Brad Johnson’s (formerly of Climate Progress, now of “Forecast the Facts”) “Rally Against Corporate Climate Deniers” was a great bit of entertainment for many at the Heartland conference yesterday. I was in session, and couldn’t attend, but I heard about the guy wearing a rubber boot on his head with the bullhorn (Vermin Supreme who ran for president and campaigned in 2012 on a platform of zombie apocalypse awareness and time travel research and he promises a free pony for every American.). I heard about this guy from Lucia, who was there and promises has an update on her blog. I hear she has some video of the cops intervening.
It may be the “boot” was parodying the fact that Brad Johnson seems to have “gotten the boot” from the Center for American Progress/Think Progress, as he no longer seems to be associated or publishing his rants there. Maybe it was the repeated suggestions that tornadoes were retributions for a conservative voting record that did it.
This “protest” he staged is hilarious on so many levels for the sheer FAIL on display. He couldn’t even pull off a decent protest. Kid’s today are nothing like their radical parents of the 60’s. Pictures follow.
From Tom Nelson:
From Brad Johnson’s “Rally Against Corporate Climate Deniers” photos here:
Although the “boot on the head” guy was arguably the most prominent figure at the protest, Johnson didn’t publish any individual shots of him. I wonder why? Note that the boot is visible at left in the group picture above.
Today’s (yesterday’s) sparsely-attended climate hoax activist protest in Chicago
One of the loudest protesters was the guy who wore a rubber boot on his head for some unexplained reason. His bullhorn was labeled “Vermin Supreme”.
A banner was evidently supposed to be dramatically unfurled, but I don’t think anyone could read it:
This woman was pedaling around a planet-saving sign, with planet-killing bottled water within easy reach:
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Sigh,,,, That’s what happens when you have Democrat-Complex media polluting those brains..
*sigh*
I simply don’t understand how an intelligent person would not look into this for themselves and realise that things were far less certain than they were told, nor keep up the pretense of such certitude. It’s not as if there’s aren’t dozens of weakpoints in the mainstream CAGW narrative…
The last scene in the video below is an excellent summary of what it is like to be a climate sceptic at a British university these days:
That’s worse than the Chico protest you photographed a year or so ago, Anthony.
You’d think that in Chicago they could buy as many Rent-a-Protesters as they needed to make their point, but nooooo…
Nice signs, so it looks like they only got maybe $500 or so to support their effort. Better luck next time.
If these jokers are any indication, it looks like “the consensus” on global warming is diminishing rather dramatically.
Boot on the head guy goes by the name of Vermin Supreme, and he’s actually currently running for president. He’s kind of a professional protester. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermin_Supreme
Vermin Supreme (and the boot on his head) was one of the more interesting candidates in the New Hampshire Presidential Primary.
Wikipedia thinks highly enough of him to offer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermin_Supreme – January 12, 2012: In the Democratic Primary in New Hampshire, Supreme received 833 votes. (Barack Obama won the primary with 49,080 votes)
His campaign page is at http://www.verminsupreme.com/ – Ride our Ponies into the Future.”
Sorry I missed it, sounds like a fine diversion. Just too many conflicts this year to get to the ICCC.
_That_ wound up in the spam bin! I wonder if that’s a name that is a WordPress trigger. Sigh.
Oh, the humanit…, er, hilarity!
It’s nice to have a little free entertainment to go along with the conference. And as for the boot, I suspect it was used to hide the guy’s pin-like head.
Ten years from now, such congeries of bumwads will be one with Nineveh and Tyre. Recall massive, full-sheeted KKK rallies in Washington, DC during the early 1920s, whereupon of a sudden the whole excrescent mass just bled away.
Love the signs, looks like they were homemade. 😉
Perhaps they were expecting rain for the day ?
“Stop Funding Lies”.
Directed at governments, since they’re the ones doing it, with many millions of times more funding than anyone.
