10 May 2004 We Know the Sierra Club Doesn’t Do Science, But Apparently it Can’t Do Math or History, Either

James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal’s Best of the Web today has a hilarious point to make about a new book written by Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope.

Taranto notes that Pope complains that President Bush has (supposedly) turned back the clock on environmental protection “a full century” — and Pope complains that Bush has “abandoned the environmental principles first championed by President Theodore Roosevelt.”

But, Taranto points, out, “if Bush is trying to turn the clock back a century, that would be to 1904, when the president was… Theodore Roosevelt.”