South Africa Air Travel Backup Due in Part to Private Jet of Noted Global Warmist Actor

By Doug Powers  •  July 8, 2010 04:04 PM

**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers

Leonardo DiCaprio says he drives a hybrid car, and that makes for some good, clean transportation when he’s heading to the airport to get on his private jet — in this case to travel to South Africa, where he contributed to an air traffic jam induced by jet-set eco-hypocrites, causing many others miss the game:

Hundreds of fans bound for Durban for the Germany-Spain World Cup semi final missed the game because their flights were unable to land, after air traffic authorities closed the city’s airport because of congestion on the runway caused by private aircraft.

The situation was described as “absolute chaos” by the pilot of one British Airways flight which took off from Cape Town in mid-afternoon but was diverted to Johannesburg.

Wire services reported that among the VIPs heading for the semi-final by jet were Spain’s King Juan Carlos, South African President Jacob Zuma, actor Leonardo DiCaprio and socialite Paris Hilton.

Didn’t anybody tell Leo he could have stayed home and watched the game on his solar-powered TV? DiCaprio trained well under the tutelage of his bloated hypocritical eco-Jedi master and second-chakra releaser, Al Gore.

All I ask of any “the sky is falling” global warming alarmist like DiCaprio is that he at least behaves as if he actually believes the doom-and-gloom words that are coming out of his mouth. If saving the planet can be put on the back burner (pardon the expression) because firing up a private jet to go to a Spain/Germany match halfway around the world was just that important, Leo doesn’t really believe we’re in “The 11th Hour”:

“Global warming is not only the number one environmental challenge we face today, but one of the most important issues facing all of humanity. We all have to do our part to raise awareness about global warming and the problems we as a people face in **promoting a sustainable environmental future for our planet.”Leonardo DiCaprio

(**Unless there’s a soccer game you want to go to anywhere in the world)

**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers

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  1. #1
    On July 8th, 2010 at 4:09 pm, T-Bone said:

    Did Ed Begley or Darrell Hannah go?

    For all their idiocy regarding this subject, at least they truly beleive it and practice it themselves. Unless they need something, then it goes out the window just like Dicapridiot.

  2. #2
    On July 8th, 2010 at 4:09 pm, Flyoverman said:

    People like DeCaprio wake up every day deserately seeking some new way to make themselves look important.

    What a pathetic existence they have despite all of the money and privilige.

  3. #3
    On July 8th, 2010 at 4:18 pm, happyscrapper said:

    So, the planes holding hundreds of fans were held up because so many private jets, holding one or two people, had the right of way? This is disgusting on so many levels, and another example of elitism in this country. This crap has to cease. There should be a law that private jets must land in one specific place set aside for them, (preferably a swamp or mud hole) so that they do not hinder the general public. This “I’m better than anyone else” attitude makes me sick.

  4. #4
    On July 8th, 2010 at 4:19 pm, spaceycakes said:

    Durban is not a very big airport. Zuma would’ve known this but, then again, that explains everything.

  5. #5
    On July 8th, 2010 at 4:19 pm, warden said:

    I’ll go see his new movie, but I’ll pay for a ticket to another movie playing at the same time.

    I suggest everyone do the same.

  6. #6
    On July 8th, 2010 at 4:20 pm, spaceycakes said:

    I wonder if Paris Hilton knows that Morgan Freeman isn’t really the President of South Africa?

  7. #7
    On July 8th, 2010 at 4:21 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    Hey, he’s Howard Hughes for crying out loud! He can fly a personal plane if’n he wants! Oh wait… this is reality.

  8. #8
    On July 8th, 2010 at 4:26 pm, jsr said:

    What hypocrisy? I’m sure the interior lighting of his jet is provided by high efficiency bulbs. This display of good intentions more than offsets the thousands of gallons of jet fuel used to haul DiCaprio and his entourage half-way around the world.

  9. #9
    On July 8th, 2010 at 4:27 pm, frostrt said:

    “I’m the King Of The Hypocrites!!!”

  10. #10
    On July 8th, 2010 at 4:29 pm, John Deaux said:

    And people had the nerve to complain. How dare they question their betters.

