Did you miss anything by skipping Live Earth? Here s Neal McCormick in the Telegraph: There were 70,000 people in Wembley Stadium. The organisers had hoped for a television audience of two billion, to highlight the imminent dangers of global warming.
On stage, Tom Chaplin from Keane vainly tried to lead a singalong. Behind him, a big screen boasted We Called - You Answered , while the numbers who had responded to Live Earth s text message pledge were rolled out. The first line was 3,389 UK responses .
Frankly, my local community signed up more people to protest against a phone mast, and our only celebrity was a voiceover actor for Bob the Builder. Snezhina Kovacheva of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (one of several D.C.
libertarians who attended the concert with Bureaucrash): Political activist Bob Geldof, who was the mastermind behind Live 8, labeled the event accurately: It was just an enormous pop concert for the umpteenth time. A giant banner that read 9/11 inside job was on display at this past weekend s Live Earth concert in London, reaching a potential audience of 2 billion people, before the truthers responsible for the wake-up call had the banner stolen, were briefly detained and then told to leave by security. In the future every event will be crashed by 9/11 truth campaigners.
Grover Norquist s Wednesday Meeting? The Bohemian Grove final evening key party? Episodes of ?
The Paralympics? Your kid s bat mitzvah? None of it will be spared.
(Disclosure: Unlike these writers, I didn t attend the concert. But as they always seem to feature some sort of dinosaur rock reunion, I will attend the first world benefit concert that gets Lark s Tongues in Aspic -era King Crimson to reunite. This is scheduled for Live 9/11 Truth in 2011, I believe.
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