CCRC Editorial Section
(sent to the Keene Sentinel 16 Jul 09)
The War of
Words -2
I
want to thank Congressman Hodes for demonstrating, better than I ever
could, the power of (misleading) words and phrases.
In his opinion piece, which appeared opposite my letter (of 9
July) on the subject of word selection and usage, he hit every major
point in my letter. My
letter congratulated Democrats on being very adept at selecting
pejorative, and deliberately misleading, words to “support” their
radical views. Congressman Hodes followed this pattern, choosing his
misleading words very carefully.
And
Hodes' cherry-picking was, at times, breathtaking! His rhetoric reached its peak in the sentence “By investing
in locally produced renewable energies, we can create green-collar jobs
in New Hampshire and bring new industry to economically distressed
communities throughout the state”.
Give that man a cigar! He's
solved all our problems with the wave of his wand.
He says that his plan will increase solar energy 20-fold, wind
energy by 500% and biomass by more than 350%.
I'm not sure whether he intends to put windmills on EVERY hill in
NH, but the Sentinel had an article by a wind devotee some time back
that said that putting windmills on every practical site in NH would
replace about 3% of the energy from Seabrook.
And what a scenic prospect that portends!
Hodes
adds that his plan will reduce our carbon emissions by 83 percent by
2050. Not to nit pick, but
sensible Granite-Staters know that we have days, sometimes even weeks,
with little sun or wind. How
many biomass fires will we light when that happens?
I
nominate Hodes for wordsmith of the year!
Fred
Ward
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