"We're on a mission from God." -- Dan Aykroyd as Elwood, "The Blues Brothers"Posted on 02/03/2007 11:00:20 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
NBC is also on a mission -- from Gore.
Costello then stated as unquestioned fact that the carbon that each of us is responsible for by flying, driving or running our homes "adds to a layer of greenhouse gases that is warming the planet." No indication of how much current climate changes are caused by non-human factors, the kinds that caused the Ice Age and subsequent warmer period thousands of years ago.Costello closed his segment by quipping "it's all about treading lightly." Boots. Treading lightly -- we get it.
Host Campbell Brown teased the next segment by saying "You've seen how several companies are going carbon-neutral to limit damage to the atmosphere. Up next on Today, you'll see how easy it is for all of us to help in that effort."
When Campbell returned, it was in the company of Laurie David, husband of Seinfeld creator Larry David of Control Your Enthusiasm fame, and more notably in this connection, good friend of Al Gore and producer of his global-warming movie "An Incovenient Truth."
David mentioned that the movie is "required viewing in Norway, Scotland, Sweden and now Britain." Campbell found that news "pretty exciting." Others might have another reaction.
View video here.
Schmoozing done, David declared "it's now the time where we have to put the debate tclearly behind us and we have to have action." Got that, you global warming skeptics? Shut up.
That's when Campbell, on behalf of NBC, pledged allegiance to Al Gore's global warming flag:
"Our mission today is to say to people, everybody watching, there are little things you can do. We're not asking everybody to go out and buy a hybrid. If you can, great, do that! But these are little things that you may not even realize can make a huge difference."David then ticked off a list of suggestions, from using fluorescent light bulbs, to buying recycled paper products, to unplugging electronic device chargers.
Al Gore was of course the 2000 Dem presidential candidate. He hasn't ruled himself out of the '08 race, and there is some speculation that he might use the hubbub surrounding the possible Academy Award for his movie to announce his candidacy. Is it appropriate for NBC to so closely align itself with a once-and-possibly-future presidential candidate's personal cause?
Pet Peeve Update: I mentioned yesterday that my pet global-warming peeve is the way the MSM uses footage of calving glaciers crashing into the sea to illustrate global warming. In fact calving has happened since time immemorial and is actually results from glaciers that are growing, not shrinking. Sure enough, what did Today show this morning? You guessed it.Finkelstein is freezing in Ithaca, NY. Contact him at mark@gunhill.net
Mission-from-Gore ping to Today show list.
I'm headed out to drive around in my V8 SUV for no other reason than to emit carbon.
Uhhhh, as we woke up to -10 degrees yesterday in Colorado and temps in the single digits .... obviously gore doesn't know what in theeeee hell he is talking about. Does he know more than Mother Nature? I think NOT. Idiot he is.
At least they're being a little more open about their bias.
That boot company cannot be "carbon neutral" unless its product moves through a "carbon neutral" distribution chain.
Not likely.
seems "global dumbing" is a much larger problem.
Socialists are using Global Warming as the new excuse to control our lives.
This is getting out of control.
Another company on my list to never patronize!
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." [H. L. Mencken]
Another example of the lefts declaring victory and that is the end of the debate.
When I was a kid in the '70s, the Big Scare was overpopulation. Oh my gosh, I can remember actually worrying that the planet would run out of food and water, that people would be squeezed together in miserable housing projects, etc. I can remember watching videos (maybe then in was filmstrips) about all the cataclysmic events that would take place by the Year 2000 caused by awful, horrible overpopulation -- and I was in Catholic school, I can't imagine what it was like for public school kids! But that was nothing compared to what they're doing doing to scare the bejesus out of kids with global warming -- hey little Suzy, if you use that hairspray the planet will fry! Hey Johnny, tell your mom she's destroying the world every time she drives you to school in that SUV. It makes me furious that my kids will be subjected to this crap.
Am I to gather from this that NBC considers Algore a god?
"I see dumb people. They're everywhere. They walk around like everyone else. They don't even know they're dumb."
And "global intolerance for people who resist being taken in".
Jeff Zucker, head of NBC/Universal Television, was offered the job as Gore Presidential Spokesman, if Gore had been elected. So Zucker and Gore are very close and no doubt this relationship is being used to advance Gore "Gaia" theory.
Yes - and businesses know it so they come out with whatever marketing nonsense they can come up with so as to be "part of the solution" and win the dollars of the dolts who have signed on to this new religion. It's time for a list of businesses who play into this thing so we can make sure NOT to buy from them.
I am willing to bet that it is a foregone conclusion that Algore will win an Oscar. (Someone will have to tell me about it, because I certainly won't watch.)
Frankly, I would say this is bullshit.
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