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Of all the odd things to have happened during the yearlong presence of BadTV on youtube, perhaps nothing is stranegr than the weird responses we got to our vid on drowning polar bears. In the vid our actress Mia Honeymoon starts to tear up as she performs her lines; it's a genuine and heartfelt show of emotion. We love her for it, and that's why we hired her for the part; she feels.

But the comments on the vid turned out to be viciously nasty. People questioning her sincerity, the lines, just hammering at us. Why? Is the concept of polar bears without ice too difficult to swallow? The apologists for global warming come out in force with their defenses of the status quo, and some of the respondents simply don't give a shit for the animal: Let it drown. Even the hunter, even the hummer driver, even the oil user . . . no compassion for a magnificent animal down on its luck? Whew, sometimes the redneck factor in American can give you a serious pause of discouragement.

But we press on, and will have versions of the vid and its lines on Spanish TV and German TV as well as Mandarin TV, so we're not cowed. More resolute than ever!

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