I'll keep this brief.
Though I have to admit that I currently have on my TV screen the 79th annual Academy Awards, I will write this anyway.
The moment that I've been hoping would come and go quickly finally just came and went; the "Al Gore was and is the greatest politician and overall person on the planet EVER" orgy has ended now that An Inconvenient Truth finally won the "Best Documentary" Oscar.
The boot-licking that took place on stage from the movie's director, in homage to Mr. Gore, isn't what moved me to write this; it's what was said during the walk to the stage, announced by the event's emcee, while the music was playing, that deserves some attention.
I will paraphrase, but only barely. The message said was this:
"[The director and crew] were scheduled to film in New Orleans the night before Hurricane Katrina struck. The event helped bring home the threat and the impact of global warming."
No, that was a stunning reminder that hurricanes are real.
Hurricane Katrina was a Category 3 against New Orleans; the levees that could no longer support the flooded lakes were the real disaster, infrastructurally speaking. Broken levees have nothing to do with global warming.
The Academy must have been jealous of Spike Lee for being to the first to exploit a misrepresentation of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans; and for his use of cable television to do so. Thus, not to be outdone, they had to point-blank LIE to the Oscars audience.
Al Gore gave his speech, his second time on stage receiving gushing accolaids already, to rousing applause. He said it was a moral issue, not a political one; if that is so, he may want to remind the Academy, or ABC -- whomever was responsible for the emcee narration -- that it is immoral to lie to millions of people.
In closing, the best part of the ceremony so far has been the winner for Best Supporting Actress (the former AmericanIdol contestant, from "Dreamgirls"), who thanked God not only once, but twice. You go, girl.
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