  11. #11
    On July 8th, 2010 at 4:29 pm, Flyoverman said:

    Leonardo DiCaprio says he drives a hybrid car, and that makes for some good, clean transportation when he’s heading to the airport

    Not hardly.

    Its the same “Save the Planet” mindset that fills your home with mercury filled light biulbs.

    From the article:

    Building a Toyota Prius causes more environmental damage than a Hummer that is on the road for three times longer than a Prius. …the Prius is partly driven by a battery which contains nickel. The nickel is mined and smelted at a plant in Sudbury, Ontario. This plant has caused so much environmental damage to the surrounding environment that NASA has used the ‘dead zone’ around the plant to test moon rovers. The area around the plant is devoid of any life for miles.

    The plant is the source of all the nickel found in a Prius’ battery and Toyota purchases 1,000 tons annually. Dubbed the Superstack, the plague-factory has spread sulfur dioxide across northern Ontario, becoming every environmentalist’s nightmare.

    All of this would be bad enough in and of itself; however, the journey to make a hybrid doesn’t end there. The nickel produced by this disastrous plant is shipped via massive container ship to the largest nickel refinery in Europe. From there, the nickel hops over to China to produce ‘nickel foam.’ From there, it goes to Japan. Finally, the completed batteries are shipped to the United States, finalizing the around-the-world trip required to produce a single Prius battery. Are these not sounding less and less like environmentally sound cars and more like a farce?

  12. #12
    On July 8th, 2010 at 4:37 pm, beenthere said:

    On July 8th, 2010 at 4:20 pm, spaceycakes said: I wonder if Paris Hilton knows that Morgan Freeman isn’t really the President of South Africa?

    Well, I do know that many voters in 2008 thought they were voting for Morgan Freeman for President of the United States.

  13. #13
    On July 8th, 2010 at 4:43 pm, J S Ragman said:

    “We all have to do our part to raise awareness about global warming”

    Good job, Leo.

  14. #14
    On July 8th, 2010 at 4:54 pm, T-Bone said:

    I guess if you are a celebrity movie star, part of your “job” is to be known, to be famous, to be somebody. That exposure brings people to the box office, and increases your demand as an actor, as well as your paycheck. They hire Public Relations advisors to do just that.

    Dicapridiots just doing his job but on a personal level ingratiates (read brown nosing) himself to the politically connected, hollywood crowd and the Al Gore types. Oh, and the chicks dig it.

  15. #15
    On July 8th, 2010 at 4:57 pm, JHSII said:

    Didn’t anybody tell Leo he could have stayed home and watched the game on his solar-powered TV? DiCaprio trained well under the tutelage of his bloated hypocritical eco-Jedi master and second-chakra releaser, Al Gore.

    Al Gore is more Sith than Jedi!!

  16. #16
    On July 8th, 2010 at 4:58 pm, TomB said:

    Global warming is not only the number one environmental challenge we face today, but one of the most important issues facing all of humanity.

    It is the biggest challenge to face humanity since the last ice age.

  17. #17
    On July 8th, 2010 at 5:00 pm, Laree said:

    That thar is funny but if celebrities didn’t make scare videos about the latest craze – AGW how would anyone take them seriously? It’s like when you see them wearing eye glasses -they don’t need, because they think that makes them look intelligent.

  18. #18
    On July 8th, 2010 at 5:01 pm, SpeakEasy said:

    People like him are so egocentric, the idea they could cause problems for others never enters their minds.

    Look at me! Look at me!

    Is this the kind of sacrifice their messiah was talking about?

  19. #19
    On July 8th, 2010 at 5:02 pm, 24Klady said:

    Is he the sweet young thing that came out with something goofy recently like he could swing both ways? If not him, my humble apologies…. :)

  20. #20
    On July 8th, 2010 at 5:08 pm, Hangfire said:

    Although I consider myself a good Celt, and no English blood that I know of flows through my veins, I am VERY British when it comes to how I consider actors:

    Actor, poets, painters, and other Artistes are expected to be wacky. It’s their nature. Left-brained, you know.

  21. #21
    On July 8th, 2010 at 5:09 pm, GladzKravtz said:

    Hey DiCaprio,

    Keep the jet, ditch the cause.

