Obama’s science czar is a wackjob. So sue me.

By Michelle Malkin  •  August 24, 2009 10:12 PM

Last month, I reported on how the Obama science czar’s office stonewalled my questions about John Holdren and his warm relationship with intellectual mentor and colleague Harrison Brown, a leading eugenics enthusiast who referred to the world population as a “pulsating mass of maggots.”

Investigative blogger Zombie provided an in-depth look at Holdren and Brown two weeks ago. (Full Holdren archives here.)

A deafening silence about Holdren’s radical ideology continues to grip the MSM. But the pressure from blogs and Fox News is getting under the science czar’s skin. And the left-wing Huffington Post has stepped up to try and stifle critics — by accusing them of a “defamation campaign.” When you can’t win arguments with dissenters, redefine their criticism as defamatory hate:

Conservative media outlets are waging an online defamation campaign against Presidential Science Advisor Jon Holdren, using out-of-context quotes and misinformation to portray him as hell-bent on pursuing population control through the use of forced abortions and mass sterilization.

Fox News reported that Holdren was bent on adopting a “planetary regime” of population control, while blogger Michelle Malkin called him a “wackjob” who entertains policies that would mandate “forced abortions, mass sterilizations, and poisoning the water supply to control the population.”

I called him a wackjob because he is a wackjob, and HuffPo’s best efforts to spin his work — which people can read for themselves — can’t mask the truth.

HuffPo’s newest alibi for Holdren?

“Holdren’s work was also a product of its time.”

Bull. The ghost of Margaret Sanger is not an abandoned artifact, but an animating spirit that thrives on the Left under the guise of “choice” and green values funded by deep-pocketed social engineers like the Rockefellers and Ted Turner.

The mainstream apathy over this population control enthusiast masquerading as a climate change do-gooder is a product of our time.

If this is “defamation,” go ahead and sue.

Go ahead.

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  1. #788753
    On August 25th, 2009 at 11:51 am, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    But out of context quotes are a conservative specialty, like “G-d d-mn America” and “Typical white person”.

    Um, I heard the Jeremiah Wright tapes. NOT taken out of context.

    Pray tell, what context makes it acceptable to refer to the only adult who hadn’t abandoned Barry Soetero as ‘a typical Whie person’.

  2. #788757
    On August 25th, 2009 at 11:55 am, Speakup said:

    Mengele lives.

    Bull. The ghost of Margaret Sanger is not an abandoned artifact, but an animating spirit that thrives on the Left under the guise of “choice” and green values funded by deep-pocketed social engineers like the Rockefellers and Ted Turner.

    The mainstream apathy over this population control enthusiast masquerading as a climate change do-gooder is a product of our time.

  3. #788765
    On August 25th, 2009 at 11:57 am, Socky said:

    But out of context quotes are a conservative specialty, like “G-d d-mn America” and “Typical white person”.

    So, there is some context in which those remarks are considered patriotic, affirmative, and not the least bit bigoted?

  4. #788768
    On August 25th, 2009 at 12:01 pm, Socky said:

    Here’s another whackjob. He loves performing abortions and gets a thrill when “sensations of dismemberment flow through the forceps like an electric current,” He thinks human beings are cancer on the planet. And he was Keith Olbermann’s Best Person in the World.

  5. #788770
    On August 25th, 2009 at 12:02 pm, DBNinKY said:

    The Huffpo quote is entirely accurate.

    Now was that by royal proclamation, or did it just “ring true” to the LGM collective?

    BTW – as far as credibility is concerned, who has this week’s NYT’s best seller: MM, or some hack writer at HuffPo?

    It’s just not worth it any more. There are some people who will never be able to think for themselves.

    One hundred percent agreement! Sometimes though, it’s just too hard to resist -

  6. #788771
    On August 25th, 2009 at 12:04 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:
  7. #788789
    On August 25th, 2009 at 12:32 pm, Lucifer Jones said:

    “Holdren’s work was also a product of its time.”

    So was Hitler’s. And we worry about waterboarding.

  8. #788831
    On August 25th, 2009 at 12:55 pm, spaceycakes said:

    he wrote in a paper published in Population and Environment in 1990.

    Socky, yeah, it’s not like it was 1965 or so, right?

    By the way, what the hell is Population and Environment, and how many people read it? Is it required reading in Obama’s cabinet?

