Live Earth, Dead Politicians, More Irony
Geri Halliwell and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. - One tries to excite impressionable teens, the other’s a former Spice Girl…
As a dedicated professional blogger I am paid a pretty penny (or an attractive nickel in really good months) to make sure I get firsthand news of events that have do with global warming.
So, I had about two dollars and thirty-four cents more incentive than the average guy to watch the entire Live Earth concert.
I didn’t make it past the London segment.
The final profit figures aren’t in, but I’m going to suggest the entire seven continent take didn’t amount to enough money to make it worth my while to listen to one of the Spice Girls lecture me about climate change.
My early departure from the event meant that I missed one of the most rousing passionate bat-shit crazy speeches of the day given by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
According to Newsday the scene at the Meadowlands went down something like this:
“Get rid of all these rotten politicians that we have in Washington, who are nothing more than corporate toadies,” said Robert F. Kennedy Jr. … who grew hoarse from shouting. “This is treason. And we need to start treating them as traitors.”
I think we can all agree that this type of rhetoric is out of place at a concert that is being seen by millions on the Internet. Unless you’re discussing the characters in a Jane Eyre novel, you’ve got no business calling someone a “toadie.”
Just for the record … I have a problem with the whole thinly-veiled environmental fatwa, also.
Especially when the guy issuing the call for punishment is actively opposing development of the country’s largest renewable energy project.
Then again, that appears to have been the dress code for the entire concert: consistency optional.
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July 10th, 2007 at 7:47 am
The people who run this profile
aren’t excitable teens.
Not at all.
How old are you that you
feel the need to resort
to a Spice Girl reference ?
Enjoy our reliable polling data
once you arrive at our site.
http://www.myspace.com/rfk_jr_for_the_usa
July 10th, 2007 at 10:45 am
How old are you that you didn’t at least give me credit for my Jane Eyre reference?
(I’m not even sure what this has to do with anything, but thought I’d play along..)
IMHO, in terms of a leader, what our country needs is to avoid the extremists on both ends of the spectrum.
As far as I can see the only thing they have succeeded in doing is polarizing debate on a variety of topics and making it virtually impossible to have a rational discussion.
Sorry, but based on his rhetoric, I put RFK, Jr. in this camp.
Not sure where your “reliable” polling data is coming from but I will bet you a box of CFL bulbs that Hillary is our next president.
July 10th, 2007 at 11:11 am
Wow, I did not know about this. What a jackass stance for someone who wants to call themselves an environmentalist.
July 10th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
Yo, doesn’t RFK Jr know that politicians and music are like oil and water? that has absolutely no place in that concert. I mean take your political agenda elsewhere. Save it for the party debates. There’s enough finger pointing and bashing that it will fit like a glove..
the whole Spice Girl comment, huh? and for your information.. Spice Girls aren’t for teens… they are for touching on 30 year olds. I listened to them in high school. Get it straight.
July 10th, 2007 at 3:39 pm
Excellent point, Susie. Politicians probably should just stay away from these events…it just makes it awkward for everyone.
Plus, how much of a buzz-kill do you think it was to listen be listening to Dave Matthews, Melissa Etheridge, Rihanna, KT Tunstall and others and then have to sit through a nearly six minute harangue from RFK, Jr.?
Geri Halliwell actually introduced Duran Duran at the concert over in London and caught a bit of flack from the British press for saying she hadn’t though much about global warming until she became a mom and “what with all this freaky weather.”
Now, that Ginger Spice is finally on the case I think we can all relax…
July 11th, 2007 at 6:26 am
This is the perfect venue for telling it like it is! Which is why RFK Jr. seized the moment. The corruption needs to be exposed. RFK Jr. has integrity and is fearless. Bravo for him!
December 17th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
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