Gore, Schwimmer Appear Tonight In "30 Rock" Parody Of NBC Greening

New York Post:

'30 Rock," the funniest, smartest and best-written comedy on broadcast television, is getting even funnier tonight. If it's possible.

Riffing on NBC's own "Green is Universal" push (which apparently doesn't extend to the green in the writers' pockets), Tina Fey and company rip NBC's real-life corporate initiative and the suits who come up with these phony-baloney things.

Read the whole story: New York Post

Comments

[Portnoy]

01:44 PM on 11/09/2007

Making fun of Global Warming???? How dare they!

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[ohiomark]

10:30 PM on 11/08/2007

NBC going "green" is the just as big a scam as the whole global warming hoax.

If NBC truly wanted to "go green" they just should have shut down all their networks for the week.
Hell, the writers are on strike anyway, it would be the perfect time to go dark.

[Sanjong Thapa]

08:22 AM on 11/08/2007

The folks at Newsbusters.org have calculated that flying Lauer and two crew to the Arctic Circle in Greenland — from New York to Thule AFB, a 2,487-mile distance — produced six tons of carbon emissions . That's one ton each way per person. They used the carbon calculator found on Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" Web site.

Roker's journey from New York to Quito, Ecuador, again assuming a crew of just two, produced another six tons of carbon emissions. Ann Curry's trip to Antarctica — 11,686 miles in all — produced a total of 12.9 tons of carbon.

That's a grand total of 24.9 tons of CO2 produced for a momentary photo-op while most people were up getting a beer or making a pit stop. According to Gore's Web site, the average person produces 7.5 tons of CO2 in a year.

Among the "green" programming planned on NBC this week is an episode of "30 Rock" to air Thursday that will star the jolly green giant himself. According to the New York Post, the cast was seen wearing "Gore '08" t-shirts during the taping.

Green Week isn't NBC's first effort at environmental activism. In July, it provided 75 hours of free air time to Gore not only on NBC but also CNBC, Bravo, the Sundance Channel, Universal HD and Telemundo for his Live Earth concerts.

This involved flying rock stars around the planet in emission-spewing private jets to plug their electric guitars into Godzilla-size amplifiers.

During the Live Earth concert in New Jersey, "Antarctic Ann" Curry interviewed Gore and practically got on her knees to beg the Peace Prize winner to run for president: "A lot of people want me to ask you tonight if you're running for president," she said.

A lot of people want to know if NBC is running his campaign.

[Sanjong Thapa]

08:21 AM on 11/08/2007

Green Weak At NBC
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Tuesday, November 06, 2007 4:20 PM PT

Environment: A lot of carbon was emitted flying Matt Lauer to the Arctic, Ann Curry to Antarctica and Al Roker to the equator. Want to save energy and the planet? Turn off NBC.

http://ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=279244267373770

Al Gore seems to have found a home at the peacock network. Both he and the network's symbol like to strut a lot and frequently have their feathers ruffled.

This week the peacock's feathers are a solid green as NBC, among other activities, sends its "Today" show stars, as the promo puts it, to "the ends of the earth" to promote Gore's agenda of saving the planet and repealing the Industrial Revolution.

Viewers were invited to check out "Sami and Lucas' Green Wedding" on the soap opera "Days of Our Lives." Dieters on "The Biggest Loser" were to discover how to exercise without the aid of electricity. "ER" features a rolling brownout in Chicago, which gets more of its electricity from nuclear power than any major city in the country. Nuclear power is an eco-friendly power source that replaces fossil fuels and reduces CO2 emissions by the millions of tons.

[Sanjong Thapa]

07:14 AM on 11/08/2007

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/11/07/weather-channel-founder-global-warming-greatest-scam-history

Weather Channel Founder: Global Warming ‘Greatest Scam in History’

It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a SCAM. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create in [sic] allusion of rapid global warming. Other scientists of the same environmental whacko type jumped into the circle to support and broaden the "research" to further enhance the totally slanted, bogus global warming claims. Their friends in government steered huge research grants their way to keep the movement going. Soon they claimed to be a consensus.

Environmental extremists, notable politicians among them, then teamed up with movie, media and other liberal, environmentalist journalists to create this wild "scientific" scenario of the civilization threatening environmental consequences from Global Warming unless we adhere to their radical agenda. Now their ridiculous manipulated science has been accepted as fact and become a cornerstone issue for CNN, CBS, NBC, the Democratic Political Party, the Governor of California, school teachers and, in many cases, well informed but very gullible environmental conscientious citizens. Only one reporter at ABC has been allowed to counter the Global Warming frenzy with one 15 minutes documentary segment.