Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 07/14/2011 5:53:19 PM PDT by AustralianConservative
“A gaggle of entertainment celebrities- George Clooney, Sheryl Crow, Julia Roberts, and Leonardo DiCaprio, for instance – have decided they must help inform the teeming masses that we are consuming too much. The hypocrisy of such claims by these most voracious consumers of energy and natural resources is evident to everyone. Everyone except the celebrities, that is.”
Spencer, who also worked as a senior scientist at NASA understands projection, another elitist trait. “The news media have also been complicit in this campaign to misinform the public. As I said earlier, their silence on any published science that runs counter to Gore & Company is one of the reasons I wrote this book. While some have likened global warming skeptics’ scientific research to Big Tobacco-funded research that supposedly showed smoking was not dangerous, I would say the media’s refusal to report on skeptics’ peer-reviewed research is like the tobacco company executives’ suppression of evidence.”
As Spencer asserts, “Some may claim that the media’s silence is a way of trying to help people – that the tobacco executives were trying to save their own butts, so to speak. But this would mean that the media are putting themselves in the position of deciding what is good for people, rather than just keeping us informed.”
I’m just disgusted that Al Gore doesn’t know the difference. He should. As Debra J. Saunders noted in 2000, “There have been articles about Gore’s decision, despite positioning himself as a foe of Big Tobacco, to hire people from the cigarette industry such as his top media consultant, Carter Eskew, finance director Tim Flournoy, a former Phillip Morris executive, and his fund-raiser Jonathan Tisch of Loews Corporation, which owns Lorillard Tobacco.” Seriously. Yes, let’s talk about Big Tobacco. Please!
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What is he smoking?
A gaggle of entertainment celebrities- George Clooney, Sheryl Crow, Julia Roberts, and Leonardo DiCaprio, for instance -- have decided they must help inform the teeming masses that we are consuming too much. The hypocrisy of such claims by these most voracious consumers of energy and natural resources is evident to everyone. Everyone except the celebrities, that is.Thanks AustralianConservative.
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