Gooey Brian Williams: Mother Earth an Abused Woman

Gooey Brian Williams: Mother Earth an Abused Woman

By Tim Graham (Bio | Archive)
November 12, 2007 - 14:27 ET

It might be highly predictable than the media elite would favor a green sheen on Time's Person of the Year debate, but Brian Williams has taken his "Mother Earth" campaign to a whole new level of goo on his Daily Nightly website:

I made my annual pilgrimage to the Time magazine luncheon designed to narrow down the nominees for "_____ of the Year" on the cover of Time. Forgive the blank, but over the years it's been a noun, a pronoun, a proper noun -- it's been a lot of things. My nominee was a woman -- a victim of abuse. A strong, resilient woman who is a constant topic of discussion these days: Mother Earth.

A strong, resilient woman who been victimized and keeps on ticking? How long before Williams starts comparing Mother Earth to Hillary? Hat tip to Rachel Sklar's account at Eat the Press, and she added this tidbit:

The ever-careful Williams responded that, whatever politics one might have, there was no denying that green-awareness had trickled down to "amoeba level."

Speaking of awareness at the "amoeba level," as strange as it might seem to news junkies, I had a recent conversation with family friends about the news business, and they said to me "Who is Brian Williams?" This might explain the Saturday Night Live gigs and the oozy green platitudes.

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}}---> Told you so

November 12, 2007 - 14:34 ET by Cool Arrow

We need to be on our knees kissing dirt

1970

November 12, 2007 - 14:49 ET by iveseenitall

I'm in the middle of a novel written in 1970. So predictably, the "liberal" author is whining about the destruction to the environment and how the world won't last more than fifty years or so. Wow, we're still here--Duh!

BTW, wasn't the bug-a-boo global "Cooling" back then? Some "liberals" are such sad sacks (others are just vicious s.o.b.'s). But don't feel sorry for them and...

NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"

ive - couldn't resist

November 12, 2007 - 16:08 ET by FastEd

here is OUR sad sack, and today, as well as yesterday, it's good to remember.

There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V

Gee, no wonder Mr. Williams

November 12, 2007 - 14:49 ET by motherbelt

Gee, no wonder Mr. Williams left the blank at the beginning of the phrase...

Assuming that he is right, and Mother Earth is an "abused woman," why would that qualify her for "Whatever of the Year." ? (And her name is "Gaia"....but I doubt they would go for "Goddess of the Year."

Oh, what the H.....let them do it. Those stupid awards aren't worth the dead tree they require to print. That and four bucks will get you a "tall" at Starbucks. Hey, they can even get Algore to accept it on her behalf...but from what I hear, he is in competition with her for the honor. Maybe they'll give it to him, and he'll accept on behalf of her....and we'll all hold hands and sing.....Gag.

And I don't mean it's a joke....

My nominee was a woman -- a

November 12, 2007 - 14:53 ET by MidAmerica

My nominee was a woman -- a victim of abuse. A strong, resilient woman who is a constant topic of discussion these days: Mother Earth.

Well let's see.. oh yeah, this is assinine.

We can't 'abuse' an inanimate object. We can make a mess for us to live in but the planet is just a big rock that has 'stuff' growing on it. The 'rock' doesn't know we are here. In fact it doesn't 'know' anything.

We have much more to fear

November 12, 2007 - 15:03 ET by Cooltom

We have much more to fear from Mother Earth than Mother Earth has to fear from us. The Earth through history has convulsed from titantic volcanic explosions, frozen completely over and crashed continents into each other. Not to mention the Earth's wont to swap magnetic poles, change its orbit, etc.