Douglas Brinkley, best-selling author and celebrity history professor, let his allegiance to Big Green get the best of his scholarly self-control in a recent hearing before the House Natural Resources Committee. That was unusual for the cool and razor-tongued Rice University professor now embarking upon an expanded career as the “go-to guy” for the Left Media to opine on environmental matters for the Chattering Class.

While testifying against legislation that would open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to exploration for oil and gas, Brinkley lost all objectivity arguing about a key clause in ANWR’s founding document: did it, or did it not ban oil drilling from the very beginning?

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