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Greenpeace's fill-in-the-blank public relations meltdown [nuclear power]
Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | May 29, 2006 | Jeff Shields

Posted on 05/30/2006 9:45:52 AM PDT by grundle

Before President Bush touched down in Pennsylvania Wednesday to promote his nuclear energy policy, the environmental group Greenpeace was mobilizing.

"This volatile and dangerous source of energy" is no answer to the country's energy needs, shouted a Greenpeace fact sheet decrying the "threat" posed by the Limerick reactors Bush visited.

But a factoid or two later, the Greenpeace authors were stumped while searching for the ideal menacing metaphor.

We present it here exactly as it was written, capital letters and all: "In the twenty years since the Chernobyl tragedy, the world's worst nuclear accident, there have been nearly [FILL IN ALARMIST AND ARMAGEDDONIST FACTOID HERE]."

Had Greenpeace been hacked by a nuke-loving Bush fan? Or was this proof of Greenpeace fear-mongering?

The aghast Greenpeace spokesman who issued the memo, Steve Smith, said a colleague was making a joke by inserting the language in a draft that was then mistakenly released.

"Given the seriousness of the issue at hand, I don't even think it's funny," Smith said.

The final version did not mention Armageddon. It just warned of plane crashes and reactor meltdowns.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: energy; globalwarminghoax; greenpeace; greenspirit; patrickmoore

1 posted on 05/30/2006 9:45:53 AM PDT by grundle
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To: grundle
"Given the seriousness of the issue at hand, I don't even think it's funny."

I think it's frikkin' hysterical!!! LOL!!!

And very telling, as well.
2 posted on 05/30/2006 9:49:05 AM PDT by LIConFem (It is by will alone I set my mind in motion...)
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To: grundle
We can't make up stuff like this.
Get enough people dependent for their livelihood on the gloom and doom universe and they will desperately invent doom and gloom indefinitely.

Beats getting a real job...

3 posted on 05/30/2006 9:49:15 AM PDT by Publius6961 (Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
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To: EveningStar

Check this out. Very Manbearpig-ish.


4 posted on 05/30/2006 9:55:28 AM PDT by lesser_satan (EKTHELTHIOR!!!)
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To: grundle

You know you're in bad shape when France can clean your clock.

5 posted on 05/30/2006 9:55:53 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: grundle
Greenpeace is now officially anti-environment.
6 posted on 05/30/2006 9:59:48 AM PDT by Physicist
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To: lesser_satan

You're not serial.


7 posted on 05/30/2006 10:37:07 AM PDT by jim_trent
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To: Physicist

Even Greenpeace founders disavow the organization they started.

Nature vs. Politics (by Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1012539/posts

Greenpeace founder now promotes nuclear energy and genetically modified foods
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1088449/posts


And it's the same thing with MAD. The founder was kicked out of what she started!


8 posted on 05/30/2006 10:45:30 AM PDT by quietolong
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To: grundle

Nuclear age or stone age...take you pick


9 posted on 05/30/2006 11:12:10 AM PDT by Brit1 ( Not by Strength by Guile.)
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To: Brit1
Or in the case of the Greenpeace hippies:

Stoned Age.

10 posted on 05/30/2006 11:26:07 AM PDT by uglybiker (Don't blame me. I didn't make you stupid.)
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To: LIConFem
Keep laughing at them. Ditto Algore.
It just makes them more angry...
11 posted on 05/30/2006 11:32:39 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: jim_trent

I'm thuper-therial!


12 posted on 05/30/2006 1:14:15 PM PDT by lesser_satan (EKTHELTHIOR!!!)
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To: grundle

This is a hoot!

Of course, its the same fill-in-the-blanks-format that the Democrats use:

"In the six years that Bush has been President, the President with the lowest approval rating ever, there have been nearly [FILL IN ALARMIST AND ARMAGEDDONIST FACTOID HERE]."


13 posted on 05/30/2006 1:19:28 PM PDT by kidd
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