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11-13-2005, 06:41 PM
FOX is going to run a special “The Heat Is On” tonight about global warming. This is unusual, at least to me, because for the most part they have downplayed the global warming crisis as alarmist and inconclusive. Meanwhile conservatives have written FOX expressing their disappointment while environmental-minded people are surprised and pleased.

I read an interesting article here (http://www.calendarlive.com/printedition/calendar/cl-et-david12nov12,0,3190836.story?track=tottext) about how the special came to be. Larry David’s (Sienfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm fame) wife arranged for Al Gore to give a PowerPoint presentation on the subject to NY media executives. Ted Kennedy Jr. invited FOX Chairman Roger Ailes (ex-republican political operative) to view it. Later Ailes met with both David and Kennedy and agreed to give the subject coverage.

Strange bedfellows in today’s political climate, but hopefully indicative of a trend in depoliticizing serious issues and facing them with a united front.

Semi-related, I’ve also read an article about evangelists getting on the environmental platform recently. Their reasoning being not to defile the garden of Eden that God created.

Could it be that the right are finally opening their eyes a bit wider and finally coming to realize that what they have always labeled a liberal issue and fought against is really what it has been the whole time? Everyone’s issue?
Warriorbird
11-13-2005, 07:50 PM
No.
Drezzt
11-13-2005, 07:56 PM
Agreed. No.
Celexei
11-13-2005, 08:02 PM
Lets hope so.
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11-13-2005, 08:16 PM
Environment seems to be tonight’s issue. 60 Minutes ran an expose on the E.L.F. and their terroristic activities and CBS is going to run a movie called “Category 7 THE END OF THE WORLD!”
xtc
11-14-2005, 01:47 PM
In Canada the leader of the Green Party is Jim Harris. I know Jim personally and he is definitely conservative in his views and outlook.

I think right wing people shy away from the term environmentalist because it has connotations of shaggy, unwashed, university drop-outs blowing something up. Conservationist is a term that most conservatives can more easily embrace.

I think many right wing people have been concerned and involved in environmental causes but only know are being given media exposure.

Now I know the United States isn't Canada and right wing in Canada is a pinko in the U.S.

I don’t watch FOX news so I can’t comment on their stories on the environment but I don’t think any of the major TV networks give much time to environmental issues unless they fit neatly into the Democratic platform like drilling in Alaska.