'Newscaster' Soledad O'Brien Shushed Crowd at Lefty Earth Day Concert. (ME,ME,ME!)

newbusters.org ^ | 4/20/2015 | Tim Graham

[rktman]

Washington Post music critic Chris Richards wrote up Saturday’s Earth Day festivities on the national Mall on the front of Monday’s Style section. The headline was “At Earth Day rally, it was the message that needed saving.”

Richards liked the music, but didn’t like the talking. For example: “The event’s hosts, newscaster Soledad O’Brien and Black Eyed Peas bandleader Will.I.Am, appeared to have a rough time of it. O’Brien, either frustrated by glitchy teleprompters or perhaps not clear on how a concert works, actually shushed the crowd at one point.”

[rktman]

Would have been nice if they had mentioned to the crowed of asshats that maybe, just maybe, they cart the trash home with them instead of leaving it for the peons to pick up after. Fookin' idjits.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Ya, I wonder what the carbon footprint of this celebration of the environment and mother earth was............

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Isn’t Soledad now a professor of media at Harvard?

[Don Corleone]

Mother Earth cried!

[tet68]

How dare she shush the crowd, who does she think
she is.....Hillary! Clinton?

[rktman]

Well, I did have to stand corrected about the on stage performances. Apparently they WERE solar powered. Can’t confirm that but probably the means of getting to and from the event..............probably NOT solar powered. Probably nobody wore any synthetic apparel either. :>} You know. The stuff made from byproducts of......wait for it.....PETROLEUM! Noooooooooooooooo!

[rktman]

Oh no. Much better. “O’Brien the former CNN “newscaster,” now is mostly freelancing for al-Jazeera America and its tiny viewership. On Saturday night, her latest documentary Kids Behind Bars aired on the Qatari-owned network.”

[WayneS]

Will.I.Am should change his name to Will.He.Was

[SkyPilot]

Soledad O'Brien

[WayneS]

One of the day’s oratory highlights was actor Don Cheadle explaining the dangers of lead paint.

...which has been outlawed for the vast majority of uses for almost 40 years...

[denydenydeny]

People like Soledad have zero self-awareness: Accepting a salary from oil sheikdoms while lecturing the rest of us on “green energy”.

[AppyPappy]

” shushed the crowd at one point”

Both of them?

[rktman]

Well if you’re using a “lead sprayer”, it’s still in use. Oh, wait. That’s those lead spraying bullet hoses aka ass-ault wee-pons. Never mind. (We used “red lead” to paint the bilges in the engine room in the late 60’s. Does that count? Or maybe it’s the cause of any issues I may have. Hmmmm)

[rktman]

LOL! And neither one of them yelled back FU 1% bi**h.

[RightGeek]