”The running debate between
faith and science, which has increased steadily in intensity this year, has two
detours just as harsh but considerably less visible that demand more attention:
That would be scientists against other scientists, and pseudoscientists who
presume expertise without the credentials. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher's
tirade against global warming offers a sterling example.”
–Newport Beach/Costa Mesa Daily
Pilot columnist Joseph N. Bell on Dec. 16, 2009. Rohrabacher, once a right wing journalist here in Orange County and now a wacky politician, guarantees that impacts from massive worldwide industrialization haven't caused any global
warming and suggests that dinosaurs became extinct because of their own farts. Last year, the Huntington Beach Republican also tricked imprisoned Robert F. Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan into a meeting by pretending to be a woman. Sirhan agreed because he thought he would be meeting someone named “Diana,” but was greatly disappointed to see the pudgy, shifty-eyed congressman trot in. He'd taken a break from worrying about how he could prevent an asteroid strike on the Earth or having close pal Jack Abramoff, the convicted con man lobbyist, pay for his lunches.
CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.