Posted on 04/06/2008 5:51:23 PM PDT by Eye On The Left
I find this commercial extremely offensive. To compare global warming kooks with men who sacrificed and saw their fellow soldiers be blown apart on the beaches is sickening. It's just as bad to compare someone who marched in a protest march in the 60s with those at Normandy.--FReeper, HereInTheHeartland, from the 4/4/08 thread "Storming the beaches of Normandy and the climate change crisis"
Gore launches $300 mln climate change campaign
Mon Mar 31, 2008 9:10pm BST:
By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Al Gore, former U.S. vice president, Academy Award winner and Nobel peace laureate, on Monday launched a $300 million, three-year campaign to mobilize Americans on climate change. "We can solve the climate crisis, but it will require a major shift in public opinion and engagement," Gore said in a statement.
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A longtime environmental activist, Gore chairs the Alliance for Climate Protection, which unveiled the "We" campaign with a series of videos, a Web site -- www.wecansolveit.org -- and a television advertisement set to air during such programs as "American Idol," "House," and "Law & Order."
The first ad likens the battle against climate change to U.S. troops storming the beaches at Normandy during World War Two, the struggle for civil rights and the drive to send humans to the moon.
"We didn't wait for someone else" to tackle these historic problems, the actor William H. Macy says in the spot. "We can't wait for someone else to solve the global climate crisis. We need to act now."
Future spots are expected to feature such "unlikely allies" as civil rights activist Al Sharpton and conservative preacher Pat Robertson, and country singers Toby Keith and the Dixie Chicks speaking together against climate change.
"What's different about this (campaign) is for the first time ever, we're going to be able to reach the general public in their daily lives through television, through media, through community-based organizations ... and online," Cathy Zoi, the alliance's chief executive officer, said by telephone.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUKN3141726220080331
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That commercial is the most offensive, anti-American garbage I’ve ever seen pimped on the boob tube. Somebody REALLY needs their asses kicked for coming up with that garbage. Using patriotism and civil rights to make the Goracle and his enviro butt buddies rich? That’s sick. Just plain sick.
This is marketing 101. That’s all it is.
The only major shift I have seen from Gore is his weight.
Soros money, if I don’t miss my guess.
Perhaps, but Gore is a major shareholder in the company that is going to be the "brokerage house" for the transferrence of funds when the global "Carbon Credits" scam goes into full scale production............This will be a multi-billion dollar industry and Gore stands to make millions upon millions of dollars.
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