Posted on 05/31/2007 9:02:23 AM PDT by raccoonradio
>>In contrast, the project’s opponents — including Kennedy, whose family compound at Hyannisport is the stuff of legend — are cast as a bunch of rich hypocrites who’ve put their own needs ahead of the common good.
Hypocrisy, thy name is Kennedy
Clean energy, free energy, Non CO2 energy,......But not in my view of the ocean.........Liberal HYPER-MEGA-HYPOCRITES!......
NPR and Kennedy — Two Government Funded Blowhards!
You said it! Also in the Phoenix:
Ted Kennedy
The grand Pooh-Bah of Cape Wind opponents; the wind farm would be located roughly eight miles from his family’s Hyannisport compound. Consulted with archconservative Republican senator Ted Stevens of Alaska before Stevens proposed a legislative provision that would have allowed Massachusetts to scuttle the Cape Wind project, which would be constructed in federal waters. (The provision failed.) Kennedy’s explanation for his opposition, according to an exchange quoted in Cape Wind: “That’s where I sail.”
David McCullough
Cape Wind begins with the Martha’s Vineyard resident prolific historian (Truman, John Adams, Brave Companions, etc.), and host of PBS’s American Experience (a WGBH production!) voicing his opposition to the Nantucket Sound wind farm. “It’s outrageous!” says McCullough. “This is a preservation issue. It’s not an environmental issue.”
Rachel “Bunny” Mellon
Resident of Oyster Harbors, a gated community on Nantucket Sound; granddaughter of the inventor of Listerine; widow of the astoundingly rich Paul Mellon; confidante of Jackie Kennedy; former mother-in-law of Senator John Warner (R-Virginia). In Cape Wind, she accuses a wind-farm supporter of being a “traitor to [his] class.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Other environmentalists have urged him to drop his opposition to Cape Wind, but Ted’s nephew — who cites commercial, environmental, and aesthetic concerns — isn’t budging. “Hundreds of flashing lights to warn airplanes away from the turbines will steal the stars and nighttime views,” Kennedy wrote in a 2005 New York Times op-ed. “The noise of the turbines will be audible onshore ... the project will damage the views from 16 historic sites and lighthouses on the Cape and nearby islands.”
Senator John Warner
Former son-in-law to Bunny Mellon and ex-husband of Elizabeth Taylor; attached an amendment to a 2004 defense-appropriations bill that would have stripped the US Army Corps of Engineers of its oversight authority on the project. The amendment didn’t make the cut.
Mitt Romney (Yes. Mitt Romney.)
If the former Massachusetts governor becomes president in ’08, don’t be surprised if he throws new obstacles in Cape Wind’s path. “I’ve seen wind farms,” Romney said during a 2006 Army Corps of Engineers hearing on the project. “They’re not pretty.” As an alternative location, Romney suggested Boston Harbor.
Christy Mihos
The Big Dig whistleblower and failed independent gubernatorial candidate is also a leader of the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound. His swanky West Yarmouth home faces the Kennedy compound.
Walter Cronkite
Formerly featured in anti-wind-farm Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound TV ads, Cronkite — who owns a home on Martha’s Vineyard — eventually had second thoughts. “I will confess . . . that I did not do my own homework as I should have before making the statements,” Cronkite explained. “I did not and I can only regret that now.”
This liberal spat in the sandbox called Cape Cod is worth a lot of popcorn.
Right, Kennedy himself can provide all the air needed to power the wind turbines.
pinging the Howie Carr Show list (Brooks was a guest on
Howie’s show the other day)
It's not just the Kennedys.A search of the real estate transactions of Dukes,Barnstable and Nantucket Counties reads like a Who's Who of the rich,the powerful,the left of this country.
Kennedy,Chomsky,Cronkite,Kerry,Carly Simon...you name them,they're there.
Is WGBH/NPR/PBS engaging in advocacy? As a 501c3 charity, they are prohibited from advocating for/against a party, candidate, or pending legislation.
oops, actually it was Robert Whitcomb who was on Howie’s
show.
>>MAY 29: Robert Whitcomb, editorial page editor of the Providence Journal and co-author of Cape Wind: Money, Celebrity, Class, Politics, and the Battle for Our Energy Future on Nantucket Sound was with us to talk abot the Cape Wind Project.
That’s not the end he blows it out of......or is it? Yes, that could be it.
The Kennedys and Kerrys block our own oil production and say they will promote any and all US led alternatives. But whenrt hey actually get the chance, it is apparently only allowed in someone else’s backyard.
They reek with hypocrasy and the MA voters still keep putting them on the dole.
I am glad they are against these wind turbines.
Rather than disfigure the landscape (or seascape), it would be better if we stop wasting energy.
And if we reduced energy demand by reducing immigration.
Had we not opened the floodgates to immigrants 40+ years ago, there would be almost half as many people in America today,
And we’d have twice as much energy than we do now.
Then we wouldn’t be so overcrowded that we would be forced to disfigure our part of the planet any further.
>>And if we reduced energy demand by reducing immigration.
I’m for that! Reduce ILLEGAL immigration certainly.
All those people would be in 3rd world countries, living off our tax dollars for support of their dictator governments, so the energy requirements on a global scale would still be there.............
Koch Industries is involved in the oil business, but that's the most straightforward thing about the family. This is the David Koch who ran for Vice President on the libertarian ticket in 1980. Their father was a Birch Society backer. Bill's a Democrat who considered running for the Senate. David and Bill are twins.
The four Koch brothers were involved in a complicated law suit in the Nineties: Bill and Frederick sued Charles and David. The family company's been involved in a lot of other litigation with the government over environmental damage. Other family dirty laundry is getting aired because of the Cape Wind fight.
the culture of hypocrisy strikes again!
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