Update: It was a joke!
Oh, really?
It all started with a joke.
Wrapping up a nationwide global warming tour, singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow posted a quirky "solution" online about a new way to save the environment.
She wrote: "I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting."
She told the joke to get people's attention, and it worked. Talk show hosts had a field day with Crow's comments.
..."It seemed like Sheryl was trying to be a little bit cheeky, no pun intended," said Michelle Lee, executive editor of In Touch weekly.
Crow wanted to clear the air about her comments.
"We're just so happy that people are talking about global warming, even if it's brought on by a joke," Crow told ABC News.
So we're supposed to believe that Crow was mocking the idiocy of the wacko environmentalists?
She was joking about her own brand of extremism?
That would be a very odd approach to get people talking about global warming.
The "It was just a joke" line sounds like a classic CYA move to me.
It's hard to CYA with only square of toilet paper.
There is a joke here. It's the nutjob environmentalists crying that the sky is falling.
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I say that the government should stay out of the bathroom.
No one, not government officials or environmental nutjobs, are going to tell me how many squares of toilet paper I can use in one sitting.
NewsBusters has information on Sheryl Crow's proposed toilet paper limits and some of her other goofy ideas to save the planet.
Read more of the wackiness of Sheryl Crow and her loony environmentalist traveling partner Laurie David.
Crow (4/19): I also like the idea of not using paper napkins, which happen to be made from virgin wood and represent the height of wastefulness. I have designed a clothing line that has what's called a "dining sleeve." The sleeve is detachable and can be replaced with another "dining sleeve," after usage. The design will offer the "diner" the convenience of wiping his mouth on his sleeve rather than throwing out yet another barely used paper product. I think this idea could also translate quite well to those suffering with an annoying head cold.
That has to be a joke.
Tell me it's a joke.
A "dining sleeve"?
I'd like Miss Manners to weigh in on that one.
To say that Crow and David are environmental wackos is an understatement.
On Saturday, things got a little weird at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner.
Of course, everything pales in comparison to the Sanjaya-mania. But a BIG story, big enough to warrant a mention on the NBC Nightly News, was the confrontation between Crow and David and Karl Rove.
Libby Copeland and Dana Milbank give a version in their article on the after-parties.
We don't see singer Sheryl Crow and activist Laurie David, so we can't ask them about their dust-up at the dinner with Karl Rove. They say they tried to discuss global warming with the presidential adviser; he says David insulted him. (Sheryl, did you really reach out to touch Karl's arm and did he really snarl, "Don't touch me"?! He sounds like he needs a deliciously sweet Bellinitini! Instead, he will get a deliciously sweet shout-out from Sheryl at her Earth Day concert yesterday at George Washington University, when she dedicates "We Can Work It Out" to her "new friend, Karl Rove.")
Here's a more complete account of the "dust-up."
President George W. Bush's top political adviser, Karl Rove, reportedly clashed with singer Sheryl Crow over global warming at a gala dinner in Washington.
Both were guests at the annual White House Correspondents Association dinner. Crow -- who has been on a promotional tour with "An Inconvenient Truth" producer Laurie David -- approached Rove and the result was a heated exchange, The Washington Post reported.
"I am floored by what I just experienced with Karl Rove," David said. "I went over to him and said, 'I urge you to take a new look at global warming.' He went zero to 100 with me ... I've never had anyone be so rude."
Rove had a different account of the incident, the Post reported.
"She came over to insult me and she succeeded," he said.
In a posting at the online Huffington Post, David said Crow reached out to touch Rove's arm and Rove said, "Don't touch me."
Crow reportedly responded, "You can't speak to us like that, you work for us."
David said Rove answered by saying he works for "the American people," and Crow told Rove, "We are the American people."
Witnesses told the Post David had been aggressive with Rove.
The Huffington Post is atwitter over the encounter.
David and Crow write about their brush with Rove in a blog post.
Last night Thelma and Louise drove the bus off the cliff or at least into the White House Correspondents Dinner.
Good grief, how lame!
I have a problem with the hysterics of the wacko environmentalists.
However, I do believe we need to be good stewards of the earth. I think there's a moral component to excessive consumption and waste. I don't engage in it and I encourage others to conserve and care about the environment.
For instance, I choose not to fly in private jets. (Actually, to be fair, I've never had the opportunity.)
But I do choose not to live in a 28,200-square-foot house like John "Two Americas" Edwards. (Actually, to be fair, it's not really a choice. We might have just a little difficulty making mortgage payments on a house that size.)
OK, so private jets and enormous houses aren't part of my life; but toilet paper is.
All I can say is this:
THEY WILL HAVE TO PRY MY TOILET PAPER FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS.
2 comments:
Obviously, Sheryl's been breathing in too much biodiesel fumes. The interesting part for me, however, is that for a group of people that can't wait to stand up and accuse the government of infringing on their personal freedoms, liberals have no problem with it when it suits their agenda. Without batting an eye, Ms. Crow suggests that the government legislate the way we each clean our orifices. Wow.
Yes, it's so inconsistent.
The libs want to control people's lives but they whine about government intrusion. Go figure.
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