Skiphil writes in Tips and Notes:
Too funny, too funny….. this is a serious matter, but funny when leading Greens and Hollywood types get caught on film in a genuine conspiracy to hide Middle Eastern “oil” funding to make an anti-Fracking film for the “movement” ….
(Added: One of them caught out in this sting was Ed Begley Jr., clearly Michael Mann’s hero, as this Twitter posting shows:)
Anti-fracking fanatics get seriously PUNK*D
Hollywood Greens in real life anti-fracking conspiracy
[from the Youtube page for this video]
In the investigation, an undercover journalist from Project Veritas posed as a member of a Middle Eastern oil dynasty and offered $9 million in funding to American filmmakers to fund an anti-fracking movie.
In video from a meeting with Ed Begley Jr., Mariel Hemingway and Josh Tickell, a Project Veritas investigator disguised as “Muhammed” offered $9 million for an anti-fracking film. “Muhammad” clearly states: “If Washington DC continues fracking, America will be energy efficient, and then they won’t need my oil anymore.”
In the same conversation, Begley and Hemingway accept the funding and agree to hide the source of funds for the anti-fracking movie. Hemingway agreeing that those who will know the source of the funding are “only at this table.”
Ed Begley Jr. is an outspoken environmental activist and current Governor on the board of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science (the organization that brings us the OSCARS every year.)
Mariel Hemingway is a Golden Globe- and Oscar-nominated actress.
Josh Tickell is a Sundance Film Festival Winner and the director of environmental message movies “Fuel”, “The Big Fix” and “PUMP”.
Team Begley even submitted a video of Oscar-nominated actor Mark Ruffalo offering his unwavering support for the fictitious anti-fracking film project.
The meeting came about after a series of discussions with Josh and Rebecca Tickell. A Project Veritas journalist posed as an ad executive seeking to broker a deal for his client (“Muhammed”) to fund an American-made anti-fracking film.
In a phone call to Tickell, the ad executive states: “My client’s interest is to end American energy independence; your interest is to end fracking. And you guys understand that?”
Tickell’s response: “Correct. Yes, super clear.”
Tickell makes it clear on the tape that revealing the source of funding for an activist film can undermine its credibility. Tickell notes that the movie “Promised Land” undermined its own message because it was labeled as being funded by Image Nation Abu Dhabi. His advice: “So rather than putting that [the source of funding] up front, don’t mention that.”
In a follow-up call with Josh and Rebecca Tickell, Rebecca Tickell assures our investigator: “We would never tell about where the funding is coming from. That would be really awkward for us.”
Josh Tickell: “We’re confident that we can keep this zip locked, you know tight, air-tight forever. If we don’t protect who is kind of funding this thing, if we have to disclose that or that becomes a necessary part of it, the whole enterprise will not work.”
Project Veritas founder and president James O’Keefe stated Wednesday:
“This latest investigation shows the dark side of Hollywood’s environmental movement. Hollywood is willing to take and conceal money from Middle Eastern oil interests in order to advance their cause of destroying American energy independence.”
@ur momisugly Karl Blair
May 22, 2014 at 12:13 am – Is this what you mean, bearing in mind the Greens appear to be “fighting a war” against Western civilization?
We’ve seen … … ensnared by the ubiquitous “dodgy Arab”. … … it’s happened so often, the originators are struggling to find people stupid enough to fall for the scam. Then they struck gold. Hollywood alumni on an environmentalist jihad
sinewave on May 21, 2014 at 11:35 pm
It exposes things, but this is kind of a slimy way to do it. Pretending to be someone you’re not only leads to a slippery moral slope and makes you as bad as the amoral people on the other side of the issue.
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In a legal sense, these things verge on the concept of entrapment. But there’s no legal prosecution here, just public exposure. I see no moral issue with acting a part to see what the other person does. Hollywood actors do it by profession! Hidden camera venues are used to produce comic programs all the time.
The only thing slimy and immoral are the people caught exposing their true selves.
J. Philip Peterson says:
May 22, 2014 at 1:49 am
They are mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. Their hypocrisy has just been exposed:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/fbi-urged-investigate-james-okeefes-706353
You would think that Hollywood would know of ‘The Streisand Effect’. Perhaps their madness has clouded their judgment (what thhere was of it anyway).
thank you 🙂
Its given me GREAT pleasure to share this link very widely:-)
Whatever happened to the house “Un-American Activities committee”?
Here we have a group of people who clearly and self-avowedly have no compunction on taking money to make a film the primary object of which is to prevent the US being energy self sufficient, to act against the interests of their fellow americans. .
OMG, I really didn’t know about this. Josh made a video explaining went on in his head. It’s exactly what I described above.
