We should be so lucky! Unfortunately, this is pure fiction. It’s from ‘The Day After Tomorrow,’ the disaster movie about global warming where our hero, Al Gore, comes to the rescue of the entire pale, blue planet by inventing cars that run not on gasoline, clean natural gas, ethanol, wind, solar power, electric power, or cat feces. No, Algore saves the day (after tomorrow!) with cars that run on Republicans – a clean, renewable resource since many Republicans actually have babies.
Ok, I admit Al Gore doesn’t make an appearance in this flick but you and I both know he should have had a cameo at the beginning. He could have grown the look-I-can-grow-a-beard beard again and walked around New York wearing a sandwich board that says “We are doomed” on one side and “Don’t blame me, I voted for me” on the other.
Here’s a review from foxnews.com and an editorial from an environmental scientist who works for the CATO institute.
As a scientist, I bristle when lies dressed up as “science” are used to influence political discourse. The latest example is the global-warming disaster flick, The Day After Tomorrow.
This film is propaganda designed to shift the policy of this nation on climate change. At least that’s what I take from producer Mark Gordon’s comment that “part of the reason we made this movie” was to “raise consciousness about the environment.”
Fox spokesman Jeffrey Godsick says, “The real power of the movie is to raise consciousness on the issue of (global warming).”
$200 million is a high price for such a vacuous message.
*UPDATE*
Storm Warning – Op/Ed from the WashTimes
The weirdest part is that this thing is based on a book by Whitley Strieber and Art Bell(!) and their primary sources are aliens. Gore seems to have really gone off the deep end.
“How do I know so much about a movie that isn’t out yet? I’ve seen the promos, and I’ve read and reviewed the book upon which it is based, The Coming Global Superstorm by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber. In Strieber’s previous work, Communion, he explained that he was told of the Earth’s upcoming apocalypse by aliens. And how this knowledge was communicated is much more the purview of an adult Web site than a family newspaper. What’s on the movie’s Web site is worse — nothing but out-and-out distortion.”
Hollywood is reported as having six movies this summer and fall after the McCain-Feingold free speech blackout goes into effect, to attack the GOP.
This would apparently be the seventh.
That’s not surprising at all, Puzzled. Most of Hollywood is hard-left. As Eric has written in a number of essays, The hard left is more or less unhinged in their hatred of Bush.
Remember how during the 2000 campaign, they put out a movie about an evil college fraternity called “Skulls,” that covered up murder? Gee, wasn’t it a coincidence that Bush belonged to a fraternal group called the Bonesmen (that’s the nickname, can’t remember the proper name) at Yale?
During the ’80s we had all the “military as gun-happy cowboys who will get us all killed” movies (The Day After, The Abyss, etc.) as Hollywood threw its power against Reagan and his successful arms buildup against the Soviets. During the Clinton presidency we got “Air Force One” about a heroic president. Again, gee, how coincidental.