In their haste to beat of the anthropogenic global warming drum, the Fish Wrapper editorial board likes to claim that certain ideas will work without bothering to investigate whether or not what they claim is true.

Today's example of this tendency has to do with what is known as carbon credits. In their editorial on an agreement between Oregon, Washington, California, Arizona, and New Mexico to "work together to reduce the greenhouse gases linked to global warming," the Fish Wrapper makes the usual inaccurate and unsubstantiated claims that greenhouse gas emissions are the cause of global warming.

Welcome to another edition of what I called Ignored Stories - stories that you won't read about in the Fish Wrapper because they might shed a bad light on liberals.

Today's edition is about Charles Rust-Tierney, the former president of the Virginia chapter of the American Criminal and Leftist Union (hat tip to Stop the ACLU). As reported by ABC News, he was arrested for possession of child pornography.

For some reason, it seems that liberals like to avoid responsibility for their own actions and expect other people to make up for that lack of responsibility. You see it in their continuous push for socialism instead of capitalism, and in their desire to make someone else pay for not using their brains.

Today's demonstration of this avoidance is an editorial in the Dead Fish Wrapper regarding a lawsuit against Philip Morris. For those not familiar with the story, here is a recap. In 1999, Mayola Williams won a lawsuit against Philip Morris USA for the death of her husband Jesse. Jesse had smoked two packs of cigarrettes per day for 30 years and had died of lung cancer in 1997. The jury had awarded her $821,485 in compensatory damages and $79.5 million in punitive damages. Philip Morris appealed, and the case went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Last week the court remanded the case back to the Oregon Supreme Court on the grounds that the jury had not been properly instructed that it could punish Philip Morris only for the harm done to the plaintiff, not to other smokers. In other words, the punitive damage award was way too high, and needs to be scaled back.

As I've documented here before multiple times, when it comes to profiles in the Fish Wrapper, they have to make liberals look as good as possible, even if it means conveniently "forgetting" to mention things that might be negative. But, if you're a conservative, nothing is too small or too negative to be included.

Today's demonstration of this is a profile of Thom Hartmann, a talk show host on KPOJ, the Portland affiliate of the liberal (now bankrupt) Air America radio network.