GMA's Sam Champion Loves Those 'Very Sexy Cool Green' Liberal Celebrities

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The day after his "America on fire" map, Good Morning America weather man Sam Champion continued his series "It’s Cool to be Green" with some of the most credible experts in the field of science, Hollywood celebrities. Metro Los Angeles’s second largest polluter is now among those that "acknowledge the very real issue of global warming."

Champion featured left wing celebrities such as Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Cameron Diaz, and Leonardo DiCaprio. ABC even hired DiCaprio in 2000 to interview former President Clinton on the subject for an Earth Day special. Champion featured Will Dana, the editor-at-large for the far-left publication Rolling Stone. After the report, co-host Diane Sawyer, thrilled about all of the celebrity activism, exclaimed, "They say, why not turn [publicity] into some good purpose if we can?" The entire transcript is below.

Diane Sawyer: "Speaking of trends, celebrities are leading the way on another front."

Sam Champion: "Well, yesterday we told you about ways at home that you can kind of work toward saving the planet and kind of stop using electricity and kind of help the greenhouse gas situation. And there are some new names who are joining the cry to fix global warming. Does the name Brad Pitt mean anything to you? How about Cameron Diaz? And for actor Edward Norton, caring about the planet is actually in his family's business. We've heard some of the world's top leaders [pictures of Al Gore, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Tony Blair] acknowledge the very real issue of global warming. But now, a young, elite, and very sexy group is joining the cry."

Orlando Bloom: "The environment is important to all of us."

Cameron Diaz: "Every single human being on the planet depends on having fresh water, clean air, and clean soil."

Brad Pitt: "We have to address this, especially as we see the changes in climate."

Edward Norton: "I think clearly the state of our environmental instability is, is the defining issue for our generation."

Champion: "Global warming and the environment. Edward Norton is just one of Hollywood's hottest tackling what some say is the most important role of his life. For Norton, you could say his passion is in his blood. He's from a family of environmentalists. His latest film, The Painted Veil, is set in the lush regions of China. A nod to his father who founded China's first large scale conservation movement."

Norton: "My engagement with these things is pretty much rooted in my father's engagement."

Champion: "Closer to home, Norton is continuing that family tradition with his own non-profit: BP Solar Neighbors. Here, celebrity really pays off. Helping home owners like Omar Muhammed in south central L.A. You see, each time a celebrity buys a solar powered system for their own home, another is donated to a deserving family like Muhammed's."

Omar Muhammed: "It was just too costly. It was way above our means to do it. So we are thankful for Edward Norton to give us the opportunity to role model what it is that gives sustainable energy in our community."

Champion: "This work proving that for concerned celebrities, their interest is more than just a hunt for PR."

Diaz: "If you want to be, you know, thoughtful about it and you want people to, you know, really not just go for the trend. That you don't want people to just jump on board only because at this moment it's popular. You want people to really invest in it."

Champion: "So practicing what they preach is critical. Cameron Diaz drives her own hybrid car. Leonardo DiCaprio produces TV programs on the environment. And Brad Pitt is helping environmental group Global Green rebuild hurricane ravaged New Orleans, green style."

Pitt: "A building that didn't pollute its environment that could actually provide more, more energy than it was actually consuming."

Champion: "As non-profits battle to get their message out and compete for precious dollars, groups like Global Green admit it helps to have celebrity on your side."

Matt Peterson, Global Green: "You need to be able to accomplish getting a message across really demands and requires celebrity. The, the person who's willing to step up and be a valued leader."

Champion: "Will Dana is editor-at-large for Rolling Stone magazine, which spotlights the environment as a critical issue, and he agrees: Celebrity sells this story. Why is it important to even get a celebrity involved in it?"

Will Dana, Editor-at-Large, Rolling Stone: "Leonardi DiCaprio's not going to solve the problems but, if he gets people thinking about it, understanding it, talking about it, that's good work on his part."

Champion: "And what about you? Are you talking about it? Are you already thinking about if? If you are and you have ideas, send them to us, because over the next few months we're going to be collecting new ideas to save energy and also help the planet."

Sawyer: "And you know, a lot of people in Hollywood, they have the paparazzi anyway. They have the press anyway. They say, why not turn it into some good purpose if we can?"


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51.88

Oil 51.88 a barrel...take that you greenies !

(I know that can change anytime, especially after Bush attacks that nice little country Syria and that other little pesky one...whats the name of that...oh yeah....Iran!) Dontcha' just love it...that big bad evil President!

Drill Often...Drill Everywhere!

