Networks Champion Global Warming Warnings from 'A Movie Star Named Al
March 21st, 2007 9:06 PM
ABC anchor Charles Gibson teased his lead Wednesday night story by touting how “Al Gore goes back to Capitol Hill for the first time since the year 2000 and finds a heated debate on global warming.” But the broadcast network evening newscasts didn't get to the debate. They were too busy trumpeting Gore's cause and barely touching his critics. ABC's Kate Snow gave a doubter ten words before…
Couric Sings Hosannas Following Gore's 'Triumphant' Return to Capitol
March 21st, 2007 6:17 PM
Perhaps channeling her youthful experience as a cheerleader, CBS's Katie Couric pumped her rhetorical pom poms for Al Gore in a "Couric & Co." blog today. Below you can see how she lauded his "triumphant" return to Congress on her "Couric & Co." blog at CBSNews.com, all the while insisting "scientific consensus" is on Gore's side and that Congress should "act boldly" on the issue.…
Al Gore Refuses to Take Personal Energy Ethics Pledge During Global Wa
March 21st, 2007 5:23 PM
An interesting event took place during soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore’s visit to Congress on Wednesday. Sen. James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma) asked the former Vice President to take a pledge that he would not use more energy in his personal residence than the average American, and Gore refused (video available here).As reported at the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works website: "Senator…
CNN Anchor Lauds Liberal Senator’s Attack on GOP Member: ‘Good For
March 21st, 2007 5:13 PM
CNN anchor Don Lemon just couldn’t resist editorializing over liberal Senator Barbara Boxer’s slam against a conservative colleague, James Inhofe. During the 3pm EDT hour of the "CNN Newsroom" program, anchors Lemon and Brianna Keilar played a contentious exchange between Boxer and Inhofe in which the Democratic Senator chastised the Republican for interrupting former Vice President Al Gore’s…
Al Gore Tells Congress to Tax Pollution and CO2 to Solve Global Warmin
March 21st, 2007 2:55 PM
As most of you know, former Vice President and soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore spoke in front of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the House Committee on Science and Technology Wednesday about the dangers of anthropogenic global warming (video available here). What you probably didn't know is that the global warmingest-in-chief actually recommended a tax on pollution to solve the problem. I…
Media Ignore Czech President: Environmentalism is the New Communism
March 20th, 2007 1:01 PM
If the president or prime minister of a former Soviet bloc European nation told Congress that global warming skeptics were like communists inhibiting human freedom, do you think this would be headline news?Well, as amazing as it might seem, Czech President Vaclav Klaus made some rather astonishing comments in a letter to members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee about how “climate change…
