A recent NYTimes piece idiotically likened Chancellor Merkel’s environmental outlook–which the reporter took to be a new, politically motivated tactic–to the US equivalent of “Ronald Reagan transforming himself into Al Gore.”
This, despite the fact that Merkel was Germany’s lead negotiator on the Kyoto Protocol in the 1990s and very committed to the issue, according to Tim Wirth, the US negotiator.
Adding to the foolishness of the NYT piece, the reporter later in the article even mentioned that Merkel had held this post but still insisted that her current green gestures are more spin than substance.
You know what they say about journalists who get a notion in their heads: Never let the facts get in the way of a good story!