Burt’s Eye View: Mother Nature and the Left

When Barack Obama was campaigning — not that he’s ever stopped — back in 2008, he made a number of promises.  As we all know, like a cad on the make, he was only trying to get us in the sack.  Once he had his way with us, he barely remembered our name, let alone his various vows.

Some of the things he swore to included keeping lobbyists out of his administration, providing five days for the public to review pending legislation and a bi-partisan approach to problem-solving.  Instead, lobbyists, particularly those representing unions, have freer access to the Oval Office than Michelle and the kids.  Not only is the public not given time to digest major legislation, neither are the legislators.  Early on, you may recall, Congress was given less than 24 hours to vote on an 1100-page, trillion dollar, so-called stimulus bill; more recently, when it came to health care, Obama was telling the sheep on Capitol Hill to vote even before an actual bill was written!

So far, as bi-partisanship is concerned, the Republicans have been banished to Washington’s equivalent of Siberia.  These days, bi-partisanship simply means that  David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel are in agreement.

There is one promise, however, that Obama has kept.  He vowed transparency, and anyone who can’t plainly see what the rock star and his left-wing groupies (Axelrod, Emanuel, Jeff Jones, Valerie Jarrett, Cass Sunstein, Anita Dunn) are up to is simply spending too much time watching “American Idol” and college football. (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama, Congress, Global warming, health care, hollywood
Posted Nov 5th 2009 at 8:22 am in Politics | 25558641 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2009/11/05/burts-eye-view-mother-nature-and-the-left/Burt%27s+Eye+View%3A+Mother+Nature+and+the+Left2009-11-05+16%3A22%3A49Burt+Prelutsky

Read Between The Lines of: The Hollywood Green Message of Importance.

A message from Hollywood -

(Not the people who really work hard here like the drivers, grips, electricians, greensman, editors, carpenters, etc. – just us so very important ‘Stars’)

- on what YOU the World – can do to save our planet: (Listen up you nasty smelly little flyover stalker freaks.)

1.  Conserve Water!

(Don’t you dare water your 40′ x 100′ lawn. Let it go brown. We’ll keep swimming in our 3 pools, The infinity one in Malibu, and the two at the compound in Palm Springs.)

2. Airplanes are the grossest polluters. Fight Climate Change, take the bus, or ride your bike!

(All you little people, not us right now – we’re too busy with our awesome important star stuff, and we have a very important film festival to attend in a foreign country that mostly hates the U.S. and we just don’t want to miss out on this opportunity to knock America and Americans. P.S. the film is about Climate change, so it is very important we get there fast with our very snobby entourage.) (more…)

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Tags: conservation, Global warming, hollywood, Hypocrisy
Posted Nov 2nd 2009 at 4:48 pm in Celebrity News, Politics | 23475075 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/emannix/2009/11/02/read-between-the-lines-of-the-hollywood-green-message-of-importance/Read+Between+The+Lines+of%3A+The+Hollywood+Green+Message+of+Importance.+2009-11-03+00%3A48%3A24Ernie+Mannix

PelosiCare: Liars, Luddites and Leprechauns

Nancy Pelosi, having renamed the Public Option, the ‘Consumer Option,’ triumphantly trotted out this morning the Hose version of the Health Care Reform Bill, now called The Affordable American Health Care Bill.   (“Affordable” – what does that mean, exactly?  Affordable to whom?)   But then Steny Hoyer proclaimed the process of crafting the bill the most open, transparent process he’s seen in over thirty years in Congress. (Really??)   And finally, the President followed up on Teleprompters to announce that finally we have a bill that will cover the 36 million uninsured, not cost the taxpayers anything extra, improve the quality of our health-care system, and bring down the costs of health care.  Speaker Pelosi assured us that this bill represents the principles of  “…opportunity, choice, competition, and innovation.”

How can you tell when they’re lying?    Their lips are moving.

They think you’re stupid.   It’s understandable that they should think that, because though they may on occasion listen to you, they never really hear you.  Hence, the only frame of reference for feedback on their incredibly absurd redistributive ideas, tax-and-spend proposals and unprecedented treasury-busting health care take-over bills…comes from their own constituents, the Democrats.  Whoops and hollers, cheers and laughter, nods, smiles, enthusiastic ‘yes-we-cans!’… as they serve up yet another heaping portion of socialist slop you’ll be expected to grab your ankles and pay for.  They think you’re stupid.

As the entire Democratic Party has now been fully commandeered by the hard Left, I wrestle daily with the following quandary:  Are they evil?  Or merely dense?  (more…)

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Tags: abortion, Barack Obama, Congress, Global warming, health care
Posted Oct 29th 2009 at 12:24 pm in Featured Story, Politics | 255142140 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/10/29/pelosicare-liars-luddites-and-leprechauns/PelosiCare%3A+Liars%2C+Luddites+and+Leprechauns2009-10-29+19%3A24%3A32Gary+Graham

‘Damn it Feels Good to Be a Victim’

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Tags: ACORN, Barack Obama, bush, Congress, Global warming
Posted Oct 26th 2009 at 5:22 pm in Music, Politics, Video | 25183862 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/arachel/2009/10/26/victicrat/%27Damn+it+Feels+Good+to+Be+a+Victim%272009-10-27+00%3A22%3A01Alfonzo+Rachel

‘Not Evil Just Wrong’ Premiere Big Hollywood Live Stream

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Tags: Al Gore, Ann McElhinney, climate change, environmentalism, Global warming
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‘Not Evil Just Wrong’ Will Open Eyes to Inconvenient Facts

“Not Evil Just Wrong,” the new documentary debunking much of the global warming movement, is reaching the public at an opportune time. Not only did the film’s director, Phelim McAleer, just publicly embarrass former Vice President Al Gore at a global warming Q&A, but major news outlets are now revealing the earth’s temperature hasn’t gone up for at least a decade.

Yet, “Not Evil Just Wrong” still won’t get the attention of your average Michael Moore polemic. That’s a shame, since it’s far more balanced than Moore’s body of work and offers a message few mainstream documentaries are willing to touch.

What if global warming is just another wide-scale scare tactic, like Y2K, the killer bees or mad cow disease, but with far more devastating results? These questions are rarely asked in the press, so kudos to “Not Evil” for doing so in such a methodical fashion. The film isn’t as entertaining as a Moore screen rant, but it still looks snazzy while imparting a raft of enlightening material.

Naturally, the film presses its thumb on the scale to favor the skeptics, but the global warming believers here add both texture and perspective. “We live in an age of fear, but humans have never lived longer or been healthier,“ the narrator says. (more…)

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Tags: Al Gore, Environmentalist, Global warming, Not Evil Just Wrong, Phelim McAleer
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Time to Recall Al Gore’s Oscar

Al Gore, Jr. has a history of trying to juke stats to get results he wants. In the 2000 election, he wanted the Florida recount to only look at ballots in three counties with large Democrat populations and he wanted to block military votes from soldiers overseas. The reason for this was simple. He wanted the results that would make him a winner, he did not want to risk that by including all the votes in the state, especially from conservative areas like the Panhandle.

After a court in England decreed that there were 11 “inaccuracies” in “An Inconvenient Truth”, many of which could be classified as outright lies and false claims, Gore did not recut the film. So when film director Phelim McAleer asked him if he would fix the problem, Gore refused to answer and McAleer’s mic was cut.

It’s not surprising that Gore is being evasive. When a “peer reviewed” study of tree rings used in the UN’s IPCC reports referenced by people like Gore, was revisited by scientists, guess what they discovered? (more…)

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Tags: Al Gore, Global warming, Not Evil Just Wrong, oscar, Phelim McAleer
Posted Oct 16th 2009 at 1:13 pm in Film, Video | 24813072 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jhudnall/2009/10/16/recall-al-gores-oscar-stat/Time+to+Recall+Al+Gore%27s+Oscar2009-10-16+20%3A13%3A54James+Hudnall

Big Hollywood to Premiere the Movie Al Gore Doesn’t Want You to See

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Tags: Al Gore, climate change, Global warming, Not Evil Just Wrong
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Stand Up Notes from Flyover Country: My Nobel Prize, Please!

I am one conservative who is happy the President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. First, the 1.4 million will help level our negative trade deficit with Scandinavia. All those Saabs and Volvos add up. Secondly, it shows what a joke the Nobel Peace Prize has become just in case you weren’t convinced when the greatest con man in recent history, Al “Carbon” Gore won.

Three times this century the Peace Prize has been given to someone for the simple reason they are not George W. Bush. Perhaps they should rename the Noble Peace Prize the “At Least He’s Not George W. Bush Prize.” Maybe the “Liberal Socialist of the Year Prize,” might be better.

Let’s look at some recent winners and see how they have brought peace to the planet. Al Gore (2007) and Wangari Maathai (2004) both scored the “peace” prize for environmental work. I won’t get into the science behind so-called “global warming,” (AKA: “climate change,” and here in the Midwest “the weather”). Nice and very touchy-feely, but exactly how does that help bring world peace? (more…)

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Tags: Al Gore, climate change, Don't Ask Don't Tell, george w. bush, Global warming
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Daily Gut: Thongs, Not Bombs

So on an ABC webcast, Charlie Gibson tossed to a U.S. intelligence report that suggests global warming is helping the Taliban and al Qaeda. The logic: temperatures rise, droughts continue, folks are desperate – and lo and behold, they become suicide bombers.

This is nothing new, of course. Global warming is the Kevin Bacon of root causes: you can link everything back to it, including “Hollow Man.” Hilariously, you can even blame terror on global warming, even if the current science suggests the globe may be cooling!

But you know what’s causing global cooling?

Global warming.

But you knew that. (more…)

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Tags: al qaeda, Charlie Gibson, drought, global cooling, Global warming
Posted Oct 12th 2009 at 2:45 pm in Daily Gut, Featured Story | 24535480 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/10/12/daily-gut-thongs-not-bombs/Daily+Gut%3A+Thongs%2C+Not+Bombs2009-10-12+21%3A45%3A49Greg+Gutfeld

Confronting Al Gore with An Inconvenient Question

The Society of Environmental Journalists spent much of their conference in Madison, Wisconsin questioning why mainstream journalism was dying.

Then they answered their own question when they decided it was their role to protect Al Gore from An Inconvenient Question.

Phelim McAleer, the director of Not Evil Just Wrong, asked Al Gore about the British Court Case which found his documentary An Inconvenient Truth had nine significant errors.

McAleer said that given his documentary is being shown in schools – does he accept the errors and has he done anything to correct them?

However, Mr. Gore declined to address the issue and when asked for a straight answer from McAleer – the response of the Society of Enironmental Journalists was not to applaud one of their own for bringing truth to power but instead they cut the mic of a journalist.

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Tags: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, climate change, environmentalism, Global warming
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‘NewsBusted’ 10/02/09 — Comedy News from the Right

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Tags: Chris Brown, David Paterson, Dementia, FCC Diversity Czar, global cooling
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Daily Gut: God Bless Vaclav Klaus; Shut Up Kids!

So, at the opening of the U.N. climate change summit on Tuesday, a hundred or so world leaders (including our own President) were greeted by a thirteen year old girl from India, named Yugratna. Her name might seem complicated to western ears, but her message was simple: we`re just not doing enough to fight global warming. She added, “Please help: Qaddafi asked me to Applebee`s.”

 
Yugratna

Anyway, here’s a key rule one must know about left-wing propaganda: that once they trot out the kids, you know you`re being fed a pile of crap the size of Al Gore`s houseboat. Using pubescent pawns is based on the successful belief that no one dare question children – because they`re smaller and weaker than adults – and for the most part, sincere. Also: they`re adorable and can make up damaging stories about you if you don’t submit to their fickle wishes. (more…)

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Tags: Al Gore, Czech President Vaclav Klaus, Global warming, Klaus, Qaddafi
Posted Sep 24th 2009 at 2:23 pm in Daily Gut, Politics | 23505079 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/09/24/daily-gut-god-bless-vaclav-klaus-shut-up-kids/Daily+Gut%3A+God+Bless+Vaclav+Klaus%3B+Shut+Up+Kids%212009-09-24+21%3A23%3A40Greg+Gutfeld

Daily Gut: Aversive Racism

So after witnessing the waves of antipathy across the country toward President Obama’s policies, New York Times writer Charles Blow introduces his readers to the term, “aversive racism.” It’s a sinister kind of prejudice, Charles explains, that reveals itself in disagreements based on factors “other than race.”

A simpler definition of aversive racism?

If you say it’s not about race, then it’s really about race.

See: if you’re against socialized medicine, it’s really because our President, who’s for it, is black. If you’re against the redistribution of wealth because it goes against your own beliefs in free markets and individual achievement – it’s because Obama is black. If you’ve done a lot of research on global warming, and decided it’s hypothetical hooey – that belief is now racist, since Obama buys into climate change hysteria. (more…)

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Tags: Aversive Racism, Charles Blow, climate change, free markets, Global warming
Posted Sep 21st 2009 at 7:56 pm in Daily Gut, Politics | 23203449 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/09/21/daily-gut-aversive-racism/Daily+Gut%3A+Aversive+Racism2009-09-22+02%3A56%3A28Greg+Gutfeld

Bibles

Liberalism is Communism is Atheism

“A rose by any other name is still a rose.”

Liz is driving me to the 9-12 Westwood Tea Party.  I’m biting my fake fingernails because I’m one of the speakers and I don’t have a speech yet.

Liz: Do you have your speech all ready?

Me: No…I’m kinda nervous.  I mean, where do I start? Should I talk about:

1)  Obama’s last speech where he lied 13 times? Not even little sneaky lies you have to research, but big, bold, blatant lies!  ”My plan will not fund abortions, or insure illegals!”  Lie, lie, lie.

2)  The former Liberally-Biased Mainstream Media that is now a completed, fully-functioning Progressive Propaganda Machine?  Ignoring the Acorn tapes, and the Van Jones story! That’s called the lie of omission!

3)  Or, …hey, you know what I read?  I was flipping around in the Bible and since it’s 9 -12 I just flipped to Psalm 12 and it said the most perfect thing…about lying in the government!

Liz: Really?  Did you see Glenn Beck today?

Me: The protest sign in the Washinton D.C. crowd that said Ephesians 6:12?

Liz: Yeah! (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama, Bible, Daniel 3:6, Ephesians 6:12, Glenn Beck
Posted Sep 18th 2009 at 5:03 am in Culture, Featured Story, Politics, Religion | 228198168 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/vjackson/2009/09/18/bibles/Bibles2009-09-18+12%3A03%3A13Victoria+Jackson

80’s Has-Beens Jump on Global Warming Celebrity Train

A gaggle of concerned musicians has banded together to warn the world about global warming.

Huh? Is the world getting warmer? I had no idea. You would think the media, or the movie industry or any other information outlet for that matter would have told us about it by now.

Thank goodness Duran Duran and the Scorpions are here to set the record straight.

Yes, those ’80s rockers, along with actress and certified Truther Marion Cotillard, Youssou N’dour, Bob Geldorf, Khalil Fong and South African archbishop Desmond Tutu have cut a new tune available for free soon. (more…)

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Tags: Bob Geldorf, Desmond Tutu, Duran Duran, Global warming, Khalil Fong
Posted Sep 15th 2009 at 3:41 pm in Celebrity News, Politics | 22436261 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2009/09/15/80s-has-beens-jump-on-global-warming-celebrity-train/80%27s+Has-Beens+Jump+on+Global+Warming+Celebrity+Train2009-09-15+22%3A41%3A10Christian+Toto

Revolution Anyone?

Barack Obama hired Anthony “Van” Jones as a special adviser for green jobs, enterprise and innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Jones is an admitted “rowdy Black nationalist” and “communist” who was also a co-founder of the communist revolutionary organization STORM: Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement.

Quick question: how many Marxists, Communists, Domestic Terrorists and raving racialists does the President get to associate with before reasonable people can assume that the president on some level shares their particular vision of America?

While perusing the manifesto of this now defunct STORM, several things struck me as particularly interesting. There was of course the passionate commitment to Marxist ideals, radical feminism, gay lesbian and transgender liberation and the ardent support of the unrepentant murderer Mumia Abu Jamal. And there was this rather innocuous looking paragraph, which I found especially fascinating. (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama, Global warming, Obama, ObamaCare, socialism
Posted Sep 8th 2009 at 12:22 pm in Politics | 21997498 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jphillips/2009/09/08/revolution-anyone/Revolution+Anyone%3F2009-09-08+19%3A22%3A34Joseph+C.+Phillips

‘NewsBusted’ 9/04/09 — Fake News from the Right

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Tags: C.I.A., Chris Matthews, Dick Cheney, DNC, Global warming
Posted Sep 4th 2009 at 6:07 pm in Media Criticism, Political Humor, Video | 21791412 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/newsbusters/2009/09/04/%e2%80%98newsbusted%e2%80%99-90409-%e2%80%94-fake-news-from-the-right/%E2%80%98NewsBusted%E2%80%99+9%2F04%2F09+%E2%80%94+Fake+News+from+the+Right2009-09-05+01%3A07%3A27NewsBusters

The Cold War At Home

The news is really unbelievable these days. All that I once thought were core American values and traditions are now being washed away in a sea of propaganda and political attacks from the radical Left, which now rules supreme and knows it. The Left in power is now waging an ideological war not only against conservatives, but any dissenting Americans who get in their way. Worst of all, they are using the full machinery of the government and their Lefty media lapdogs to do it all, and in the same fashion as Ahmadinejad’s government is demonizing the Green protesters in Iran.

It is chilling to witness, in the United States of America of all places. Civil political discourse is a thing of the past. You cannot oppose ObamaCare without being a swastika-waving corporate Nazi stooge. Never mind the fact that no one will tell us exactly where all the hospitals, doctors, and nurses to treat 50 million new patients will magically materialize from, or how it will all be paid for.
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Tags: Cap and Trade, Cap-and-Tax, cold war, DHS, FCC
Posted Aug 31st 2009 at 7:12 am in News, Politics | 212846125 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jtsimpson/2009/08/31/the-cold-war-at-home/The+Cold+War+At+Home2009-08-31+14%3A12%3A14John+T.+Simpson

Rep. Thaddeus McCotter: Real-Life Walt Kowalski

Polish American Walt Kowalski, played to anti-hero perfection by Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino, stands against corruption and lawlessness and wins. But not before sacrificing his life. Kowalski is a Korean War veteran and retired auto worker living outside of Detroit. He is old and tired, and just wants to be left alone after the death of his wife. But fate and duty had other ideas. He carries a long held guilt over killing a surrendering soldier in the Korean War. His death redeems, not just his soul, but the soul of his town.

Events lead Kowalski to resist a local takeover by a Hmong youth gang. The Hmong are an ethnic Southeast Asian people, primarily from Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand. In real life Michigan, they are among the fastest growing immigrants. Many Hmong people emigrated from South Vietnam after Democrats shamelessly withdrew monetary support from South Vietnam in 1974. The Paris Peace Agreements thus became toothless and North Vietnam conquered South Vietnam. “Boat people” fled Vietnam and the insane, murderous Pol Pot created the Cambodian Killing Fields. (more…)

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Tags: Al Gore, Asian Americans, auto industry, CAFE standards, Cap and Trade
Posted Aug 28th 2009 at 1:09 pm in Film, Politics | 21246258 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mrulle/2009/08/28/rep-thaddeus-mccotter-real-life-gran-torino-hero/Rep.+Thaddeus+McCotter%3A+Real-Life+Walt+Kowalski2009-08-28+20%3A09%3A31Michael+S.+Rulle+Jr.

‘NewsBusted’ 8/21/09 — Fake News from the Right

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Tags: Billie Jean King, Cap and Trade, Fidel Castro, Global warming, Hugo Chavez
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Greenpeace Urges ‘Astroturfing’ to Counter Revelation of Lies

Greenpeace is scrambling to explain away an embarrassing admission by its outgoing executive director that the group exaggerated a statement about melting Arctic ice and  “emotionalizes” issues to sway public opinion.
 
