Gore Film Sparks Parents' Anger

[mwb970]

by Blaine Harden

Frosty E. Hardiman is neither impressed nor surprised that "An Inconvenient Truth," the global-warming movie narrated by former vice president Al Gore, received an Oscar nomination this week for best documentary. "Liberal left is all over Hollywood," he grumbled a few hours after the nomination was announced.

Hardiman, a parent of seven here in the southern suburbs of Seattle, has himself roiled the global-warming waters. It happened early this month when he learned that one of his daughters would be watching "An Inconvenient Truth" in her seventh-grade science class.

"No you will not teach or show that propagandist Al Gore video to my child, blaming our nation -- the greatest nation ever to exist on this planet -- for global warming," Hardiman wrote in an e-mail to the Federal Way School Board. The 43-year-old computer consultant is an evangelical Christian who says he believes that a warming planet is "one of the signs" of Jesus Christ's imminent return for Judgment Day.

His angry e-mail (along with complaints from a few other parents) stopped the film from being shown to Hardiman's daughter.


Unbelievable! Much more at...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/24/AR2007012401807.html

[Tin Man]

1. Does anyone else find Seattle Schools at least complicit in this?

Did Seattle Schools fold their hand because of Political correctness run amok?

Is it so necessary to avoid angering anyone, that noone is permitted to speak the truth?

What happens when the Disciples of Frothenslosh declare that mathematics is the devil's instrument? Do we stop teaching kids addition and subtraction?

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

2. "the greatest nation ever to exist on this planet" ?

That about sums it up. Another Idiotic right winger. GOD BLESS AMERICA!!! WE'RE NUMBER 1. WE'RE NUMBER 1.

Blah, Blah, Blah. What a fucking tool.

[stonecoldsober]

3. "Liberal left is all over Hollywood"

The liberal left IS HOLLYWOOD, dumbass! Somebody void his blockbuster card!:mad:

[BlueJac]

4. Another Right-Wing ding-a-ling with his head in the sand!!

And we better not let the Parks Dept say how old the Grand Canyon is either. These fucking nuts are unbelievable!

How dare him call Gore a propagandist an ignore the Biggest propagandist GW Bush!


I live in Washington State, but the goof balls are everywhere.

[The Count]

5. Let's teach both theories

[msongs]

6. the gore movie is as much about him as gobal warming....a propaganda piece

with multiple agendas.

while I hate to agree with a mob of people who base their lives on fictional books I think the science part of the gore movie would be more useful if it was stripped of the cheerleading for what a great guy al gore is.

and I happen to think al gore is a great guy.

al's movie is very political in a partisan way.

Would you want your kids to watch this flick if it was all about george w bush?

Msongs
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[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

8. If George Bush put out a movie hailed as educational by experts, yes.

[mwb970]

9. The issue is larger than the movie.

What concerns me is the idea of presenting "opposing views" to accepted scientific fact. In science class.

edit: typo

[Tin Man]

11. Political correctness, run amok.

In a world in which political correctness trumps discussion,
truth is the hostage of the tyranical.

[Larkspur]

10. The parts about him explain why he is passionate about his noble

quest to get America and the world to change our ways. It's not propagandist in the negative sense. But when he is giving his climate crisis presentation, it's all based upon sound facts.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

7. What the flying fuck is wrong with these people!?

I'm series, this is fucking retarded. Who in their right mind can possibly STILL come out against the idea that global warming is a serious fucking problem? EVEN THEIR ASSHOLE PRESIDENT ADMITS IT NOW!!

:nuke: :grr: :banghead: :rant: :argh:

[mwb970]

12. Analysis from the Northwest Progressive Institute - link

http://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2007/01/free-truth-sound-alarm.html

[Der Blaue Engel]

13. "Frosty Hardiman" has a problem with global warming?

Well, duh!

[irislake]

14. Hmmmmmm

Sometimes it's kinda peaceful to live in a country that never aspired to be "the greatest". Interesting to live next door to such "greatness" though. Conrad Black left becuase of our mediocrity. Now he's trying to become a Canadian citizen again cuz he thinks your jails are too awful for a great "Lord".