From Senator Inhofe’s office, more on the story about the melting street lamps in Oklahoma and follow up press release:
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Yesterday Inhofe revealed that a dumpster fire, not global warming, was the reason for streetlight lamps to melt in Oklahoma city, yet Yahoo has failed to correct the story. The headline remains: Oklahoma is so hot that street lamps are melting http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology-blog/oklahoma-hot-street-lamps-melting-203656312.html
Who wrote the story? Fox Van Allen – described on his Twitter account as: “LA-based freelance writer for Tecca and WoW Insider. Yahoo!, MSNBC, and USA Today syndicated. Editor and all-around creative. Egotistical monster. Gaymer.”
We have asked Fox Van Allen to correct the story on Twitter. His response? Via twitter:
“OH MY GOD YOU GUYS I PISSED SENATOR JIM INHOFE OFF this is turning out to be an amazing day”
Matt Dempsey
Communications Director
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
Inhofe Staff
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Get a load of this, from Fox Van Allen‘s website. http://foxvanallen.com/
Writer. Editor. Perfectionist.
his FAQs section says a lot about him: http://foxvanallen.com/faq/
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Could that duct tape gag be made permanent?
I have lots of single word descritions for people like this but they would all have to be snipped. All I can say is that I am glad I will never ever meet anyone like this in my line of work as I do a real job.
I’m afraid that the more the C in CAGW turns out to be bogus, the more story-telling and the less facts we’ll see 🙁
Well there you have the Warmist camp – a brain dead Gamer in a position (he hopes) to try and influence people’s minds.
Let me fix that for him…
Writer. Editor. Perfectionist. D-word.
That’s ok, have you been reading the comments on his “article”? I’m pretty sure that Yahoo is fine with the article, as it drives traffic to be controversial.
Oh, that guy. I know his shadow priest guide. It’s not really the best there is. If I want the best, I scour the WoW forums.
NO H8?
Gotta love the hypocrisy.
Then I gather he is not a reporter. A freelance writer would be like a Dave Barry (my apologies to you Dave). No one, I mean no one, takes his exploding toilet series seriously. Unless you are an ardent fan of Fox Van Allen. I would imagine his fan base actually considers Dave Barry’s works to be representative of CO2 warming. I once saw a dead skunk explode in the heat of the day. Must be CO2 doncha know. We are all gonna explode!
Another one of those “if you disagree with me you are a hater” folks. Stay classy, Fox!
Fox Van Allen – composite virtual personality of all in the sanatorium on medication.
I left a link on “tips and notes” about the north pole camera showing a funny black shape, like smoke from an distant icebreaker’s funnel. But don’t tell this fellow, or his headline will be, “North Pole On Fire!”
Just another LA loser.
Read the new story at Yahoo… contains gems like this:
It’s possible the heat itself isn’t responsible for the event — it’s being reported on Facebook that a nearby dumpster fire may have been the cause of the melting plastic light housings. Still, that dumpster fire was caused and aggravated by the record heat and dryness. And if dangerous, spontaneous fires aren’t reason enough to go green, we don’t know what is.
I guess the dumpster was suffering drought conditions…
He seems not to care that his headline is wrong. Yahoo might want to replace him if they valued their reputation. Controversial topics don’t help traffic in the long haul if they aren’t reported accurately. I don’t use Yahoo unless somebody links them because I already don’t trust them.
Another imbecile who discards any pretense of being a journalist for being a CAGW drone.
Just another sock-puppet disinformation vector in the war against civilization. Guess his Mommy never told him that if you win by cheating and lying, that makes you a BAD PERSON.
He fails at being a perfectionist, and a writer, and an editor, and I would reconsider the ‘NO H8’ face tattoo (judging from your twitter response). Hey, he might just want to consider re-writing the whole bio …. more of a ‘useful idiot’ persona or something. I think it’s a better fit.
I love this, what Foxy doesn’t realize is that he’s enlightening people to the fact that there is a debate going on about Global Warming. People who mostly thought the ‘science was settled’ are asking themselves what the fuss is about. A few ‘activists’ might well applaud his efforts but in reality he’s doing our work for us. Actually come to think of it he’s not so much Foxy…more Wiley E. Coyote!
That’s the hairy backside to citizen journalism, but I’d rather have the odd moron pee in the pond than hand the power of publishing back to the gatekeepers of big media. I assume you feel the same.
Journalist? Are you sure?
Heh. His photo make it look like he just realized he was being photographed while he was digging for a booger :).
About Fox, from his website: “When future historians unearth the mysteries of our modern civilization, what will they use to define our culture?
The collective works of Dean Koontz? “Party in the U.S.A.?” Taylor Lautner’s shirtless form?
Possible, but unlikely. The true defining cultural artifact of our time is syndicated technology blogger Fox Van Allen.
Sometimes narcissistic, usually tolerable, but always entertaining, Fox Van Allen (né Albers) is best known for his work at general technology website Tecca (syndicated to Yahoo!, USA Today, and MSNBC, among others). There, he produces delicious consumable news content to make your day slightly less mundane.”
Says it all.
“Doug in Seattle says:
August 3, 2012 at 9:27 am
NO H8?”
I prefer V8. Both types.
Blogagog, I am wiping the coffee off my iPad I spewed when I read ur comment. Really funny and slightly above the level of discourse this guy deserves.
And, yes, I enjoyed the movie, Dumb and Dumber, as well…..