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Home Front: Politix
DEMS TO RALLY BEHIND 'DAY AFTER'
2004-04-28
Hat tip to Drudge:
FOX’s global warming thriller THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW is turning into a political lightening rod. A rally featuring former VP and environmental advocate Al Gore will be held a couple of blocks away from the pic’s May 24 preem in Gotham and hosted by MoveOn.org, DAILY VARIETY is reporting on Wednesday.
AlGore promoting it makes it official, this movie will sink faster than Howlin' Howard Dean.
Now if only we can get Al to hold the lightning rod during the storm ...
Helmed by director Roland Emmerich, DAY follows the onset of a new Ice Age just three days after the polar ice caps melt. With Emmerich’s penchant for onscreen destruction, the pic includes catastrophic tornadoes touching down in Los Angeles, giant fire-breathing monsters hail in Tokyo and the flooding and freezing of New York.
The message is this will happen because Bush didn't sign Kyoto.
VARIETY reporter Gabriel Snyder is planning to quote Gore: “THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW presents us with a great opportunity to talk about the scientific realities of climate change. Millions of people will be coming out of theaters on Memorial Day weekend asking the question, ‘Could this really happen?’
"Did I really spend $10 to watch this turkey?"
I think we need to answer that question.” FOX spokeswoman Florence Grace said the pic “is meant to entertain audiences with a mix of spectacle and emotion. If it also increases awareness and inspires audiences to take an interest in some of the issues raised in the film, then all the better.”
"But best of all, we make a boat-load of money."
Posted by:Steve

#22   BigED!!! Absolutely hilarious!! LOL!! You really made my day with that one.

I'm gonna go see it. I think it looks fun. It's a movie for cryin' out loud! Hey, pass the popcorn . . .

And I think somebody needs to tell the Dems that "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." Maybe we should all go to Al Gore's gig. He invented the ice age, after all. And I never did get to thank him for inventing the internet . . .
Posted by: ex-lib   2004-04-28 7:51:54 PM  

#21  Gee, DPA, I sure would like to buy a Cadillac Escalade!
They are gorgeous!
Posted by: Jen   2004-04-28 6:50:59 PM  

#20  DPA, We are in an ice age currently, and have been for that last million and a half years. Otherwise what you say is correct.
Posted by: Phil B   2004-04-28 6:40:44 PM  

#19  Al Gore??? Dinosaurs is about right.

I'll pass. Al Gore...boooring. They should have got the unibomber. I might have been interested.
Posted by: B   2004-04-28 5:22:36 PM  

#18  

Brox Zoo. Ice Age. Elephants Grow Hair. Donkeys Freeze.

Republicans therefore survive.

Posted by: BigEd   2004-04-28 4:44:50 PM  

#17  "I don't quite get how global warming provokes a global ice age, though. Must be nuance."

According to lefty pseudoscience druids eminent authorities, this works in much the same way that setting fire to the Kuwaiti oil fields would cause a global catastrophe akin to nuclear winter. Oh, wait a minute...
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy   2004-04-28 4:18:10 PM  

#16  Whoa! Never mind.
Posted by: Shipman   2004-04-28 4:06:24 PM  

#15  Oppps.... no it's okay. I did say in, not with.
Sorry to intrude.
Posted by: Shipman   2004-04-28 4:05:55 PM  

#14  Will Kerrey show up in the Flying Squirrel?
Posted by: Shipman   2004-04-28 4:04:59 PM  

#13  I usually like Roland Emmerich's stuff (think "Independence Day" and "Stargate"), but this film is so bogus on so many levels I wouldn't even watch it for free on TV.

It would be a more productive use of 2 hours to just watch oil paint dry.

If the Dems actually believe this ridiculous junk, or even say they do for political purposes, they're dumber and nuttier than I thought.

By the way, for those of you who don't know, the earth's average temperature for the last 100 years has warmed maybe 1 degree F, and most of that was before WWII.

From what I've read about this movie, it gives new meaning to the words "crock of shit."
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2004-04-28 4:03:01 PM  

#12  I've always heard about palaeontologists in Alaska and Siberia finding wooly mammoths who were quick-frozen while chewing on dasies.

I wonder if you can be quick-frozen while chewing on a Philly Cheesesteak Sandwich?
Posted by: BigEd   2004-04-28 2:38:19 PM  

#11  One thing that the melting of the Greenland icecap would do is completely disrupt the Gulf Stream and plunge the climate of Northern Europe into a very different climate. I mean look at the map and see just how far north Scotland really is. The main thing keaping Northen Europe's climate as mild as it is, is the warm waters of the Gulf Stream.
Posted by: cheaderhead   2004-04-28 2:22:25 PM  

#10  I don't know if this is Drudge's wording or if it's actually in the plot, but I love the idea of the ice caps slowly melting with no effect on climate, and then - WHAMMO! - three days later we're in an ice age. I don't quite get how global warming provokes a global ice age, though. Must be nuance.
Posted by: Angie Schultz   2004-04-28 2:05:09 PM  

#9  Btw do you guys know that historically the warm periods between ice ages have lasted only 2-3000 years (ice ages last about 100,000 years). 97% of the time the earth is in what we call "ice ages" kinda implies we should instead be calling this a "warm age"...

Anyway... we've currently been in a warm period for about 11,000 years and scientists aren't sure why. But, there is a growing belief among scientist that humans have actually succesfully delayed the coming of the ice age through organized farming starting about 9,000 years ago and later through industrialization. That's right the only thing keeping us from an ice age is polluting the environment... so get those SUVs running rantburgers we need to save the planet!
Posted by: Damn_Proud_American   2004-04-28 1:58:27 PM  

#8  Look out guys, the Dems have had "witch doctors" working on the weather here in LA, to promote the movie. It was 102F/38C yesterday. But the problem is, Kerry is probably going to carry California anyway. There goes incompetent Terry McAuliffe messing up again.

He he he

PS : For non left-coasters - We have this thing called San'tana winds so we can have hot weather Nov-April occasionally.

I've seen 90Fs in January. The only thing is when they start up in March-April all the pollen blows off the desert and everyone's hay fever goes crazy. . . including mine. . .
Posted by: BigEd   2004-04-28 1:25:52 PM  

#7  "I was for the Ice Age before I was against it!"
Posted by: Raj   2004-04-28 1:21:19 PM  

#6  Now there's something that Kerry can get behind - Global Warming&trade!!!!
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2004-04-28 1:11:44 PM  

#5  Steve: Yes.
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2004-04-28 1:09:49 PM  

#4  Are they aware it's fiction?

The movie or AlGore?
Posted by: Steve   2004-04-28 1:08:30 PM  

#3  A few climate experts have said recently that theory this movie is based on is junk science. Add to that the movie trailer looked lame and the movie could bomb. Add to that Clinton/Gore's 8 years of nada regarding Kyoto and alternative energy sources.

Dems would be wise to avoid getting to close to the movie.
Posted by: ruprecht   2004-04-28 1:02:53 PM  

#2  Ok, this clinches it. The dems are completely loony.
Posted by: Damn_Proud_American   2004-04-28 1:01:39 PM  

#1  Are they aware it's fiction?
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2004-04-28 12:53:51 PM  

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