Imagine being so mentally polluted (no pun intended) by your disdain for people who disagree with your climate fanaticism that you turn them into carbon footprint monster in their obituaries? That’s exactly what leftist media outlets did writ large upon the passing of legendary former ExxonMobil CEO Lee Raymond.
Outlets like Bloomberg News, The New York Times, the Houston Chronicle and the Australia-based Sydney Morning Herald all took aim at Raymond following news of his death at age 87. They all turned Raymond into Mother Earth’s archnemesis by making him the face of Big Oil and the so-called climate change denier movement.
Some even went as far as to compare Raymond to one of the most notorious Sith Lord villains in Star Wars. Never mind that the “unrelenting” Raymond’s life could be seen as one of America’s great success stories in turning ExxonMobil into the world’s most profitable company for a time, as The Wall Street Journal highlighted. But when do we expect the lefty journalists to purely celebrate anything Americana?
Anyone gonna get an obit headline like “CEO Who Doubted Two Genders”? https://t.co/6uO3Sgafdc
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) June 11, 2026
Bloomberg News was arguably the worst offender, as reporters Joe Carroll and Kevin Crowley teed off their June 10 obituary coverage of Raymond in the lede paragraph with disgusting grave-stomping spin:
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