Building a green house with Arab oil money, just like Al Gore. The Begley couple are deeply invested in the environmental alarm promotion business:
http://www.bitesizetv.com/#!/our-green-house/&episodeId=4327
http://www.evoxtelevision.com/video/?id=248
In the name of ‘the cause’ all things are justified, expect personal sacrifice when you’re a ‘green prophet’
Pretence, narcissism, want me, love me, need me. I’ll do any thing for attention.
But what I love most of all is lots of lovely money.
I enjoy others being envious of my fame.
I will pledge startling amounts of money to victims of disasters and make sure the world knows about it.
Especially if my fame level is down.
The media will never report it if eventually the pledge is never honoured.
I will live in a mansion but demand that the non-famous live in poverty in order to save the planet.
I am a hypocrite.
In a different age, what they’re discussing there would be called treason. It is too.
Pointman
Steyers has reneged on his $100m deal. Now he is saying only $50m. Every time one of his commercials is played, this one should be played.
Geoff Sherrington–
Hollywood left its morals at the curb many years ago.
And to whoever suggested that a sting operation (pretending to be someone your are not for investigation or law enforcement purposes) is immoral as well–being enticed to take money is not the same as greedily grabbing for it, knowing the slimy circumstances and questionable persons from whom it comes. Just ask Sen Harrison Williams (NJ). But he might still be in jail, if he is not dead.
Wonderful. Finally, finally, we have evidence of someone actually agreeing to accept secret funding from Big Oil – and it’s the warmists.
Treason, conspiracy and fraud. Yet, they still walk the streets!!!!!!!!!!
FBI use this method all the time i thought?
Funny, I thought prostitution was illegal in California.
People paid by a foreign government to undermine their own country.
There’s a word for that. Traitors.
” You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood and place it in the navel of a fruit fly, and still have room for three caraway seeds and a Producer’s heart.”- Fred Allen.
charles the moderator says:
May 22, 2014 at 1:17 am
Care to place a wager? I bet instead they will appear on liberal TV talk shows and get oodles of sympathy for being “bullied” by Project Veritas deniers. Nancy Pelosi or equivalent will demand Eric (“I know nossink, nossink!”) Holder investigate whether federal wiretap laws were broken. An IRS audit of Project Veritas is a distinct possibility — maybe they got some Koch brothers funding.
Just how many lists did Peter Gleick get banned from?
Terms: loser buys a $50 gift certificate from Mark Steyn. If neither scenario comes to pass we each buy a $25 gift certificate.
I’ll never forget seeing a clip of Ed Begley shouting someone down during an interview. The person had dared express a skeptical position. Begley took the moral high ground…now he’s up to his nostrils in $hit…I hope he drowns in it.
Beng said it best :
“People paid by a foreign government to undermine their own country.
There’s a word for that. Traitors.” In this case we can add : “Anti proletarian traitors.”
I can think of a lot of countries where actions like this get you stoned by those you are economically attacking.
Wow, the columns must also write themselves for Mark Steyn, Dr Mann’s hero allegedly caught willing to take evil oil money.
Need to expand collection of green hypocrisy hashtags
#greensHappyToTakeOilMoney
#greensGoByAir
Who’s Ed Begley? Or , rather what’s an Ed Begley?
@ur momisugly Charles Nelson
Yeah, I remember Begley shouting down an interviewer because Begley claimed that physicists knew nothing about climate change! So we are meant to listen to an actor, but not a physicist about a complex, chaotic physical system, involving physics based topics as thermodynamics, radiation etc.
As one with a physics degree, I found him offensive in that interview.
Somebody better do a film on torpedoing wells using nitroglycerine to do fracking. It was invented in 1865 by a Civil War officer for enhancing water wells. It later became the standard way to develop most oil and gas wells up into at least the 1960s. Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) was invented as a more effective, safer (and benign) way to accomplish the same thing. Fracking has been done for over 150yrs on conventional oil, gas and water wells before it was discovered by the greens when they were upset that the US (and eventually the rest of the world) were going to have abundant cheap energy. To their chagrin, it also lowers CO2 emissions and will, with self sufficiency more broadly in the world, reduce conflict and economic interference (cartels, embargos…).
Oh and BTW, it is not Washington that is pushing fracking. They have resisted its use on federal lands. It is only on state and private lands. The US government is also resisting self sufficiency by favoring “alternative energy”. Another thing, they have no qualms about carbon dioxide sequestration underground, eventhough it does almost the same thing and is exceedingly more dangerous if it makes its way back to the surface (heavy gas that collects in low ground – cattle and wild animals were killed in Saskatchewan a few years ago in a quarry and well water was carbonated – maybe a benefit if you are in the sparkling water business.