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[red states rule]

ABC Bashes Bottled Water Companies, Ignores the One RFK Jr. Owns
Posted by Noel Sheppard on July 10, 2007 - 12:47.
As the Business and Media Institute reported, ABC’s “World News” on Sunday castigated people for drinking bottled water.

Yet, it seems the folks at ABC weren’t aware that environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., actually owns a – wait for it! – bottled water company (h/t to NBers lumberjack and dscott).

As BMI’s Jeff Poor reported Monday:

“With every sip are you actually hurting the environment?” teased anchor Dan Harris.

Deliciously, the New York Times reported on June 3, 1999, the formation of a new venture by Kennedy (emphasis added):

IT is a seemingly incongruous image: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. -- crusading environmental lawyer, member of the famous Kennedy dynasty and potential political candidate -- in a meeting with local supermarket executives to persuade them to distribute a new product.

But the product has a catch that helps the picture make sense. Keeper Springs' Mountain Spring Water is being introduced to finance efforts to preserve and protect local waterways nationwide."This is not just about selling a bottled water, it's about getting out a message," Mr. Kennedy said during an interview at Pace University Law School's Environmental Litigation Clinic Inc., where he runs a team that has successfully won more than 150 legal actions totaling more than $1 billion in judgments against polluters of the Hudson River over the last decade. The cleanup of the Hudson River is now a national environmental model.

Using seed loans from friends and family, Mr. Kennedy and other environmentalists formed Tear of the Clouds L.L.C. to introduce Keeper Springs, which is named after the 35 "keeper" groups across the country that protect and improve local waterways. To get out its message in the crowded field, Keeper Springs is introducing a print and outdoor campaign in the New York area, with a budget estimated at $2 million to $3 million that zeros in on the clean waterways cause.

I guess the folks at ABC weren’t aware that one of the nation’s leading environmentalists owns and manages a bottled water company.

http://newsbusters.org/node/13994



Yes, more "unbiased" reporting from the liberal media

 

[Angel Heart]

Photos:
http://www.pattayadailynews.com/shownews.php?IDNEWS=0000003383

It was a good snowing. I bet it shut the city down even worse than snow does Portland.

 

[red states rule]

First it was global cooling

Then it was global warming

Now it is climate change

Will libs ever find one lie and stick to it?

 

[red states rule]

`Live Earth' Concerts No Big TV Draw

By DAVID BAUDER
AP Television Writer

NEW YORK (AP) -- Given a choice among the Police, John Mayer and Madonna on television or a summer's night out, millions of Americans chose the latter.

The Live Earth concert, Al Gore's sprawling worldwide effort to raise environmental awareness, wasn't a big television draw. NBC's Saturday-night highlights show was seen by 2.75 million people, according to Nielsen Media Research, or fewer people than watched the soccer match between Argentina and Peru that night on Univision.

The Live Earth showing is slightly under the 2.9 million who watched the Live 8 concert on ABC in 2005, Nielsen said.

"I don't think it was the kind of thing where people were talking like they had to get home to watch it," said Marc Berman, analyst for Media Week Online.

The week of July 4th is generally the least-watched one of the year for broadcast television networks, and people are accustomed to tuning out TV on Saturday nights, Berman said. Televised concerts have not been a big draw over the past few years, particularly when 1960s-era artists are not prominently involved.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie...ME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-07-11-08-07-47

 

[Larkinn]

Considering you've spent 8 pages bashing the concert and trying to make its organizers seem irrelevant, I'd say they got enough attention to have you running scared rsr.

 

[red states rule]

Considering you've spent 8 pages bashing the concert and trying to make its organizers seem irrelevant, I'd say they got enough attention to have you running scared rsr.

I enjoy exposing liberal lies and myths to the light of truth

 

[Angel Heart]

`Live Earth' Concerts No Big TV Draw

By DAVID BAUDER
AP Television Writer

NEW YORK (AP) -- Given a choice among the Police, John Mayer and Madonna on television or a summer's night out, millions of Americans chose the latter.

The Live Earth concert, Al Gore's sprawling worldwide effort to raise environmental awareness, wasn't a big television draw. NBC's Saturday-night highlights show was seen by 2.75 million people, according to Nielsen Media Research, or fewer people than watched the soccer match between Argentina and Peru that night on Univision.

The Live Earth showing is slightly under the 2.9 million who watched the Live 8 concert on ABC in 2005, Nielsen said.

"I don't think it was the kind of thing where people were talking like they had to get home to watch it," said Marc Berman, analyst for Media Week Online.

