Entertainment Weekly Upgrades Al Gore's 'Cool' Status
July 17th, 2006 11:18 AM
Slapstick Politics has an excerpt from a recent Entertainment Weekly article on Al Gore's film, "An Inconvenient Truth." It turns out documentary films about global warming have a way of making people cool. This should be encouraging news for science club high schoolers around the country.
Minds are being changed, all right, and not just about global warming. Miraculously, over the past few…
NBC & MSNBC Promote Brokaw's One-Sided Discovery Channel Global Warmin
July 15th, 2006 5:14 PM
Tom Brokaw's two-hour Sunday night special, Global Warming: What You Need to Know, may be airing on the Discovery Channel, but NBC News, a co-producer of the program, is adopting it as its own even as another reviewer has asserted it provides a one-sided presentation. At the end of Friday's NBC Nightly News, Brian Williams touted, “One quick program note here about a friend of ours: Tom Brokaw's…
Senate Committee: ‘Brokaw’s Objectivity Compromised in Global Warm
July 12th, 2006 4:27 PM
In a fine example of life imitating a Marx Brothers movie – which should give you a clue as to what should be done with your drinking vessels! – Republicans on the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works issued a press release Wednesday concerning a documentary that former NBC anchor Tom Brokaw has done for the Discovery Channel about global warming (hat tip to NRO’s Media Blog). No…
CNN: Global Warming Threatening California’s Wine Industry
July 12th, 2006 9:59 AM
Better put your coffee cups down, folks – and your wine glasses for that matter – as Team CNN yesterday provided viewers with quite a knee-slapper. During the 7PM ET installment of Tuesday’s “The Situation Room,” Wolf Blitzer and the boys shared some global warming gloom that must have made sommeliers around the country spit up their merlot. Blitzer began (with a straight face, mind you!): “…
MIT Professor Declares Gore’s Global Warming Crusade a ‘Bait-and-S
July 2nd, 2006 1:51 PM
Pardon the pun, but the concept of global warming came under some more heat today from the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT, Richard S. Lindzen. Some of you might be familiar with the name Lindzen. He has been a strong antagonist to global warmingists – especially Al Gore – and wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal back in April wherein he not only contested media…
Al Gore Discusses Global Warming With 'The Daily Show's' Jon Stewart
June 30th, 2006 1:58 AM
As most of you will read this first thing in the morning, I not only suggest you not have a coffee cup near your computer, but also highly recommend that you remove all fragile objects from the room.Yes, this is that hysterical, for Wednesday evening, comedian and faux-scientist Al Gore was Jon Stewart’s guest on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show.” In reality, this was the perfect venue for Dr.…
Scarborough and Stossel Slam Al Gore and Global Warming
June 29th, 2006 10:08 AM
ABC’s John Stossel was a guest on MSNBC’s “Scarborough Country” Wednesday, and it is quite safe to say that he’s not buying into any of the recent alarmism concerning global warming. As a result, he and host Joe Scarborough had a lot of fun at Al Gore’s expense (video link to follow).Scarborough began: “…for Al Gore and Bill Clinton to say it`s causing flooding and causing hurricanes and it may…
