{"id":1261,"date":"2015-12-09T08:48:33","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T08:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/happy-holidays-twitter-fights-airpocalypse-george-bush-and-glen-campbell\/"},"modified":"2023-02-20T08:20:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T15:20:23","slug":"happy-holidays-twitter-fights-airpocalypse-george-bush-and-glen-campbell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/2015\/12\/happy-holidays-twitter-fights-airpocalypse-george-bush-and-glen-campbell\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Holidays: Twitter Fights, Airpocalypse, George Bush and Glen Campbell"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Snowcher\"<\/a>Happy holidays to all the Cher Zombies out there. This is my last blog post of the year! We\u2019re coming up on my Christmas break and my somewhat bi-annual Christmas party. I\u2019ll spend some time off CNM working on book and web site projects.<\/p>\n

Politics and Global Affairs<\/h3>\n

What would a blog week be without some Cher Twitter kerfuffles?<\/p>\n

There are Paris-attack tweets (Billboard<\/em><\/a>) and U.S. Refugee Policy tweets (New York Daily News<\/em><\/a> and Daily Mail<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n

Cher also recently did the voice over for a Sierra Club video that just came out. You can read about it and see the video at Mother Jones<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

"Now, Cher is lending her famous voice to the fight for a better, cleaner world, in an innovative virtual-reality tour of China's environmental emergency published by the Sierra Club on Monday. Throughout the short video, Cher explains how China has become the world's leading emitter of carbon dioxide, and how putrid air filled with poisonous sulfur leads to 4,000 premature deaths every day in China (true), and two birth defects every minute (also true, but a pretty old statistic at this point)."<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Hardhatcher\"<\/a>Mother Jones<\/em> also does a play-by-play of the video's stated facts. I love their graphic of Cher on their web page with a hard hat, although it's a tad condescending. <\/p>\n

It's a timely launch of the video, however, because Tuesday New York Times <\/em>just reported this:<\/p>\n

"Airpocalypse: Officials in Beijing have declared that the thick smog blanketing the city was bad enough to require a red alert, the first time they have raised the alarm to its highest level, angering and confusing residents."<\/em><\/p>\n

The Sierra Club video story in also in Eco-watch<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Cher\u2019s Old Malibu House For Sale
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Not to be confused with the big house, this is a former house of Cher\u2019s which is back on the market for a paltry $10 million dollars.<\/p>\n