NPR Paints Conservative Virginia Attorney General as Persecutor of Science in Climategate Suit

Ken Cuccinelli, the conservative Attorney General of Virginia, came under attack on Friday night’s All Things Considered on National Public Radio. This is one angle of Climategate the national media have noticed. But they pitch the battle as Cuccinelli vs. Science or Cuccinelli vs. Academic Freedom. What’s most infuriating is the notion that it’s Cuccinelli who’s “politicizing” science, and not Michael Mann’s openly politicized e-mails explaining his data manipulations and plotting to censor his political opponents. Somehow, the Union of Concerned Scientists is painted as non-political. Host Michele Norris began: “The University of Virginia says it will fight a demand from the state’s attorney general. He wants the school to turn over private e-mails and…