An Inconvenient Hypocrisy

POSTED BY: kaneman
UPDATED: Thursday, April 19, 2007 19:15
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KANEMAN

Saturday, March 3, 2007 5:00 PM

While the Oscars going green this year made headlines, there was Al Gore grinning ear to ear like some kind of homosexual being named a Boy Scout troop leader. What I find hilarious is that Al Gore lives in a 10,000ft mansion that uses a hell of a lot more energy than Bush's 4,000ft home(that just happens to use an environment-friendly system of rain and recycled water). That is never talked about in the media, because they are to busy kissing Hollywood's and Gore's ass. What a bunch of hypocrites. Must have been a wonderful site when they all took their jets to his banquet. And how many of those lying hypocrites drove Priuses to the Oscars? I'm sure fat Al sure as hell didn't. So, the next time these nutters make some bullshit movie about the fucking environment, how evil we are for raping Mother Earth, or shitting where we eat.....Laugh, because I sure the hell will be. Oh, remember Al Gores is shitting a hell of a lot more than you or I.
Now, if someone like Bush were to make it, at least I could possibly take it serious. When Gore talks the good talk it's equivalent to Clinton talking about the evils of oral sex...What a joke.....That is the INCONVENIENT TRUTH.

KHYRON

Saturday, March 3, 2007 5:23 PM

I have to admit I was pretty disappointed in him when I read this story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6401489.stm

The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.

CHRISISALL

Saturday, March 3, 2007 5:30 PM

Khyron, is an ex-Vice President really gonna live in a place like you or me?

Ghandi's mom snuck him cookies during fasts.

The message is what matters.

Our climate's changing. Chrisisall

SEVENPERCENT

Saturday, March 3, 2007 5:41 PM

Kaneman, your phony outrage is typical of what's blowing this story so out of proportion. This has been debunked all over the net all week, in fact, even at the bottom of the link provided by Khyron.

For starters, Gore has been an advocate of using clean energy, not less energy. He has been installing clean energy systems in his own home, to reduce fossil fuel consumption, as cited in the link from the BBC. Not to mention that he spends an astronomical amount of cash to ensure that the energy that goes to his home is from clean sources, (solar, wind, etc.).

http://mediamatters.org/items/200703010008
From the article:
TCPR's criticism "omits" that Gore's home includes "home offices for himself and his wife, as well as a guest house and special security measures," and that the Gores' use of "renewable sources" from the "Green Power Switch" program "actually costs more for the Gores."

Home offices and security, notice. He was a former VP and still is a prominent leader. I would expect him to use more power than his neighbors.

The phony outrage is just a smear campaign by any number of the following:
-People too stupid to acknowledge GWarming

-Republicans too stupid to realize GWB is an idiot

-GOP members too scared that Gore will run in 2008

-Total idiots, who think manufactured hypocracy over energy is worse than standard GOP daily hypocracy about the war, the economy, treatment of the constitution, treatment of minorities...

...or any combination thereof.

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KHYRON

Saturday, March 3, 2007 5:43 PM

What was here is gone now.

The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.

FINN MAC CUMHAL

Saturday, March 3, 2007 6:42 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
Khyron, is an ex-Vice President really gonna live in a place like you or me?

Ghandi's mom snuck him cookies during fasts.

The message is what matters.

And of course when a liberal is caught with an inconsistent message it's okay, because he's a liberal and not a "neocon," right Chris?

The truth is that Al Gore is, in fact, a hypocrite on this issue. He has been for a long time. The media is only just now coming to terms with this. And if you can’t see it, it’s probably because you’re a left-wing apologist, and don't want to.

Al Gore's Global Warming crap is not science; and it never has been. It is nothing more then a paycheck to keep him in his 10,000 sqrft houses (plural). And he's very successful and very insulated from economically disastrous socialist plans like Kyoto. But, the bigger hypocrites (or maybe their just stupid) are those people with absolutely no scientific understanding who feel obliged to dismiss climate science that doesn’t support Al Gore’s utility bill payment, because it is funded by oil companies. There’s just as much money, if not more, on Al Gore’s side.

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

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FUTUREMRSFILLION

Saturday, March 3, 2007 6:54 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Finn mac Cumhal:
And of course when a liberal is caught with an inconsistent message it's okay, because he's a liberal and not a "neocon," right Chris?

Pretty much anything is ok as long as one is not a "neocon"

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MALBADINLATIN

Saturday, March 3, 2007 7:01 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by kaneman:
While the Oscars going green this year made headlines, there was Al Gore grinning ear to ear like some kind of homosexual being named a Boy Scout troop leader. What I find hilarious is that Al Gore lives in a 10,000ft mansion that uses a hell of a lot more energy than Bush's 4,000ft home(that just happens to use an environment-friendly system of rain and recycled water).

Wow...you've uncovered hipocrasy amongst politicians...this must be the first time!...holy s@!t!...Oh wait! There is that whole thing about the Bush administration being against gay marriage/child rearing...and WHO is it that who has a gay daughter about to adopt a child?...I can't seem to remember the name...but I've got this image of some guy shot in the face...who could it be???

"You can believe your eyes...or you can believe me." -Groucho Marx

GHOULFISH

Saturday, March 3, 2007 7:04 PM

The climate is changing but some people open their mouths and forget to use their brains. People think that if all of a sudden we stop using fossil fuel in cars emmisions will decrease. They fail to see that electric cars take run on electrical energy created by the buring of fossil fuels. The steel and other metals used in construction and industry is smelted using fossil fuels and the plastics in our homes are made out of fossil fuels. Everyone is screaming about change and how industry is evil and that the use of fossil fuels should be stopped but they can come up with any good ideas of how - you find an earth friendly solution im all for it. People say that we should use hydro-power but then the complain when forests are submerged underwater destroying ecosystems and killing wildlife. Other people say use solarpower, but its cost compared to its energy output is still very hight. And last of all wind power, wind power is the best alternative energy source we have come up with so far but many people are reluctant to surrend land because it is harder to keep livestock on it and harder to harvest grains when the tractors have to manouver through a grid of turbines.

Rant over - Sometimes i get mad when people start screaming about change but they themselves can not come up with a better solution.

I know people disagree with my points - and they have every right to - just please give me a reason better than, the world is dying so fix it.

And as for Gore - it doesnt matter how green the energy is - its still a waste, reducing the amount of energy and going green is a far better way to get your point across.

SIMONWHO

Saturday, March 3, 2007 8:16 PM

And once again the same old tactic is rolled out - the Republican candidates (all of them) are hellbent on destroying the environment so they dig up whatever it takes to make the other guy look anti-environment.

Can't blame them when they ran a successful campaign that made a thrice decorated war hero look like the the cowardly one when their own candidate dodged out of serving in Vietnam and barely even turned up to what he should have been doing.

This will continue as long as voters are idiots. I'm not expecting it to end anytime soon.

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