Joel says: Actual photos at Live Earth concert: some people’s idea of family-friendly fare and good values …to teach a “serious message” to you stupids. Personally, I think she should take her butt out of my face. In fact they all should.
We didn’t have to wait until it was over to deem it a flop. Anything based on ridiculous fraudulent premises and run by hideously hypocritical and deceitful political asses is destined to be a flop (except in France, Toronto, Regina, Ottawa, and parts of the Atlantic and Maritime provinces).
Live Earth branded a foul-mouthed flop
By TAHIRA YAQOOB
Live Earth has been branded a foul-mouthed flop.
Organisers of the global music concert – punctuated by swearing from presenters and performers – had predicted massive viewing figures.
But BBC’s live afternoon television coverage attracted an average British audience of just 900,000.
In the evening, when coverage switched from BBC2 to BBC1, the figure rose to just 2.7 million.
And the peak audience, which came when Madonna sang at Wembley, was a dismal 4.5 million. Three times as many viewers saw the Princess Diana tribute on the same channel six days before.
Two years ago, Live 8 drew a peak television audience of 9.6million while Live Aid notched 10 million in 1985.
The BBC blamed the poor figures on Saturday’s good weather and said its Wimbledon tennis coverage had drawn away afternoon viewers.
Critics said however that the public had simply snubbed what they saw as a hypocritical event.
Musicians including Bob Geldof, Roger Daltrey and the Pet Shop Boys pointed out that a concert highlighting climate change had itself generated huge carbon emissions.
Performers were criticised for flying to concerts that were staged simultaneously on seven continents.
The BBC’s coverage, which ran for 15 hours from 12.30pm on Saturday to 4am yesterday, also sparked dozens of complaints about bad language.
The swearing started at 1.30pm when Phil Collins, the first act on in London, used the f-word while singing with his band Genesis.
Razorlight singer Johnny Borrell used the same expletive a few minutes later in one of his songs. And Chris Rock swore while introducing fellow comic Ricky Gervais, who soon followed suit.
The bad language prompted a number of angry postings on BBC messageboards.
One viewer wrote: “Why did the BBC transmit this during daytime TV when many children will be watching? Why hasn’t an apology been immediately forthcoming?” Another said: “It was disgusting behaviour.” Other comments included: “It was pretty bad at that time of day” and “There is a line to be drawn”.
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Dumb Ass Quote of the Live Earth Concert Day:
“
If you want to save the planet,
let me see you jump up and down!!!!
”
— Madonna
Yeah that should work.
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