WaPost ombudsman has backhanded non-defense of George Will

Washington Post ombudsman Andrew Alexander resorts to hack journalism to attempt a defense of George Will’s ax-grinding anti-global warming column of Feb. 15.

If you read through Alexander’s own column, you’ll see him trot out the following claims:

1. Moral equivalence between global warming recognizers and deniers (putting “falsehoods” in scare quotes is a good tip-off);
2. Scientific equivalence between the two (putting “falsehoods” in scare quotes is a good tip-off).

Yet, he ultimately can’t do it.

He says he believes WaPost op-ed staff (that’s YOU, Fred Hiatt, ultimately) are simply wrong in asserting, and continuing to assert, that Will’s claims about polar ice levels are supported by the Arctic Research Climate Center. He also notes that somebody should have called the center before Will’s column ran.

Let’s see Hiatt answer this.