Thursday, March 29, 2007

Live Earth Update

The DCist had an article posted on March 13th about the proposed Live Earth concert. It reported:
"Gore called Reid to request his help, according to the senator's spokesman, Jim Manley." The Post also quotes Manley as saying, "No one likes a Red Hot Chili Peppers concert better than Senator Harry Reid." Who knew?"
I knew I liked Brother Reid. But the update is not so good for a concert on the Capitol grounds. And the author makes a good point - we don't go to Oklahoma and stop concerts. While yes, this is the capitol of the nation, it is a metropolitan city with lots of young people that wanna have some fun sitting around outside listening to some great music. And learning how to save the enviornment, always a good thing.

However, I think the problem is more along these lines:
"...there seems to be a knee-jerk reaction by some conservatives to anything Al Gore does. We get the feeling that Inhofe and McConnell would oppose a concert about how crime is bad, puppies are cute, and people should be nice to their moms if Gore was running it."

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