Dead Earth

Good to see that NBC's "Live Earth" concert show bombed in the ratings on Saturday night. Nothing like a day of concerts to promote "awareness of global warming" with celebrities who fly across the world in their private jets and get shuttled to the concerts in strech limos and hummers all while leaving their multiple mansions on climate control while they are gone.
Oh, and Al Bore was in charge of this thing. But it wasn't political. Ya, that's why Macy Gray and her band wore classy t-shirts with Bush and Cheney crossed out.

Here's a good piece by Minneapolis radio host Dan Barriero on the hypocrisy of the whole event:

"LIVE EARTH...Or, as lead vocalist for the rock band Muse has described it, "Private Jets for Climate Change." Simply call it a glorified rock concert that pretended to want to raise awareness about something of which only a complete, blithering live-under-a-rock moron could not have already known.

If we get our consciousnesses raised any more about global warming, then our heads will all explode, thereby sending much more dangerous gases into the polluted atmosphere.

By the way, even as a rock concert, Live Earth was underwhelming. As a revolution, it was hysterical and sophomoric. As a political message it was predictable pathetic. Macy Gray's band, among those savvy rockers wanting everybody to know just how politically aware its members are, came out in shirts that attempted to shout out messages: Bush with a line through his name. Cheney with a line through his name. Racism with a line through it. Global warming with a line through it.

It might have been inspiring, except for the shirts, or signs, or mantras that weren't there for that performance or many others: Stunningly, no Bin Laden with a line through it. No Islamist facism with a line through it. No terrorism with a line through it. When it comes to extolling the virtue of world peace, some causes are more fashionable than others among the musical mob. Now, go eat your favorite colored M & M's in your three-blocks-long limos, climb back in your private jets and head to your favorite vacation spot on Fiji. (Don't forget to write your carbon offset checks, too.)"

Here's a review from England where it was labled a "flop." They said it was nothing more than a hypocritical event with a lot of swearing. Yup, mature celebrities who know what's best for everyone!