  9. #788833
    On August 25th, 2009 at 12:55 pm, Flyoverman said:

    It’s just not worth it any more. There are some people who will never be able to think for themselves.

    How many lights are there?

    The Left’s defense now is to try and convince you that you are delusional.

    The President said in an unedited video in 2003 that he was committed to a single payer health care system? You never heard or saw that. You’re mistaken. it is a lie

    John Holdren writes that women should have forced abortions and that the world’s population is a “pulsing mass of maggots?” Nonsense he never wrote that in the copyrighted book with him as the author. What’s wrong with you????? it is a distortion

    So again, how many lights are there?

  10. #788850
    On August 25th, 2009 at 1:02 pm, spaceycakes said:

    So again, how many lights are there?

    None are turned on in lgm’s mind, Flyoverman.

  11. #788859
    On August 25th, 2009 at 1:10 pm, happyscrapper said:

    If you can, turn on Rush today…he is on a roll!!! Talk about rallying the “troops”!! Truth to power…big time!!

  12. #788867
    On August 25th, 2009 at 1:23 pm, happyscrapper said:

    On August 25th, 2009 at 11:34 am, lgm said:
    The Huffpo quote is entirely accurate. MM is using quotes out of context to defare Holdren.

    lgm…do you comprehend what “out of context” even means? You are a perfect example of what I was talking about earlier…a result of a flawed gene pool probably brought on by the abuse of drugs by your mommma. Yes, your momma.

  13. #788880
    On August 25th, 2009 at 1:38 pm, Socky said:

    lgm…do you comprehend what “out of context” even means?

    In his mind, it means “accurate, but embarrassing to to Dear Leader.”

  14. #788884
    On August 25th, 2009 at 1:46 pm, Flyoverman said:

    On August 25th, 2009 at 1:02 pm, spaceycakes said:

    Before the election, I had a young man trying to figure out who to vote for. I told him to ignore everything being said and focus on what each candidate supported, said, wrote, or voted for until they were within 3-6 months of when they started running.

    Their past was the window to who they are. If you look at Obama’s past up through his first year in the Senate nothing about what he has done or proposed is a suprise. He has been a radical Marxist for all of his adult life. He has no original thoughts, has limited writing ability, and prefers to associate with like minded Marxists. You can set your watch by him.

  15. #788919
    On August 25th, 2009 at 2:13 pm, Lucifer Jones said:

    If the shoe fits, then don’t get all wee-wee’d up

  16. #788938
    On August 25th, 2009 at 2:28 pm, lgm said:

    I think Lincoln would have liked Reverend Wright. For one thing, the “G-d d-mn America” is straight out of the second inaugural address — the one carved in stone in the Lincoln Memorial. For another, Lincoln loved “animated” preachers:

    When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

  17. #788945
    On August 25th, 2009 at 2:30 pm, cicerokid said:

    I thought James Bond killed Dr. Drax in “Moonraker”?

  18. #788953
    On August 25th, 2009 at 2:34 pm, spaceycakes said:

    oh, that’s rich; invoking Lincoln’s name to fit your nefarious intentions.

  19. #788960
    On August 25th, 2009 at 2:38 pm, zeroangel said:

    LGM:

    IIRC, Lincoln opined that god might be punishing the US with the Civil War because of slavery. However, that is a far cry from the radical kind of victimization professed by professional race warriors. Even Obama realizes this and purposely tried to distance himself from Wrights’ church during the election. Now, I for one, don’t think Obama is a very religious person. I also think he probably realized that if he were to make his way in the world of Chicago politics he had to pay his dues at the local back church.

    Bottom line, I think you are reaching here.

  20. #788962
    On August 25th, 2009 at 2:39 pm, zeroangel said:

    *local black church

  21. #788969
    On August 25th, 2009 at 2:45 pm, Flyoverman said:

    I think Lincoln would have liked Reverend Wright.

    I am waiting for the first black leader at any level to go to Gettysburg, Manassas, Vicksburg, etc. etc. etc. stand in front of the Union dead, both black and white,who gave the last full measure of devotion and simply say “Thank You.”

    His ability to say G-D America was paid for by those men.

