Right wing conservatives and coal companies join together to promote pollution

On Labor Day, Verizon Wireless sponsored a rally that was organized by those who are opposed to the climate bill. The event, which was held in West Virginia, was called the “Friends of America Rally.” The goal of the event was to get people there who opposed the energy bill because it, according to the radicals putting on the event, [the climate bill] did away with American jobs.

Those in attendance included loud mouthed Fox News anchor Sean Hannity as well as Ted Nugent. The event was put together by Massey Energy, which is one of the nation’s top coal producers. That makes sense for that  company to put on such an event seeing as how coal creates so much CO2 in our atmosphere; it’s in their best interest for people to believe whatever the coal company says.

“Despite the rally’s name, it is not friendly to America to cling to an industry that keeps Appalachia in a stranglehold of economic and environmental impoverishment by permanently polluting water supplies, blocking green-energy development and economic diversification, and contributing to global climate change. Coal corporations are making millions of dollars off destroying the mountains, and only pollution and poverty are trickling down to residents,” said Tierra Curry, a native of eastern Kentucky and biologist at the Center for Biological Diversity.

Of course, if you get the most extreme right-wing conservatives all at a rally together, more will come up than just the environment. Of course, the second amendment and the right to bear arms came up and with Ted Nugent as a speaker, how could it not?

I have to say, people will gather with people who believe the same things they do. If you would have put a liberal in the middle of that rally, they may have simply imploded from all the nonsense going on around them. I know I would have. I also know that the more people who are gathered, the more obnoxious a group can become. This is not limited to right wing conservatives.

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