Deutsch doesn’t know when to leave well enough alone

February 10, 2006

It seemed like we’d heard the last of former NASA public affairs officer George Deutsch earlier this week, after he tendered his resignation. Apparently, however, the guy wants to expound on his 15 minutes of infamy.

Given the circumstances, Deutsch seems like the type who’d want to quietly go away for a while, avoiding public attention. He badgered NASA’s technical staff to refer to the Big Bang as a “theory”; he was given a job as a press aide despite not having a day of press experience; Deutsch told his colleagues his job was to “make the president look good”; and he lied about having a college degree.

But before Deutsch slinks away quietly, he has a few more parting shots to share.

George C. Deutsch, the young NASA press aide who resigned on Tuesday amid claims that he had tried to keep the agency’s top climate scientist from speaking publicly about global warming, defended himself publicly yesterday.

Speaking to a Texas radio station and then to The New York Times, Mr. Deutsch said the scientist, James E. Hansen, exaggerated the threat of warming and tried to cast the Bush administration’s response to it as inadequate.

Yes, capturing the president’s “era of responsibility” perfectly, Deutsch blamed Hansen and the media for his problems. And as for the phantom diploma, Deutsch said he had written his resume in anticipation of graduating, but didn’t quite finish. He acknowledged that the discrepancy “may appear misleading to some.”

The WaPo’s Al Kamen found one other gem worth mentioning. Deutsch wrote for the student paper at Texas A&M, and in an opinion piece in 2003 when New York Times reporter Jayson Blair was unmasked as a fabricator, Deutsch wrote, “Blair’s decisions and actions lacked ethics and integrity. As a reporter, he cared only about himself and furthering his career at the expense of the truth.” Hilarious.

One last question: where does the White House find these guys?

“One last question: where does the White House find these guys?” – CB

— They volunteer to help with the campaign.

What is fascinating about this guy to me is the ignorance of science history he displays regarding the Big Bang theory. A lot of secular scientists did not like the Big Bang theory when it was first proposed because it seemed to suggest that a supernatural being (God?) just snapped his fingers and the Universe exploded into place. Not only that, but that God must have been pretty clever to design such a universe where all the physical constaints are just right to lead to the creation of carbon-based life two or three stellar cycles along after billions of years of explansion, stellar death and regrowth. Sounds a lot like Intelligent Design to me. Why then does Deutsch choose to question it?

Perhaps because Intelligence Design is not meant to really stand on its own. Deutsch and the rest are really just creationists. Whether young earth or not, they are bibilical literalists. And if we listen to them they will end up destroying scientific progress in this country.

  • You know what this kid majored in before he dropped out of Texas A&M? Journalism. So you just KNOW he’s going to end up working for Fox.

  • And on what basis, dare I ask, does this journalism school dropout believe himself qualified to hold an opinion on whether a top NASA scientist is “exaggerating” the threat of global warming?

  • Not that hard. Just follow that aura or odor of smugness only found in the completely delusional and look for the following

    Common attributes:
    1) Attitude is usually “Fuck you, I got mine.”
    2) A book “shelf” with a couple of economics texts, sometimes Ayn Rand or Milton Friedman and a few Stephen Ambrose military “history” books
    3) Scornful of anything involving humanities
    4) Debate is usually one sided (his side)
    5) Unhealthy obsession with sex (usually homosexual)
    6) Kisses the ass of those above them and kicks the ass of those below them.
    7) Dresses like his hero, Alex P Keaton

  • “Deutsch said he had written his resume in anticipation of graduating.”.

    That’s what makes the whole Bush Administration so special.
    They are all so skilled in the art of self-delusion…. deeply believing their own pipe dreams. .
    In fact I’d like to nominate Deutsch for an honory M.A. degree in the pseudo-science of intelligent design. (Master of Anticipation).

  • Where does the White House find these guys????? Are you kidding? Just look back at people like Adolf Eichmann. They would do anything to advance their careers, including getting in bed with the devil. Oh my goodness, is this guy comparing the White House to the Nazis?? You bet!!

  • Has anyone looked into Deutsch’s family background? Maybe his daddy has some influence in political circles and told someone he’s got this idiot son who isn’t worth a damn but has to make a living somehow so could you find him a job someplace, please?

    Just asking.

  • “Where does the White House find these guys?”

    Given the way Bush implemented a secret surveillance program while assuring people aloud that no such program existed; and given the way Bush was planning to invade Iraq even as he gave public assurances no such planning was underway;

    Doesn’t it seem likely that, given Bush’s public statements about how awful human-animal hybrids would be, there is a fair possibility that the administration has actually found Dr. Moreau’s island and is currently cloning human-animal hybrids there, and that Deutsch is one of the prototypes (part human, part hyena)? Let the clone wars begin!

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