The week of July 4th is generally the least-watched one of the year for broadcast television networks, and people are accustomed to tuning out TV on Saturday nights, Berman said. Televised concerts have not been a big draw over the past few years, particularly when 1960s-era artists are not prominently involved.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie...ME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-07-11-08-07-47

Must say the music was awesome but could of done with out the crap between the acts. It wouldn't surprise me if most of them did it just because it was a gig and a chance at being heard around the world.

 

[Larkinn]

I enjoy exposing liberal lies and myths to the light of truth

What a predictable response.

 

[red states rule]

and bash America and Pres Bush

 

[actsnoblemartin]

liberal to english dictionary.

live earth = live scam (concert)

and bash America and Pres Bush

 

[red states rule]

liberal to english dictionary.

live earth = live scam (concert)

CNN Reporter: 'I Don't Want to Hear About Environmental Causes from Pussycat Dolls'
Posted by Matthew Balan on July 9, 2007 - 12:29.
Here's another sign that Al Gore's Live Earth was probably a bust. CNN entertainment correspondent Lola Ogunnaike (pictured at right) gave a great one-liner with regards to the celebrity component of Live Earth: "Frankly, I don't want to hear about environmental causes from the Pussycat Dolls."

Co-host John Roberts and Ogunnaike discussed the concert's lackluster ratings in the first hour of Monday's "American Morning." Ogunnaike blamed the ratings situation on "benefit fatigue" and people actually wanting to be out in the environment instead of sitting at home watching celebrities rant about saving it.

http://newsbusters.org/node/13969

 

[actsnoblemartin]

you mean the slutty **** dolls

CNN Reporter: 'I Don't Want to Hear About Environmental Causes from Pussycat Dolls'
Posted by Matthew Balan on July 9, 2007 - 12:29.
Here's another sign that Al Gore's Live Earth was probably a bust. CNN entertainment correspondent Lola Ogunnaike (pictured at right) gave a great one-liner with regards to the celebrity component of Live Earth: "Frankly, I don't want to hear about environmental causes from the Pussycat Dolls."

Co-host John Roberts and Ogunnaike discussed the concert's lackluster ratings in the first hour of Monday's "American Morning." Ogunnaike blamed the ratings situation on "benefit fatigue" and people actually wanting to be out in the environment instead of sitting at home watching celebrities rant about saving it.

http://newsbusters.org/node/13969

 

[red states rule]

The liberal media will always provide cover when libs fall on their ass

 

[red states rule]

What a predictable response.

Stossel Responds to Kennedy's Attacks, Lists False Scares Environmentalists Pushed
Posted by Brad Wilmouth on July 12, 2007 - 00:04.
On Wednesday's Your World with Neil Cavuto, FNC's Cavuto hosted both ABC's John Stossel and environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to discuss Kennedy's charge, from the stage of Saturday's "Live Earth" concert in New Jersey, that the ABC anchor, as well as Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, have been "lying" about global warming and are "toadies" for corporations.

Stossel charged that some of Kennedy's comments about the environment are "silly" and brought up a number of big scares that have been promoted in recent years, some by environmentalists, that have turned out not to materialize. Asked by Cavuto if ignoring the issue may make it worse, Stossel responded: "Well, it's possible. And it's possible that the killer bees were going to come up and sting us all to death, and that Y2K was going to crash all the planes, and that the pesticides that his organization [Natural Resources Defense Council] is so upset about were causing the cancer epidemic, and the frog testicles were shrinking, were going to make us all sterile. The scares from the environmental groups have just come one after the other. None has been true."

Transcript follows. Ian Schwartz has the video.

Stossel expressed his unwillingness to let Kennedy restrict the use of air conditioning or "tell poor people they can't have a car," and contended that Kennedy's recommendation that changing light bulbs would help fight global warming was "silly." Stossel: "But to call me a flat-earther because I'm saying we shouldn't turn our freedom and our choices over to Robert Kennedy so he can run our lives and tell us when we can have air conditioning or tell poor people they can't have a car is a bit much. Clearly, there is global warming. Climate changes. The earth has been warming. Is it all our fault? Is changing a light bulb going to make any difference? Some of what he says, I think, is silly." The ABC correspondent later alluded to global warming that happened in Earth's past before the time of the Industrial Revolution as he mentioned that Greenland "was called Greenland for a reason."

http://newsbusters.org/node/14033

 

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Thought the video to it might help

 

[Angel Heart]

"All you need to do is walk outside" DUH it's hot... It's Summer!!

"The Arctic is melting" DUH it's Summer time!!!

 

[red states rule]

To those who say the media is NOT biased

'Today' Urges Viewers to Donate to Maroon 5's Global Warming Cause
Posted by Geoffrey Dickens on July 12, 2007 - 16:10.
The donations to the global warming cause keep coming in from NBC. On this morning's "Today" show, the band Maroon 5 came on to tease their upcoming performance on the show but couldn't leave without the "Today" show cast urging them to plug their partnership with a liberal environmentalist organization, that gets $1 from every Maroon 5 ticket sold.

