Anti-Gore Film Ropes in Tea Partiers

Irish filmmaker Phelim McAleer has a new movie out challenging Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, and he’s reaching out to Tea Party protesters to drum up an audience for the picture. McAleer’s takedown of global warming, Not Evil Just Wrong, got the cold shoulder from Hollywood executives (he blames politics) and is instead hosted by Big Hollywood, a site run by former Drudge Report editor Andrew Breitbart. In anticipation of a conservative base, McAleer called up a weekly conference call for California’s Tea Party Patriots to talk up the film, which will now be screened in several locations throughout the Golden State. The director has also resorted to guerrilla-like tactics, turning up at a Society of Environmental Journalists conference last week and intensely questioning Gore until his microphone was taken away. “I am the son of Michael Moore,” says McAleer of his approach, “or at least the illegitimate nephew.”