Yes, Saskatchewan premier Brad Wall appears to be back-pedaling furiously from Crazy-Assed Racist Redneck™ Kate McMillan, but don't let that distract you from the bigger picture -- there's more work to be done here.
While Wall is still fum-fuhing his way through damage control, hit him again. Given that Wall and his Saskatchewan Party have openly embraced the notion of energy conservation:
Tuesday - October 23, 2007
Brad Wall today announced the Saskatchewan Party’s new ideas to help Saskatchewan people, businesses and institutions like schools and hospitals “Go Green” and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
“A Saskatchewan Party government will introduce ‘greencentives’ for Saskatchewan people to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in their day-to-day lives,” Wall said.
one should immediately ask him what he thinks of someone who ridicules the idea of Earth Hour and goes so far as to actively encourage her readers to deliberately waste energy and increase emissions out of pure spite.
Yeah, I'm thinking that might make for another awkward moment or two.
THINKING LONG TERM: At this point, while Kate is reeling, it behooves us to make sure she doesn't recover. That would involve poring over the policy statements and news releases of the Saskatchewan Party and making a list of their positions, then combing the posts at SDA to find examples of Kate denigrating those very positions. And every time the controversy seems to be dying down, hit Wall with another example. Quite simply, make Kate McMillan so radioactive that no one wants to go near her.
Why, yes, I am a vindictive motherfucker. Why do you ask?
5 comments:
The demonstrated failure of SDA to have actual influence in the real world was the first shoe to drop.
Shrieking that "yes, the goal of reducing demand was met, but it was still higher than earlier in the day so I win" was the comedic interlude, highlighting her irrelevance.
Now the other shoe has dropped.
Could someone take pity and tell Catherine her 15 minutes of fame are over? Or do we need to watch the slow motion collapse?
Slow motion collapse! Slow motion collapse! preferably with huge fireballs and flying debris once she spirals into the ground. I'll even bring extra popcorn to share.
Woot! It's about goddamn time.
Earth Hour was mostly symbolic, like the yellow ribbon campaign or wearing red...
So I have no qualms about it being mocked. The only difference, unlike the connies push, is that it did have results (albeit small).
CWTF:
It's one thing to simply "mock" Earth Day. It's quite another to explicitly encourage people to go out and deliberately waste energy and increase greenhouse gas emissions. That's a bit less forgivable, wouldn't you say?
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