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Examples? They are legion. Here's one the Powers That Be desperately hope you'll swallow, a nasty piece of marketing gall ....
Here is "clean coal." Isn't it beautiful? Truly, the hell-bound ad agency that coughed up that one even had the nerve to film a commercial featuring Kool and the Gang's "Celebrate" playing over perky scenes of manic Americans sucking down electricity like John McCain sucks down extra oxygen, claiming that coal is America's namesake resource and we should therefore kneel before it and worship it like apple pie and horrible sex-ed and Lindsay Lohan's nipples. Did I mention the coal industry's PR people are going to hell for this? Count on it.
There is, of course, no such thing as "clean coal." It's as impossible as a humanitarian Republican, as insulting as Homeland Security.
... "clean coal" is not only one of the most insidious, repugnant oxymorons -- right up there with "friendly fire" and "conservative think tank" and "Alaskan teen virgin" -- it's also one of the deadliest.
"It would be, Tom, as if on the eve of the IT revolution, the revolution of PCs and the internet, someone was up there standing and demanding, “IBM Selectric typewriters, IBM Selectric typewriters.” That’s what “drill, drill, drill” is the equivalent of today."
Interior in bed with big oil? The screwing goes far beyond the participants. So 13 employees will face some form of discipline. What about big oil? Anybody think this Admin. will impose accountability? Not a chance. Just keep going to the pumps, bending over and paying for it.
Comments (7)
Yahoo had another take on it, with this quote:
"Sexual relationships with prohibited sources cannot, by definition, be arms-length," Devaney said."
For obvious reasons, I thought of you.
Posted by Jeff B. | September 10, 2008 3:54 PM
And some folks want 4 MORE years of this?
Posted by portland native | September 10, 2008 4:43 PM
Evil: It's the new good!, By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist, September 10, 2008
Oily bodies sporting on beds of coal.
Posted by Tenskwatawa | September 10, 2008 5:04 PM
"There is, of course, no such thing as "clean coal." "
Yep!
Too bad the enviros have made us use coal for decades now because of their opposition to nuke.
Posted by billy | September 10, 2008 6:16 PM
"Harder and deeper!!!"
Posted by godfry | September 10, 2008 8:25 PM
Our mantra on energy should be invent, innovate, diversify. I love what Friedman had to say on the issue:
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/07/friedman-drill-drill/
On drill, drill, drill...
"It would be, Tom, as if on the eve of the IT revolution, the revolution of PCs and the internet, someone was up there standing and demanding, “IBM Selectric typewriters, IBM Selectric typewriters.” That’s what “drill, drill, drill” is the equivalent of today."
Posted by gs | September 11, 2008 7:44 AM
Interior in bed with big oil? The screwing goes far beyond the participants. So 13 employees will face some form of discipline. What about big oil? Anybody think this Admin. will impose accountability? Not a chance. Just keep going to the pumps, bending over and paying for it.
Posted by genop | September 11, 2008 8:08 AM