Take that Champion, Sawyer, Dana and all you leftist tree-huggin' idiots...heck all of you on the left!

"If we ever forget that we are a Nation Under God....then we will be a Nation Gone Under."  Ronald Reagan

lefties

WOW! These lefty celebs can do anything, even stop global warming.  And they can do it while still being ignorant as hell. Amazing ! No wonder so many kids look up to them more than they do to God.

NEVER,NEVER trust a liberal

Brad Pitt drives a Range Rover

 While they celebrate their "greeness" (is that a word, I don't know?), I remember seeing a picture of Brad Pitt driving around in his Range Rover not too long ago.  How much per gallon does that behmouth get?  If they were really interested in global warming they'd stop making their movies (which causes lots of greenhouse gasses) and running their mouths which also causes a lot of hot air. 

And let's not forget that oth

And let's not forget that other favorite method of transportation for the Hollywood elite--the private jet.  Lear is for when the Escalade, Range Rover, LandCruiser, or embarassing seat in first class on a commercial jet just won't do. 

"Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him." -Muhammad

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Anyone else waiting to see the MSM run out to do their stories on how the price of a barrel is "skyrocketing"...DOWNWARD?
Of course oil is cheap now, BushCheneyHalliburton ordered "them" to lower the price. See, last year they raised prices to make more money off the backs of the working poor and in collusion with their Big Oil buddies and now they lowered the price after the elections because....because...um....well, there has to be some conspiracy here.

Did anyone watch poor Neil Cavuto the other night try to explain (yet again) to Bill OReilly how the commodities market is not fixed or conspiring against anyone? I don't get how a guy like BO who is usually logical and correct on most things, can't understand the way oil prices work.

Diaz: "If you want to be

Diaz: "If you want to be, you know, thoughtful about it and you want people to, you know, really not just go for the trend. That you don't want people to just jump on board only because at this moment it's popular. You want people to really invest in it."

You know, Cameron, I, you know, don't really want, you know, to receive my political commentary, you know, from a celebrity, you know.

Anyone else find it a tad ironic that she doesn't want people to "jump on board" because it's popular when, as a celebrity, virtually the entire basis of her job and means of making money IS based on what is currently popular? 

Dutch

Roll out the barrel.

Women have so much to lose. I
mean, we could lose the right to our bodies. ... If you think that rape should
be legal, then don't vote. — Cameron Diaz, 9/29/04.

First women's rights and now the
environment, the woman is a colossus of intellect.

You know Flashman, I was watc

You know Flashman, I was watching Oprah when Diaz was on and made this statement. I've quoted it at times when someone mentions this ditz. What I couldn't believe was that when she said it, Oprah did not challenge it at all, she just let it go. That was the last time it watched that show and haven't missed it a bit!

BTW, how enviornmentally friendly is it for most of these people to jump on private jets whenever they travel?

Advocating women's rights a

Advocating women's rights and caring for the environment aren't a colossus lack of intellect. Women attaining equality and ensuring that America doesn't turn into China with toxic chemicals being regularly dumped into water supplies aren't bad. The problem is when reasonable, desirable goals are replaced with extreme goals that create inequality. The initial plan of giving women the same rights and responsibilities as men and preventing environmental damage that can hurt humans was good, but creating a special class of citizen for women that are not held to the same standards as men goes against EVERYTHING that equal rights are supposed to stand for.

My point was that she shoul

My point was that she should know that the movie business itself is a large polluter. Check out the following article in the Guardian.

Dirty movies: why Hollywood is a polluter

"University of California research revealed the film and TV industry makes a larger contribution to air pollution in the Los Angeles region than almost all the five other sectors studied.

The industry creates more pollution than either aerospace manufacturing or hotels, the study found, with only petroleum manufacturing giving off more emissions."

PS: What on earth is a "colossus lack of intellect"?

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what an absolute load of pandering crap. Sam Champion is such a tool for buying into this trendy garbage. Wow, Diaz drives her very own hybrid car! The planet is saved! YAYYY!!!!

Cameron is looking very Karen

Cameron is looking very Karen Black-ish in that photo...

Roger, I'm thinking too many

Roger, I'm thinking too many vegetables and not enough "Red Meat". That girl could use some color.

BTW, what happened to our "Photo Caption Contest"? I need to email Matthew and remind him of our fun columns to lighten the attitudes around here.

PS. thanks for your Shrubb Report, you fill in the blanks when I miss them somtimes.

"Too bad Ignorance isn't painful to the Ignorant"

Tank you berry much!

Tank you berry much!

