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A Climate Skeptic With a Bully Pulpit in Virginia Finds an Ear in Congress?

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Reply Wed 23 Feb, 2011 05:46 am
"A Climate Skeptic With a Bully Pulpit in Virginia Finds an Ear in Congress" = "A Climate Skeptic With a Dominant(able-to-insult-others) Platform in Virginia Finds His Audience in Congress"?

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A Climate Skeptic With a Bully Pulpit in Virginia Finds an Ear in Congress

By JOHN COLLINS RUDOLF
Published: February 22, 2011

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/23/science/earth/23virginia.html?_r=1&hp
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Reply Wed 23 Feb, 2011 06:55 am
Someone having a " bully pulpit" means he/she has a public office of sufficiently high rank that it provides the holder with an opportunity to speak out and be listened to on any matter

'finds an ear" means he finds someone to listen to him.

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@PUNKEY,
Thank you.
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