Exxon Responsible for the Anti-Gore YouTube Movie
I assume you have seen the stupid anti-Gore, YouTube cartoon that has been popping up on various blogs and news sites last week. If not, don’t bother watching it. It is bad and annoying.
Furthermore, if you are a linux user, you will be even more annoyed at the completely inappropriate use of Tux the Penguin image. Including the beloved Open Source mascot in a anti-intellectual propaganda movie is in a very bad taste.
But it gets better. Apparently, this movie was not made by some half-retarded, inbred, Bush loving, brainwashed republican amateur. It was made by a professional PR firm called DCI. These guys have a really bad rep according to Sourcewatch. In the past they have worked for all kinds of evil corporations such as for cigarette companies and Microsoft. One of their current clients is (surprise, surprise…) Exxon!
Here is a CNN News coverage of this story.
Let’s summarize. Exxon uses a shady PR firm, to create an amateurish movie that is distributed on Youtube to subversively spread FUD about All Gore’s movie. 
Here is an interesting tidbit. Youtube is full of politically charged videos attacking politicians on both sides of the isle. Some of these may also be made by PR firms - but then again, it doesn’t really matter. Amateurs churn these things out daily, so it’s not like one more clip could make a difference. So how come news agencies decided to investigate this one?
I think it is because YouTube generation is to smart and educated to believe in anti-Gore propaganda. They can easily push this sort of crap on backwards, ultra-conservative, elderly republicans who do not understand technology. But if you have the know-how to create a video and post it on YouTube you must have been exposed to reliable evidence which shows that global warming is real. Someone who creates a video like this one, is interesting because he really stands out among his peers.
via thoughtcrimes
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August 8th, 2006 at 8:38 am (484) [Quote]
You give people too much credit.
Posted usingThis is america. keep a little less faith our generation. not all of them are as knowledgeable as us. if you want proof, i recommend a cross country roadtrip.
August 8th, 2006 at 11:48 am (494) [Quote]
Note that I specifically said “YouTube generation”. By that I mean the people who are smart enough to figure out how to connect their camera to their computer and are able to perform some rudimentary video editing, and/or animation.
The vast majority of people in this country are indeed stupid. But they usually do not post amateur movies on the internet because:
1. computers frighten them
2. they think intenret is made of tubes, and they do not want to clog it
3. they think the internets is evil
4. they think they are too cool to use technology
5. all of the above
Most of the Web 2.0 content these days is created by small elite of intelligent and educated people who express themselves via blogs, vlogs, podcasts and other modern internet media. The anti-intellectual movements such as ID, creationism and global-warming denial are more popular among the undereducated, unintelligent, unwashed masses.
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