MSNBC 8:20 ET on Olbermann: Swiftboating of Al Gore & Global Warming

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This oughta be interesting. We should get these anti-Earth swiftie repukes back for their lies the minute they tell them. :popcorn:

[otohara]

1. Swift Boating Gore Will Be A Daily

occurrence - I hope Olberman will cover it often.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. I love Barney

but he really should wear his teeth on TV. :(

[Roland99]

3. I wish NBC would put Countdown on PrimeTime TV in lieu of Dateline

[Roland99]

4. ON NOW!!!!

[Roland99]

5. Wow! Pro-CO2 commercial from conservative "think" tank???

CO2-producing fuels "freed us from a world of back-breaking labor".


wow.

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7. I smell the Heritage Foundation backing this ad, Big Oil's favorite "think

tank." They think only of greed and money.

[Roland99]

8. Competitive Enterprise Institute (headed by Fred Smith)... Yahoo article>>

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060517/us_nm/environment_ads_dc

[Roland99]

9. Check out the FUNDING of the CEI!! >>>>>>>>>>>>

http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=2

Competitive Enterprise Institute has received $2,005,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998.

1998
$85,000 ExxonMobil Corporate Giving
Source: ExxonMobil 1998 grants list

2000
$230,000 ExxonMobil Foundation
general support
Source: ExxonMobil Foundation 2000 IRS 990

2001
$280,000 ExxonMobil Foundation
Source: ExxonMobil 2001 Annual Report

2002
$205,000 ExxonMobil Foundation
50K congressional briefing program, 140K general operating support, 60K legal activities
Source: ExxonMobil 2002 Annual Report

2002
$200,000 ExxonMobil Corporate Giving
140K general operating support, 60K for legal activities.
Source: ExxonMobil 2002 Annual Report

2003
$25,000 ExxonMobil Corporate Giving
Annual Dinner
Source: ExxonMobil 2003 Corporate Giving Report

2003
$440,000 ExxonMobil Foundation
General Operating Support
Source: ExxonMobil 2003 Corporate Giving Report

2004
$90,000 ExxonMobil Foundation
General Operating Support
Source: Exxon Giving Report 2004

2004
$90,000 ExxonMobil Foundation
Global Climate Change
Source: Exxon Giving Report 2004

2004
$90000 ExxonMobil Foundation
Global Climate Change Outreach
Source: Exxon Giving Report 2004

2005
$90,000 ExxonMobil Foundation
General Operating Support
Source: ExxonMobil 2005 DIMENSIONS Report (Corporate Giving)

2005
$180,000 ExxonMobil Corporate Giving
General Operating Support
Source: ExxonMobil 2005 DIMENSIONS Report (Corporate Giving)

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11. Hello, IRS & FBI, would you please check these ExxonMobil donations out?

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6. ahahaha, these 'pukes are comparing Gore to Hitler--f**$$ck them!!

What a bunch of idiot malcontents and liars. :mad: :puke:

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10. OK, now I'm seeing a trend--pukes are comparing Dems inc. Gore to Nazis

lately. O'Leilly, Annut Coulter, InsHannity and some Faux News guy named Burnett are in on this Nazi name-calling.

I just hope FBI storms Faux News soon on some tip that it's really an illegal RW propaganda unit paid for by BushCo.

[blm]

12. The GOP - Party of Projection

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[SammyWinstonJack]

15. Big Time! nt

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13. bwahaha, Al Gore for Arch-Druid! This CEI head is a real wiseass

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060517/us_nm/environment_ads_dc

'RUNNING FOR ARCH-DRUID'

Fred Smith, president of the institute, a lobbying group closely allied to the Bush administration that stresses limited government regulation and a free-market approach to environmental issues, said he had seen the film and found it "very alarmist," although well-produced.

"There's a lot of pictures of Al Gore pensively looking into the sunset," Smith said. "I don't think he's running for president, but he might be running for arch-druid."


I kind of like it---Al Gore for arch-druid and Fred Smith for arch Bush-drool.

[Gabi Hayes]

14. thread here today on Ifill/PBS' pandering to the CEI in anti-Gore segment

I don't have it, but they linked this:

http://mediamatters.org/items/200605250007

Summary: In a segment on Al Gore's global warming campaign, PBS' Gwen Ifill noted that "critics have called Gore 'alarmist,' " before airing a clip of an ad produced by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), which she identified only as a "Washington think tank." But Ifill did not mention that CEI is a conservative institution largely funded by the energy industry, which has a financial stake in opposing policies that seek to combat climate change.
In a May 24 segment on former Vice President Al Gore's current campaign to raise awareness about climate change, PBS' The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer anchor Gwen Ifill noted that "critics have called Gore 'alarmist' " and aired a clip from a recent television advertisement produced by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), which she identified only as a "Washington think tank." But Ifill did not inform viewers that CEI is a conservative institution largely funded by the energy industry, which has a financial stake in opposing policies that seek to combat climate change. Moreover, Ifill ignored that, in the ads, which downplay the threat of global warming, CEI misrepresents several scientific studies.

As Media Matters for America has noted, CEI has received substantial funding from the fossil fuel industry, including more than $2 million from the Exxon Mobil Corporation since 1998. As a March 19 Washington Post article reported, "The Competitive Enterprise Institute, which widely publicizes its belief that the earth is not warming cataclysmically because of the burning of coal and oil, says Exxon Mobil Corp. is a 'major donor' largely as a result of its effort to push that position."

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From the May 24 edition of PBS' The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer:

GORE: We have to tear the mask away. Labeling this a political issue is just another way of saying it's insignificant. This is the most crucial challenge that any of us have ever faced, and it's happening in our lifetimes.

IFILL: Some critics have called Gore "alarmist," as in this ad released by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a Washington think tank.

NARRATOR: Carbon dioxide. They call it pollution. We call it life.











also, importantly, a link from media matters to the SCIENTIST whose study on the supposed "thickening of the Antarctic ice sheet"---he says that CEI (and LOTS of others, whom he doesn't mention) are completely distorting his findings to support their mendacious assertions about the lack of Global Warming, when, in fact, what he found supports the predictions he made:

https://cf.iats.missouri.edu/news/NewsBureauSingleNews.cfm?newsid=9842

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16. my email to Gwen Ifill and PBS:

http://mediamatters.org/items/200605250007

http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=2

Dear Gwen/Washington Week:

I like your show very much and watch it often; however, the article above at mediamatters.org does point out you missed the fact that CEI is not just a conservative think tank but gets millions of dollars in funding from Exxon Mobil (exxonsecrets.org). Furthermore, CEI's director and the Republican mouthpieces including O'Reilly, Hannity, Coulter and Fox's Burnett are referring to Al Gore, Dems and Dem policies as Hitler, Nazis, Goebbels and the like. (I found many references on the web by typing the keywords: "Al Gore and Hitler references." This appears to be a well organized GOP smear campaign to stop Gore and the Dems who are gaining momentum.

I hope you will point these facts out in your next show.