Comments on: No questions about climate change in coal-sponsored CNN debate… again http://trainwreckpolitics.com/2008/02/22/no-questions-about-climate-change-in-coal-sponsored-cnn-debate-again/ Train Wreck Politics-- a collection of humor, cynicism, pop culture, and semi-serious commentary-- is the 1,000,000th political blog to go online in 2008. Mon, 14 May 2012 12:23:20 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: The coal-powered empire strikes back | TrainWreck Politics http://trainwreckpolitics.com/2008/02/22/no-questions-about-climate-change-in-coal-sponsored-cnn-debate-again/comment-page-1/#comment-116 The coal-powered empire strikes back | TrainWreck Politics Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:08:26 +0000 http://trainwreckpolitics.com/2008/02/22/no-questions-about-climate-change-in-coal-sponsored-cnn-debate-again/#comment-116 [...] “david, with ABEC” takes issue with last week’s suggestion that there may be a connection between CNN’s lack of debate questions on climate [...] [...] “david, with ABEC” takes issue with last week’s suggestion that there may be a connection between CNN’s lack of debate questions on climate [...]

]]> By: david, with ABEC http://trainwreckpolitics.com/2008/02/22/no-questions-about-climate-change-in-coal-sponsored-cnn-debate-again/comment-page-1/#comment-109 david, with ABEC Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:01:20 +0000 http://trainwreckpolitics.com/2008/02/22/no-questions-about-climate-change-in-coal-sponsored-cnn-debate-again/#comment-109 While we are flattered that there are some people out there who are convinced we can dictate the questions of the debate, the reality is we are merely a sponsor of advertising for the program. That’s it. Nothing more, nothing less. Just as purchasing an ad in a newspaper doesn’t skew the editorial content of that paper, the same is true here. Rather than try to keep the issue of climate policy from coming up, as some folks have suggested we are doing, we are putting our effort to ensure that the issue does come up on the campaign trail. In fact, here’s the question we’d love to see get asked in one of the debates: “How do you plan to help America meet its growing demand for affordable and reliable electricity while addressing the climate change issue?” Isn’t that the question we’re all asking? While we are flattered that there are some people out there who are convinced we can dictate the questions of the debate, the reality is we are merely a sponsor of advertising for the program. That’s it. Nothing more, nothing less. Just as purchasing an ad in a newspaper doesn’t skew the editorial content of that paper, the same is true here.

Rather than try to keep the issue of climate policy from coming up, as some folks have suggested we are doing, we are putting our effort to ensure that the issue does come up on the campaign trail. In fact, here’s the question we’d love to see get asked in one of the debates: “How do you plan to help America meet its growing demand for affordable and reliable electricity while addressing the climate change issue?”

Isn’t that the question we’re all asking?

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