inflammatory stories and documents on Inhofe's Web site, Newsweek said he was "more like a wire service than a spokesman." He began to use the Web in pugnacious new ways, like printing the e-mail addresses of reporters and scientists and inviting readers to pester them. All this made Inhofe's office the global center of the resistance, but it also infuriated people. "Morano is unquotable and uncitable," said one influential climate blog. "Besides his penchant for smear, he just makes stuff up." Another investigated his e-mail list. A scientist threatened him with a libel suit. Eventually other Republicans started telling Inhofe to fire him — he was unprofessional, they said. He appealed to Inhofe's worst instincts.Morano took those as compliments.</div><div class="clear" style="clear: both;"><div class="page" style="margin: 10px 0px;"><div class="imageContainer left img1" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;"><div class="imageCredit" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Pix Morano Limbaugh]</div></div><div class="articleContent" style="">
Now he sits at the anonymous desk in his California hotel room and taps away on his Web site, which is funded by Richard Mellon Scaife, the right-wing billionaire who also financed the investigation into Bill Clinton's sex life. Morano starts searching and surfing, setting up Google alerts to aggregate stories to his in-box, grabbing scraps of information wherever he can find them, adding headlines and lining them up on his front page. Click on the headline Real Files or Fake and it takes you to a Web site called the Blackboard, where a blogger named Lucia mentions e-mails "between various bloggers and climate science illuminati" but isn't sure whether they're some sort of scam. May sully the reputations of a number of working scientists leads to a story on <a href="http://www.examiner.com/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Examiner.com</a> New York by a writer named Thomas Fuller, who refuses to go into detail because the e-mails are private and would almost certainly "prove embarrassing to those concerned, especially if ... published in snippets and without context." If legit, this apparently devastating series of revelations will be very hard for the media to ignore leads to a giddy post at the National Review Online: "The blue-dress moment may have arrived!"Morano has fun with it too, using goofy illustrations like a cartoon hand hammering a nail into a coffin and a Scooby Doo villain getting his mask pulled off. People tell him this is too childish for a publication that affects global policy, but it's part of his vision for his Web site — climate entertainment, he calls it.As the words leave his fingers and become electric ones and zeros in the information cloud, other people start responding. One of the first is James Delingpole of London's Daily Telegraph: "If you own any shares in alternative-energy companies I should start dumping them NOW." Morano's Google alerts pick up the new tidbit and he slaps on another headline and adds it to his Web page. Then other people pick up his stuff and he writes about that and someone else writes about that until it's all swirling around like a digital dust devil in a Michael Crichton novel. Soon Morano's caution begins to fade: [note iterative amplify feedback amplify]If they are real and not fake, he writes, this is absolute dynamite, and will destroy the credibility of the alarmist cause.Physicist on alleged behavior of CRU scientists: "These people should be put in jail as soon as possible."A scandal that is one of the greatest in modern science.....</div></div></div></div></div><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"></div></div><div style="padding: 4px 50px 0px; position: relative;"></div><div style="padding: 4px 50px 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/02/23/venezuelan-soldiers-defect-troops-fire-tear-gas-protesters-colombia/">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/02/23/venezuelan-soldiers-defect-troops-fire-tear-gas-protesters-colombia/</a></div><div style="padding: 4px 50px 0px; position: relative;">
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</div><div style="padding: 4px 50px 0px; position: relative;">http://www.climatedepot.com/2017/02/12/christopher-booker-will-trump-gop-bring-an-end-to-the-costliest-scare-story-ever-known/</div><div style="padding: 4px 50px 0px; position: relative;">morano</div><div style="padding: 4px 50px 0px; position: relative;">entine bs</div><div style="padding: 4px 50px 0px; position: relative;">Booker weighs in on the latest NOAA scandal:  THOMAS KARL PAUSE HIATUS BSTwo years ago last week, I wrote a column given the provocative heading “<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/globalwarming/11395516/The-fiddling-with-temperature-data-is-the-biggest-science-scandal-ever.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">The fiddling of temperature data is the biggest science scandal ever</a>”. It was the second of two articles which attracted a record 42,000 comments from all over the world, reporting on the discovery by expert bloggers in half a dozen countries – led in Britain by Paul Homewood on his site “Not a lot of people know that” – that something very odd appeared to have been done to the official land surface temperature records on which, more than anything else, the entire alarm over man-made global warming has rested.These derive from the record known as the Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN), run by the US government’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). By comparing archived data with that now being published, the bloggers claimed to have discovered that temperature records all over the world had, seemingly, been systematically “adjusted” to show older temperatures lower than those originally measured and more recent temperatures higher than those recorded: thus conveying the notion that the world is warming significantly more than the actual data justified.This scandal has now  surfaced again with accusations made by Dr John Bates, a recently retired senior scientist at the NOAA, against his former boss , Tom Karl. Bates alleges that an NOAA paper written before the historic climate conference in Paris in 2015 breached its own rules and was based on misleading and unverified data. That, to many, looks like the paper was designed to stoke up hysteria over global warming in the run-up to the conference.The warmist lobby had no greater concern at that time than the so-called “pause”: the evidence that, for nearly 20 years, the trend in global temperatures had been failing to rise as all the official computer models had predicted it should.Karl’s paper won worldwide publicity by purporting to show that there had, in fact, been no “pause”, and that both land and sea temperatures had continued to rise more than was previously accepted.What Dr Bates now claims is that, in defiance of rules he himself drew up and over his (Bates’s) private objections, Karl’s paper had again been based on “adjustments” that the scientific evidence didn’t justify.The paper, widely quoted by President Barack Obama and others, played a key part in persuading the Paris conference to <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/paris-climate-change-conference/12047233/Paris-climate-change-agreement-at-a-glance.