The HuffMobile
Posted on 09/17/2005 9:23:19 AM PDT by doug from upland
The HuffMobile
Reader Doug, who posts at FreeRepublic.com, sent this photo, which he took while covering the Sierra Club's national summit in San Francisco last weekend. The handsome, full-size sport utility vehicle pictured above is a Chevy Suburban. It was sent by the anti-SUV environmental puritans of the Sierra Club to pick up fellow, eco-zealot Arianna Huffington, who gave rousing, Bush-bashing, closing remarks at the eco-summit.
Yes, Arianna "Why I Drive a Toyota Prius" Huffington. Yes, Arianna "SUV drivers enable terrorism" Huffington.
I interviewed Sierra Club national spokesman Eric Antebi by phone yesterday, who confirmed that the group sent the SUV. He blamed an "outside contractor," which he declined to name, for the rather dissonant choice of vehicle.
"It is ridiculous," Antebi admitted. "It's something we regret and we've learned our lesson."
Curious, I asked Antebi whether any of the staff at the Sierra Club headquarters owned and drove SUVs. He stumbled and said the group didn't keep track of who drove what. It's "a personal decision," he explained. "People drive different cars for different reasons."
Well, um, exactly. Now, wouldn't it be nice if these anti-SUV green busybodies took the same attitude towards the rest of us and left our car choices alone?!
They should set an example Doug by selling all they have and giving it to the poor.
Eleanor Clift and Arianna. Look, I warned you.
Hey don't worry about it. You still got Arianna on film : )
This is too damn funny : )
Remember when she was running for some office, and there was a question about how she paid for her houses and jet plane?
Algore drives a Caddy Escalade? Hmmm, I guess only vehicles driven by green meanies don't pollute or contribute to "global warming". Speaking of which, I have never seen a colder September up here as long as I can remember.
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After graduating from Southern Methodist University, Roy Huffington went to Harvard where he received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in geology. Returning to Texas, after serving with the U.S. Navy in the Pacific during World War II, he went to work for Humble Oil, now known as Exxon, U.S.A. Ten years later, he established his own oil and gas company known as Roy M. Huffington, Inc. (Huffco). Huffco grew to be a major independent international oil company active around the world.
Roy and his wife, Phyllis Gough, have two children: Terry Dittman, whose family lives in Houston, and Michael, a California businessman. During the Bush Administration, Mr. Huffington was the U.S. Ambassador to Austria.
Sorry, I took real long to post back. It seemed I passed out because of...AAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!
(Collapses on the floor and passes out AGAIN)
Do't john sKerry own one of these chevys??
This is George, "a girl's voice says of an oblivious man at a gas station. "This is the gas that George bought for his S.U.V." The screen then shows a map of the Middle East. "These are the countries where the executives bought the oil that made the gas that George bought for his S.U.V." The picture switches to a scene of armed terrorists in a desert. "And these are the terrorists who get money from those countries every time George fills up his S.U.V.A second commercial depicts a series of ordinary Americans saying things like: "I helped hijack an airplane"; "I gave money to a terrorist training camp in a foreign country"; "What if I need to go off-road?"
At the close, the screen is filled with the words: "What is your S.U.V. doing to our national security?"
The two 30-second commercials are the brainchild of the author and columnist Arianna Huffington. Her target audience, she said, is Detroit and Congress, especially the Republicans and Democrats who last year voted against a bill, sponsored by Senators John McCain, Republican of Arizona, and John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, that would have raised fuel-efficiency standards. link
I'm really glad you got the spot light shining on this hypocrite and opportunist.
Band of brothers....
Caught together? LOL!
Dittos!
They both seem to agree on the importance of marrying into money as well! Neither wants to be President for the right reasons.
BUMP!
Arianna, talks the talk but rides the SUV.
Good Work Doug.
Why is it that conservatives only get women like Ann C.and Michelle M. while liberals get sexy babes like Helen Thomas and Eleanor Clift?
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