[Phsstpok]

I agree with your post, except for this tidbit

I loved Southpark's ManBearPig episode because it captured the departure from reality that is algore better than criticism or ridicule ever could.

How does anything the folks of SouthPark do not qualify as criticism or ridicule?

That is the core of that program and the only reason I truly love it (though I seldom have the patience or stomach to watchi it).

[rockrr]

How does anything the folks of SouthPark do not qualify as criticism or ridicule?

Fair enough question. I could go on for hours offering highly detailed criticisms of algore's claims, methods, and agenda, but Southpark captured it better than I ever could have ("a thousand words").

The amazing thing (at least to me) is that algore performed the equivalent of a political kamikaze run - he unequivocally stated his (scientifically unproven, more than slightly lunatic) prognostications about global warming in the goofy "Earth in the Balance". Now it's OK to hold an eccentric viewpoint or two, but algore essentially predicted that the world would end unless we made drastic alterations to our habits by 1995 (we didn't and last time I checked, it didn't either ;'}

Most folks would point and laugh at someone who so totally blew any chance at credibility after a stunt like that, but this certifiable moonbat actually ran for the Presidency of the United States and came within a breath of achieving it!

Now he's back out on the street peddling the same old hash and people are buying it! I have to hand it to the fellow who wrote "Chicken Little" - he had an uncanny insight into the Lemming-like nature of some people!

algore did a skit on SNL a little while back, pretending to be giving a State of the Union speech. It was supposed to be funny, but it raised the hair on my scalp.

I thought to myself "Thank God that's the closest he will ever get to the Oval Office!"