Rex Murphy comments on the recent TV media mogul marriage of Al Gore and Keith Olbermann, a match made in sitcom.
By Rex Murphy in the National Post
Shakespeare never fails. When I read that Gaia’s First Messenger Here on Earth, the very face and clammy palms of global warming itself, Al Gore, had invited the Edward R. Morrow of the Twitterverse, latterly of the compulsively progressive MSNBC, Keith Olbermann, to join his Current TV cable network, the familiar “Let us not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments” unfailingly suggested itself.
Gore-Olbermann: never so fruitful a partnership since Gilligan and the Skipper.
Here was a true mating, a yoking of heart-breaking genius. Gore, an imperious, lugubrious, dour and insistent one-cause Doomsday machine, a kind of oversized Spock without Spock’s lavish sense of humour, needed something of Olbermann’s manic, untethered zest. Olbermann , whose most charged flights during his days at MSNBC’s Countdown went into hitherto unpiloted altitudes of non-sequitur and denunciation, desperately needed an alignment with someone who occasionally glided within a few feet of the actual (albeit destined to imminent, carbonaceous ruin) earth.
At first it was difficult to see which way the energy was running? Who was the “little guy” and who was the Skipper?
The entire essay is a hoot, read it at the link below
Note: I’ve updated the main image, my original image, sans TV is here
Addendum: lest some people think my satirical image is unfair to Gore and Olbermann, I’ll point out this cartoon from the CRU climategate files.
Here’s NCDC Tom Peterson’s (GHCN lead investigator) cartoon diddle:
Let’s give Tom Peterson credit for coming up with the original concept of tying climate personalities to Gilligan’s Island. IMHO his satire skills are just as robust as the GHCN.
This website used to make me smile. It was nice to know that I was not alone in my belief that AGW was not the doom and gloom it was made up to be.
But now, it just makes me laugh out loud :). Kudos, WUWT!
Rex Murphy is one of Canada’s national treasures!
Pretty funny , except that the Superbowl “arena” was in Dallas , not Houston . Of course , I’d almost forgotten about the AGW caused lack of snow at the Olympics in Calgary last year . ( Sarc , btw ).
Don’t want to brag about being ahead of Rex, or anything, but…
Al Gored says:
February 8, 2011 at 12:10 pm
Time to change the network name to Blowhard TV. Gore and Olbermann are a perfect match. One can only dream of a ‘news’ show with both of them pontificating, or even better a sitcom… maybe a remake of Gilligan’s Island, with the island threatened by rising sea levels of course, and perhaps Joe Romm guest starring as the Gilligan.
Or maybe a new version of ‘Cheers’ set in Hansen’s lab or at the Climate Rapid Response Team HQ.
The possibilities are endless.”
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/02/07/gore-and-olbermann-a-match-made-in/#comment-594284
REPLY: I’m told many columnists from the National Post read WUWT, be honored. – Anthony
This also reminds me of the scene from Young Frankenstein, Putting on the Ritz.
He’s even better on TV . . he still has some residual Newfie accent and with his Professor persona and his voice . . . well it is always a treat to hear someone exercise the English language.
my bad . . . forgot the link
http://www.cbc.ca/thenational/indepthanalysis/rexmurphy/story/2009/12/03/thenational-rexmurphy-091203.html
Didn’t know if the Rex Murphy piece on Gore Golbermann would make it to WUWT since you’ve run two posts on it alteady. Glad you did. A little less noisy than Rex’s prose is the recent announcement by the Premier of Ontario pulling the plug on some of the more inane wind power projects at least.
Can another Rex Murphy editorial be far behind?
Forgot the link!
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/02/12/kelly-mcparland-ontario-quietly-reverses-field-on-wind-solar-energy/
REPLY: I’m told many columnists from the National Post read WUWT, be honored. – Anthony
If that is the case Anthony, I am. Rex is the only person at the CBC – his other job -who does not drink the AGW KoolAid (they give David Suzuki an unchallenged soapbox for his drivel). When he did his famous post-Climategate rant there I thought the rest of the clones there were going to have a heart attack!
The picture is perfect and the comparison sooooooo true!!! The “Gilligan’s Island” reference is one that seems to have more than one application today. After a trip to Canada, via the link above, you might also find this link adds to your knowledge about The Famous Castaways and the outlook for the weather ahead –
http://symonsez.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/ginger-or-mary-ann/
Of course polemics of any flavor are undesirable. I’d no more watch Golbermann than I would O’Reillybaugh.
Where’s my dictionary?
The full article says: “As Gore’s star pales and recedes“.
That is not likely. Given his bulk and the trajectory of “CAGW”, the more likely outcome is that of Betelgeuse. Hopefully, sooner.
Twenty-three thousand viewers in a country of 300 million people — these are not CSI numbers. Heck, they’re not even fireplace-channel numbers
Nice!! 🙂
There were stories that as part of the termination of Olbermann’s contract with NBC, that NBC would require that Olbermann not to “compete with NBC” while NBC was paying off the remainder of the contract. Well, putting Olbermann on Current TV definitely does that.
……perhaps fading Al sees something of a mirror image in the fall of Keith. And perhaps both of them sense that each of them has had his moment, that this moment is past, so maybe the only fun left is to join hands and mutually console for what little of the gig remains to either of them…..
…..and to just become caricatures of themselves.
Get Soros to join them and it’s a trifecta!
Too late to stop this:
Global Panic as Green Sector Collapses and Investors Face Ruin
http://johnosullivan.livejournal.com/30603.html
Would this make George Soros their equivalent of Thurston Howell, III ?
Perhaps Michael Mann is Professor?
The only question remaining is who plays the part of the women? I think Ginger especially might be too hard to cast.
As for the inane windpower….
A lot of commentary and a compendium of the stories can be found a WCO — Wind Concerns Ontario…
http://windconcernsontario.wordpress.com/
We are all hoping for further commentary from Rex on the matter.
You will also find that some of the National Post writers are regular commenters there — Parker Gallant amongst them…
Links to WUWT are also “regular features” as many of the concerns are mutual.
Oh boy! We’ll get to see Keith interview Joe Romm again…
Please excuse me while I fight the urge to claw the eyeballs out of my skull. Actually, Olbie is just the type of spittle-flecked, hate-mongering lunatic you would expect to see leading the charge to combat CAGW. Lets hope Algore gives him the proper training.
This calls for another piece by Josh – maybe something like Al Gore welcoming the Hockey Team to Golbermann’s Island, where all their (climate) fantasies can come true ? 😉
Does murphys law apply for both gentlemen ?
REX loves to use every work ever penned in the english language. He takes the Newfie gift of gab and cuts through all the BS at the same time. Makes you feel appreciated at the same time he is cutting you to shreds LOL! The only thing I wonder is how he manages to keep his job at the CBC.