ROLLING STONE LEFTY LOSES IT, SHRIEKS ‘JOE MANCHIN JUST COOKED THE PLANET.’
“Joe Manchin Just Cooked the Planet” is your latest, totally-not-at-all-panicking-like-a-little-girl headline from Rolling Stone writer Jeff Goodell.
“Manchin is f***ing it all up,” Goodell gently persuades readers with his calm and reason. “To him, climate is a tomorrow problem.”
Goodell repeats the usual lefty talking points about how little time we have to save the planet, about imaginary “subsidies” received by the oil and coal industries, and calls Manchin a “tool” who is “determined to take everyone down with him.”
That’s a lot of big talk from a writer who in the very same column admits that the “policy specifics of the reconciliation bill are not yet clear.”
But it’s going to save the planet for sure, you see. The one Joe Manchin just “cooked.”
Rolling Stone, you say?
[Jann] Wenner’s Gulfstream II jet seated ten people and featured a dining table, four overstuffed couches, and a foldout bed. It cost $6 million. Wenner loved it so much he put the factory-issued model in his office on Fifth Avenue and dreamed of ways to take his Rolling Stone salon of celebrities and suitors to the air. “Then it became ‘What can we do to fly this thing? Where can we go? How can I take it in the air?’ ” recalled Wenner. “I would just circle over LaGuardia to have lunch.”
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[Wenner’s attorney Ben] Needell put the plane under a business subsidiary called Straight Arrow Transportation to write it off as a business expense, but Wenner said it was “90 percent personal.”
—Joe Hagan in the 2016 biography, Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine.