If there's any more insufferable twit than Al Gore, I don't know who it
is. (There are others, e.g., Michael Mooron, who are as insufferable.) Speaking to the Aspen Institute on,
appropriately, Insufferable Twit Day (Obama's birthday), Gore (as related by
the left-wing Colorado Independent) said that tobacco companies “succeeded in delaying the implementation of the Surgeon
General’s report for 40 years – 40 years! In every one of those 40 years the
average number of Americans [sic] killed by cigarettes each year exceeded the
total number of Americans [sic] killed in all of World War II: 450,000 per
year. [Actually, the
purported figure is 434,000.—Doman] My sister
was one of them. … It was evil, evil, evil.”
This
"model of media manipulation," he blustered on, “was transported whole cloth [?—Doman] into the climate debate. And some of
the exact [sic] same people [sic]—I can go down a list of their names—are
involved in this. And so what do they do? They pay pseudo-scientists to pretend
to be scientists to put out the message: ‘This climate thing, it’s nonsense.
Man-made CO2 doesn’t trap heat. It may be volcanos.’ Bull____! ‘It may be
sunspots.’ Bull____! ‘It’s not getting warmer.’ Bull____! When you go and
[redundancy] talk to any audience about climate, you hear them washing back at
you the same crap over and over and over again [redundancy]. There’s no longer
a shared reality [?—Doman] on an issue like climate even though the very
existence of our civilization is threatened. … It’s no longer acceptable in
mixed company, meaning bipartisan company, to use the god____ word
climate....They have polluted it to the point where we cannot possibly come to
an agreement on it.”
And so, a person who
(according to the Washington Post article Gore's Grades Belie Image
of Studiousness) performed poorly in college science courses joins the
likes of Oliver Stone and Hillary [sic] Clinton in charging that a conspiracy
of the opposition has invented all the evidence that refutes his position. I
cannot agree with Climate Depot, one of the
skeptics of the anthropogenic-warming theory whom he accuses of taking part in
the alleged cover-up, that "This is psychologically healthy development
for Gore [because he's admitting that his side is losing]." Do the false
ecological messiah's words (especially the part about paying
"pseudo-scientists") sound to you like those of a normal person, or
like the ravings of a paranoiac? Gory [misspelling intentional] has been
contemptible for decades, but he was also ridiculous; now, he's also
frightening.
