"Seven hundred thousand dollars is a lot of money to spend to try to get someone to talk to you and not get an answer.

That's how much the Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based libertarian think tank, has forked over in six months for advertisements in national newspapers trying to persuade Al Gore to debate one of its experts on global warming issues."

A Chicago-based libertarian think tank...Is that what the kids are calling it these days? The article makes it sound like cat food eating grandmothers scrimped and saved this money to confront the big bad Gore on his damnable lies. They're funded by Exxon.

Other sources of Heartland funding:

Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation: "Koch Industries is also a major polluter. During the 1990s, its faulty pipelines were responsible for more than 300 oil spills in five states, prompting a landmark penalty of $35 million from the Environmental Protection Agency."

John M. Olin Foundation: "The Foundation is financed by the Olin chemical and munitions fortune with assets estimated at $90 million, $3 million of which goes to conservative advocacy groups."

Scaife Foundations: "is built on at least 5 pillars; the family's ownership of Gulf Oil Corporation, the family's monopoly ownership of Alcoa and Alcan going back to 1891, ownership of Koppers and Carborundum corporations, and their participation in the uranium cartel."

I could go on but this is just too pathetic.

That's some crack reporting there Steve Huntley. Do they pay you for this stuff, or do you just do it for fun?

Labels: Al Gore, climate change, environmentalism, Heartland Institute, operation lockbox, Steve Huntley