Posted on 07/06/2016 4:19:22 AM PDT by simpson96
Al Gore -- a legend in his own mind.
Fancying himself a trailblazer on the issue of climate change, the former vice president said he shares much in common with another man on a "great social mission" -- baseball icon Jackie Robinson.
Yes, just as Robinson, the first African-American to play professional baseball, became a "messenger" of integration, so is Gore the harbinger of global warming. Speaking to the Nashville Tennessean, Gore said:
"There is a time-honored tradition of people who strongly disagree with a message and take it out on the messenger, and opponents of integration had a personal animus for Jackie Robinson. Opponents of all the great social movements would take out after the advocates that were most effective in asking people to change."
Yes, Gore, there is no difference whatsoever between the Civil Rights movement and the hyped hysteria about permafrost and "climate refugees." Good thing Gore says he doesn't take criticism personally:
"As a result, I don't take it personally when the criticism comes at me. I believe so passionately in this mission, if you will. The word 'mission' might sound a little grandiose, but that's kind of what it feels like to me. Honestly, it is a joy and a privilege to have work that justifies pouring every ounce of energy you can pour into it. That is a blessing that is to be cherished."
During the interview, Gore also shared his theories on Zika, blaming the exotic, mosquito-borne virus on ... you guessed it, climate change:
"We're still putting 110 million tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere every day," Gore told the paper. "And it's adding up. The cumulative amount of heat energy trapped by all the man-made pollution up there is now equal to 400,000 Hiroshima-class (atomic) bombs going off every day."
I for one sleep more soundly knowing that Gore is on the case, breaking the shackles of climate change skepticism -- which we all know is the real threat to our safety and security.
GORE = SNAKE OIL SALESMAN / CLOWN
Yeah, except you are fat, white, and have no talent.
There is a difference between a man with a bat and a man who is batty...
Robinson wasn’t a moron.
Well, the entire effing world had to suspend disbelief in justice yesterday. Why would it not also be appropriate to believe the rantings of a fat-ass crony pig making millions off fake science.
Cats are laying with dogs my friends. Cats are laying with dogs. I am expecting it to start raining frogs this afternoon.
This ahole isn’t as smart as Jackie Robinson’s bat.
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Tipper Gore was never so lucky as to jettison that doofus.
Wow...put that man in a straight jacket...
To think he was a hairs breath away from being POTUS...
... and within a hair's breadth of US President.
He got one thing right...it is a “social movement”, not a scientific one.
A legend in his own mind.
Yea, except Jackie Robinson didn’t invent the internet.
The guy is hilarious. He needs to be on Saturday Night Live regularly and just say stuff like this.
Jenny Craig couldn't shed 300 lbs. of dead weight as well as Tipper did.
Jackie Robinson led by example — the one thing Gore flagrantly refuses to do. He has a personal carbon footprint bigger than the typical sub-Saharan African country. And he is a charter member of the global environmental junta whose primary occupation is jetting around the world to conferences in five star resort locations, there to demand that the peasantry reduce its living standards.
I could say I wish he was more like Lou Gehrig, but that would just be mean. ;-)
Did Jackie Robinson invent the internet, too?
And they continue to march to the Dems drummer.
Same cr** with what we eat. None of the government's business.
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