thinkprogress.org/2006/05/23/gore-movie-g
He failed to mention his financial connection to the company. If I thought Al Gore's movie was as you like to say, fair and balanced, I'd say, everyone should go see it. You don't go see Joseph Goebbels' films to see the truth about Nazi Germany. You don't go see Al Gore's films to see the truth about global warming.
Judd may not like it, but both of the last two quoted sentneces are true, without intending any implication that Gore is some kind of Nazi. He is not a Nazi, of course, and Burnett never said that he was one. But Gore is the purveyor of one of the biggest lies of our time.
These site do, indeed, demonstrate the inconvenient truth about Al Gore's twisted environmental scare tactics. It is Al Gore who is betraying us, by his efforts to undermine the American economy.
BTW, that business about Burnett's compensation is nothing more than a one-sided cheap shot. It was Gore, not Burnett, who just took an entire entourage to Cannes for the premiere of his worthless propaganda piece. Would TP care to do an anlysis of who earns more from promoting his views on this issue - Burnett or Gore?
i love it, the cei (in partnership with aei, pnac, etc) is quoted as a source for facts' but al gore, who does not profit from us stopping global warming (while the corrupt repug machine does in fact profit due to global warming) tries to peddle the bullshit because they PROFIT from global warming. if anyone is harming the economy, it's the corrupt pug machine and it's trillion dollar hole in the iraqi desert. not only do you show your ignorance and greed, you prove it too!
Too bad there's not a single peer-reviewed study that backs up CEI's claim that global warming is simply a natural phenomenon. Maybe they'll discover that the earth is actually flat, the moon really is made of cheese, and the current President was, in fact, born in Texas.
I would prefer to listen to CLIMATE SCIENTISTS, rather than bushretards. Then I'm sure you will enjoy the sites I referred to above. Since you seem incapable fo finding them yourself, I consider it my civic duty to assist you.
BSR - refer back just a couple of days here for how CEI is funded by Exxon. Your global warming denial crowd is getting shrill because reality is intruding into your bubble.
How 'bout we round up all of these right-wing pundits/propagandists/smear artists and have them all just talk into a machine that converts all of their hot air into energy.
a truly inconvenient truth is thinking that the propagandists of cei and ncpa somehow are more competent to investigate global warming phenomenon than is the actual scientific community. and I must say it takes some huevos grande for anyone on foxnews to call someone else goebbels.
Gore must really be on to something good, if they are pulling out all these hired guns. So how much is Exxon and the oil industry paying Fox and this guy to make crap up and attack, attack, attack. Wow, that guy knows Fox: if Fox was as you like to say, fair and balanced, I'd say, everyone should go see it... I'm no fan of Michael Moore or O'Reilly, Limbaugh, Coulter and the likes, but those with perspective and reason, know this is something entirely different. Gore has more experience, knowledge, and research than Fox has in its pinky.
Answer the question, Blue State Red: Did Sterling Burnett's organization receive over $390,000 from ExxonMobil since 98? Of course, he didn't actually refute anything Gore said to begin with.
Typical - can't attack the message, so attack the messenger. This guy is a paid spokesman for the oil industry, which eh doesn't own up to, and he slanders Gore, who has worked for years on environmental issues, as a propagandist.
Dear BSR, What does it feel like to when you wake up at 3am, look in mirror and realise that you are a propaganda whore for the greedy selfish men who pay you to lie?
Caption Contest: Sterling Burnett, now weighing in at a cool 300 lbs. claims he lost 60% of his mass due to the increase in carbon dioxide within the atmosphere.
title=Competitive_Enterprise_Institute CEI was founded in March 1984. In 1986, it began its "free market legal program," which seeks to overturn government regulations that the CEI regards as inappropriate, such as regulations pertaining to drug safety, rent control, and automobile fuel efficiency (see the case study, Fuel efficiency standards and the laws of physics. In March 1996, CEI's Michelle Malkin and Michael Fumento published "Rachel's Folly," which claims that dioxin is good for you. In 1997, CEI's Adler lobbied Congress to cut off federal funding for the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. In July, it participated in an anti-environmental summit sponsored by the conservative Western States Coalition in Spokane, Washington. Under the theme of "Responsible Legislation Through Education: Solutions That Work," the conference showcased Michael Sanera's attacks on environmental education. Ironically, while much of the conference focused on the alleged indoctrination of school children by environmentalists, the event featured a "trade show" of industry-sponsored K-12 curricula and materials.
They're volunteers for the fossil fuel industries' FUD campaign. If you read enough Ayn Rand, your frontal lobes decay to the point where you confuse pleasing rationalizations for fact, and come to believe that grovelling worship of the powerful is the same as defending liberty. In ten years they'll be in the same boat as the pathetic ideologues who still maintain that cigarettes don't cause health problems.
Maybe Gore can afford to donate proceeds from the movie because he is independently wealthy - an his income stream includes revenues from oil company stocks. You haven't even begun to analyze these issues, Judd, and you never intended to do so. BTW, since you raised the issue of Burnett's alleged corruption, how about separate threads for Rep. It's kinda hard to get excited about TP's corruption complaints when TP never devotes equal time to ethically challenged Democrats like Mollohan and Jefferson. Then there's the DNC's decision to throw its weight behind failed mayoral candidate Mitch ("Mary Had a Little Brother") Landrieu, and "Credit Chuck" Schumer's decision to throw Paul Hackett under the bus. Come to think of it, Schumer's illegal foray into the confidential credit file of Lt. Michael Steele (R-MD) also deserved a thread of its own - one that TP never saw fit to provide. But given the opportunity, I'm quite sure that someone will be able to explain how virtue and honor were served by these events. I shouldn't be surprised at TP's silence on these issues. Moral relativism is so rampant on the left that almost any evil - including political corruption - becomes an "eye of the beholder" kind of thing.
Its unbelieveable how the people who will not even think about accepting the scientific studies from all of the renowned institutions that say that global warming is happening and it is hapening from human activity. BSR and his ilk really are scared little shut-ins that are afraid of anything that challenges their way of thinking.
However, the material there demands more of an attention-span than Blue-State Red would ever be able to muster, so it most likely won't do him much good. But I'd strongly recommend that the rest of the folks here check it out -- pretty much everything that a mindless global-warming denier is likely to spew is thoroughly debunked there.
org article for a thorough demolition of the CEI's latest bunch of anti-global-warming swill. Most of the article, unfortunately, will most likely sail over BSR's head, but the rest of you should find it enlightening.
"BTW, since you raised the issue of Burnett's alleged corruption" Once again, answer the question, Blue State Red: Did Sterling Burnett's organization receive over $390,000 from ExxonMobil since 98?
BTW, I have a PhD in Engineering and work in the industry (although not in the Environmental/Climate Science Areas), I publish regularly and my technical training allows me to sift through and distinguish between scientific fact and talking points. So, please do not spew your red-state BS here and waste bandwidth. The research an...
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