Al Gore Declares Mission Accomplished
Lurch out of balance: Rex Murphy of Canada’s National Post declares “Al Gore, friend of the petro-state,” in a nifty 500 word assault on Al’s reasoning:
Now comes the latest news that Al has sold Current, for the magnificent sum of $500-million, $100-million of which is his alone. Not bad for a TV station with less reach and inferior programming to most billboards.
To whom did the Lord of the Upper Atmosphere sell? Why to al Jazeera — which is to say, effectively to the ruler of Qatar, a wealthy country that has nothing else to sustain it but the sale of its huge petroleum resources.
Qatar is about oil, oil and more oil. It is a global warmer’s hell.
Surely there is some pill too tough to swallow in the idea of the world’s greatest alarmist on the subject of global warming, the evils of petroleum economies and the menace of fossil fuels accepting half-a-billion dollars from a state that utterly epitomizes the practices and product he most evangelistically despises.
But consistency or moral fortitude in the face of profit does not seem to be part of Al’s personal Powerpoint.
One other, not-to-be-missed note: Mr. Gore was very quick to make sure the sale took place before the New Year — the better to spare him, who is now one of the world’s superrich, his friend Barack Obama’s tax hike on those dreadful one-percenters.
That move alone was worthy of a Republican.
Ordinarily, I’d look at that last line and say something like, “that’ll leave a mark.” But of course it won’t — Al is utterly shameless, but we’ve known that for quite some time. Al’s enormous chutzpah has put $100 mil worth of “f*ck you money,” as they say in Hollywood into his bank account, but the inconvenient truth is that it was his pet cause that got f*cked.
Oh, and talk about coming full circle:
When you tell folks that your favorite TV program is Booknotes, you often receive somewhat disconcerted glances in return. But there is a certain naive genius to Brian Lamb’s interrogatory technique. Consider this exchange [from 1992, when Lamb interviewed Gore on Earth in the Balance]:
GORE: I went through a change in my life when my son was almost killed a couple of years ago. It was a shattering experience for my family. He has had a miraculous recovery and we’re very blessed and very grateful to all the doctors and the nurses who — who — who helped to make it possible. But during the long weeks when my wife and I were in the hospital room with him, I began to really look at life a little bit differently and ask questions about what’s most important in life and, having already long since been deeply involved in this issue, I began to look at it differently also.
Instead of seeing it just as an outgrowth of the new scientific and technological salt on the Earth and the population explosion which is adding one China’s worth of people every 10 years now, I began to feel that the deeper causes are within our own lives as individuals. What gives us the notion that we are just isolated one from another with no responsibility to the future our children are going to live, no connection to the communities in — in which we live out our lives. And I began to explore, in a very personal way, what it is that leads to these false assumptions and how we can get on with the task of solving thi — this crisis and organizing a response that gives our children and grandchildren and generations to come an Earth that is not diminished and degraded by virtue of what we’re doing in our short lifetimes.
LAMB: How is your son?
That is simply brilliant. This middle aged hack pol goes prattling on about how a sudden realization of human mortality forced him to reexamine his entire world view and deadpan Brian cuts to the quick to find out how the kid is. The answer, thankfully, is that the Gores’ son is fine, which only makes their extravagant reaction to the accident even more frightening. Suppose, God forbid, that Gore becomes President and something like this happens; you have to question whether a person who undergoes such a seachange in their personal philosophy at a moment of admitted stress but surely not of catastrophe is even fit to govern.
Rush may keep “Al Gore’s Doomsday Clock” running on the homepage of his Website until it reaches 00:00:00 in about three years, but Al’s had his final countdown — and with it, so has environmentalism in general. Who’s going to believe yet another hair shirt environmentalist screeching that “the earth has X years to live,” when its most prominent cultist, the man who once described global warming as “an ecological Kristallnacht,” has just signed his movement’s Non-Aggression Pact with the Soviet Union?
But Al’s got his payout now. All you other global warming zealots — you’re on your own.
(H/T: 5′F)
Related: “50 Reasons Why It Rocks to Be a Progressive in 2013.” — found via Steve Green, who writes, “I’m especially fond of #42, ‘Listen to Green Day albums on your Ipod while drinking Starbucks coffee and seriously complain that corporations are oppressing you.’”
The Goracle can relate to that — in more ways than one.
“an ecological Kristallnacht…”
Well, there’s certainly a Judenfrei aspect to Gore’s new business partner. But as long as Al’s confortable with the ideologic match of his new best buddies, that’s what counts.
Sleep well, little Al. Every time an Al Jazeera viewer kills a pig-ape Jew or even just promulgates doing so on your old network, an Gaia-angel gains his/her/its wings.
One would have to have been a total idiot not to notice Al Gore was a hypocrite before this. Who the hell else would’ve taken a private plane from his mansion and have his limo driver sit outside with the engine idling while he addressed a conference on “Global Warming”? But the fact that people like Gore, Kerry, Obama, et al, can do things like this out in the open with apparently NO fear of any loss of credibility or pushback of any kind means that they now take for granted the fact their supporters are all idiots. They not only think they might get away with these antics, they’re COUNTING on it. This is a very negative development for our society and civilization in general. For one thing, tt means a large segment of the population is now either so jaded and/or stupid, they’ll believe anything.
One should also note that the ‘miraculous recovery’ of Gore’s son owes quite a bit to fossil fuels. T
The ambulance was powered by fossil fuels (can you imagine having to wait 12 hours for an electric ambulance to charge?) The operating theatre was lit, heated, and sterilized by fossil fuel power plants (if not nuclear or fish-killing hydroelectric plants). The syringes, I.V. tubes, medication bottles…heck, even many of the chemicals in the medications themselves are in part (or in full) derived from petrochemicals, petrochemical plastics, etc.
It’s rather safe to say that without the miracle of fossil fuel-powered modern technology, Gore’s son would not have had that ‘miraculous recovery.’ But instead of praising the heavens (or Gaia) for the miraculous bounty fuel and technology brings us, Al Gore is inspired only to tear it all down and deny other parents and other injured sons the miracle he himself enjoyed.
Well, tear it all down except for his mansion and his yacht and his private planes and his limo and his…
Actually, Al’s only got 18 months to go for his 2009 prediction that the polar ice caps would be melting completely away within five years if nothing was done to prevent global warming (at the moment, having just gotten back from snowy and sub-30 degree El Paso, I think the polar ice caps have simply shifted about 5,000 miles south, but whatever the case, I’m sure the big media outlets will not be holding Gore to his prediction come the Summer of ’14 with anywhere near the scrutiny or publicity they offered up for that alleged Mayan 12/21/12 end-of-the-world forecast).
Gore is shameless. Had he won in 2000, I doubt this global warming thing would have ever come up (and that is not to defend Gore’s character, he just would have focused on something else). Gore adopted this global warming schtick to make himself relevant after he lost in 2000 and it succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.
“from a state that utterly epitomizes the practices and product he most evangelistically despises”
If only everyone would move from the metaphor to the realization of its truth: environmentalism is came like Jim and Tammy’s church, whose purpose is to loot the gullible and raid the treasury.
It is my wish that someday instead of comparing corrupt environmentalist to evangelicals–who least have a real religion at their hearts–that corrupt ideologues are compared to environmentalists like Gore.