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Not Truthful, Just Gore
After this Sunday, there'll be no pulling the plug on "Not Evil, Just Wrong," the hot new exposé of the global warmist crowd.
A viral buzz is probably not something you want to have in these days of H1N1 (swine flu) paranoia.
But if you're Ann McElhinny and Phelim McAleer this week it's not a malady, but a desired condition. That's because Sunday marks the formal public introduction to their film documentary "Not Evil Just Wrong," which follows their 2006 joint effort "Mine Your Own Business." The plan was (and is) to generate enthusiasm and interest in a "premiere" for "Not Evil" via DVD sales, nudged along by Internet promotion and social networking. Purchasers had to promise to simultaneously host screenings and parties for friends and others who are interested in the movie's topic, which is to debunk global warming alarmism.
After unsuccessful efforts last year to raise funds for a massive theatrical rollout, the Internet plan shows signs of contagiousness. The Irish pair, married, can thank a fortuitous timing of events upon which they have been able to capitalize with some clever journalism.
McElhinny and McAleer first generated interest in their work in August, when they drew attention to a BBC interview with Gerd Leipold of Greenpeace, who admitted that a July 15 claim that the Arctic would be ice-free by 2030 was "a mistake" and defended the group's practice of "emotionalizing issues." It was a classic catch of environoiacs in their own excesses.
Then last month McAleer brought a microphone, a camera and a friend (to operate the camera, silly!) to environmentalist filmmaker Franny Armstrong's premiere of "The Age of Stupid," which like every other eco-doc, attracted current and former Hollywood celebrities like David Letterman lures interns. As McAleer noted in a blog post for Big Hollywood:
Much of the "Age Of Stupid" is spent attacking those in the developing world who want our lives and lifestyles. The documentary is particularly critical of those in countries such as India who want to fly more for business or pleasure.
The documentary is quite clear that flying in aeroplanes is disastrous for the planet. "Apart from setting fire to a forest flying is the single worst thing an individual can do to cause climate change," we are told.
So of course McAleer, who had gained press access to the "Stupid" event, showed up in New York as the celebrities and Armstrong walked the green carpet and asked them how they transported themselves to the premiere. It wasn't long before the "Stupid" security team realized he had no palatable questions, shut down his camera, and muscled McAleer far from the proceedings.
Apparently this only whetted his appetite for more interruption and rejection. Last Friday he jumped into the question line first after a speech by Al Gore at the annual conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists. McAleer then promptly asked about nine critical errors in Gore's film "An Inconvenient Truth," which a British court two years ago said must be righted before being shown in schools there. The former vice president has done nothing to correct the record, and McAleer asked, "Why?"
The "Stupid" security team may not have liked the challenging questions, but the media toadies who wanted to protect their green leader were downright afraid, so they also used their only defense mechanism: they turned off McAleer's microphone.
That was good and timely for the release of "Not Evil Just Wrong," since the high-traffic Drudge Report highlighted McAleer's exchange with Gore over the entire past weekend. That spurred more radio talk show and other media appearances earlier this week, including an unforgettable debate on CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight" between McAleer and Environmental Defense president Fred Krupp, who the Irishman reduced to nothing more than a "millionaire lawyer who calls himself an environmentalist."
So what about "Not Evil Just Wrong" as a film?
It effectively makes its points, which are to illustrate how global warming alarmism and its anti-fossil fuel agenda will harm poor countries and their people, because it reduces their access to cheaper, more efficient sources of energy. It makes a mockery of the scientific methods practiced by the climate fearmongers, especially the infamous and now-debunked Michael Mann and his "hockey stick" warming chart. It follows the life of a lower income family whose breadwinner's job is with a local coal-fired power plant, which provides them cheap energy and a higher standard of living.
And the film (as have others) likens the environmentalists' climate change hysteria to the Rachel Carson-inspired DDT ban on pesticides, responsible for millions of deaths in poor African countries. McElhinny and McAleer even interview a U.S. environmentalist working in Uganda, who can't bear the idea of promoting DDT use because of its threat to birds.
If it sounds like the movie jumps around a lot, it does. But that matches the personality and the passion of its filmmakers, and it is surprisingly effective. Best of all, it provides a truthful counterbalance to the award-winning documentary that Gore has yet to correct.
If you're not able to catch a premiere showing of "Not Evil Just Wrong" on Sunday night, that won't be the end of its availability. Watch it soon, and you might even be inspired to suggest it to your children's science teacher.
About the Author
Paul Chesser is executive director for the American Tradition Institute and a senior fellow for the Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives. The views he expresses do not necessarily reflect the views of these organizations.
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Robbins Mitchell| 10.16.09 @ 6:48AM
anAL GOREtentive
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Worth seeing | Worth Reading links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
owyheewine| 10.16.09 @ 9:27AM
The global warming hysteria crowd relies on mass ignorance to advance their agenda. Every bit of education helps, but as Ricky Ricardo might say, "Lucy you've got a lot of learnin' to do".
