Senator James Inhofe and the other global warming deniers thought they had blocked Al Gore's Live Earth concert in DC. Wrong. This morning, Gore announced that there will be a concert on the mall:
Washington has been added as a host city for this Saturday's worldwide series of Live Earth concerts, former Vice President Al Gore, a co-organizer of the shows, said on Friday.That's the way the GOPers play ball. They actually thought blocking this concert was some kind of victory. Bizarre, but that's what we're up against.
The concert to raise climate change awareness will be on the Mall, a vast park located between the Capitol building and the Lincoln Memorial, and will include married country singers Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood, Gore told the "CBS Early Show."
An earlier bid to stage the concert in Washington fell through when other music groups had already obtained permits for the Mall and some Republicans in Congress blocked an effort to move it to the Capitol grounds.
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