NBC's Green Fraud

RealClearPolitics ^ | November 10, 2007 | Jonah Goldberg

[2ndDivisionVet]

'WE have turned out the lights in the studio," NBC's Bob Costas told viewers of Sunday's Dallas Cowboys-Philadelphia Eagles game, "to kick off a week that will include more than 150 hours of programming designed to raise awareness about environmental issues." Discerning viewers with eyes keen enough to pierce the sanctimonious glare of Costas' candlelit silhouette may have noticed that the stadium's klieg lights still shone brightly. On a typical game day, a large football stadium burns about 65,000 kilowatt hours of electricity and 35,000 cubic feet of natural gas. The cars driving to the game spew about 200 metric tons of CO2 (and that assumes nobody's driving SUVs or RVs, which is like assuming tailgaters are eating only sushi). There's also the electricity used to broadcast the game and to watch it. But thank goodness Costas turned off the studio lights for a minute or two.

NBC's "Green Week" continued apace: Morbidly obese contestants on "The Biggest Loser" lugged piles of recyclable cans up ramps and into enormous collection bins. Of course, the cans were delivered to the stunt by diesel truck. So a lot of energy - and sweat! - that could have been used toward fermenting homebrew tofu (or whatever energy is supposed to be used for) was wasted on viewer schadenfreude.

The winners of the challenge each received a hybrid SUV. Alas, one of the winners didn't own a car to begin with, so the net result was one more car on the road and a little more CO2 in the air.

[goldstategop]

Jonah Goldberg observes the Left suspends its normal loathing of capitalism and the marketplace if business promotes a politically correct message.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[theymakemesick]

"GE has nearly cornered the market on the solar panels ..."

No they haven't. "BP has been involved in solar power since 1973 and its subsidiary, BP Solar, is now one of the world's largest solar power companies..." from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photovoltaic cheers

[OKSooner]

Glenn Beck brought up a couple of interesting facts yesterday.

Seems that GE, PARENT COMPANY of NBC, bought out some (all?) of ENRON's interests in "alternative energy sources" and carbon trading.

They're corporate whores and nothing more, trying to line their own pockets.

[submarinerswife]

Oh come on, the truck was going there anyway. /s Thank you, Arianna Huffington.

These people really think we are a bunch of twits who are drooling at the chance to be shown the way by the far more intelligent god-like beings at NBC.

makes me want to puke.

[Lancey Howard]

Jonah’s been a good writer for a long time.

[Lancey Howard]

[illiac]

I noticed last night on Deal or No Deal that the studio lights were as bright as always. Even had Kermit the Frog as a guest (he is green, right). The models on the show had green tips for the viewers like “take your own bags to the grocery store”. Oh Boy!

[hinckley buzzard]

The best little gem of the entire week

Perfect. BTW, where did the tree come from?

[sonic109]

What year is that Time cover? I’d like to get some copys of it and hang them around

[Suzy Quzy]

Isn’t GE making all those EXPENSIVE light bulbs that they are pushing for people to buy??? Reg. bulbs are like 50 cents...the new ones are $8.00.

[RightFighter]

Anyone see Friday's episode of Las Vegas? It actually was pretty well done - they had Dalinda Deline (who is always flying off the handle about some cause or other) decide that she wanted to make the Montecito hotel "go green". Toward the end of the show, she was put in her place by the hotel owner, played by Tom Selleck, who told her that, while it's good to be environmentally conscious, if it were taken too far, then people would be out of work. He told her that if he followed her recommendations, he might as well just shut the doors of the casino, heck, even the whole Las Vegas strip should just shut down.

I watch NBC for Chuck, Journeyman, The Office, Friday Night Lights, and Las Vegas. Chuck is the best show on any network right now, mostly because of Yvonne Strahovski:

[submarinerswife]

Perfect. BTW, where did the tree come from?

Some guy's yard in Connecticut.

[Lancey Howard]

I don't know who created that ingenious cover, and I have no idea how you would, "get some copys of it and hang them around," but it was posted at Six Meat Buffet some time back.

Good luck!
LH

[steelyourfaith]

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[nmh]

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[tillacum]

I wonder if the woodcutters used a 2-handled rip saw or a sabre saw?

[coydog]

Regulate the Internet? Uh-huh. This isn’t Communist China. How are they going to monitor every forum post, every email and every Podcast?

[attiladhun2]

To really make an environmental statement, I think the tree should have been cut down with stone tools. After all, metallurgy leaves a big carbon footprint.

[ssaftler]

You know this is just one more reason to bring on the fairness doctrine and regulate the Internet....b/c people like you are just trying to ruin everything! (said in best liberal whine)

You forgot to mention (again in liberal whine) how W and the "evil neocons" are eroding our civil liberties due to the Patriot Act and horrible places like Gitmo.

Then again, irony would be lost on the DUmmies!