When the band's lead singer, Adam Levine, urged viewers to buy tickets for their tour, "Today" co-host Ann Curry mentioned viewers could see the band for free at their August 17th performance on the Rockefeller Center Plaza. However Today's weatherman, Al Roker, quickly rectified Curry's inadvertent undercutting of the cause, as he reminded viewers: "But buy a ticket because a dollar goes to Global Cool."

http://newsbusters.org/node/14054

 

[red states rule]

'World News' Ga-Ga Over Penguin Protection
Posted by Julia A. Seymour on July 12, 2007 - 18:57.
It seems the network newscasts will put anything on in the name of stopping global warming, including a report about trying to put penguins on the U.S. Endangered Species list.

Wait, a minute. Penguins don’t live in the U.S. except at the zoo.

But that didn’t stop ABC “World News with Charles Gibson” from promoting the left-wing group trying to accomplish that.

“If the group can get them [the penguin] protected by the U.S. Endangered Species Act, they say it’ll send an important message about the global problem of climate change,” said ABC science correspondent Ned Potter on July 11.

Later in the broadcast, Potter continued to praise the idea:

“Getting them protected would not only be good for them, but for the rest of the world too.”

The group, Center for Biological Diversity is extreme environmental organization that wants to exploit the “endearing” penguin as a tool to promote global warming hysteria.

“If we can save the penguins, then perhaps we’ve chosen a path that will save ourselves as well,” says Melissa Waage, the CBD’s legislative director.

Earlier this year, the same group opposed the building of a dam, reservoir and hydroelectric plant to provide energy in a time when it is in high demand.

However, the penguin is native to the South Pole – an area that is far beyond the United States’ jurisdiction.

http://newsbusters.org/node/14060

 

[CSM]

'World News' Ga-Ga Over Penguin Protection
Posted by Julia A. Seymour on July 12, 2007 - 18:57.
It seems the network newscasts will put anything on in the name of stopping global warming, including a report about trying to put penguins on the U.S. Endangered Species list.

Wait, a minute. Penguins don’t live in the U.S. except at the zoo.

But that didn’t stop ABC “World News with Charles Gibson” from promoting the left-wing group trying to accomplish that.

“If the group can get them [the penguin] protected by the U.S. Endangered Species Act, they say it’ll send an important message about the global problem of climate change,” said ABC science correspondent Ned Potter on July 11.

Later in the broadcast, Potter continued to praise the idea:

“Getting them protected would not only be good for them, but for the rest of the world too.”

The group, Center for Biological Diversity is extreme environmental organization that wants to exploit the “endearing” penguin as a tool to promote global warming hysteria.

“If we can save the penguins, then perhaps we’ve chosen a path that will save ourselves as well,” says Melissa Waage, the CBD’s legislative director.

Earlier this year, the same group opposed the building of a dam, reservoir and hydroelectric plant to provide energy in a time when it is in high demand.

However, the penguin is native to the South Pole – an area that is far beyond the United States’ jurisdiction.

http://newsbusters.org/node/14060

Penguins are a bit more cute and cuddly than polar bears and don't eat humans.

 

[red states rule]

The liberal media does it again

WashPost: Gore Inspires Energy Conservation; Paper Leaves Out Mammoth Electric Bill
Posted by Joe Steigerwald on July 13, 2007 - 17:47.
The summer of media love for Al Gore continues in the Washington Post today. An article by Lori Aratani boasts in the sub-heading that “Al Gore’s film has raised awareness of energy conservation, officials say.”

The piece is actually on John Morrill, an Arlington County bureaucrat who has, for years, been “touting the cost saving benefits and environmentally friendly nature” of compact fluorescent lamps. He says in the past people ignored him but now, “thanks in part to ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ the issue has a higher profile.”

While the article stumbles over itself bestowing platitudes on Al Gore’s “documentary,” it – of course – fails to mention that while Al was busy lecturing America about the evils of carbon emissions, his own house in Tennessee was using over 20 times more energy than the national average.

That’s right folks! While Al was criss-crossing the country, berating people like you and me for not using the right kind of light bulb, Al, the green guru himself, was racking up electric bills of $1,300 dollars per month.

In contrast to Al’s house of energy horrors, George W. Bush’s Crawford ranch has called an “eco-friendly haven.”

What, did Al accidentally leave a light on during all those cross-country trips?

Of course people caught up in the hysteria of the green movement constantly “forget” to include little things like that in their stories. Mentioning such a thing about their hero Albert is obviously off-limits.

http://newsbusters.org/node/14084