Cornell Insider

Barbara Boxer, in an effort to increase awareness about her (and John Kerry’s) new climate change bill, released this video on YouTube. If you haven’t seen it yet, it’s almost comical; I highly recommend it.  As we watch Senator (not Mrs.!) Boxer bottle feed a plump baby milk, we are shown catastrophic images of trafficked highways, erupting smokestacks, disintegrating glaciers, and Katrina victims holding up ‘Help Us’ signs.  She obviously hasn’t been following the news lately, but, that is expected.

But what really surprises me here are the comments by the viewers- in the past, I have found that most political videos are flooded with (primarily unintelligent) comments from far-left viewers.  I’m not sure why; possibly it is in part to the perpetuation of viewing by left-wing media organizations linking to such videos (i.e, huffpost, msnbc.com, dailykos).  But this time, it seems to be the reverse way around.  Perhaps public fear of ‘global warming’ is in fact lowering.  One thing is for sure, fear-mongering videos like Boxer’s will only continue to drive this number down!  The good news here is that views on this video are only at 300! And it took me quite a bit of searching to find it, too. Here’s some of the more funny comments I saw:

xempla: She looks uncomfortable. She looks like that’s the first baby she’s ever held on her lap in her life.

jamietud: If she really cared about her grandchild, she wouldn’t be helping to bury him under mounds of debt alongside everyone else’s grandchild.

nahlin356: A great pity no scientists are present, but then that would destroy the whole argument