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Rap Star In Gore Climate Concert Lineup Flies Dinner Across The Atlantic
NewsBusters / AP ^
| March 5, 2007
| Lynn Davidson
Posted on 03/05/2007 1:52:55 PM PST by Stoat
Rap Star In Gore Climate Concert Lineup Flies Dinner Across The Atlantic
Posted by Lynn Davidson on March 5, 2007 - 11:04.How is Al Gore going to explain this one? Multi-platinum-selling rapper Kanye West, who
infamously said during the Katrina telethon, "George Bush doesn't care about black people" has something else to explain. The
AP reports that
Kanye asked a restaurant in Cardiff, Wales to fly a chef and a meal across the Atlantic ocean to a Manhattan business meeting this Wednesday for about $4000 "plus travel and accomodation for the restaurant's head chef" and the addition of lots of Earth-killing greenhouse gases. OK, that seems typical for the music biz, after all, Bono did have a forgotten
favorite hat flown first class that was flown from London to Italy for about $1700, but now people are now paying attention to celebrity hypocrisy more closely. Kanye is signed up for Al Gore's
Live Earth, which is designed to raise money for and awareness of human-caused global climate change and is the latest giant concert that will save the world. (AP didn't connect the political dots.)
When announcing the concert, Al Gore outlined its purpose and the goals:
In order to solve the Climate Crisis, we have to reach billions of people. We are launching SOS and Live Earth to begin a process of communication that will mobilize people all over the world to take action, Gore said. The Climate Crisis will only be stopped by an unprecedented and sustained global movement.
Well, Gore got one thing right, it did "mobilize people all over the world." It's mobilizing at least one person to truck a meal over to a helipad, helicopter it to Heathrow, fly it to New York and deliver it to Manhatten just to make Kanye happy.
Since Kanye hasn't made a statement about this special delivery yet, I'm sure that the jet-setting Gore will explain the excuse celebrities use so they can continue to live the pampered celebrity life-style while ranting about man-made global climate change scheme known as carbon offsetting. Or maybe Kanye will just go gangsta and tell people to "step-off" and keep flying food around the world emitting choking clouds of deadly greenhouse gasses while promoting the danger of other people emitting choking clouds of deadly greenhouse gasses. I would certainly respect Kanye more if he says, "yes, I'm going to do it. I want the food, and I'll probably do it again" rather than issue an apology and claim he didn't understand the horrible damage it would cause Mother Earth. We'll see if he stays gangsta or if he emulates celebrities like Gore, Cameron Diaz and Laurie David, who pretend that carbon offsetting doesn't erase the stink of hypocrisy.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: algore; buysomecarbonoffsets; environmentalism; globaldining; globalwarming; hypocrisy; kanyewest
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To: trumandogz
Thus the plane would have flown with or without West's food order?The plane would have flown anyway.
I was not aware that you could charter a private jet to cross the Atlantic for $4,000.00.
I was responding to this statement, by saying this....
"It doesn't say he rented a plane, just that he paid to fly the chef and the food over.".
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posted on
03/05/2007 2:33:04 PM PST
by
fanfan
("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
To: trumandogz
Thus the plane would have flown with or without West's food order?It may have been chartered or commercial. The article doesn't state it either way. The hypocrisy is the point here and yes if there was enough people doing this to bump other passengers another flight would be scheduled to fill the slack.
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posted on
03/05/2007 2:37:51 PM PST
by
AmusedBystander
(Republicans - doing the work that Democrats won't do since 1854.)
To: Stoat
From Wales? I don't get it.
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posted on
03/05/2007 2:42:01 PM PST
by
thegreatbeast
(Selling Carbon Offsets since 2007. Get right with Gaia!)
To: AmusedBystander
Who was bumped from this flight?
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posted on
03/05/2007 2:43:26 PM PST
by
trumandogz
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVBtPIrEleM)
To: trumandogz
Hope he wasn't expecting ice in his Pepsi.
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posted on
03/05/2007 2:43:39 PM PST
by
keat
(You know who I feel bad for? Arab-Americans who truly want to get into crop-dusting.)
To: All
Re the concerns about whether the plane was chartered or not, the articles are all quite silent on that point but we can come to some conclusions by piecing a few things together.
From the AP article:
Kanye West gets food delivery from U.K. - Yahoo! News
"For a feast of onion bhajees, chapati breads, biryanis, pappadums, a specially prepared fish dish and vegetables on the side, the bill will top $3,900, plus travel and accommodation for the restaurant's head chef."
and later in the article:
"From there, the chef is to hop a flight to New York monitoring the food's temperature all the way clear customs, and head for Manhattan, where the meal is to be served during a meeting Wednesday."
From this, it SOUNDS to me that this was not a matter of using a regularly-scheduled commercial flight, putting the Chef in a First Class seat and the food in the plane's cargo hold. How would he be able to "monitor the food's temperature all the way" and, if necessary, adjust it?