On its blog, Greenpeace tried to cover-up the admission by executive director Gerd Leipold as the work of “the handful of global warming skeptics still standing.” 

Gerd Leipold

In an attempt to “astroturf” (create a false impression of a grassroots response to an issue), Greenpeace urged online followers to spread its cover-up “clarification” via social media tools like blogs, Twitter and Facebook.

Environmental and left-wing organizations often accuse conservative groups of astroturfing on contentious issues. (more…)

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Tags: arctic ice, astroturfing, BBC, Gerd Leipold, Global warming
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EXCLUSIVE: Lies Revealed — Greenpeace Leader Admits Arctic Ice Exaggeration

The outgoing leader of Greenpeace has admitted his organization’s recent claim that the Arctic Ice will disappear by 2030 was “a mistake.”  Greenpeace made the claim in a July 15 press release entitled “Urgent Action Needed As Arctic Ice Melts,” which said there will be an ice-free Arctic by 2030 because of global warming. 

Under close questioning by BBC reporter Stephen Sackur on the “Hardtalk” program, Gerd Leipold, the retiring leader of Greenpeace, said the claim was wrong. 

“I don’t think it will be melting by 2030. … That may have been a mistake,” he said.

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Sackur said the claim was inaccurate on two fronts, pointing out that the Arctic ice is a mass of 1.6 million square kilometers with a thickness of 3 km in the middle, and that it had survived much warmer periods in history than the present. 

The BBC reporter accused Leipold and Greenpeace of releasing “misleading information” and using “exaggeration and alarmism.”  (more…)

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Tags: arctic ice, environmentalism, Global warming, Greenpeace, Not Evil Just Wrong
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Interview: ‘Not Evil Just Wrong’s’ Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney

 The upcoming documentary “Not Evil Just Wrong” skewers global warming alarmists in the media and around the world. But filmmakers Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer contend their movie isn’t a conservative one.

“It’s a liberal, socialist film. It’s about poor people in Africa and America,” McAleer says. “We’re not interested in insulting anyone or winning political points,” McAleer continues. “I don’t care about your politics and I’m not going to demonize you.”

But what McAleer and McElhinney won’t stand for is watching people suffer while serious, glaring misinformation guides public policy.

That happened during the misinformation campaign surrounding the use of DDT years ago to stop the spread of malaria, they say, and it could happen soon if the U.S. adopts cap and trade legislation which will hamper industry – and curtail American prosperity. (more…)

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Tags: Africa, Al Gore, America, Ann McElhinney, Global warming
Posted Aug 5th 2009 at 1:19 pm in Featured Story, Film, Politics | 19627898 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2009/08/05/interview-not-evil-just-wrongs-phelim-mcaleer-and-ann-mcelhinney/Interview%3A+%27Not+Evil+Just+Wrong%27s%27+Phelim+McAleer+and+Ann+McElhinney2009-08-05+20%3A19%3A05Christian+Toto

‘NewsBusted’ 7/31/09 — Fake News from the Right

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Tags: Afghanistan, American Health Care, Coldplay, Congressional Budget Office, Congressional Democrats
Posted Jul 31st 2009 at 7:08 pm in Political Humor, Video | 195406One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/newsbusters/2009/07/31/%e2%80%98newsbusted%e2%80%99-73109-%e2%80%94-fake-news-from-the-right/%E2%80%98NewsBusted%E2%80%99+7%2F31%2F09+%E2%80%94+Fake+News+from+the+Right2009-08-01+02%3A08%3A50NewsBusters

‘Global Warming’: By Sheryl Crow

As found on the website Think Peace Media:

I feel we are so blessed to live in a country where we enjoy so many rights that other countries cannot even begin to imagine. However, it terrifies me that we seem to have lost touch with our connection to the earth. I am concerned that we have risen to such heights of arrogance in our refusal to acknowledge that our earth is rapidly changing in ways that might affect us catastrophically but instead, we hold steadfast to our belief that nothing can happen to us as a people. -Sheryl Crow