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">sign a “historic” (but non-binding) agreement</a> to take all sorts of hugely costly measures to prevent global temperatures rising by “more than two degrees”.</div><div style="padding: 4px 50px 0px; position: relative;">=</div><div style="padding: 4px 50px 0px; position: relative;">
</div><div style="padding: 4px 50px 0px; position: relative;">The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country, the <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Guardian" title="Guardian" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Guardian</a> is read by people who think they ought to run the country, the Times is read by people who actually do run the country, the <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Daily_Mail" title="Daily Mail" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Daily Mail</a> is read by the wives of the people who run the country, the Financial Times is read by people who own the country, the Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">run by another country</a> and the Daily Telegraph is read by people who <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Red_Scare" title="Red Scare" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">think it is</a>."</div></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 4px 10px 8px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: right;"><cite style="font-style: normal; position: relative; z-index: 2;">—Jim Hacker, Yes, Prime Minister</cite></td></tr></tbody></table>
<div><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Daily Telegraph is a <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">British</a> daily broadsheet newspaper. The Telegraph (and its sister edition the Sunday Telegraph) consistently supports the <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservative_Party" title="Conservative Party" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Conservative Party</a> and takes a <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservative" title="Conservative" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">conservative</a> (duh) position. The paper, however, is far more <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Eurosceptical</a> than the mainstream of the Conservative Party, and as a result has earned the nickname "<a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tory" title="Tory" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Torygraph</a>." Like most newspapers, the Telegraph's circulation has fallen steadily over the past decade,<a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Daily_Telegraph#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[2]</a> and it currently ranks fifth among British newspapers by circulation, first among broadsheets.The Telegraph is strongly anti-<a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch" title="Rupert Murdoch" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Murdoch</a>, and has the wonderful distinction of having published an article which heavily links to <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/RationalWiki" title="RationalWiki" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">RationalWiki</a>.<a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Daily_Telegraph#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[3]</a><table id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 5px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><tbody><tr><td><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;">
</div><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Daily_Telegraph#Ownership" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1 Ownership</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Daily_Telegraph#Columnawful" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2 Columnawful</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Daily_Telegraph#Investigative_journalism" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3 Investigative journalism</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Daily_Telegraph#Footnotes" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4 Footnotes</a></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; background: none;">[<a href="http://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Daily_Telegraph&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Ownership" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]Ownership</h2>The paper is currently owned by identical twins brothers David and Frederick Barclay who have an estimated net worth of £1.8bn. Although British nationals born in <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/London" title="London" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">London</a> they have attracted some criticism for being <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tax_haven" title="Tax haven" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">tax exiles</a> living on the Channel Island of Brecqhou or Monaco. The Barclays also own the weekly current affairs magazine The Spectator.