Bill Shireman: PowerShift and Conservative PAC - The Journey to Alleged Truth from Alleged Hate

The young and older gathered there were jumping out of their seats, in standing ovations, for keynoters like Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter, who had some choice words to share about those of us fighting global warming.

Niger Ennis - a stirring black man from the Congress for Racial Equality, whose father walked with Martin Luther King - said that "environmental wackos," financed by "powerful millionaire socialists," are conspiring with "an energy industry leader" - a "treasonous organization" that is supporting a cap-and-trade carbon tax, to force high energy costs "on the backs of you and me and the poor."

"In reality, many of these groups really hate America," Ennis said. "Today's environmental extremists - and their corporate political slaves - use the environment to deprive poor Americans of the ability to achieve Martin Luther King's dream. They must be swept into the ash heap of history."

Myron Ebell, from the libertarian Competitive Enterprise Institute, said that among the conspirators to institute "government control of our energy use," are five major environmental lobbies, plus "BP America, Conoco-Phillips, Shell, Duke" and five other big energy corporations.

And journalist Ann McElhinney, who with husband Phelim McAleer is about to release a film on "the true cost of global warming hysteria," asked rhetorically, "who are" these environmental radicals? She answered: "they're elites - very, very rich. And the richer they get, the more idiotic their ideas become."

"They think poverty is a culture that needs to be conserved," she said. They think there are "too many people" in the world. And since they're not going to get rid of themselves, who do they have in mind? "They're going to get rid of average people like my husband and I," their film quotes a Midwestern wife saying. And, she adds, they also plan to sacrifice those children in Africa.
"They care more about fish eggs than they do about humans," said Patrick Moore, a one-time Greenpeace organizer who now criticizes the group, in their film.