“Drivers moving along Chicago’s inbound Eisenhower Expressway on Friday may have been surprised to see Ted Kaczynski, the so-called Unabomber, staring at them from a massive billboard. “I still believe in global warming. Do you?” the billboard read in large maroon letters. Just below was the Web address http://www.heartland.org,”; the New York Times is reporting.
“Hours later, the digital billboard was gone. It seems that the ad campaign, sponsored by the conservative Heartland Institute, had bombed.
“We know that our billboard angered and disappointed many of Heartland’s friends and supporters, but we hope they understand what we were trying to do with this experiment,” the institute said late Friday afternoon said in a statement. “We do not apologize for running the ad, and we will continue to experiment with ways to communicate the ‘realist’ message on the climate.”
“In opening the campaign, Heartland had said that Mr. Kaczynski would not be the only persona gazing down on Chicago’s commuters. Among his brethren would be Charles Manson, Fidel Castro, Osama bin Laden and James J. Lee, the institute said.
“The Heartland Institute, a libertarian think tank based in Chicago, describes its chief mission as promoting free-market solutions to social and economic problems. Recently, though, the institute has drawn considerably more news media attention for its efforts to advance skepticism about climate change.”
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Too bad Rebane hasn’t taken a lesson from this, such that I’ve had to post there::
“The records in Hawaii and the newspaper announcement totally trump anything from Kenya. Please post links to what you believe shows otherwise, and not to 2nd and 3rd hand information. You are degrading your blog to go on like this. Do you really want to be known as “Birther Bane?”