Barbra Streisand doesn’t tweet often, but she seems awfully pleased to have been “singled out” by Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe as a voice against the perils of climate change. The singer tweeted (and for some reason deleted) the initial salvo against Inhofe Tuesday afternoon.
Streisand issued Take 2 later in the day in the form of a series of tweets.
This wld be hilarious if it weren’t so frightening. I thank Sen Inhofe for singling me out as a voice against the perils of climate change
— Barbra Streisand (@BarbraStreisand) December 3, 2014
God help us! This man is going to head the Committee on the Environment in the US Senate. Like giving a fox the keys to the chicken coop
— Barbra Streisand (@BarbraStreisand) December 3, 2014
Mother Jones D.C. editor David Corn helpfully pointed Streisand to his article in which Inhofe, questioned by Corn at a 2009 U.N. conference, named Streisand as one of the “whole liberal crowd” who are conspiring to “advance their radical environmental agenda.”
.@BarbraStreisand Here's the link to the piece on Inhofe blaming you for the global warming "hoax." http://t.co/7UbwUI4c8N
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) December 3, 2014
Is it a surprise that diva Streisand seems to be trying to grab the climate crusader spotlight for herself? Following his encounter with Inhofe, whom Corn describes as “skunking up the party” and “slithering” through the convention center to “troll” reporters, he concludes:
…I was struck by this thought: Did this senator truly believe Barbra Streisand was the devious force behind a completely phony global campaign to address climate change? He seemed to.
In his 2012 book, The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future, Inhofe does mention Streisand—but only once, lumping her together with Leonardo DiCaprio and John Travolta as celebs whose environmental “alarmism” had to be debunked. But his book did not shy away from clearly identifying the charlatans and hoaxers who have hornswoggled the planet: “environmental activist extremists,” Al Gore, MoveOn.org, George Soros, Michael Moore, and, yes, “the Hollywood elites.”
Here’s looking forward to Inhofe or his press office responding directly to Streisand via Twitter. Until then, we’ll use this tweet as a handy placeholder and update as needed.
INHOFE: The #KeystoneXL was in need of approval years ago, and I expect that the legislation will see the light of day in a new Congress
— Inhofe Press Office (@InhofePress) November 18, 2014
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