Heartland Institute has fired the first legal volley at DeSmogBlog.
They’ve issued a letter requesting their documents, and the faked one, be removed from DeSmogBlog and other sites that posted them:
…we respectfully demand: (1) that you remove both the Fake Memo and the Alleged Heartland Documents from your web site; (2) that you remove from your web site all posts that refer or relate in any manner to the Fake Memo and the Alleged Heartland Documents; (3) that you remove from your web site any and all quotations from the Fake Memo and the Alleged Heartland Documents; (4) that you publish retractions on your web site of prior postings; and (5) that you remove all such documents from your server.
Greg Laden received the same notice, and his genius defense is that he can’t tell if the email is authentic. It’s a race now to see if Heartland can sue Laden out of existence before Tallbloke does it.
It took less than a week for hippie triumphalism over ‘denialgate’ to turn into a full-fledged fiasco of epic proportions.
Ah….less than a week.
And yet…..
BUSY little bees, aren’t they, this “mainstream media.”
Maybe Heartland should release the “real” corresponding documents to prove just how “fake” the leaked ones really are. The whole thing smells like yesterday’s fresh fish, right? I’m quite sure the Koch brothers wouldn’t actually have contributed anything to such an organization.
It’s about time somebody pulled the cover off the Heartland Institute. It was common knowledge what they were all about anyway.
@Greg:
Behind the curve much, Greg?
The Koch brothers already released all their records of donations to the Heartland Institute.
It came to less than $30,000 in all of the last ten years put together!
None of it went to anything related to climate, btw.
Not one penny.
You are so ill-informed!
@Nan G: Nan, sadly Greg’s sources are more than questionable at best.