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Twitter Trackbacks for The American Spectator : Not Truthful, Just Gore [spectator.o links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Pete| 10.16.09 @ 11:00AM
It may be too late...read this.
http://www.infowars.com/obama-.....tish-lord/
UpChuck.Liberals| 10.16.09 @ 11:32PM
This is disgusting, no it's beyond disgusting. When, and I mean WHEN we, in a few years we tell the Socialist pissants to go play with themselves what are they going to do? Stomp their feet, pout and insist?
Mark Schleifstein| 10.16.09 @ 12:16PM
Mr. McAleer was credentialed as media by SEJ and was indeed second in the left-hand line of two lines containing at least 40 reporters waiting to ask questions during a 10-minute q and a after Gore's speech.
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What actually happened was that McAleer and Gore entered into an exchange that focused on Polar Bears. McAleer actually asked four -- yes, four -- questions, with three of them being polar bear oriented. And yes, Gore did not provide him with the smoking gun of "yes, I've corrected the film played for kids" or "no, I have not corrected it."
I'd suggest, however, that he would have elicited such a response if he'd posed his follow-up correctly:
"Mr. Gore, you didn't answer my question. What steps have you taken to correct the errors in your film?"
In any case, there were 40 others standing in line to ask questions, the Gore-McAleer exchange was going absolutely nowhere, and his mike was turned off when that became clear.
Anyone watching any news conference, whether White House or City Hall or at other media conferences, will recognize that he was provided with the same opportunity that any other journalist would have been provided. And, indeed, he's certainly made hay out of it.
Pete| 10.16.09 @ 1:03PM
That is beside the point. Al Gore refused to answer the question and then had the mike turned off. Of course the exchange was going nowhere, but it had to be done in that manner to draw attention to GW hysteria and lies.
cdc| 10.16.09 @ 12:54PM
It would be nice if people would reas "silent spring" before attacking it. Carson explicitly comes down in favor of the use of insecticides, she simply favors using as little as possible in order to prevent the development of resistence. Insect resistence to insecticides like bacterial resistence to antibiotics is very worrisome
Todd| 10.16.09 @ 1:27PM
cdc,
What I know is that because of that stupid book DDT was banned and as a result millions of people have died of malaria in Africa as a result. Less people is better for the environment though so mission accomplished.
CopyKatnj| 10.16.09 @ 7:31PM
It's the sun stupid. But that won't stop these Marxist liars from continuing with their hoax.
RHO1953| 10.16.09 @ 11:19PM
Global warming depends on mass hysteria to prosper. It's easy in an age of ignorance and illiteracy replaced by propaganda in the public school system. It really isn't about science, it's about taxes and control.
Yosemeti Sam| 10.17.09 @ 12:50AM
Just what is Al Snores' current net worth?
Hundreds of millions - or just tens of millions?
Is he soon to go IPO with his propaganda business
model?
D Jones| 10.17.09 @ 9:19AM
While I'm sure the movie has many merits and I do plan on seeing it at some point, it is my belief that the basic premise of the film is wrong: Al Gore and the much of the environmental wackos are indeed evil. They seek control over as much of the lives of people worldwide as possible through extreme regulation and I cannot see that as anything but evil.
Zork Hun| 10.19.09 @ 1:29PM
Absolutely agree. They are evil with an agenda they are trying to hide. I like Lord Monckton's characterization of the environmentalists as sufferers of the traffic-light syndrome:
They call themselves green because they are too yellow to admit that they are red.
james| 10.17.09 @ 11:26AM
Amen DJones. Please, people, I'm begging you. Stop trying to be nice to these violent maniacs. They are bound and determined to destroy the country, the greatest in history. If that's not evil then what the hell is?
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How to use Photoshop| 10.18.09 @ 5:52PM
If the environmental dullards perpetuating the man-made global warming myth were forced to live without all the conveniences that natural gas, coal and especially oil provide, I wonder how long they would last.
Wayne| 10.18.09 @ 11:01PM
Photoshop, you hit the nail on the head. If the global warming zealots cared half as much about the environment as they claim, they wouldn't be flying all over the world to deliver their message.
Haven't any of them heard of video conferencing? Of course they have, but then Al Gore wouldn't be getting $6000 per minute if he were to appear on a screen, would he?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....peech.html
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Richard Baker| 10.19.09 @ 9:52PM
I grew up in Northern Virginia and have always called him the Senator from St. Albans, his DC high school alma mater. He is a peculiarly strange man who is a legend in his own mind. Psychiatric care is the Rx for this one.
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Mike Shaw| 12.24.09 @ 2:24PM
Always on the look out for a money making scam for which there is "no controlling legal authority."
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