Tuesday, February 07, 2006
From the ‘What Did You Expect’ Department
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It seems that, contrary to the New York Times’ report that Mr. Deutsch’s résumé stated that he was a 2003 graduate of Texas A&M’s journalism program, Mr. Deutsch dropped out before completing his degree so that he could work on the Bush campaign, for which he was rewarded with a job doing for science what he had learned to do to politics.
Is it just me or does it get more depressing in America every day?
Thanks to PZ Myers for the pointer to this.
George Deutsch, a presidential appointee as a PR flack for NASA, who was exposed trying to strong-arm NASA scientists into spinning their results in ways favorable to the Administration’s objectives, may have been doing a little creative advertising himself when it came to his résumé.
It seems that, contrary to the New York Times’ report that Mr. Deutsch’s résumé stated that he was a 2003 graduate of Texas A&M’s journalism program, Mr. Deutsch dropped out before completing his degree so that he could work on the Bush campaign, for which he was rewarded with a job doing for science what he had learned to do to politics.
Is it just me or does it get more depressing in America every day?
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Thanks to PZ Myers for the pointer to this.
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Late breaking news from the New York Times:
George C. Deutsch, the young presidential appointee at NASA who told public affairs workers to limit reporters' access to a top climate scientist and told a Web designer to add the word "theory" at every mention of the Big Bang, resigned yesterday, agency officials said.
Mr. Deutsch's resignation came on the same day that officials at Texas A&M University confirmed that he did not graduate from there, as his résumé on file at the agency asserted.
Officials at NASA headquarters declined to discuss the reason for the resignation.
I am not happy to see anyone lose their job (though I suspect he will, as a true Bushite believer, land on his feet) but there once was someone who said something about what you sow . . .
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