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James Hirsen Exposes Hollywood Hypocrisy on the Environment
http://newsbusters.org/ ^ | December 6, 2006 | Justin McCarthy

Posted on 12/07/2006 4:25:03 PM PST by lowbridge

James Hirsen Exposes Hollywood Hypocrisy on the Environment

Posted by Justin McCarthy on December 6, 2006 - 17:06.

As fellow news analyst Geoffrey Dickens blogged, Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio bonded with Matt Lauer on his global warming hype movie, Eleventh Hour. But before DiCaprio demands a host of new government regulations to clean up the environment, he should look at his own Hollywood pals. On Wednesday’s Fox and Friends First, hosts Steve Doocy, Gretchen Carlson, and Judge Andrew Napolitano hosted author and columnist James Hirsen to expose the hypocrisy of the Hollywood elite. Despite their constant preaching about the environment, they are in fact one of the largest polluters in metropolitan Los Angeles.

Gretchen Carlson asked the question, "why don’t we hear about this?" Good question. The entire transcript is below.

Judge Andrew Napolitano: "Is Hollywood a major contributor to air pollution? Our next guest says the film and TV industries on the west coast are a huge factor. Columnist James Hirsen joins us now from Santa Ana, California. He's also the author of Hollywood Nation. Good morning James and welcome here."

James Hirsen: "Hey, good morning, your honor."

Napolitano: "So, what does Hollywood do? All those liberals in Hollywood that are complaining of pollution and harming the environment, what do they do to add to the pollution?"

Hirsen: "Yeah, it's amazing this is a pet cause out here in Tinseltown and one that they self-congratulate over it. Matter of fact, Variety just issued this green honor roll of people who are environmental activists. But it turns out a study from UCLA said that, that the entertainment business is the second biggest polluter in the five county area that constitutes the Los Angeles metropolitan area and they're just behind the petroleum industry but they're ahead of aerospace..."

Napolitano: "Wow."

Hirsen: "...they're ahead of semiconductor manufacturing and hotels. So, they produce something like 140,000-tons of pollutants a year and they gave them a 'C' on the report card and said it's not a high priority for the entertainment industry. So the industry, their rhetoric doesn't match their actions."

Gretchen Carlson: "Because they have so much power on the sets the energy for the studio office buildings, the private flights to movie locations, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Why don't we hear about this?"

Hirsen: "Well, interestingly enough, it's this hierarchy of status. The stars put in their contracts, 'I want a bigger trailer than the co-star. And I want satellite dishes and plasma screens.' So the generators on the sets get bigger and bigger, and of course, they have special effects and chase scenes and everything else. And what the Hollywood community has done is engage in this situation where they write a check to an organization that essentially absolves them for their environmental sins and says that they're carbon neutral. It's a way so that they can feel good about polluting. It's, it's, it's a very strange thing that Hollywood has totally embraced."

Steve Doocy: "Well, it's just nuts, James, because how many Hollywood stars have we seen driving around their preuses wearing they're hemp clothes talking about zero carbons? And yet, behind the scenes they're writing checks to organizations just so they can get off their hit list."

Hirsen: "Yeah, it's kind of a way, it's an indulgence to buy your way out of the environmental wrongdoing and the important thing in Hollywood, it's a place of facade and feelings. And so, as long as you feel good about something, then it's OK to keep polluting. I mean that's the strange think. And we know that many of the stars like Barbra Streisand has a $22,000 a year sprinkler bill and she's a very big environmental activist. And, we also know that Norman Leier, who sponsored those ads that wanted to make people in Middle America feel guilty about driving SUV's has a car, a garage that holds 21 cars."

Napolitano: "Oh my."

Hirsen: "So the, you know, so the opulence and the waste, but there are some people like Ed Begley Jr. who really walk the walk and really conserves."

Doocy: "He's been driving an electric car for a very long time. James Hirsen, author of Hollywood Nation and also a Newsmax.com columnist. James thank you very much for joining us live today from the west coast."



TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: hatefulhollywood; hollywood; jameshirsen

1 posted on 12/07/2006 4:25:05 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

Hypocrisy in Hollywood? Really?


2 posted on 12/07/2006 4:29:26 PM PST by derllak
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To: derllak
Hypocrisy in Hollywood? Really?

I cant believe it myself.

Must be a typo of some sort.

3 posted on 12/07/2006 4:38:55 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

The judge doesn't have too much room to talk. He uses about 1/2 barrel of crude in his hair every morning. Either that or he prowls midtown at midnight as the Wolfman.


4 posted on 12/07/2006 4:42:14 PM PST by toddlintown (Six bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss.)
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To: lowbridge

Everytime I watch a action flick -- OK so I don't watch very many -- none if I can help it, I have to wonder about all those cars destroyed, huge oil fires, wanton destruction showing everywhere.

I've never owned a new car in my life. I don't have a car now (ok, I live in Tokyo and don't need one) but still...

For Hollywood stars to lecture us on environmentalism is a total hoot.


5 posted on 12/07/2006 4:42:52 PM PST by Ronin (Ut iusta esse, lex noblis severus necesse est.)
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To: lowbridge

We all know that us little people and peons are the ones who are supposed to sacrifice and save the world.


6 posted on 12/07/2006 4:48:33 PM PST by taxesareforever (Never forget Matt Maupin)
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To: lowbridge

This shouldn't HAVE to be exposed: It's so obvious.

I've always heard that barbrastrisand has a Colorado compound that Prince Prospero of "Masque of the Red Death" would envy.


7 posted on 12/07/2006 4:53:45 PM PST by bannie
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To: lowbridge
,,, cram Leonardo's arse into one of these and don't let him out. He can make demands on the government from the back seat -


8 posted on 12/07/2006 5:00:36 PM PST by shaggy eel (1-800 VICTIM)
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To: lowbridge
Barbra Streisand has a $22,000 a year sprinkler bill

How many huingry people could be fed (and watered) on Barbra Strident's $60/day watering bill?

9 posted on 12/07/2006 5:55:44 PM PST by sionnsar (?trad-anglican.faithweb.com?|Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
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To: toddlintown

LOL..he does have about the lowest hairline in North America.


10 posted on 12/07/2006 6:34:05 PM PST by Carl LaFong ("We must protect our phoney-boloney jobs, gentlemen"- Congress - (by way of Governor Le Petomane))
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To: sionnsar
Hollywood should be burned to the ground after putting out something as disgusting as Brokeback Mounting.I watched it today on HBO and it almost made me sick.I can't believe the number of people who wrote about this on the internet and called it a beautiful love story.I can sum it up by saying it was terribly boring with a few filthy sex scenes.There are a lot of demented individuals out there who want people to except their lifestyle so bad that they will say almost anything.I didn't see anything but rape when Heath made Jake bend over before he spit on his hand for lubricant.It's so nasty.
11 posted on 12/07/2006 7:00:54 PM PST by peeps36 (Rebuild Iraq's Army And Send It Over To Kick Iran In The Teeth)
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To: Ronin

Not even Godzilla films?


12 posted on 12/07/2006 8:03:08 PM PST by packrat35 (guest worker/day worker=SlaveMart)
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To: packrat35

Heh! Only the real old campy ones. Godzilla vs King Kong!


13 posted on 12/07/2006 11:49:27 PM PST by Ronin (Ut iusta esse, lex noblis severus necesse est.)
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