As they gush, fawn, and genuflect, will press members dare to point out that Gore is heavily invested in companies which manufacture that which he's recommending America convert to?

After all, as NewsBusters reported on April 11, Gore admitted his financial stake in such things to an audience in Monterey, California, back in March (video available here, relevant section begins at minute 15:00):

CNN International seems to be a bit confused on the difference between news programming and advertising. I've just watched a promo for "Planet in Peril in association with Vestas" — the Danish wind-energy company. That's how the show is being advertised, with nary a pause between the two.

"Nature has given us the wind," goes the tease; "It's time to let the modern energy industry power us."
Yes, it's time to let them. Precisely what have we been doing to impede that? Passing laws of physics leading to energy loss from the fact the wind is generally a long way from the customers? Regulating the wind to be intermittent? Good gracious, the euphemisms required to demand mandates.

"Planet in Peril in association with Vestas" was repeated at the end of the tease. Immediately following it came a promo for a travel-destination show: "My City My Life in association with Samsonite." Is this CNN or QVC?  Source

In an interesting chicken and the egg conundrum, scientists in America claimed Thursday that global warming causes smog.

So, cleaning the air causes global warming -- which ends up leading to higher levels of smog?

Let's start with the Swiss study reported by NewScientist Wednesday (emphasis added, photo courtesy Reuters):

Those familiar with her work shouldn't be even slightly surprised by this, as Begley was the person responsible for the August 13, 2007, Newsweek cover story "Global-Warming Deniers: A Well-Funded Machine" which evoked widespread criticism including from one of her fellow editors.

Regardless, Begley is at it again with an article in the upcoming issue of Newsweek disgracefully entitled, "Global Warming Is a Cause of This Year’s Extreme Weather" (emphasis added throughout):

The latest story to get scientists emailing furiously among each other was the one in the Telegraph, a British newspaper, that all the ice around the North Pole would melt away this summer.

This story has surfaced before, most notably in The New York Times, and clearly journalists should not be allowed to grapple with the extraordinary notion that, in the SUMMER, the ice at the top of the world might actually melt a bit because the northern hemisphere gets—what’s the word---oh yes, WARMER!

These highly complex concepts such as "warm" in the summer and "cold" in the winter just completely overwhelm the ability of journalists to cope with any sign of climate change.

After paying $65.00 to put 14 gallons of gas in my car the other day, I came home and sat down to watch "The O'Reilly Factor" on Fox News. I no longer watch the arrogant Bill O'Reilly now; that was the last straw.

First out on his program was his "Talking Points" in which he discussed the reason for the high cost of gas today. It has become painfully apparent that O'Reilly's understanding of the issues behind the cost of gas is as pathetic as his understanding of the reasons for our invasion of Iraq. It's not about oil company greed, Bill, and it wasn't solely about Saddam's WMDs. O'Reilly has been hanging around with too many leftists in the media.