  22. #22
    On July 8th, 2010 at 5:15 pm, T-Bone said:

    Hes a soccer fan? Didn’t he read about all the child labor in third world countries being used to make all these soccer balls? He is supporting child abuse.

    What goes around… comes back to make you look like an idiot.

  23. #23
    On July 8th, 2010 at 5:27 pm, RedDog said:

    Punk. I do want to see his new movie though.

  24. #24
    On July 8th, 2010 at 5:36 pm, purplepeep said:

    If I do my part to push the “Global Warming” hoax do I get my own private jumbojet?

  25. #25
    On July 8th, 2010 at 6:05 pm, Ragspierre said:

    I believe the technical term is…

    putz

  26. #26
    On July 8th, 2010 at 6:10 pm, Ragspierre said:

    If I do my part to push the “Global Warming” hoax do I get my own private jumbojet?

    Oh! At LEAST…!!!

    You can have your own RV for around town (Babs Streisand) so you always have your own bathroom.

    A palatial houseboat, for those late night “second chakra” sessions on the lake.

    And MULTIPLE hotel-sized “homes” that use the energy of a small town.

    But WAIT…there’s MORE…

    You could have an Oscar AND Nobel Prize!

  27. #27
    On July 8th, 2010 at 6:23 pm, purplepeep said:

    Ragspierre said:
    But WAIT…there’s MORE…
    You could have an Oscar AND Nobel Prize!

    So you’re saying all I have to do is lie, manipulate numbers, concoct bogus charts and graphs, take dirty money and engage in all manner of other total dishonesty to succeed in the “Global Warming” arena? Hey, I can do that!

  28. #28
    On July 8th, 2010 at 6:24 pm, BrianNY said:

    Leonardo:

    We all have to do our part to raise awareness

    I’m sure that any liberal lawyer, worth his salt, would tell you that Leo never said that he would actually “do” anything about global warming, only that he would do his part to “raise awareness.”

    As all good, little Marxists know: “doing is for the common people.”

    Or as Bubba would say, “it all depends on what your definition of “do” do…..is?

  29. #29
    On July 8th, 2010 at 6:26 pm, Hangfire said:

    On July 8th, 2010 at 6:23 pm, purplepeep said:
    So you’re saying all I have to do is lie, manipulate numbers, concoct bogus charts and graphs, take dirty money and engage in all manner of other total dishonesty to succeed in the “Global Warming” arena? Hey, I can do that!

    You….you….you….S E N A T O R !!!

  30. #30
    On July 8th, 2010 at 7:41 pm, stoptheinvasion said:

    this dipsheep actor has been on my do-not-watch do-not-buy list for a while now. you defraud me with a fake global warming religion and mislead kids with global warming lies, you just lost any revenue stream from me. and I have a long memory.

  31. #31
    On July 8th, 2010 at 8:47 pm, Cal City Conservative said:

    On July 8th, 2010 at 7:41 pm, stoptheinvasion said:

    this dipsheep actor has been on my do-not-watch do-not-buy list for a while now. you defraud me with a fake global warming religion and mislead kids with global warming lies, you just lost any revenue stream from me. and I have a long memory.

    All the posters from above that are saying that they want to see his new movie need to take a hint from you.

    I’m in with you, there are many Hollywood losers like Leo that I will never watch anything that they do.

    I’m sure he is crying big tears at my solo effort but if more people walked the walk it would be great to humble him some if that was possible.

  32. #32
    On July 8th, 2010 at 9:14 pm, shimauma2 said:

    typical limo libtard hypocrisy!!

  33. #33
    On July 8th, 2010 at 10:00 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    On July 8th, 2010 at 4:20 pm, spaceycakes said:
    I wonder if Paris Hilton knows that Morgan Freeman isn’t really the President of South Africa?

    Wait, I’m confused, I thought Morgan Freeman was God? Plus, he built the Batmobile!

  34. #34
    On July 8th, 2010 at 10:11 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    Flyoverman said:
    Leonardo DiCaprio says he drives a hybrid car, and that makes for some good, clean transportation when he’s heading to the airport
    Not hardly.

