Al Gore and Live Earth Bozos First to Surrender to Mumbai Terror Fear

A Tower of Jelly

Way to man up, Al. Send that decisive message that indeed you are a coward.

LIVE Earth India, a concert scheduled for December 7 in Mumbai to raise money for solar energy projects, has been cancelled due to the terrorist attacks in the city.

"Due to circumstances beyond our control, we are saddened to announce that Live Earth India has been called off,'' said a joint statement from the organisers, including former US vice-president Al Gore.

Of course, the weather is also out of our control, but for some reason this buffoon thinks we have an effect on it.

"Together, we will continue to work for solutions to the climate crisis for the good of the people of India and around the world,'' the organisers said.

"But for now, our thoughts and our prayers are with the victims of this terrible attack, with the bereaved, with the people of Mumbai and with everyone across India.''

Based on the record of the Clinton administration, he won't be working on any solutions to the terrorism crisis.

It's probably best, if only for the sanity of Mumbai residents. I'm sure they'd appreciate another stultifying lecture from this bloated boob about the alleged gravest crisis we've ever faced when these poor folks just lived through it. Maybe Gore should engage in a little less moral preening about the weather and devote some of his vast riches to fighting terrorism. How about it, big guy?

Live Earth Bombs in Nielsen Ratings

What happened to the two billion people that were predicted to watch? OK, granted this just covers the United States, but these are abysmal, Olbermann-esque numbers that just cannot be spun in a positive fashion.

Viewers don't warm up to 'Live Earth' coverage

NEW YORK -- NBC's three-hour primetime "Live Earth" special, which included highlights from Saturday's global concerts, failed to generate much enthusiasm in the ratings.

The estimated 2.7 million viewers was slightly under the 3 million viewers NBC has averaged on Saturday nights in the summer with repeats and the Stanley Cup hockey playoffs on what is already the least-popular night of television.

It also performed below the Live 8 concert two years ago, according to preliminary estimates released Monday by Nielsen Media Research.

The three-hour concert special from Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., drew a 0.9 rating/3 share in adults 18-49 --- the same as a typical summer Saturday after Memorial Day.

The special was also just under ABC's primetime coverage of the Live 8 concert, which occurred Independence Day weekend on July 2, 2005. Live 8 averaged 2.9 million viewers and a 1.0 rating/5 share in adults 18-49.

But ... but ... but this was the biggest event in the history of mankind, addressing a "grave crisis" that imperils us all!

Al Gore's hologram was unavailable for comment.

Public Tunes Out Live Earth

After all the relentless hype, it appears the overwhelming majority of people ignored The Goracle and his silly propaganda-fest.

I'll admit I tuned in briefly late Saturday and watch a little of The Police at Giants Stadium, but as soon as the idiot Kanye West came out and started babbling, that was it for me.

The Live Earth concert promoted by former Vice President Al Gore received plenty of media coverage and hype, but most Americans tuned out. Just 22% said they followed news stories about the concert Somewhat or Very Closely. Seventy-five percent (75%) did not follow coverage of the event.

By way of comparison, eight-in-ten voters routinely said they were following news coverage of the recent Senate debate over immigration. Fifty-four percent (54%) said they followed news coverage of the President’s decision to commute Scooter Libby’s sentence.

Skepticism about the participants may have been a factor in creating this low level of interest. Most Americans (52%) believe the performers take part in such events because it is good for their image. Only 24% say the celebrities really believe in the cause while another 24% are not sure. One rock star who apparently shared that view is Matt Bellamy of the band Muse. Earlier in the week, he jokingly referred to Live Earth as "private jets for climate change."

At one of the venues in Johannesburg, South Africa, organizers lamely blamed -- get this -- climate change, for the weak turnout.

Officials at Live Earth Johannesburg have blamed the effects of climate change for poor audience attendance at Saturday's (07Jul07) South African event. Organiser John Langford believes extremely cold weather in the region - it snowed last week (ends06Jul07) for the first time in a quarter of a century - kept people away from the concert, which starred Joss Stone, UB40, Angelique Kidjo and Baaba Maal. Speaking before the event, Langford said, "We're expecting 10,000 here tonight. It's a bit chilly, and we've had a strange winter... is it climate change? We had snow in Jo'burg last week for the first time in 25 years." But critics have blamed poor publicity for the weak turn-out.

Very weak.

Wooden Indian Praises Indians

So much for Live Earth being nonpolitical. This bloated oaf just can't help but take a swipe at those who dare question his idiocy. As an aside, he really needs to mix in a few salads.

Former US vice president Al Gore took a swipe at global warming doubters Saturday as he opened the Washington leg of the worldwide Live Earth concerts that he helped organize.

Washington was a last-minute addition to the global event months after organizers failed to find a space on the US capital's National Mall, a sprawling green space featuring monuments including the Congress building.

