Pots and kettles

The liberal press are up in arms about Barnaby Joyce's comments about climate change this morning, alleging that he made comparisons with Nazi Germany. The Canberra Times misleadingly states that he "drew parallels with the Holocaust", and goes on gleefully to report, under the headline "Joyce slammed over eco-Nazi blast":

Agriculture Minister Tony Burke called on Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull to get Senator Joyce to retract his comments.

"Surely, even Malcolm Turnbull would draw the line at the comparisons that Barnaby Joyce made today," he told reporters in Sydney.

"I would hope that even Malcolm Turnbull would say that comparisons with Nazi Germany ... are out of line and should be publicly refuted and that's something Malcolm should do today."

Joyce was making the valid point that it is the AGW alarmists themselves who first made use of the offensive word "denier" in a cheap attempt to put AGW sceptics in the same boat as Holocaust deniers, and Joyce's comments about "goosestepping" and "eco-totalitarianism" are tame by comparison. But again, the press have succeeded in turning reality upside down, dancing to the tune of political correctness, branding the attacker the victim and vice versa.

The whole thing proves the point that in the area of climate change scepticism, it is easier to attack the messenger than the message.

Read it here.