Figure this one out, kids:
George Clooney will become an executive board member of a new Swiss energy company that will develop environmentally friendly techniques for car motors and other devices, the billionaire who is setting up the firm said Saturday.
The new company will have different branches doing research and development in the clean production of hydrogen, solar energy and fuel cells, said Nicolas Hayek, chairman of the Swatch Group.
“First I hesitated between Al Gore and Clooney,” Hayek said in an interview with daily Berner Zeitung.
But he didn’t ask the former vice president because it was still unclear whether Gore would run for president and therefore might have accepted the post as a mere public relations exercise, Hayek said.
I’m just speechless.
It’s not like George Clooney’s an idiot.
It’s just that, you know, if I had, say, an energy company, I think I’d rather have former vice president Al Gore on its board than, you know, an actor. I wouldn’t ask Britney Spears to do my taxes.
George Clooney can do the commercials.
Al Gore can make the business decisions.
Okay?