It sounds to me that the only way that this would be possible would be for the chef to have continuous access to the food, which sounds almost like having the food set up in chafing dishes.
This won't be possible in a standard commercial flight, not even in First Class.
It sounds as though it would only be possible on a private chartered jet with special equipment set up for all of this in the cabin.
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posted on
03/05/2007 2:47:23 PM PST
by
Stoat
(Rice / Coulter 2008: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
To: avacado
"Throughout most of my life, I raised tobacco. I want you to know that with my own hands, all of my life, I put it in the plant beds and transferred it. I've hoed it. I've chopped it. I've shredded it, spiked it, put it in the barn and stripped it and sold it." -- Al Gore, 1988
To: dhs12345
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posted on
03/05/2007 2:50:53 PM PST
by
fanfan
("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
To: Stoat
That's a lot of money to pay for some fried chicken and water melon
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posted on
03/05/2007 2:54:23 PM PST
by
Riptides
To: Stoat
Kanye West hates American Chefs.
To: Stoat
let me try to use some liberal logic here.
1) Global Warming is the result of man polluting the environment
2) Everyone knows Global Warming causes bad weather and hurricanes
3) Kanye West has his dinner flown from Wales
4) Airplanes burn fuel and spew tons of pollutants into the air causing more Global Warming
5) It stands to reason that Kanye causes Global Warming
6) And that means he obviously doesn't care about black people because everyone knows that minorities suffer the most from Global Warming.
To: Stoat
You're putting too much faith in the reporters words.
It sounds to me that the only way that this would be possible would be for the chef to have continuous access to the food, which sounds almost like having the food set up in chafing dishes.
...a feast of onion bhajees, chapati breads, biryanis, pappadums, a specially prepared fish dish and vegetables on the side, already prepared?
Wouldn't it be chilled, ready to be freshly cooked? For that kind of money I wouldn't want soggy vegetables.
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posted on
03/05/2007 3:01:15 PM PST
by
fanfan
("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
To: gruffwolf
Kanye West is a Racist!
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posted on
03/05/2007 3:02:20 PM PST
by
Stoat
(Rice / Coulter 2008: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
To: trumandogz
Who was bumped from this flight?I dunno. Maybe some family returning from vacation and the airline was willing to accept the higher seat revenue for the later ticketed chef and his assistant(s). Doesn't matter though, your defense of Kanye West and his ilk is all I need to know about you.
I personally could care less if that Chef had flown in an empty 747. If the airline was willing to fly it at whatever price it was willing to acccept, I'm ok with that. Just don't tell me how I should be eating hamburger while you have the last prime rib.
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posted on
03/05/2007 3:05:26 PM PST
by
AmusedBystander
(Republicans - doing the work that Democrats won't do since 1854.)
To: fanfan
Wouldn't it be chilled, ready to be freshly cooked? For that kind of money I wouldn't want soggy vegetables.Good point, but in order for the chef to be able to "monitor the temperature all the way" I think that this would then be a matter of an error on the part of the reporter (very possible) or a private chartered jet which allowed the chef access to whatever equipment, whether it be warming or cooling, the whole way....not something that a standard, commercial flight is set up for.
Hopefully more information on all this will eventually leak out....but at any rate, it appears that the total cost was far more than the $4,000.00 figure because the article specifies that travel and accommodation would be extra.....unless this is yet another reporting error, which is quite possible :-)
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posted on
03/05/2007 3:08:28 PM PST
by
Stoat
(Rice / Coulter 2008: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
To: Stoat
Not to mention the unnecessary wattage per day for lousy Rap music.
To: BigLittle
They're making that sign upside-down.
Learned it at one of Uncle Ted's concerts. Wham, d@#$, sweet (what the sign means).
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posted on
03/05/2007 3:14:35 PM PST
by
Dinsdale
To: Riptides
That's a lot of money to pay for some fried chicken and water melon{sic} First of all the word is "watermelon" not "water melon" {sic}. But for now, I will blame your illiteracy on the public school you attended.
However, the "fried chicken" and "water mellon"{sic} comment makes you look like a racist moron.
Did you learn that in public school as well?
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posted on
03/05/2007 3:20:43 PM PST
by
trumandogz
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVBtPIrEleM)
To: MrB
Exactly like the pigs, partying in the farmer's house while the rrest of the animals looked on from outside in
Animal Farm"Four legs good, two legs better."
To: Vision
The only tragedy here is a guy like West has this kind of money...or any money.Agreed. These hyper-rich rappers who bleat in their 'music' about how tough they are and how much pain they have seen is ludicrous at the outset. Too bad all of the kids who bought his CD's didn't buy a worthwhile, lasting investment instead.
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posted on
03/05/2007 4:18:51 PM PST
by
Stoat
(Rice / Coulter 2008: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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