Posted on 05/19/2004 10:40:52 AM PDT by kattracks
(CNSNews.com) - When a Hollywood disaster movie opens on Memorial Day weekend, there may be some drama outside the movie theater as well as inside: Liberal and conservative groups are both recruiting volunteers to hand out flyers explaining the "facts" on global warming.
"The Day After Tomorrow" is a climate disaster movie about the apocalyptic effects of global warming. It is, by all accounts, more fiction than fact -- but even so, liberal activists at MoveOn.org believe "everyone will be talking about it -- and asking 'Could it really happen?'"
MoveOn.org says the movie premiere offers "an unprecedented opportunity to talk to millions of Americans about the real dangers of global warming and expose President Bush's foot-dragging on the issue."
The anti-Bush group is recruiting volunteers to hand out flyers in front of movie theaters. According to MoveOn.org, those flyers "explain, in everyday language, what causes global warming, how Bush's environmental policies could lead us into a real-life climate crisis, and what we can do together to meet this challenge."
It now appears that the MoveOn activists may have company: A conservative group called RightMarch.com announced plans on Wednesday to hand out some flyers of its own.
RightMarch.com says that for over a year, it has "successfully thwarted the outright fabrications of liberal groups such as MoveOn.org."
On Memorial Day, RightMarch.com hopes to set the "environmental facts straight," in what it calls a "battle for the truth."
Conservative activists plan to hand out flyers saying, "Don't let radical left-wing environmentalists fool you." The flyers say "The Day After Tomorrow" does not employ sound science -- because -- "it's just a MOVIE" (their emphasis).
MoveOn.org agrees that the movie is "more science fiction than science fact." But the liberal group sees the movie premiere as an opportunity to drum up support for the McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act -- which would create "national caps on the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming."
The MoveOn.org website urges activists to sign up to distribute flyers on the afternoon of Friday, May 28 -- the day the movie premieres. "The local news likely to be there covering the movie's opening!," the group's website notes.
Conservatives say the Climate Stewardship Act is based on the same faulty science as the movie is. They say efforts to cap greenhouse gas emissions would cripple the U.S. economy.
The RightMarch.com flyers direct movie-goers to a website that exposes "enviro-myths," and it urges people to tell Congress and the President to "STOP the socialistic Climate Stewardship Act."
"Act NOW," RightMarch.com warned -- "because the day after tomorrow, radical leftists may have wrecked America's economy."
My prediction: your basic hollywood action summer blockbuster dud.
Liberal ideology is so bankrupt and threadbare that they're counting on braindead pieces of Hollywood shlock like this and Michael Moore's mockumentary to make their case for global warming and against the War On Terror.
when medium-sized lies fail to produce the intended political outcome, resort to block-buster sized lies - an interesting, albeit expensive, way to approach the issue.
I saw it! It was a cheesy, B-movie style, entertaining romp! Worth the money just to have fun.
MmmMmmmm....Keira Knightley....
HAW! Yeah, I thought the same thing after seeing Independence Day, Terminator, and Mars Attacks, but then I went to get ice cream and forgot all about it.
It's a friggin' movie, made in Hollyweird by a bunch of limousine leftists, and everybody knows it. The MoveOn nutcases are trying to use it for "consciousness raising", but it's just a friggin' movie.
Same thing I said about The Passion. The main reason I wanted that movie to do well was because it was driving the leftists up the wall. LOL
Good point. Just like when I saw Jurassic Park, I immediately wondered what Clinton was doing to prevent dinosaur cloning.
How about making a "global warming" movie that shows the world getting really HOT? On all The Day After promos I've seen, the Statue Of Liberty is up to her armpits in snow.
I remember when the # 1 reason against war the 1991 War In Iraq was that the oil fires in Kuwait would block out the sun, cause a nuclear winter and extinguish all life on earth.
You know the Clinton admin had no coherent environmental policy, so for them to single out the Bush admin is disingenuous after a relatively long silence during the Clinton admin.
Since I'm female, I'll take your word for it......:))
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