One of the key recruiting tools in conservative activists' push against the climate bill is a recent documentary called Not Evil, Just Wrong. The film styles itself as the latest conservative answer to Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. It has no commercial distributor, but instead debuted on an October 18 webcast heavily promoted by social conservative organizations like Focus on the Family and the American Family Association, as well as local Tea Party groups. Organizers claimed the online premiere attracted some 400,000 viewers.
Now the tea partiers are calling for local chapters to host screenings on November 21. An Escondido, California, branch recently invited members to a "record-setting international Cinematic Tea Party," in terms reminiscent of a social justice rally: "Join the Resistance against the extreme environmentalism that threatens the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people in the developed and developing world; this is the new road to poverty in America." (To facilitate these screenings, the filmmakers are selling a "Platinum Party Pack" on their online store, which for $99.95 gets you all the fixings for a rockin' party: invitations, T-shirts, posters, and even a small red carpet.)
Red carpet notwithstanding, Not Evil is unlikely to garner its creators, a pair of Irish former journalists, any Oscar nominations. The film is poorly organized and rehashes the familiar talking points of climate change deniers—global warming as bad science; climate concerns as hysteria akin to that over killer bees, etc. Pushing those views are the usual suspects, including Patrick Moore, the Greenpeace founder turned nuclear power lobbyist, and Thatcher-era British politician Sir Nigel Lawson.
Where Not Evil differs slightly from the standard denialist script is insistence that cutting carbon emissions will hurt the poor. "For too long, with environmentalists, it's not enough about people," says Ann McElhinney, one of the filmmakers, in an interview. "Is it warming? Is it cooling? Who knows? Is it caused by us? There's even more disagreement about that. All of these things should be about people. We should be fighting for the poor."
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So let's get this straight. The Tea Partiers are NOW concerned about the poor... not their health or medical bills, but their electricity bills. How thoughtful...
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once signed into law if ever...., the healthcare and cap-n-trade legislation will be so watered down that its effectiveness will be laughed at and the industry it is going after will end up benefiting some how....it always works out that way in a scratch my back scratch your back government.
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Environmentalist don't even want the climate bill.
Don't forget that the Tea Party movement began in 2007 by libertarians and Ron Paul type conservatives, not in 2009 by fake liberatarian Glenn Beck and the corporate funded 9/12 Movement.
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Climate change? It's scary. I don't want to think about it. Let's have a tea party!
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can't we just discuses this over tea like civilized apes ......
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- ras_menelik
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(facepalm) when will ppl learn that doing *something* is 1000% better than not changing *anything*???
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Don't drink the tea!!! It's been laced! It confuses you and makes you oppose important legislation that benefits humanity! You start to think that corporate funded think tanks are more credible than scientists with actual knowledge and expertise in the field of study. DON'T DRINK THE TEA!!!!!
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- WakeUpPeople
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So, they support the celestial teapot theory?
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what's buddha got to do with it?
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- tangibleparadox
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I think it's unfair to lump a disagreement in policy in with a general statement on climate change. If you don't like cap n trade, fine- have your voice heard, come up with something better- but I have funny feeling these guys aren't just arguing about legislation, but waging a much broader fight against climate change, environmentalists ("extreme or not) and science - a statement like "Is it warming? Is it cooling? Who knows? Is it caused by us? There's even more disagreement about that" is incredibly misleading and ignorant of a helluvalotta research.
The “we care about the poor people” argument is outrageous- these are the same people who bitch about social services and healthcare. GTFO, no one is buying that load!
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