Thomas, I am much more cynical about why I think the media moguls have allowed this commercial to run. I think the ad is being allowed to run in the same way they throw us a few bones now and then--to make it appear as though they AREN'T censoring debate on real issues. So, IMO, the ads are about double, triple, quadruple harmful when one starts to realize the waves that move out from it.

People who are tired of always seeing the bad guys win will feel vindicated "just to see it get through this one time". Is that who we are running the ad for? I think so. I think it was run by naive environmentalists, to make themselves feel better about the fact that we are losing really badly right now, and alienating a whole lot of people who might have come around, if someone hadn't started lecturing them like their mother or their 10th grade algebra teacher for talking out of turn.

Reasonable enlightened minds can, of course, disagree. Just not with me. ;-)