Fox News Downplays the Danger of Breathing Soot and Ash ⇥ mediamatters.org

If a movement’s knee-jerk contrarianism demands a fair and balanced approach to the smoke and soot causing the worst air quality in the world, that ideology just plain sucks and the morons promoting it should be ashamed.

Update: Our local purveyor of nonsense is dodging questions about a link between the effects of the petroleum industry — the provincial cash cow — and the conditions which have permitted these wildfires to grow and spread so easily this early in the year.