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| A History of Gore Hypocrisy |
| 2007-03-02 |
| The Weekly Standard's Noemie Emery does a great public service in listing the history of Al Gore's hypocrisy. I don't remember all the incidents. --------------------------------------------------------- ....Richard Cohen had barely published his paean to Prince Al and his vision (about the need for austerity, and leaving a wee tiny imprint upon Mother Nature) when news broke that His Princeness, in his palazzo in Nashville, was burning through kilowatts in staggering numbers, and trampling all over Mother Earth (if not an Earth Mother) with hobnailed and giant-sized boots. This was the real Al, not the virtual one, and one we knew well from the past: the one who at the 1996 convention made a five-Kleenex speech about how his sister's horrific death in 1984 from lung cancer had turned him into an indefatigable foe of tobacco, when in 1988 he had bragged about raising the crop; who went from co-sponsoring a bill to make a fetus a person to defending late-term abortion at NARAL celebrations, and then denied that he had changed anything; the Al who wasted unknown gallons of water during a drought to float his canoe for a save-the-earth photo op; the Al who in March, 2000, declared his intention to crusade for campaign finance reform, because he had been nearly indicted in a fund-raising scandal; the Al who ran in 2000 as, a people-vs.-the powerful populist, while being outed as a slumlord who left his indigent tenants living in squalor; the Al who in the Florida recount promised to "count every vote" (for him, that was), while trying furiously to discredit those of overseas servicemen, and others whose problem was a slight technicality... |
| Posted by:mhw |
| #2 Mark Z. Good point. I should have called it "An abridged history..." |
| Posted by: mhw 2007-03-02 16:59 |
| #1 I call bullsh*t on this post. There is not enough bandwidth on RB to do justice to the title of the article. |
| Posted by: Mark Z 2007-03-02 16:15 |