Elmer Gantry: Just when you think Gore is rightly and fully discredited, he emerges as a new thought evangelist with even more status then before. Good comparison, wish I had thought of it.
Someday the will say of Al Gore,
the former divinity school dropout who’s become
the Elmer Gantry of the Global Warming faith:
“He Preyed upon our fears.”
The politicians are selling fear, and they of all people know that fear is the best way to get people to do what you want.
Elmer Gantry: Just when you think Gore is rightly and fully discredited, he emerges as a new thought evangelist with even more status then before. Good comparison, wish I had thought of it.
Exactly right. Check my tagline. More pertinent now than when H.L. mouthed it ...