Maybe he put the boot on his head because a consensus of global warming alarmists told him that was the level the water will rise to when his ice cream melts.
Is this the same Brad Johnson who has a blog devoted to defending and promoting Paul Krugman?
Eugen Grimminger, Stop Funding Lies!
OOPS …..
Eugen Grimminger, Stop Funding Lies!
/sarc
dropdeniers.org, registered 2012-05-12 – seems like they’d been planning this for a long time.
Who can possibly argue with such a well-organized effort.
Pretty bad when the logo of the company they’re protesting against is larger than the message they’re trying to make. People probably saw the large Microsoft, Pfizer, and Comcast billboards as ads, and ignored them.
But in digging, there’s more:
Apparently, both Al Gore and Forecast the Facts put up their own billboards, and those dropdeniers billboards may see a legal challenge:
“…Now, Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project has sponsored its own digital billboard as a response to Heartland’s provocative stint. The New York Times’ Green blog reports the billboard, managed by Clear Channel, states “Who to believe on climate? Heartland … or EVERY National Scientific Academy in the world?” The Times reports Chief Executive of Climate Reality Project Maggie Fox saying the organization’s message serves as “a small reminder of who is really on the fringe.”
The Times also reports another group was vying for the position. Forecast the Facts came up with its own billboard, which Clear Channel decided it would not post for trademark reasons. This billboard said “We still support Climate Deniers. Do you?” and featured the pharmaceutical company Pfizer’s logo along with the amount of its donation to Heartland. Spokesperson for Clear Channel Jim Cullinan told the Times there are legal reasons regarding the use of the Pfizer logo that prevented that billboard from going up…”
Someone should send those protest pictures to Pfizer’s legal dept, and tell them they missed a few.
Don’t make Pfizer angry. You may not like what pops up….
That’s a hoot! If these people are representative of what’s left of the alarmist movement, it’s over.
Ha-ha. I would love to have heard the exchanges between Monckton and Morano and the Klimate Koolaid kids, whose level of “discourse” probably didn’t range much beyond “we’re trying to save the planet, you poopy-heads”!
When it comes to Brad Johnson, the word prat comes to mind.
http://thepointman.wordpress.com/2012/05/18/climate-alarmism-and-the-prat-principle/
Pointman
All I could get from your video was an advert for Lincoln Universtiy (UK) which, in my view is a polytechnic not a university. They seem to be good at Media Studies and Psychology. Enough said.
I love Vermin Supreme! If elected, he promises “A pony in every garage”!!!! Come On! Who WOULDN’T vote for that!!!! 🙂
So did any of them make any well thought out points to discuss or where they just the usual probed by aliens types?
Looks like they spent all their energy in the signs and forgot to actually get people to turn up.
I wonder if Vermin Supreme is the same person who posts on here as Rattus Norvegicus?
You know, the one who seems to think they are actually a Norway Rat?
I remember when protesters had a cause worth opposing (war, particularly). This lot wants to declare war on all sorts of corporations that allow their feeble (-minded) schemes to be possible. Consider a society without medicine or computers, should they succeed.
The whole point of prodding ‘useful idiots’ to do the grunt work of ‘the revolution’ is they have to be ‘useful’. If the guy with the Wellington hairdo is the best (apparently) they can get they are going precisely nowhere. In Canada the Rhino Party ran wonderful campaigns filled with far better-than-usual BS promises that politicians are known for. I recall them promising that, if elected, they would annex Tahiti and give all Canadians a week of free vacation there each year.
I received a robo-call from the NDP lasts night promising to call again tonight at 7PM for a telephone-town-hall-meeting with their new leader Andrea Horwath. This is going to be interesting. If I get the chance, I will ask her if she is aware that just over the border, from 2015, new electricity generation is being contracted at 8 times the current price. What will she to do protect Ontario from the lunatic fringe opponents of conventional power generation? Energy poverty and all that.