I have an idea for a commercial. A teacher is speaking to a
class of students about how the United States is in grave danger.
She warns her young charges that spending is out of control,
government has become too big, and bureaucrats have too much power.
She lectures that the government has expanded far beyond its
constraints which are laid out in the Constitution. She then asks
the students if they will join the local Tea Party and fight to
restore America to its founding principles. All the little tykes —
first or second graders — raise their hands, except for two. The
teacher reassures the dissenters that this is okay. “No pressure,”
she says. She then presses a red button on her desk. The two
children explode in a red flash, splashing gore on the other
horrified students. The apathetic teacher then starts assigning
homework.
Political advertising at its finest, wouldn’t you
agree?
Actually, if I ever even suggested such a commercial for
the Tea Party (let alone actually made one), I’d be rightly branded
a sociopath. The media would devote wall-to-wall coverage to the
commercial for six months. Think Progress would try to trace my
funding back to the Koch brothers. The Southern Poverty Law Center
would declare the Tea Party a hate group. Keith Olbermann would
drive the point home by literally exploding on air.
But almost the exact same commercial was released by the
10:10 Global environmentalist group, murdered children and all. The
only difference was that the homicidal teacher hit the detonate
button after two children were reluctant to cut their carbon
emissions. The four-minute piece went on to show several corporate
workers, a soccer player, and a radio host played by Gillian
Anderson (of X-Files fame) meeting the same grisly demise.
The final shot refers viewers to 10:10’s website while streaks of
blood and Anderson’s eyeballs gush down the screen.
It’s perhaps the darkest, vilest, most disturbing
political ad ever concocted. Incredibly, it was produced for 10:10
by Richard Curtis, the British comedy writer behind legendary shows
like Blackadder and Mr. Bean. Curtis apparently
believed that exploding children would be a real knee-slapper. The
rest of the civilized world disagreed. Within hours of the video’s
release, frantic greenies were trying to yank it off YouTube as the
conservative blogosphere reacted with disgust. Ed Morrissey
called it “the dumbest most self-defeating campaign ad
ever.”
It’s not like 10:10 Global is some fringe eco-terrorist
group. They’re a worldwide campaign funded by big-name donors like
Sony and Kyocera. They’ve already extracted a promise from
Britain’s Conservative government to reduce its carbon output by
10% in one year. Hundreds of businesses, colleges, and schools have
pledged to do the same. That makes 10:10 a big player on the
environmentalist team.
And yet they managed to produce this splatterfilm dreck.
It would have been fascinating to be a fly on the wall during that
meeting. Say Frank, you know what would make people like us
more? Let’s blow up children who disagree with us and then laugh
about it. All this time I’ve been worried that climate
hysterics were a savvy and well-organized intellectual machine.
Take heart, doubters! If this ad is any indication, our opponents
make up the most dithering collection of socially maladjusted
morons ever assembled on the very planet they’re trying to
save.
As The American Spectator
reported on Friday, 10:10 reacted to the controversy by
claiming they’d “missed the mark” in their attempt at humor. In an
e-mail to Mark Morano, the group noted that the commercial “was
intended for a British audience.” We Americans lacked the
perceptive wit needed to truly understand their message. Apparently
the same British sense of humor that produced Monty Python,
Keeping Up Appearances, and The Thick of It has
now been reduced to belly-laughing at exploding
youngsters.
Except, of course, the Brits condemned 10:10’s macabre
skit with the same ferocity as their across-the-pond neighbors,
particularly Telegraph columnist
James Delingpole who popularized the story.
It’s a shame Dr. Michael Crichton isn’t around to see all
this. Crichton, the author of countless brilliant techno-thriller
novels and a scientific genius in his own right, gave a
groundbreaking speech in 2003 in which he claimed environmentalism
was a fundamentalist religion. (Crichton is one of those
recalcitrants who would have been blown to bits in the 10:10 ad.)
For environmentalists, Crichton claimed, there is an impending
apocalypse and sustainability is the only way to achieve
salvation.
“Increasingly it seems facts aren’t necessary,” Crichton
said, “because the tenets of environmentalism are all about belief.
It’s about whether you are going to be a sinner, or saved. Whether
you are going to be one of the people on the side of salvation, or
on the side of doom. Whether you are going to be one of us, or one
of them.”
For true green believers, those who question anthropogenic
global warming are “them” — the apostates. Thanks to these
doubters who refuse to shop with cloth bags, the environmental
apocalypse draws ever closer. So why not detonate them in a gory
mess? As Franny Armstrong, founder of 10:10, said, “We ‘killed’
five people to make No Pressure [the title of the commercial] — a
mere blip compared to the 300,000 real people who now die each year
from climate change.”
It’s the same religious zeal that drives John Holdren, the
most powerful environmentalist in the world and Barack Obama’s
climate advisor. Holdren co-authored a book with spectacularly
discredited population hysteric Paul Ehrlich in which he called for
the world to be depopulated. Among Holdren’s solutions were forced
abortions and compulsory sterilizations for women. Lives and
liberties were both expendable to stop the coming
apocalypse.
It’s why progressives universally refer to those who
question global warming as “climate deniers.” We’re not just
offering a different opinion on a scientific issue. We’re denying a
fundamental truth, like the Holocaust or the
resurrection.
It’s why hacked e-mails from East Anglia University showed
climate scientists trying to blackball those who questioned climate
change. Dissenting thought is heretical and cannot be
tolerated.
Now, thanks to the public relations imbeciles over at
10:10 Global, we have our greatest proof yet that radical
environmentalism is a religion. The gory deaths in the commercial
were only secondarily an attempt at humor. They were primarily a
masturbatory fantasy for the acolytes of environmentalism. As 10:10
admitted (before the outrage), “It’s a fairly simple and
to-the-point premise, I’m sure you’ll agree: we celebrate everybody
who is actively tackling climate change… by blowing up those who
aren’t.” Among the deniers, there would be great wailing and
gnashing of teeth, no doubt.
Fortunately, there’s a solution for we heathens. For
October 10, 10:10 is planning a day of global climate action that
will supposedly be held in 140 countries. Want to protest their
evil ad? This Sunday, leave your car idling in the driveway. Crank
your heat up before you leave the house. Grab a couple of aerosol
cans and point them skywards.
Don’t think of it as destroying Mother Earth. The earth
will be just fine. Think of it as an act of protest against Mother
Church.
