James Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, who argues global warming could be catastrophic, said NASA staffers denied his request to do a National Public Radio interview because they didn’t want his message to get out.

No bias from Mr. Hansen as he is an advisor to Al Gore, supported John Kerry (D-MA) in the last presidential election and received a $250,000 grant from the Heinz foundation, which is controlled by Teresa Heinz Kerry.

Hansen is claiming the White House has muzzled him from speaking out for global warming,

“For the sake of the taxpayers, they should be availed of my expertise. I shouldn’t be required to parrot some company line.”

Hansen acknowledged to Congress that he’d done more than 1,400 on-the-job interviews in recent years. Not bad for someone being muzzled.

“We have over 1,400 opportunities that you’ve availed yourself to, and yet you call it, you know, being stifled,” said Rep. Darrell Issa, California Republican. Mr. Issa noted that Mr. Hansen conducted 15 interviews in the month after accusing the Bush administration of censorship.

Citing what he called his “constitutional right” to give interviews, Mr. Hansen admitted violating NASA’s press policy but defended his actions.

Mr. Hansen refused to denounce earlier comments he made referring to the White House as a “propaganda office,” and saying,

“It seems more like Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union than the United States.”

Once more a Left-Wing Nut uses Nazi Germany as a comparison to the United States. Do these people have any historical knowledge of Nazi Germany? How, specifically, do the Left-Wingers factually substaniate their claims? Do they confer with Dick Durbin (D-IL) before making these hateful and outrageous comments?

Mr. Hansen has donated several thousand dollars to past presidential campaigns for Mr. Kerry and Mr. Gore. Imagine that!

Source: Washington Times