02 August 2006

The Governator

Sometimes The Guardian can be vindictive. Here it pours scorn on Ahnuld's environmental pretensions:
"Arnie drives a Hummer. And not just one. At one time the governor had a fleet of eight of the brutes to ferry him from photo op to photo op. He also has a private jet, which can be seen whooshing over the beach at Santa Monica as it takes him from his Los Angeles home to his office in the state capital, Sacramento, 400 miles to the north.
Arnie does do his bit for the environment. At weekends he rides a motor-cycle. But this being Arnold, it is no enviro-friendly Vespa. Rather, in keeping with his screen image, Arnie's mount of choice is a gas-guzzling, ear-drum-piercing Harley, which - until it emerged that he didn't have a licence - he liked to ride up and down Pacific Coast Highway, or as it will shortly be renamed, the Mel Gibson Memorial Highway.
But this is California. Forget the reality. Dig the artifice. Arnold has made an announcement, showing "extraordinary" leadership, as his new pal Tony put it. The seventh-largest economy in the world, the 12th-largest source of greenhouse gas, will put its muscle behind an initiative to fight the effects of climate change."

Look, at least he's not George W. And even lip service in la-la land is progress of a sort...

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