Celebrity Endorsements

Obama has Oprah.

Mrs Bill Clinton has Barbara Streisand.

Mr Huckabee has Chuck Norris. (I sure do not want mess with Mr. Norris – check out Mt Dew’s commercial, Payback.)

On the Newsbusters blog site, Richard Newcomb posted a blog entry called “Will Media Report Pat Sajak’s Analysis of Celebrity Endorsement?“. Mr Newcomb is sure right that the media will probably ignore it. I also agree with his statement (emphasis added):

Sajak has a remarkably clear view of the actual role of a celebrity and he appears to be well aware that most celebrities are experts in exactly nothing.

The article is a very interesting take on celebrity endorsements from the host of Wheel of Fortune. You can read Pat Sajak’s article from HumanEvents.com, Celebrities Unqualified to give Endorsements.

I think, you can agree with Mr Sajak on these celebrities endorsements:

Trust me, one’s view of the world isn’t any clearer from the back seat of a limo.

How true.

Blame It on Global Warming

It seems that everything is getting blamed on global warming these days.

Well, in Rush’s Total Stack of Stuff for 29 November 2007, he had a must read link to the American Thinker blog entry by Christopher Alleva entitled “Everything is Caused by Global Warming (600+links)“.

A UK scientist has established a website that has a collection of links ascribing everything under the sun is caused by global warming. In fact, Rush read the entire list on his show today. The scientist name is Dr John Bringell. Here is the stated goal of his site via Chris’ blog entry:

The site’s stated mission is to expose all the “scares, scams, junk, panics and flummery cooked up by the media, politicians, bureaucrats and so-called scientists and others that try to confuse the public with wrong numbers” Professor Brignell’s motto is “Working to Combat Math Hysteria.”

Read the blog entry and check out his site, numberwatch.co.uk – warmlist.

I think he should go one step further. He should also create a site that has everything under the sun caused by global cooling as well. Just use the same links.