The world’s got trouble!  With a capital T, and that rhymes with C, and that stands for “coal.”

My obvious reference to a once-famous song from The Music Man is tuned to have just about as much appeal to a young audience as a characteristically droning video clip from John Kerry about the need for — you guessed it! — renewable energy in response to the “trouble” of increases in coal.  Of course, as I write for Accuracy in Media, there are some catches he slow-talks past.

First (of course) is the prominence of China in the coal calculation.  Then, there’s this:

If the young viewers of NowThis videos were to follow their curiosity down that path, they would soon discover that Kerry’s boss and patron bears much of the blame. Within a week of taking office, President Joe Biden issued an executive order to “pause new oil and natural gas leases on public lands or in offshore waters.” He also killed the Keystone XL Pipeline, restricting the ability of Canadian oil to keep energy prices down.

NowThis may append the word “news” to its name, but it’s not news; it’s propaganda.  Watching the ancient-looking John Kerry “umm” his way through a barely coherent pitch clinches the argument that pushing the message is the point, not informing or entertaining the audience.