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
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Daily Gut: CNN’s Sour Lemon

I’ve been way behind on this, mainly because I had relatives staying with me, and consequently I’ve been drunk for four days. However, this piece of footage is still worth showing, courtesy of Weaselzippers. In it CNN’s Don Lemon is interviewing a correspondent about President Obama’s visit to Ghana. Here Lemon earnestly brings up the “unprecedented” welcome Obama received upon his arrival. Only he finds out quickly, that it wasn’t unprecedented. In fact it’s totally precedented, if indeed that’s a word:

Watch Lemon’s response around thirty seconds in. It looks like someone gently pokes him with a stun gun.

Can we go back to that moment again? But this time, producers, let’s slow-mo it.

Joy! In that instant, you learn a couple of valuable things:

-Lemon is adorable when he’s miffed (more…)

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Tags: Africa, AIDS, CNN, DDT, Don Lemon
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Heavy Fighting in the Philippines: Another Forgotten War

06 June 2009
Filed From Chaghcharan, Afghanistan

Overview

Until recently, Afghanistan was called “The Forgotten War.” The dramatic domestic, regional, and international politics of the Iraq war largely eclipsed the fact that our people were fighting just as hard in Afghanistan. Although we’re paying attention to AfPak now, off the radar screen an important and related fight has been unfolding in the Philippines.

At the invitation of the Philippine government, the U.S. maintains about 600 troops, including Army Green Berets, Civil Affairs, and Military Information Support teams, Navy SEALS and Seabees, along with Air Force personnel and Marines.  Our military forces are deployed in six locations: Zamboanga, Mindanao, Jolo, Basilan, Tawi Tawi, and a small number of liaison staff on Luzon. Their mission is to help the Armed Forces of the Philippines eliminate terrorist groups like Jemaah Islamiyah and the Abu Sayyaf Group and to prevent them from establishing safe havens from which to train other terrorists, both internal and external. (more…)

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Tags: Admiral Timothy Keating, Afghanistan, AFP (Armed Forces Philippines), AfPak, Blackhawk Down
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Bill Gates: Release the Mosquitos!

True story: Bill Gates — yes, that Bill Gates — released a swarm of mosquitos at a technology conference. He did it (or so he claims) to demonstrate how malaria spreads.  Reportedly, he waited a minute or two before he informed his well-heeled audience that these particular blood-suckers weren’t carrying the dread disease.  (Only three died of heart attacks!)

This calls to mind The Simpsons‘ Mr. Burns, who shouts “Release the hounds!” whenever he tires of visitors. Gates’ version is somewhat more subtle, but perhaps as effective — especially to mosquito-phobic people like myself.   (I wonder if anybody sued?  Talk about deep pockets!) (more…)

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Tags: Bill Gates, Malaria, mosquitoes, Simpsons, Unleash the hound
Posted Feb 7th 2009 at 7:15 am in Celebrity News, Political Humor | 4307027 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/aleigh/2009/02/07/bill-gates-release-the-mosquitos/Bill+Gates%3A+Release+the+Mosquitos%212009-02-07+15%3A15%3A10Andrew+Leigh