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August 7, 2007
Heartfelt Thanks to the Goracle and Friends
Posted by Dave Blount at August 7, 2007 12:18 PM
A special thanks goes out to noisy eco-moonbats Al Gore, Laurie David, Robert Kennedy, et al. As Jeff Bercovici laments, their outrageous hypocrisy protects us all from the disastrous consequences of normal people taking the global warming hoax seriously.
Barbra Streisand offers tips for low-carbon living on her website, but tours in a private jet with a 13-semi entourage. Laurie David produced the Goracle's preposterous A Convenient Lie, but also travels by private jet, producing more harmless but politically incorrect CO2 emissions in a year than a normal person would in a lifetime. The utterly unhinged Bobby Kennedy is founder of the Waterkeeper Alliance and a lawyer for the Natural Resources Defense Council, yet opposes windmill farms because they might be slightly visible from the jewel-encrusted Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port. The Gore-adoring eco-twerp Leonardo DiCaprio made clear his commitment to his own ideology by proclaiming "I try as often as possible to fly commercially" — from which you can infer that he too travels by private jet. Of course, the Goracle himself runs up legendary power bills with his regal lifestyle while preaching sacrifice to us peasants.
As a chagrined Bercovici notes:
It's always galling to be exhorted to curb your consumption by people who are living the poshest lifestyle imaginable. But the problem here goes beyond aesthetics. Eco-hypocrites undercut the very message they're trying to peddle. How desperate could the planet's plight be if the people who present themselves as most concerned about it consider flying first-class commercial an unacceptable sacrifice? Why should anyone bother to carpool when Streisand requires her own convoy? Or forgo A/C for a fan when Edwards is chilling in the largest house in his county? The implication of the hypocrites' behavior is that we must take all measures to fight global warming short of those that would reduce our quality of life. But a reduction in quality of life — or at least a redefinition of it — is exactly what Americans are going to have to accept to make a meaningful dent in greenhouse gas levels. […]
Celebrities who say they have the power to change people's minds are right. Laurie David and Al Gore are a big part of the reason global warming has become a daily part of the national discussion. But without real, visible commitment to back up all the talk, it's just a fashionable pose — and we all know what happens with those.
Yes: when they reach their expiration date, they go out with the trash — where the global warming hoax belongs, so that unscrupulous politicians can't use it as a pretext to paralyze the economy with more taxes and regulations. Thanks again, eco-hypocrites!
