At Heritage: Breit Lights Shine on Ann McElhinney's New Film, Not Evil Just Wrong

IRISH FILM MAKER Ann McElhinney arrived in American with her new film---Not Evil Just Wrong ---which she co-produced with her husband Phelim McAleer---to premier Sunday night at Heritage in Washington and all over the country via the Internet. It comes with her resounding pre-screening announcement:

Tonight is Day 1 of our war on the false, green religion of global warming being taught in our schools.

Furthermore, Ann said, You like to say in America that religion can no longer be taught in your schools, but I'm saying religion IS being taught every hour of every day here and England too.

It's the apocalyptic Green Religion of false prophet Al Gore who's declared carbon dioxide the devil and human beings both its cause and unwitting victims. The doctrine says only big government, new taxes and global regulations on everything that breathes, works and emits can save us from ourselves. It's indoctrinating every school child in America from the first grade on and based on false and highly politicized science that is far from settled. We're all supposed to be believers, or else.

Think Al has met his match.

She's my kind of woman. Evidently Andrew Breitbart's kind too: I want to get her an RV so she can go around to every school in America with this message.

Breitbart hosted the event and panel discussion---with other notables including John Fund of the WSJ---at Heritage Sunday night and shone his new media breit lights on Ann and her message. She couldn't be more fortunate. Ann is as fortunate as ACORN and NEA were unfortunate to have Breitbart take an interest in what they were doing and how they were doing it---much to their detriment. I sure wouldn't want to meet Breitbart in a dark alley with my hand in the till or my pants down.

Meanwhile, Ann's PM dispenses the latest global warming hysteria.

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A brief critique of Not Evil Just Wrong:

This documentary film makes the much needed point that man-made climate change hysteria is based on science that's far, far from unanimous but has nonetheless been politicized into a green religion by many politically-correct scientists, educators, politicians and economists.

The movie contends that the current demonization of carbon dioxide emissions has its counterpart in recent history: the indictment of DDT in the 40s after the release of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.

It further argues that CO2 is the new DDT. When DDT was banned, mosquito-born malaria throughout the world, especially in Africa and under-developed nations, increased rapidly and resulted in untold misery and death. These claims against DDT were ultimately based on faulty science and reasoning. Today the World Health Organization has restored its rightful place on its list of safe, useful, life-saving chemicals that save lives and are not a threat to the environment.

The movie also shows how the banning of fossil fuel production and use in America will destroy countless middle-class jobs and upward mobility by sentimentally focusing on a working family in Vevay, Indiana who fears Cap-and-Trade legislation as much as it fears Al Gore.

The film provides a much needed antidote to An Inconvenient Truth, I would only point out a few criticisms to make it more effective and watchable.

1. The movie needs some more editing. Cutting here and there can only make it more effective.

2. The segment on family in Vevay, Indiana gets a little long and sentimental for my tastes. Basically its message is, please don't kill our jobs, Mr. Gore. The wife even drives to Tennessee and hand delivers a letter to Gore's home---right around the corner from me---in Nashville. One of his house staff opens the door, thanks her for concerns then closes the door.

OK.

3. A concurrent salient point that needs to be hammered in---along with the movies' claims that man-made climate change is based on false and refutable junk science---is that robust economies and low taxes always produce cleaner and healthier environments. This needs to be drummed into the the current lunatics in Congress and Obama administration, not to mention school kids around the world....it's called free markets 101.

Conversely, economies ladened down with gargantuan government regulations, taxes and spending---like the Cap-and-Trade being proposed here now--- are ineffective against CO2 and stagnate growth and prosperity. We have only to witness the deperate degradation in poverty-stricken African countries to know this is true.

There's more, but for now, I have only the highest regard for Ann and her husband's film. It has its flaws, but is a wonderful start in turning global warming hysteria around (if in fact anything can at this point) especially in our schools, where it is indeed being taught as religion.

Ann, let me know when your RV pulls into Nashville! I'll have a pot of greens and cornbread waiting....and I live just around the block from the false prophet, you-know-who!

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