In a June 7 NewsBusters post, Sheppard got all bent out of shape when CNN’s Piers Morgan asked if the tea party was a “similar mob to Mussolini’s and Hitler’s in the modern democratic era.” But Sheppard has no problem doing the exact same thing when it suits his right-wing agenda.
In a fawning interview of fellow global warming denier Sen. James Inhofe (“If Margaritas were the official drink in Cancun, what would you and I be drinking if we were in Durban right now?”), as transcribed in a Nov. 30 NewsBusters post, Sheppard asked him whether Politico naming EPA chief Lisa Jackson as “Energy Policy Maker of the Year” was “kind of like Time picking Hitler or Khomeini as Man of the Year – whoever had the most impact whether for good or ill?”
Only Sheppard, it seems, is allowed to go Godwin. Do as he says, not as he does — after all, he contradicts himself on a depressingly regular basis.
Later in the interview, Sheppard asserted that Jackson is “trying to set policy without oversight by the legislature” based on the “anthropogenic global warming myth.” In fact, as Media Matters points out, the EPA is required to regulate greenhouse gases under the bipartisan Clean Air Act.
We thought Sheppard would run out of ways to embarrass himself in public, but he keeps proving us wrong.