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The “right wing” has not “made global warming” a matter of “opinion” — global warming (or more properly its causes) is neither “opinion” nor “fact” — its a matter of scientific hypothesis, and is in a state where the majority of scientists currently adhere to the hypothesis that it is caused by man-made CO2 emissions. I'm inclined to believe that at least a substantial part of it is man-made, but then that begs the question of what the science (and economics) says about the solutions, and that's far more complex. Cigarette-cancer link is a much longer running scientific question and there is simply just ALOT more data out there, and I think its simply a less-complex and more quickly provable hypothesis, but I don't see anyone today seriously doubting the link. I certainly wouldn't put the “right-wing” in there – it was Big Tobacco, a special interest with an obvious interest. With cigarettes, a valid libertarian-conservative argument can be made that people have a moral right to choose to take personal risks (that obviously doesn't translate to global warming).

“I'll agree that hosting Griffin or Fromm is incredibly poor judgment and even worse style in that it is intentionally confrontational.”

What you call poor judgment and confrontational, common morals, ethics and standards calls acts of organized racism.

Perhaps your standard of what is racism is a lot higher than anyone else I've ever met in polite society. Though it is curious that you will admit that *if* Bristow used the slurs on his website I described (he did) he is a racist. Yet by inviting Griffin and Fromm and promoting those talks, he is not a racist.

I suppose that what makes someone a “racist” is subjective. If your whole belabored effort here is to make Bristow's racism a matter of opinion, the way the right wing has made global warming and the way Big Tobacco made the cigarette-cancer link a “matter of opinion,” perhaps you have succeeded with the handful of white supremacists who might have dropped in to read these exchanges. But then again, I'm not sure you're changing anyone else's mind about what walks and sounds and acts like a duck as being perhaps a loose cannon instead.

The evidence on Gray is convincing. He's a member of KKK and a racist. I have no qualification in saying that.

And that I'd consider more newsworthy than this sensationalist attempt to link him to Republicans. Indeed, now that I think about it, Ed was wrong and I was wrong to agree that “two random people have white supremacist views” isn't a story. That's precisely what SPLC reported on in its first twenty years – but with exhaustive documentation and tight standards. There would be value in Heywood's endless documentation of Bristow-stupidity, if Heywood stuck to posting exact words, cold hard facts, and evidence and that evidence stuck to a standardized definition of racist, etc. Document Bristow's racism, not his 6 degrees of connection, which is the only new part of this story.