Other events had reportedly already booked spaces for the same day on the Mall, while a subsequent bid by some lawmakers to bring the show to the doorsteps of the US Capitol was blocked by some Republican lawmakers.

But the National Museum of the American Indian finally offered its venue on the Mall for the show, which featured the Native American band Blues Nation and an acoustic performance from country music stars Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood.

"Some who don't understand what is now at stake tried to stop this event on the Mall," the former Democratic presidential candidate said in a thinly veiled hit on members of President George W. Bush's Republican party.

"But here we are," he said as an image of a bright Earth shined behind him. "And it wasn't the cavalry who came to our rescue, it was the American Indian."

A few hundred spectators turned out for the concert, which began at 10:30 am (1430 GMT).

Wow, what a turnout.

Live Earth in the Balance

The epochal moment if nigh, and the planet shall soon be swept up in Live Earth fever.

Or maybe not.

Plagued by poor ticket sales and uncertainty as to whether some locations would be able to pull it off, some question what the point of it all is and will it in fact do more harm than good. A hot weekend in July isn't exactly good timing, either, though of course that gives the vainglorious Al Gore the opportunity to tell us we're melting and only he can save us.

Doug Heye at Pajamas Media has an interesting look at what to expect and the residual effect it may have on Gore.

Apparently, Gore believes the carbon footprint left by jet and automobile fuel and emission, the lighting, sound equipment, sound and stage trucks, artist hospitality, web-streaming, audio and video recording, concessions and everything else that is involved in staging concerts on all seven continents will be offset by directing local hotels to change its light bulbs, use different cleaning products and place recycling containers in rooms and by paying carbon credits and, where possible, changing more light bulbs and ferrying musicians in a Prius.

Indeed, LiveEarth’s own website is filled with such nonsense. One of the benefits for the environment, LiveEarth’s blog states, is that not “all the artists fly in private jets.” Would a musician living in New York City take a private jet to Giants Stadium anyway?

“It is a manufactured get-out-of-enviro-guilt-jail-free card,” said Christopher Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute said of the Green Event Standard. “How they can so loudly promote their own elitism is merely further proof thereof,” Horner asked.

Meanwhile, Gore is shamelessly pandering to the far-left kooks from MoveOn.

You'll recall that previous efforts to bring the concert to Washington were blocked.

From an email sent today to MoveOn.org members, from former Vice President Al Gore:

Dear MoveOn members,

I've got some exciting news: With the help of our friends at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, "Mother Earth," a Live Earth-affiliated event, is coming to Washington D.C. tomorrow.

If we want to show our elected leaders that Americans want real action to solve the climate crisis—nothing will make that more clear than thousands of people joining me at the concert tomorrow morning.

I'll be there at 10:30 a.m. and then some special friends of mine, Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood, will each perform a song and the classic blues band Blues Nation will take the stage. The day will also feature Native American rock, funk, punk, reggae, gospel and Andean music in addition to films.

The wooden indian claims 2 billion people will be watching. As if. They'll just make it up and nobody will question them anyway.

7/7/07 is going to be an amazing day linking together 7 continents, over 100 artists and 2 billion people to "answer the call" to combat the climate crisis.

I'll be answering the call to the pool, fatboy.

Expect plenty of moral preening, propaganda and a likely trail of ecological disaster after all the earth-worshippers leave their mess behind.

Michelle Malkin has some questions.

Live Earth: Worse Than Pointless

Heh.

Yes, I know the organisers of the nine concerts on six continents will be planting another Amazon of trees to offset the carbon spewed forth by all the amplifiers and lights and hydraulics and TV cameras and private jets required to broadcast Madonna and Red Hot Chili Peppers and Duran Duran and the reunited Crowded House to the world, singing that green is good.

But it will be years before any of those tree plantations can offset the damage of a massive ego-boosting exercise that is not only redundant, but harmful.

Why? Because people will feel that they've done something just by showing up and having a good time.

And I'm not just talking about the pop stars. It's true that pop stars have just about exhausted their credibility, telling us to cancel Third World debt, adopt Africans and feed the world, while leading lives of very conspicuous consumption.

It's also about us, the punters who troop along to these benefits that we might stand up and be counted. Being counted is not worth squat. We might catch public transport to these gigs, although flying to Sydney to see Neil Finn at the Opera House is not a very green way to go. But we're still colluding in a massive production of greenhouse gases in order to raise awareness of the damage done.

It's worse than pointless.

Yes, that's true. But they'll have the moral highground, and isn't that all that counts? It's like wearing red ribbons to show you care about AIDS. You're better than those who don't wear them simply because you have one on.

Speaking of pointless, empty head Leonardo DiCaprio really cares. Without him, I'd have had no idea we're facing extinction.