Jelly Beenz

For some reason, the title of this post won't display. Hmm. A conspiracy!

What if they gave a concert and no one came?

This past weekend the greenest of the world's rockers (that Al Gore could convince to show up, or that had new releases to promote) flew a collective 225,000 miles (the carbon footprint equivalant of two centuries of SUV highway mileage) to sing to us about saving energy.

It gives me solace to report that less than 1% of the U.S. population tuned in to NBC Saturday night to see this .... stuff.

Yep, an average of all of 2.9 million folks checked it out in prime time on a Saturday night. NBC almost came in fifth for the night, but managed to squeak out a win over Univision by a tenth of a ratings point.

I think Americans might prefer our charity concerts when they're about sending relief to folks who need it - like starving kids in Ethiopia, tsunami victims or hurricane survivors.

Al Gore already has a crappy cable channel of his own to use to propagandize to his heart's content. Did he really need to take up several over the world of NBCU cable to get his message out? The concert aired on NBC in prime time, while the day long festivities aired at different times on Bravo, MSNBC, Univision, CNBC, Sundance, and Telemundo.

Interesting that they bypassed the one NBCU property on which the global warming fanatacism belonged - SciFi.

P.S. Al, it's snowing in Buenos Aires for the first time in 89 YEARS...