Roger...I believe that is why

Roger...I believe that is why Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

I mean, like there's this s

I mean, like there's this situation out there, and it's like, warming up these things called globals, and like that's real bad, especially for the globals, and like I had this cat one time, named Glowball, and like I had to take it to the vet once for a worming, and so, like, I've experienced my own form of Glowball worming, so like, I know it's no fun, but like, it's noways near as serious as this enviromental warming of the globals going on out there in the universe, and like big oil, like needs to be punished, and like George Bush, is like soooo bad for these global warmings, for sure.

When asked if he went to war with Iraq to derail the impeachment
vote: “I don’t think any serious person would believe that any
President would do such a thing." - President Clinton (Dec 1998).

Celebrity Green Yet Funny

Jerry,

You capture the ditz really well (Cameron Diaz that is). Priceless. I think if we laughed at celebrities more often they wouldn't pollute the earth when they open their mouths. :)

The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer.  Air Force Motto

jerry --loved it

jerry --loved it 

but like man you don't got it strate. The big oil doesn't warm the globe unless it's on fire and we ain;t had any of those that I saw on the telly. When I was the beech last sumer, I wuz swettin and my wife looked over and said--hey theres warm globules hanging on your head and nose, I no that iz wut real globule warmin is.

Celebrity Greenies Are Just Hypocrite Weenies

Yeah, the celebrities are really green. I don't think so! Most of these twerps guzzle tons of fuel in their little private planes wherever they fly, polluting all over the place. These jerks have no authority to lecture us about anything especially Brad Pitt who knocked up Angelina Jolie and won't marry her until "everyone can marry." Yeah, Brad, you, Angelina and your natural daughter who Angie calls a blob and doesn't love as much as her third world orphans. When you give up your pricey, gas guzzling jets and fly like the rest of us lowly mortals, maybe we'll then actually believe anything you have to say. The only people sopping anything these celebrity idiots have to say are the desperate in New Orleans and stupid, ignorant Americans who idolize them.

The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer.  Air Force Motto

Why do these hard-nosed inter

Why do these hard-nosed interviewers never question the hypocrisy of these high-living energy-consuming multi-millionaires who call themselves green?

I live in a small house and drive a small car and I don't call myself green--but then, I'm a poor working class libertarian who doesn't lecture anyone on how to live. I believe in 'live and let live.'

What outrageous hypocrisy--and no one calls them on it. I'd believe their stances more if they gave away their millions to the poor or to their favorite causes and contented themselves with living on say, $50,000 a year.  AND JUST THINK OF THE ENERGY THEY'D BE SAVING! THEY'D HAVE A MUCH SMALLER CARBON FOOTPRINT!

But they won't put their money where their mouths are. Oh, no--much better to live as a filthy-rich capitalist while mouthing a lefty, 'green' philosophy. It's so absurd.

"They say, why not turn [publ

"They say, why not turn [publicity] into some good purpose if we can?"

In other words, it has served no good purpose before. What a bunch of self-important blowhards. Legends in their own minds. What's even more sad is that these are the clowns that our kids see and hear, thinking that if someone like Leonardo di Crappio said it, it MUST be true!

Thank you Cameron Ditz.

Thank you Cameron Ditz.

Highlights are mine and mine only.  So, there.

"Cameron Diaz (Ditz): "Every single human being on the planet depends on having fresh water, clean air, and clean soil."

My life is now complete.  For a long time I thought it was sex.

ACA

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Acaiguana says:  "I love blind Monkeys and any inference that I am making fun of blind Monkeys would be wrong.

amazing

Isn't it amazing how some people can appear so very attractive until they open their mouths?

 She thinks IQ is a sequence in the alphabet.

Mr Bill, ever notice the ef

Mr Bill, ever notice the effect that Hollywood has on perfectly sane and hot actress types? The longer they stay there, the more they become like the "Wicked Witch of the West" (Susan Sarandon). And God forbid they ever get into politics!

"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...

MisterBill, Cameron definiti

MisterBill, 

Cameron definitions for IQ.

a. Alphabetic sequence when you have a brain skip... I (jklmnop) Q.

b. A Japanese poem (haiku)

c. The sound you make when you sneeze..  I... I... I Q !!!

When asked if he went to war with Iraq  to derail the impeachment vote:  “I don’t think any serious person would believe that any President would do such a thing." - President Clinton (Dec 1998).

Talking about 'trends', wha

Talking about 'trends', what's up with the MSM describing every actor they bring on to interview with slashes? Camreon Diaz is an Actor/Environmentalist? Just because she drives a hybrid? Please... These loons need help.