# GWB says new EPA Head has "lifelong committment to environmental stewardship." Okay. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 4, 2005, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gwb-says-new-epa-head-has-lifelong-committment-to-environmental-stewardship-okay/292957 "2005-03-04T20:21:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2005, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gwb-says-new-epa-head-has-lifelong-committment-to-environmental-stewardship-okay/292957/21 "2005-03-05T20:31:36Z")
> [@Guy\_Incognito](#): > > packaging a senior-level scientist/executive at a multibillion-dollar military bioweapons manufacturing company as some sandal-wearing, Clean Air Act-quoting do-gooder in an attempt to sell him to environmentalists is precisely such a silly, underhanded exercise. What were you up to fully a quarter century ago, **Guy**? Were you even out of the womb? In grade school? Would it be fair or accurate to say that “packaging a food-throwing, bad-spelling innumerate grade-schooler as some poster to the SDMB is precisely such a silly, underhanded exercise?” In a less-ridiculous comparison, 25 years ago I was pretty liberal. Should I now be criticized if I were to take a job at a neo-con think tank? ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2005, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gwb-says-new-epa-head-has-lifelong-committment-to-environmental-stewardship-okay/292957/22 "2005-03-05T20:36:02Z")
> [@manhattan](#): > > 25 years ago I was pretty liberal. Should I now be criticized if I were to take a job at a neo-con think tank? A young man who isn’t a radical has no heart. An old man who isn’t a conservative has no brain. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2005, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gwb-says-new-epa-head-has-lifelong-committment-to-environmental-stewardship-okay/292957/23 "2005-03-05T21:33:16Z")
> [@manhattan](#): > > Especially as it occurred fully a decade after Mr. Johnson had last worked for the company. The OP alluded to this (a “rant-suiting coincidence”) but just to make it clear. Acknowledged. Then it isn’t troubling at all. I don’t see the problem here. Of course Bush is going to introduce his guy in the most glowing possible light, but absent any evidence that there’s any outright falsehoods (as opposed to not quite sincere platitudes about “service” and whatnot), or that the guy is outright unqualified, why not let him? ---
**Author:** ![Brutus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Brutus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brutus)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2005, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gwb-says-new-epa-head-has-lifelong-committment-to-environmental-stewardship-okay/292957/24 "2005-03-06T01:09:15Z")
> [@Guy\_Incognito](#): > > Are those anything like the Web Board Standards for Dialectical Hyperbole? :rolleyes:… You used a lot of words, when instead you could have just said, 'Oh, Br’er **Brutus** , I see that you were quoting a specific statement, and I will therefore assume that your own comment was in response to the aforementioned specific statement. Furthermore, I will not assume that your comment, made in response to another comment, is applicable to any and all comments in this thread." Or something like that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gwb-says-new-epa-head-has-lifelong-committment-to-environmental-stewardship-okay/292957.md?page=1)