Noted actor and Scientologist John Travolta has finally spoken out about global warming. He ain’t fer it, he’s agin’ it! Hope you were sitting down when you read that a Hollywood actor has weighed in on global warming. Wouldn’t want you to pass out and hit your head on anything, too, when you found out that he was taking the “brave” stand of joining the lemmings in the middle of the pack.
As an aside, don’t you just love it when someone is called brave for taking the “popular” stand? The Dixie Chicks were so brave the way the stood up to President Bush, weren’t they? No, they weren’t. They would be brave if the went to Cuba and told Castro to release, say, the librarians he’s been holding for years for daring to think differently. But they aren’t going to do that. It could be because they don’t know or understand what’s going on, but I think it’s more they don’t care.
Why should they? Lefties are looked upon a brave for saying popular things in a free society. Just because they say things like “This is the most oppressive threat to our democracy we’ve ever faced,” and the ever popular “We’ve lost our right to free speech to this oppressive regime!” without even a hint of hypocrisy or awareness of the fact that they are saying these things in public and to reporters who publish them all while they roam the streets free, thus directly contradicting the very words they just uttered.
There is no reward in liberalism for intellectual consistency. Michael Moore, et. al. (that means all those of his ilk on the Left, not a misspelling implying he ate all the food or anything) love and cheer policies like those championed by people like Castro, Che Guevara, Mao, Stalin, Chavez, and the like, so you don’t hear them condemn them. As long as you provide health care to your people you will be forgiven for the murder, torture, and starvation you’ve inflicted on your people that forced them to go to the doctor in the first place.
Hollywood and music industry’s award shows are huge “pat yourselves on the back” rallies filled with people who genuinely believe they understand the way the world works, and there is no problem we can’t hug ourselves out of. I’m not saying you have to have a Ph.D. on certain issues to know what’s going on in the world. But I will say this; it sure helps when it comes to knowing what to do next. It definitely gives someone more street cred than, say, a Grammy.
Enough about the industry in general, let’s get back to Vinnie Barbarino and his solution to global warming.
This is from Vinnie himself: “I'm wondering if we need to think about other planets and dome cities.”
He really did say that. I couldn’t make that up. Well, I could, but I wouldn’t because it just wouldn’t sound believable. But the possibility of sounding crazy doesn’t seem to bother the star of such films and “Battlefield Earth,” “The Boy in the Plastic Bubble,” and the “Look Who’s Talking” series.
Nor should it. I’m giving him grief here, but he actually stepped up and admitted he’s a bit of a hypocrite on the issue, so big ups to him.
You see, the star of “Get Shorty” (which actually is an excellent movie) admits that he thinks something should be done about the “problem,” he continues, “I'm probably not the best candidate to ask about global warming because I fly jets.”
He’s being a bit modest there, he doesn’t just fly them, he owns 5 of them, including a personal 707. The picture in the story I linked shows his house, but looks more like an airport without the threat of a TSA cavity search.
And he flies everywhere. Nothing wrong with it, you just probably shouldn’t start talking about something that, were it true (which it’s not), you would be one of the largest individual causes of.
So, JT, I’m going to let you off the hook since your little story allowed me to rant against both The Dixie Chicks and Michael Moore. Just don’t make a sequel to “Wild Hogs” and we’ll be cool.
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