Check out what Michael Moore has just posted on his FB page...

[MADem]

211. I don't live in a cave. I have TV, radio, and internet, too!

Google is your friend, too--go on, give it a go. He hasn't been "out there" on this, Al Gore's, topic. I've looked. A conversation with the leader of Malawi in the context of a documentary (not his) a few years back. Not much else. If he was, don't you think we'd have seen him on our televisions? Or at least here, on DU, given his enthused acolytes.

You'd think a man with hundreds of millions of dollars could spend a few cents to get the word out, if he really wanted to "make a difference" and persuade the candidates to discuss this topic? Ya think? Surely he could afford to go on a few talk shows, and you know full well they'd have him if his publicist put the word out; maybe take out an ad in some of the larger papers, call some attention to the subject? He could probably even deduct the cost of the ad as a business expense. That, of course, takes real effort--not the "effort" involved in slapping a graphic up on facebook.

But hey, now he can claim that he "brought it up" (on facebook--wheee! Moments before the debate started--wheee!) and no one listened to poor, pitiful Cassandra. It'll play well in the movie if you don't look too hard.

Ask yourself this--why NOW? Why not twelve years ago, when the guy who ended up winning the Nobel Freaking Prize in 2007 and who had, at that point in time, already articulated a very strong environmental platform and who had already written a highly regarded book on the environmental dangers looming, was running?

We'll see if MM tries to sell us a film. Perhaps something like An Inconvenient Truth, only without the depth, research and science, but with plenty of "gotcha" as he chases lobbyists and legislators hither and yon. .