    Good link. From 2007, I guess the MSM buried missed that one.

  35. #35
    On July 8th, 2010 at 11:03 pm, gus said:

    Think of this. DiCapritard thinks GLOBAL WARMING, which doesn’t exist, is our biggest problem.
    Imagine he thought ALCOHOL was our biggest problem, and he drank a quart of scotch a day.
    The LIBTARD excuse is that he paid some other DRUNK not to drink. DRUNK CREDITS vs CARBON CREDITS.
    HERE is the RUB. If DiCapritard hadn’t flown to DURBAN, the plane wouldn’t have gone.
    He purposefully DECIDED to DESTROY the very ENVIRONMENT he claims to love.
    WHY?
    Because he is a phony. But that is EXACTLY what ACTORS are. Literally.

  36. #36
    On July 9th, 2010 at 12:02 am, vatodio said:

    Talking and ranting about Liberal hypocrisies on any issue is a waste of time.

    Leo will continue to lecture us on the Global Warming as long as we finance his affluent life style.

    Stop sending your Dollars his way by not watching his movies or even renting DVDs, and see how fast he changes his leftist religion.

  37. #37
    On July 9th, 2010 at 1:46 am, William said:

    Lucky for me, unlike some on this forum, I have no interest in viewing a movie which features Leo DiCaprio.

    I am grateful for such a lack of interest.

    The same goes for the likes of Johnny Depp, who made millions from US movie viewers, but, after moving to France, decided to slap US citizens in the face by insluting them, proclaiming that US citizens are extremely stupid.

    Yes, they ARE stupid. They voted for a Democrat Congress, they voted for an inexperienced, unqualified, amateur, in-over-his head faker, Barack Hussein Obama, as president of the United States of America – a person who is destoring our nation, violating the Constitution, etc., and the US citizens actually pay lots of money to line Depp’s and DiCaprio’s pockets, wallets, and bank accounts, even though the US citizens are insulted by the very people they made wealthy!

  38. #38
    On July 9th, 2010 at 8:17 am, tre said:

    Prius: The ultimate nerd-mobile! The car that says, “Look at me! I ain’t got no testosterone! My gay lover has to open all my jars for me! I’m a pansy!”

  39. #39
    On July 9th, 2010 at 9:20 am, TigerLady said:

    Stop sending your Dollars his way by not watching his movies or even renting DVDs, and see how fast he changes his leftist religion.

    The lesson of the day!

  40. #40
    On July 9th, 2010 at 9:45 am, Cameron said:

    The car that says, “Look at me! I ain’t got no testosterone! My gay lover has to open all my jars for me! I’m a pansy!”

    I think my wife might disagree with your assesment. Mind you, I offsetted her purchase of a Prius with a 2010 Forester which is a PZE Vehicle.

  41. #41
    On July 9th, 2010 at 1:51 pm, Desert Dave said:

    I can’t imagine why Paris Hilton would go to this event. She probably doesn’t know anything about American football or baseball, let alone soccer. Although she did play ice hockey in high school.
    http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=42071

  42. #42
    On July 9th, 2010 at 5:16 pm, FirstSkirt said:

    I will not pay these traitorous, hypocritcal actors one damn dime of my money, and neither should you. Here’s a guy who not only has a huge private jet, but who owns three or four homes. Oh please, supporting these gasbags by buying their DVDs or whatever–you’re just feeding their already massive egos and giving them a bigger platform from which they can lecture us about OUR environmentally-damaging lifestyles.

  43. #43
    On July 9th, 2010 at 10:16 pm, docjohn52 said:

    Global warming for thee, but not for me…

    Funny part is, this is a drop in the bucket compared to the carbon these useless-idiots burned up go to Copenhagen.

    Including the useless-idiot-in-chief.

  44. #44
    On September 8th, 2010 at 3:41 pm, sillygatboy said:

    #5 Warden said:

    I’ll go see his new movie, but I’ll pay for a ticket to another movie playing at the same time.

    I’ve been doing this for a couple of years, but the choices are dwindling fast. Hard to find a movie with an innocuous cast anymore for which you can buy a ticket.

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