  22. #788970
    On August 25th, 2009 at 2:46 pm, Salt said:

    On August 25th, 2009 at 2:38 pm, zeroangel said:

    I think lgm is having a conversation with himself. No one was talking about Wright except for him, no doubt so he could lead into this whole Lincoln-Wright meme.

  23. #788972
    On August 25th, 2009 at 2:49 pm, spaceycakes said:

    Flyoverman–have you been to Vicksburg? It is pretty awesome.

    Actually I’ve been to all 3 that you name. It is very sobering.

  24. #789050
    On August 25th, 2009 at 3:49 pm, bjc said:

    *Holdren is a whackjob, for sure; P-BO has surrounded himself with people as such his whole life, and now with his assembled Clown Cluster in the White House; Nobody that was paying attention last year should be at all surprised; I’m certainly not; All though it is all quite revolting, the real revolt is just beginning!

  25. #789052
    On August 25th, 2009 at 3:51 pm, rowsdower said:

    On August 25th, 2009 at 11:38 am, zeroangel said:
    Quick, LGM is here! Everybody get him!

    I believe that’s a job best left for white- coated attendants as they haul him off to Bellevue.

  26. #789065
    On August 25th, 2009 at 3:59 pm, Flyoverman said:

    On August 25th, 2009 at 2:49 pm, spaceycakes said:

    Flyoverman–have you been to Vicksburg? It is pretty awesome.

    No, I have not. I should. My state had several regiments engaged there.

    I am sure it is a sight you will not soon forget.

  27. #789137
    On August 25th, 2009 at 5:17 pm, FirstSkirt said:

    LGM has not ever, nor plans to visit any Memorial in this country dedicated to war veterans and others who have fought and died in the cause of freedom. Like Obeezlebub, these memorials are crypotonite to extreme left wingers. He/she has OD’d on so much Obama Kool-Aid that he/she is incapable of coherent thought. Is now and continues to be the ultimate putz!

  28. #789140
    On August 25th, 2009 at 5:22 pm, spaceycakes said:

    Bottom line, I think you are reaching here.

    Reaching for the orange sunshine tabs most likely.

  29. #789251
    On August 25th, 2009 at 8:30 pm, Ragspierre said:

    I think Lincoln would have liked Reverend Wright.

    Oh, yeah! Lincoln was ALL about racial religious perversions and hate. He’s known for it…

  30. #789311
    On August 25th, 2009 at 9:35 pm, bjc said:

    *lgm has run out of bullets, so is throwing the gun; Typical limp wristed red diaper doper baby, as Savage would say!

  31. #789354
    On August 25th, 2009 at 10:10 pm, Politicalguano said:

    Seems like this bastard is a misogynist as well as a wanabe mass murderer. Likes to cut up women and poison them too. If the people who think BO was born in some stinking third world country are birthers, then BO and his pals are UNDERTAKERS (or tombstoners? YES WE CAN – CUT YOUR BABY OUT OF YOUR BELLY! Does BO have anyone working for him that isn’t a traitor, a fool, a psychopath, or a felon?

  32. #789535
    On August 26th, 2009 at 1:34 am, rightwingrocker said:

    All of Obama’s illegal czars are whack-jobs.

    This isn’t news.

    RWR
    http://www.rightwingrocker.com

  33. #789608
    On August 26th, 2009 at 3:18 am, corkie said:

    On August 25th, 2009 at 11:34 am, lgm said:

    The Huffpo quote is entirely accurate. MM is using quotes out of context to defare Holdren.

    I would try claiming that you wrote that the “Huffpo quote is entirely accurate,” but I’m afraid that you’ll tell everyone that I’m using quotes out of context to defame (or defare) you.

    This is truly getting Orwellian.

  34. #790638
    On August 26th, 2009 at 7:45 pm, lgm said:

    FirstSkirt said (#117):

    LGM has not ever, nor plans to visit any Memorial in this country dedicated to war veterans…

    The Vietnam war memorial is the most moving war memorial I’ve ever seen.

    You seem very sure of yourself, given that you have no information at all. That fascinates me about many conservatives (and, alas, some liberals). They can be sure about things.

    You know Obama is a socialist just as sure as you know I’ve never seen a war memorial. It’s possible that you are wrong.

  35. #791255
    On August 27th, 2009 at 11:39 am, corkie said:

    Right.

    You visited the Vietnam memorial, therefore Obama isn’t a socialists.

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