{"id":842,"date":"2007-05-21T12:40:58","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T18:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/05\/21\/boiling-the-shark\/"},"modified":"2007-05-21T12:40:58","modified_gmt":"2007-05-21T18:40:58","slug":"boiling-the-shark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=842","title":{"rendered":"Boiling The Shark"},"content":{"rendered":"

I remember thinking at one point that the best way to discredit Algore and his well-heeled global warming panic machine is to expose people to it by force.<\/p>\n

I guess I was right; school kids in Canada are seeing the movie over and over again, and finding it wanting<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Some of the story reads like Scrappleface:<\/p>\n

“One of the teachers at my kid’s school showed it and he even said ahead of time, ‘There is some propaganda in this,’ ” says Tim Patterson, a Carleton University earth sciences professor. “I said to him, ‘You even knew this was a propaganda film, and you still showed it in your classroom?’ ” The weirdest part: It was the gym teacher.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But no.\u00a0 It’s real.<\/p>\n

First it was his world history class. Then he saw it in his economics class. And his world issues class. And his environment class. In total, 18-year-old McKenzie, a Northern Ontario high schooler, says he has had the film An Inconvenient Truth shown to him by four different teachers this year.<\/p>\n

“I really don’t understand why they keep showing it,” says McKenzie (his parents asked that his last name not be used). “I’ve spoken to the principal about it, and he said that teachers are instructed to present it as a debate. But every time we’ve seen it, well, one teacher said this is basically a two-sided debate, but this movie really gives you the best idea of what’s going on.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Maybe Chad the Elder has the wrong idea.\u00a0 Maybe rather than fight his PC ‘burb’s showing of the movie<\/a>, he should demand that people be hauled to the community center in trucks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I remember thinking at one point that the best way to discredit Algore and his well-heeled global warming panic machine is to expose people to it by force. I guess I was right; school kids in Canada are seeing the movie over and over again, and finding it wanting.\u00a0 Some of the story reads like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}