Al Gore, global warming doomsday prophet, was looking for a place in Washington, D.C. to hold his Live Earth doomsday concert.
He couldn't make it happen.
From The Washington Post:
Washington has given Al Gore's global-warming concert the cold shoulder, so the former vice president has decided to move "Live Earth" to more hospitable climes: the swamplands of New Jersey.
The event will take place July 7 at Giants Stadium in the New York suburb of East Rutherford, N.J., with the Police, the Dave Matthews Band, Alicia Keys, Fall Out Boy, Akon, Melissa Etheridge, Kanye West and Bon Jovi among the 16 scheduled performers. It will be one of seven massive concerts staged around the world that day to bring attention to Gore's effort to raise concern about global climate change.
Gore and the Live Earth producers had hoped to bring the North American Live Earth show to Washington, but finding a suitable venue here proved difficult. The obvious choice -- the Mall -- was booked for the Smithsonian Folklife Festival as well as a Christian festival called Together One Unity, and a bipartisan resolution to bring the concert to the Capitol grounds ran into Republican roadblocks. A last-ditch effort to find an alternative location in Washington proved futile.
So yesterday, Gore and Live Earth Executive Producer Kevin Wall announced that they were going to the Garden State.
"I would have loved to have been in Washington," Wall said. "We're disappointed it didn't work out, but we're also happy to be at Giants Stadium."
Why have the concert in Washington?
Was the idea to make Gore king for a day?
King Al had problems finding a suitable venue in D.C.
...Last month it appeared that Live Earth might come to the Capitol through an act of Congress. After organizers ran into scheduling problems on the Mall, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) introduced a resolution authorizing use of the Capitol's west side for the concert.
But when Reid tried to pass the measure by unanimous consent, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) objected, saying more time was needed to review the resolution. ("The senator thinks it's important, before you vote on a resolution, to be able to read it," McConnell spokesman Don Stewart said yesterday.)
Several days later, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), the ranking Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, vowed to block Live Earth from coming to the Capitol, telling the Hill newspaper that "there has never been a partisan political event at the Capitol, and this is a partisan political event."
...Snowe, who co-authored the measure to bring Live Earth to the Capitol, was "disappointed" by the outcome, according to her spokesman, David Snepp. "This is the perfect venue to focus attention on what Senator Snowe calls one of the most pressing issues of our day," Snepp said. "She tried hard to convince her colleagues that this was an appropriate and fitting venue...."
Are the "colleagues" that Snowe supposedly tried to convince to support the political rally and concert at the Capitol Republicans?
When I think of Snowe's colleagues, I don't think of Republicans.
She doesn't seem to want to be a Republican. She often seems to think that the grass is greener on the other side of the aisle, preferring to lean to the Left.
At least some Republicans, like McConnell and Inhofe, had the good sense to prevent the Dems and their RINO allies from staging a political event on the Capitol grounds.
...Wall said: "I was a little shocked by what happened in Washington. I'm not a political guy at all. The only politician I know is Al Gore. I didn't want it to be politicized. It's not a political show. I think it's a red alert about an environmental issue that the world has to come together on."
Give me a break!
"I'm not a political guy at all."
Yeah, right.
Not a political show?
Wall has to be kidding.
Is he so naive to think that Kanye West isn't going to say something like, "George Bush doesn't care about black people or the planet"?
A Bush bash fest isn't going to bring people together. Well, I suppose it would band some together. The concert would unite the far Left Lefties with the less Left Lefties for at least a day.
As one, they could worship their supreme environmental leader, Al Gore, in the name of melting glaciers and drowning polar bears.
They could join in one voice to spout their alarmist, hysterical, inaccurate "facts" about the earth being on the brink of destruction, with Armageddon Al leading the chorus.
Tickets to the Giants Stadium concert will go on sale Monday. Pricing hasn't been set, but Wall estimated that they'd "average around $100 or $125." Had Live Earth been staged on the Mall or at the Capitol, admission would have been free, he said. Ticket revenue will help cover the facility fee at the Meadowlands sports complex.
Funny how that worked out, isn't it?
The concert would have been free if it were held in Washington, as though there would have been no costs for security, crowd control, etc.
All of that would have been free of charge in D.C.
Question: How?
But at the Meadowlands Gore will charge $100+ per person.
That's an awfully steep price for just a facility fee.
Will ticket revenue also cover gift bags for those environmentally conscious artists donating their time for this important cause?
Remember Live Eight in July 2005?
That event was meant to raise awareness about eradicating poverty. It was kind of embarrassing when it was revealed that some performers received lavish gift bags valued at $3000, packed with designer items.
Way to tackle poverty! Personal indulgence gets the job done!
In the case of Live Earth, I wonder about similar instances of counterproductivity.
For instance, how much energy will be consumed to put on this concert?
Will there be carbon offsets purchased to make up for the footprint left behind by the performers' private jets and other pampering?
Think of all the CO2 emissions resulting from tens of thousands of people traveling to Giants Stadium for the concert.
Worse yet, think of all the CO2 the audience will exhale during the concert!
Gore's Live Earth probably will serve to take a few years off the earth as we know it.
I guess raising consciousness comes at an environmentally unfriendly price.
Gluttonous Gore doesn't seem to care.
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