Marc Morano
Morano and Climate Depot
In 2009 Marc Morano became the executive director and chief correspondent of a new climate change website, ClimateDepot.com. ClimateDepot is news website that publishes information denying the existence of human-induced global warming. ClimateDepot is a project of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow--a conservative think tank, based out of Washington, D.C.
Morano and Senator Jim Inhofe
From 2006 to 2009 Morano was the communications director for Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), the minority chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. Prior to the last election, Inhofe was the majority chair of the EPWC.
In the 2002 election cycle, Inhofe received more in donations from the oil and gas sector than any other Senator. According to the latest available election financing data, in the last five years Inhofe has received just over $3.4 million in donations from 20 industry sectors - almost $1 million (29%) is from the Energy/Natural Resources Sector and their respective PACS.
Sen. Inhofe is well known for his infamous quote that "the threat of catastrophic global warming the "greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people," and as his communications director, Mornano has spent the last two years perpetuating this message.
Other contentious statements by Inhofe include: “If we were to embrace the Kyoto treaty, it would shut down agriculture, military and oil production in Oklahoma...” and commenting on Tom Brokaw's recent climate change documentary: "It kind of reminds . . . I could use the Third Reich, the big lie."
Morano and the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth
Prior to working for Senator Inhofe, Morano was a journalist with Cybercast News Service, which is owned and operated by the Media Research Center (MRC). The MRC is supported in part by right-wing foundations and funding from industry, including over $200,000 from oil-giant ExxonMobil.
According to Sourcewatch, CNS and Morano were the first source of the "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" campaign against presidential nominee Senator John Kerry. In the run up to the official launch of the Swiftboat campaign, Morano wrote, "[h]undreds of former commanders and military colleagues of presumptive Democratic nominee John Kerry are set to declare in a signed letter that he is 'unfit to be commander-in-chief.'"
Morano and Rush Limbaugh
From 1992 to 1996, Morano worked as a producer for the Rush Limbaugh Television Show and was known as "Limbaugh's man in Washington."
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