Have you ever purchased a product or service at the recommendation of a celebrity spokesperson? Many of us have. Nothing helps sell a product like a celebrity endorsement.
One that comes to mind is the late Kirstie Alley. She made a lot of money as a spokesperson for Jenny Craig. What made her believable was that she lost 75 pounds on the program.
In the past, celebrities would earn money promoting a product or service without ever using it. You may think it is against the law, but it is not.
I am no celebrity, but as the publisher of three newspapers, I read newspapers, sell newspapers, and make money from newspapers.
August Busch III, affectionately known as “Gussie,” is credited with making Anheuser-Busch the “King of Beers” after he took control of his family’s business in 1946. He was a beer drinker. He both sold and made millions from the sales of Budweiser.
Last year saw a group of young adults who fully drink and partake of the cool-aid that climate alarmists have been selling for decades.
It first made the news last July when two climate protesters glued their hands to a Vincent van Gogh painting at a museum in Arles, France. Maybe the museum curator should have left them there until they begged to be taken down due to hunger and thirst.
In November, protesters targeted an Andy Warhol piece of art in Milan, Italy, by throwing flour on a sports car he painted in 1979.
Last year two climate-change protesters threw tomato soup at a van Gogh painting. Two more smeared mashed potatoes on a Monet. The Mona Lisa was attacked when a protester tossed cake onto it.
According to observer.com, “The activists in question belong to Italian group Ultima Generazione, which arose in 2021 out of U.K. civil disobedience movement Extinction Rebellion.”
Their website says the group conducts nonviolent civil disobedience to demand urgent and concrete actions against the eco-climate collapse.
They have been drinking the cool-aid and believe the world will end unless we stop using fossil fuels now.
Also, in November, members of the group broke into the Berlin Brandenburg Airport in Germany and glued themselves to the tarmac in protest of government inaction on climate change.
Governments in Europe and the United States have been selling this cool-aid for decades. They should not be surprised that their “sales pitch” is being taken seriously.
Of course, fossil fuels are not the only threat to life.
In October, teenagers, in the latest protest, poured milk onto store floors in eight different European locations to protest the dairy industry’s destruction of the environment. The group called “Animal Rebellion” tweeted, “The dairy industry is incredibly environmentally destructive. The world’s top 5 meat and dairy corporations are now responsible for more GHG emissions than Exxon, Shell or BP.”
According to a story on FoxNews.com, “the Biden administration has indicated that it intends to push changes on the US farming industry to tackle climate change.”
The brainwashing of our population goes even further as more stories in the main stream media promote “climate guilt” over having children even though the birth rate in the US has been below the replacement rate since the mid 70s.
A December article in the Washington Post tells the story of one mother who “couldn’t shake the feeling that, by giving birth, she might be doing something bad for the earth.”
The Post is not the only media outlet to push this line of thinking. A headline from NBC News read, “Science proves kids are bad for the earth,” one in The New York Times asked in 2021, “To Breed or Not to Breed?”
As the hysteria mounts, it won’t be long until governments evoke population control measures with the approval of its citizens.
Why would I have respect for these protesters? It’s simple. They believe in their cause. They believe that all life on earth will end unless drastic measures are taken. On the other end of the spectrum are those who are selling the cool-aid and making money off those sales.
They don’t drink the cool-aid themselves. If they did they would stop flying in their private jets and traveling around the world on yachts.
I don’t drink the cool-aid, do you?
https://www.druganddevicelawblog.com/2016/06/can-plaintiffs-sue-a-celebrity-spokesperson.html
