[The Blitherer]

They don't have the cred they used to have. They have been exposed as shills for themselves, before anything else. And so it's not the elephantine "carbon footprint" of Madonna or the big bands that turned people away from Live Earth.

Ouch.

It's the growing perception that the strutting icons up there on all those stages are playing a game just as the politicians play a game, and for very much the same self-serving, egotistic reasons.

Double ouch!

It's an Animal Farm moment for our time. "The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."

Call the ambulance!

[dfwgator]

Guess Mark Steyn isn’t the only good writer coming out of the Great White North.

[AU72]

I hope I live long enought to see “Carbon Footprint” as an obscure crossword puzzle question.