Opinion: Every day is a winding Crow

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It’s painful to side with Karl Rove on anything, much less on a subject like global warming on which his attitudes are so ignorant and wrongheaded that they threaten the future of life on Earth. But at least Rove is consistent. I’m not so sure about Sheryl Crow.

The rock star and ‘the architect’ made a loud and doubtless embarrassing (for those capable of feeling shame, which may exclude Rove) scene at Sunday’s White House Correspondents Assn. dinner, after producer Laurie David confronted Rove on his stance on climate change, and Crow piled on. Crow has been doing a tour to promote awareness of global warming, which is great, and David’s environmental credentials as producer of Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ are pretty unimpeachable. But Crow would have more credibility on this issue if she weren’t shilling for gas-guzzling SUVs.

Subaru isn’t the worst environmental offender among automakers. But it’s bad enough; most of its vehicles are all-wheel-drive wagons or SUVs that get well under 30 miles per gallon on the highway. Crow’s tune ‘Every Day Is a Winding Road’ became the company’s new marketing theme under a licensing deal last year. It seems that when she and Lance Armstrong split up, she got the Subaru deal--Armstrong had previously been the automaker’s pitchman.

If Crow wants to be taken seriously as a global warming crusader, she should put her endorsement money where her mouth is.