THE DYNAMIC TRIO!

What do Oprah Winfrey, Al Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio all have in common?

Following posting my blog yesterday on the United Nations IPCC reported sleight of hand over climate change, I really couldn’t resist sitting down and passing the time with a bit of light entertainment by going over the global warming edition of the Oprah Winfrey show again, with her special guest Al Gore, or “our Noah” as Oprah adoringly referred to him.

Now I do accept that the whole subject of global warming is a very serious one and not something to be taken too lightly, but when it is made so difficult to get to the truth, perhaps it is inevitable that we are going to want to laugh at the absurdity of it all, if only as a defense mechanism kicking in due to the feeling of impotency we can have through not being able to get to the bottom of the truth!

I’m afraid to say that watching the show straight after writing and posting that blog, just made the intensity of the presenter and her guest seem so comic.
With “Our Noah” Gore, that Energizer Bunny of global warming, incessantly beating his drum, powered by his carbon-neutral battery, it would have been very difficult, if not impossible for anybody watching the show the first time round not to watch that rehash of his documentary, 'An Inconvenient Truth' without feeling a least a slight rising tide (no pun intended) of panic at the promise of apocalyptic catastrophe as he forecast the worst-case scenario, referring to it as “a nature walk through the Book of Revelation.”

Combine that scenario of an intense Gore pushing all the fear buttons of global warming, perhaps with the picture in our minds of the recent ‘Times’ magazine front cover of a polar bear in danger of drowning, hanging onto an ice floe with the warning: “Be Worried. Be Very Worried” and then add Oprah as serious as you have ever seen her, saying “wow”, “wow” with dramatic concern every so often and looking like an adoring groupie hanging onto her hero’s every word as if it has been carved by The hand of God Himself and presented to her in stone tablet form, and we have a show guaranteed to either have you reaching for your happy pills or alternatively falling about the floor in laughter at such a staged exhibition, depending on your disposition.

Actually, I thought the highlight of the show which really had me clutching my sides in laughter was when Oprah, with all the wide eyed, serious intensity of my young daughter assuring me that everything is okay and she knows what she is doing, looked directly at our Noah and confessed that she had no idea all these “terrible things” were happening until one day when she interviewed Leonardo. Yes folks, she was speaking of that noted world authority on global warming, Leonardo DiCaprio!

Now you may mock, but let me be the first to inform you, if you don’t already know, that young Leonardo is currently making his own documentary on the subject of global warming. Our Noah didn’t comment on whether he was worried about the possibility that Leonardo’s ‘feardoc’ might divert votes – sorry, I meant attention – from his own bid for something he might be doing in 2008. Actually, I think that Oprah would have a better chance of winning the presidency if she ran! Perhaps she should make her own Oprah for President campaign film? It would certainly solve the quandary of all those Black American women who don’t know whether they should be voting for the first woman to run or the first Black American man to run for the Presidency!

So folks, we now know what Oprah Winfrey, Al Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio all have in common………… Or do we?