Credibility in the Balance
”And as you can see here in this large representation of the earth, my energy efficient mansion is actually visible from space. So stop consuming so much energy because I need it.”
“What has Al Gore done for world peace” asks Damian Thompson in this piece from the UK Telegraph. An excellent question- and one with a simple, one-word answer- “nothing.” Mark Jabo also has the right take on what would, in a sane world, be a joke.
Though that might not be entirely true- and here are some reasons why.
By not becoming president of the United States, we’ve had one and only one day of terror on American soil. Who knows how many more terrorist attacks we would have had if this liberal were in power, waving a white flag from the White House? So we’ve had peace on our soil.
By not becoming president of the United States, Saddam was finally taken out. That’s a real plus for peace as there won’t be any more mass graves of innocent Iraqis. Gore would not have had the guts to take out that butcher.
By not becoming president the Supreme Court has moved slightly right (in both a political as well as moral sense). Had Gore become president he surely would have sent liberals where they have no business being (in power). And with this move right we’re that much closer to ending a holocaust that’s been occurring on our soil since Roe was wrongly decided. Stepping closer to putting an end to this slaughter certainly sounds like peace to me.
Perhaps they just felt sorry for Al and figured he deserved some sort of consolation prize. And that I can truly understand. He came so very, very close to holding the most powerful position on the planet and, sadly for him but so very fortunately for the rest of us, it slipped through his fingers.
As Thompson points out the fact remains that “An Inconvenient Truth” – quotation marks added for the sake of accuracy- is “full of errors and unsubstantiated claims.” Could Gore be right on some things? Maybe, but I doubt it. And it is stretching credibility very thin to imagine it is as serious as he thinks it is. This isn’t Hollywood, afterall.
Still, I wonder… In 30 years will anyone care to join me in a chorus of “Al lied, the earth didn’t die!”?
October 12th, 2007 at 4:52 pm
It’s getting ridiculous. I saw a bright yellow Hummer on the road the other day with a big bumper sticker on the back. It read “This cars carbon footprint is being offset by Carbon Offsets.”
I’m on the left coast so maybe it was Governor Arnolds car but more likely it was someone that was afraid of having it torched by some eco-terrorist. Or maybe, with all the guilt the liberals have been handing out to anyone that wants to have a good time, they really thought that paying some corporation to plant a few saplings would help them sleep at night on their oversized pillow. This is how far reaching Algores propaganda based on pseudo-science has reached.
As far as I’m concerned, Algore can go Hike to Hell and never come back…
October 15th, 2007 at 11:03 am
[...] aside, as I pointed out last week Gore is stretching his credibility incredibly thin. And were I a betting man I would put my money [...]