An Inconvient Broadcast

Well between nursing a broken ankle and being loaded down with papers to sort and crap to do for work I found time to have the TV on to watch Al Gore's Live Earth concert. I came to two conclusions.

The music industry is in deep trouble, because most of today's artists have no chance of longevity or musical impact and suck, period.
There was too much hype over nothing.

Most people that went to those concerts, went because of cheap ticket prices and a whole lot of different genres and different acts at one show. Secondly the weather apparently was very nice.

Too bad it didn't snow but I digress.

Throughout this broadcast the two hosts of this show constantly mentioned that at least two billion people would be watching this show from their living rooms around the world. Well it gives me great pleasure to laugh and burst their bubble.

In fact the BBC estimates that their "massive turn out" only seemed to reach around 3.1 million viewers making it about 8 million pairs of eyes shorter than the viewers of the Concert For Diana and about 6 million short of the Live 8: Aid For Africa viewers.

So crunching the figures, this gives Al Gore not even 1% of the share of audience he hoped to reach. Sorry for that little inconvenient truth, Al.

What made this concert even more laughable was the fact of how hypocritical it was. The whole concept wreaked in hypocrisy.

Let's get the richest most privileged group of people on the Earth to perform long sets using up massive amounts of energy to not only power their stage but their amplifiers and sound equipment with the intent of 12+ hours of ranting about how average people like you and me use too much energy. That's not even two-faced, that's an orgy.

Then to top it off, following right after the only awesome performance of the night, we see Robert Kennedy Jr., the biggest asshat on the face of the planet, plop his pompous self onto the TV screen to lecture us about how wasteful we are. This coming from the man who has his own private jet completely fueled at all times in case he feels the urge to fly himself somewhere or in the case of an emergency to where he would fly out of the US faster then you can say: wimp. Not to mention multiple vacation homes and manors around the country.

So in conclusion maybe next time Al Gore you should try flattering a crowd instead of insulting them.