One of the good points liberal critics of the media have made in the past few years is this: journalists, in overzealous adherence to the idea of being “objective,” resort to he-said/she-said journalism when there are, in fact, objective facts available. My old boss Bob Novak called it “Deaf-Dumb-Blind Journalism.”

On the Left, the favorite example of this objectivity-to-the-point-of-relativism (and an overused and misused example, in my opinion) is climate change. For instance, Marc Ambinder of the Atlantic wrote: