{"id":7492,"date":"2006-05-23T15:48:47","date_gmt":"2006-05-23T19:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7492"},"modified":"2006-05-23T15:48:47","modified_gmt":"2006-05-23T19:48:47","slug":"in-inconvenient-overreaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/in-inconvenient-overreaction\/","title":{"rendered":"In inconvenient overreaction"},"content":{"rendered":"

At a certain level, it seems [tag]Fox News[\/tag] is intent on offering [tag]Al Gore[\/tag]’s [tag]An Inconvenient Truth[\/tag] as much publicity as the network can muster. For a movie with an initial run of a few hundred theaters, FNC is acting awfully nervous.<\/p>\n

For example, there’s the right’s inevitable [tag]Nazi[\/tag] comparison<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[tag]Sterling Burnett[\/tag] is a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, an organization that has received over $390,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998<\/a>. This afternoon on Fox, Burnett compared watching Al Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth<\/a>, to watching a movie by Nazi propagandist Joseph [tag]Goebbels[\/tag]<\/a> to learn about Nazi Germany…. ExxonMobil doesn’t have a substantive answer to Gore’s movie, so it bankrolls people like Burnett to smear Gore personally.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And then there’s Fox News’ belief that Gore and his movie could ruin the national economy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This weekend on Fox News, host [tag]David Asman[\/tag] asked his guests to discuss the following question: “If people buy into [Al Gore’s] global warming hysteria, will it put him in the White House and our economy on the skids?” [tag]Steve Forbes[\/tag] answered yes, and called Gore’s new movie “a real recipe for more socialist regulation.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Haven’t these guys heard the phrase, “Never let ’em see you sweat”? If Fox News and its cohorts don’t think Gore has a powerful, persuasive message, then why are they in such a panic?<\/p>\n

At this point, if An Inconvenient Truth starts making some real money, or worse, gets nominated for a few Academy Awards, Fox News personalities might get on-air vapors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At a certain level, it seems [tag]Fox News[\/tag] is intent on offering [tag]Al Gore[\/tag]’s [tag]An Inconvenient Truth[\/tag] as much publicity as the network can muster. For a movie with an initial run of a few hundred theaters, FNC is acting awfully nervous. For example, there’s the right’s inevitable [tag]Nazi[\/tag] comparison. [tag]Sterling Burnett[\/tag] is a senior […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}