<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; background: none;">[<a href="http://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Daily_Telegraph&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Columnawful" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]Columnawful</h2>While the main reporters of the Telegraph show a candid, but restrained, support for the Conservative Party, their columnists certainly rival their counterparts at the <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Daily_Mail" title="Daily Mail" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Daily Mail</a> for <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Wingnut" title="Wingnut" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">wingnuttery</a>, with a raving disdain for the <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">European Union</a> and <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Climate_change_denial" title="Climate change denial" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">skepticism</a> about <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Climate_change" title="Climate change" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">climate change</a> (one of their bloggers is notable denier <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/James_Delingpole" title="James Delingpole" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">James Delingpole</a>). <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Christopher_Booker" title="Christopher Booker" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Christopher Booker</a>, when he's not too busy ranting about the <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Human_Rights_Act_1998" title="Human Rights Act 1998" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Human Rights Act</a>, splits his time equally between denouncing climate change as a scam and denouncing the EU as, well, whatever accusations he fancies <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/PIDOOMA" title="PIDOOMA" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">pulling out of his arse</a>.<a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Daily_Telegraph#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[4]</a>Meanwhile, the paper's editorials are simply <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Propaganda" title="Propaganda" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">propaganda</a>. Half of the time, it's is aimed at the general public, trying to convince them that the Tories are the only safe option to govern Britain. The other half seems to be aimed at the party elite and hard-line supporters, being very much against "Tory <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Moderate" title="Moderate" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">modernisers</a>" and encouraging the party to stick to the <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Economy Destroyer</a>'s legacy.<a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Daily_Telegraph#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[5]</a><a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Daily_Telegraph#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[6]</a> Their "chief political commentator," though often quite reasonable in his predictions of what the coalition government will face, is part of the "<a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Persecution_complex" title="Persecution complex" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Christianity is oppressed</a>!" brigade, often writing columns about "<a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Eurabia" title="Eurabia" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Islamisation</a>" and the <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Theocracy" title="Theocracy" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">role of Christianity</a> in the state.<a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Daily_Telegraph#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[7]</a> Meanwhile, online Nile "Vile" Gardiner has become somewhat of a <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tea_Party" title="Tea Party" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Tea Party</a> favourite, having written anti-<a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Obama" title="Obama" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Obama</a><a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Daily_Telegraph#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[8]</a> and pro-batshit<a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Daily_Telegraph#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[9]</a> articles consistently since mid-'09.<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; background: none;">[<a href="http://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Daily_Telegraph&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Investigative journalism" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]Investigative journalism</h2>The Daily Telegraph is well known for leaks and whistle-blowing, as well as "sting" operations to reveal wrongdoing. It was the main outlet for the leaked details of British MPs' expenses, which caused great embarrassment for many parliamentarians and even led to a few of them going to prison. The Telegraph also caused huge controversy by sending journalists to flirt with members of Parliament at their constituency meetings, eventually ridiculing and embarrassing multiple <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Liberal_Democrats" title="Liberal Democrats" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Liberal Democrat</a> MPs, most notably Vince Cable.<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; background: none;">[<a href="http://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Daily_Telegraph&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Footnotes" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]Footnotes</h2><ol class="references" style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li id="cite_note-0" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Daily_Telegraph#cite_ref-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">↑</a> "Prime Minister, what about the people who read <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/The_Sun" title="The Sun" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Sun</a>?" "Sun readers don't care who runs the country, as long as she's got big tits."</li><li id="cite_note-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Daily_Telegraph#cite_ref-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=45045&c=1" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaagxrfwhrtb2z0d2fyzqbbzg9izsbjbwfnzvjlywr5ccllpaaaafzjrefuef59z4ejadeiq1f36k7u5e7zkxeuqpacj3wk7unokvxvk9khnqh7by9hbdydhnxgjprlqflo4m2ggfyjhhjq8v4agfrgpqx3jtjqgbofmchga="AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA" nakks="nAKks" jajfaaaaaelftksuqmcc="JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=45045&c=1</a></li><li id="cite_note-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Daily_Telegraph#cite_ref-2" style="text-decoration: none; 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