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Judging from what went down at yesterday’s Science Committee hearing on Congressional oversight of state attorneys general involved in ExxonMobil climate RICO investigations, activists who have staked pretty much their entire careers on the #ExxonKnew campaign clearly haven’t gotten the memo that #ExxonKnew is dead.

Even in an activist-friendly place like Washington, DC they were only able to get about 20 people to attend their pre-hearing rally. So they essentially preached to the choir, rehashing the old chestnut comparison of ExxonMobil with Big Tobacco, which even New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has completely abandoned (he’s now saying his investigation is not about what Exxon knew but what it “predicts”).

At the hearing itself, they spent their time tweeting snarky comments about Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith’s views on climate change and working themselves into a frenzy about #ExxonKnew, while witness after witness took New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and the other AGs to the woodshed. The coup de grace was delivered by “liberal law professor” Jonathan Turley, who said these RICO climate investigations “go too far,” and clearly “contravene academic freedom and free speech.”

At this point, the #ExxonKnew campaign is akin to that story of Hiroo Onoda, the Japanese soldier who got separated from this unit and kept fighting for 29 years, refusing to accept that World War II was over. Even Schneiderman has left #ExxonKnew for dead – but activists are still in the denial phase, refusing to let go.

Only 20 activists show up for pre-hearing #ExxonKnew rally

Among the 20 people in attendance at the pre-hearing rally were several key players in the #ExxonKnew campaign, including Sharon Eubanks, View Full Article