Georgie Deutsch...

Via Pharyngula and pretty much all the other scienceblogs bloggers, the radio interview of John Deutsch, NYT version and the recorded radio version. This is rich, you gotta listen to it.

He's basically saying: 'neither I nor the President would ever, ever allow our conservative or religious viewpoints to influence what the public gets to hear about NASA global warming science; but gosh-darnit, those liberal scientists and their Democratic allies sure hated it when we tried to do just that!'

It was known that I, uh, was an undergrad when I was with the Bush campaign. It was known that I was an undergrad when I worked for the inaugural committee. When NASA hired me, they knew that I was an undergrad. The only real, uh, the only room here for misinterpretation could be my resume. And I, you know, if there, if my resume is misleading, I take responsibility for that, no question, I do. Um, and I didn't never mean for that to happen. But I have never ever lied about my status, I have never tried to misrepresent that to anyone. If my resume was misleading, I take, I take responsibility, but that's not it, it's not about my resume. It's about this larger issue, it's about the agenda of global warming, and how these people are willing to resort to smearing a 24 year old junior appointee in an effort to just get one step ahead in their agenda, to get a little bit more face time in the media.

And oh yeah, there was that thing about me never graduating from college.