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Posted Jul 30th 2009 at 3:10 pm in Celebrity News, Politics | 195018214 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/07/30/global-warming-by-sheryl-crow/%27Global+Warming%27%3A+By+Sheryl+Crow2009-07-30+22%3A10%3A58Big+Hollywood

Daily Gut: The Death of Awareness

It used to be that the most important job in the world was to “raise awareness.” Everyday we were told how important it was to do it for issues like AIDS, global warming, and indoor plumbing. But just as raising awareness had become fulltime jobs for millions of people bearing clipboards and acne, in some very important arenas the crusade is now being undermined. Destroyed, even.

Look at the issues that will potentially devastate your bank account. There, “raising awareness” no longer matters. It happened first with the stimulus bill.  It was far more important to push that mess through than it was to actually read it. Nationalized health care? Beyond knowing that we need it right now – what else is there? And what of this cap and trade muck? It’s way too dry – too bad there aren’t any Cliffs Notes. (more…)

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Posted Jul 20th 2009 at 11:17 am in Daily Gut, News, Politics | 187838107 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/07/20/daily-gut-raising-awareness-about-awareness/Daily+Gut%3A+The+Death+of+Awareness2009-07-20+18%3A17%3A06Greg+Gutfeld

My Secret Life as a Conservative Republican

I’m tired of hiding it. Everybody knows anyway. So it’s time to come clean, just like the Klan hoods I’ve got spinning in the dryer as we speak. It’s time for the Neanderthal knuckle-dragging, open mouth-breathing, racist, sexist, Klan and Timothy McVeigh-loving Montana militia member gun nut conservative Republican religious zealot in me to be set free. Repression is a bitch, and so am I.

I go to bed full of hate and wake up the same.  I hate blacks, Hispanics, gays, women, abortion doctors, liberals, Lefties, Democrats, you name ‘em, I hate ‘em if they’re not like me. I especially hate President Obama for being black. Just ask Janeane Garofalo, although being a Stalinist Socialist doesn’t help Obama’s cause any with me. Fact is, Obama could be a GOP Michael Steele Uncle Tom, and I’d still hate him even more than liberals hate Steele. Skin color trumps all. Thank God I was born the right color, or I’d probably kill myself. Wait, the hoods are dry! Be right back. (more…)

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Posted Jul 15th 2009 at 2:36 pm in Politics | 182706188 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jtsimpson/2009/07/15/my-secret-life-as-a-conservative-republican/My+Secret+Life+as+a+Conservative+Republican2009-07-15+21%3A36%3A48John+T.+Simpson

‘Cap and Trade’: 1000+ Pages of Economic Chaos

The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, more commonly known as the Cap and Trade Bill, is dangerous for the country and potentially disastrous for the economy.  I cannot say this more simply.  This bill which is designed to lower emissions and stop global warming will do nothing except raise the average Americans’ expenses and cause the loss of many American jobs. 

The bill passed in the House last week by a margin of less than ten votes.  The vote was mostly among party lines.  However, many Democrats sensing its disastrous consequences actually voted against it.  In fact, if it were not for eight liberal minded Republicans, the bill would have failed. It is going to the Senate shortly and must be stopped there at all costs.  As for those eight Republicans, I suggest they start looking for employment themselves. 

Global warming is allegedly caused by the burning of fossil fuels.  This Cap and Trade bill is supposed to lower emissions caused by such energy sources.  It is the dream of former Vice President Al Gore who has made a mini-industry out of global warming and who does nothing personally to stop it.  This typical Democratic hypocrite burns more carbon based fuels than 10 average Americans and yet he claims that we, as a country, are not doing enough to stop this potential disaster to the planet.  I wonder when the last time he flew on a commercial airline was.  But, that’s another column completely.  (more…)

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Posted Jul 12th 2009 at 3:02 pm in Politics | 17963853 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/fdemartini/2009/07/12/cap-and-trade-is-dangerous/%27Cap+and+Trade%27%3A+1000%2B+Pages+of+Economic+Chaos2009-07-12+22%3A02%3A51Frank+DeMartini