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What has Al Gore done for world peace?
The London Telegraph ^ | October 12, 2007 | Damian Thompson

Posted on 10/12/2007 5:52:45 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Today we will learn whether Al Gore has won the Nobel peace prize. As someone who cares passionately about climate change, I'll be saying a little prayer. That he doesn't win, of course.

The former US Vice-President has already taken over from Michael Moore as the most sanctimonious lardbutt Yank on the planet. Can you imagine what he'll be like if the Norwegian Nobel committee gives him the prize?

More to the point, can you imagine how enormous his already massive carbon footprint will become once he starts jetting around the world bragging about his new title?

Just after Gore won an Oscar for his global warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth - in which he asked American households to cut their use of electricity - the Tennessee Centre for Policy Research took a look at Al's energy bills.

It reckoned that his 20-room, eight-bathroom mansion in Nashville sometimes uses twice the energy in one month that the average American household gets through in a year. The combined energy and gas bills for his estate came to nearly $30,000 in 2006. Ah, say his defenders, but he uses rainwater to flush his lavatories. Is there enough rainwater in the world, I wonder?

There are so many reasons why Gore shouldn't win the peace prize for his preachiness. Alas, it is too late to influence their decision, but I'd like to refer the judges to a ruling by Mr Justice Burton, a High Court judge who has criticised the Government for sending out An Inconvenient Truth to schools without a health warning. The reason? It's full of errors and unsubstantiated claims.

The judge is not saying that Gore's basic thesis is wrong (and nor am I). In a way, his findings are more damning than that.

Gore claims that the rises in carbon dioxide and temperature over 650,000 years show an "exact fit". That's wrong, says Mr Justice Burton: there is a connection, but not a precise correlation.

Gore predicts sea levels rising by up to 20ft in the near future. Not so, according to the judge: that will happen only after millions of years.

Those low-lying Pacific atolls that Gore claims have been evacuated? No evidence. Polar bears who drowned swimming to look for ice? Again, no evidence: four bears have drowned - but because of a storm.

None of which will surprise seasoned Gore-watchers. The man is not, as his enemies maintained when he ran against George W. Bush in 2000, a pants-on-fire liar. He's an exaggerator and a braggart.

He never claimed to have invented the internet; he said he "took the initiative in creating the internet", which is about a quarter true - he was among the first congressmen to support the invention.

In 1999, he boasted about having uncovered the most famous toxic waste site in America ("I found a little place in upstate New York called Love Canal"). Yes, but Love Canal was already notorious by the time Gore "found" it.

That's typical of his arrogance, says the non-partisan US politics website Skeleton Closet: "When he says the words 'little place', you can feel him struggling to contain his pleasure with his good deeds."

Gore struggles with his memory, too. "I certainly learnt a lot from 3,000 town hall meetings across …Tennessee over a 16-year period," he told National Public Radio. And so he would have, had he actually attended 187 town hall meetings a year, which is what it works out as: he might even have managed to hold his home state in 2000.

But my favourite Gore memory lapse is his account of being sung to sleep with the lullaby Look for the Union Label, written in 1975. How sweet: being sung to sleep by your parents at the age of 27.

Then there's his evasiveness on the subject of alleged ethical violations. He resorts to "legalisms", says Skeleton Closet: although he might technically be in the right, "he has such a tin ear for the way normal people talk that he sounds like a mafia don".

But there is a more fundamental objection to awarding Gore the peace prize that goes beyond issues of character. Climate change is a threat to the environment, not to "peace" and international order. The prize has gone to some sleazy recipients in the past, but at least you can make a case that their actions staved off bloodshed.

Lumping together global warming and terrorism, as David Cameron did in his conference speech, is a rhetorical sleight of hand typical of opportunistic politicians who are trying to hoover up liberal and conservative votes at the same time. I don't think that description applies to the Tory leader, but it sure as hell fits Albert Gore, Jr.


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Even the enviros are turning on him. This whole GW flap will be a laughingstock in 5 years, mark my words...
1 posted on 10/12/2007 5:52:50 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
sanctimonious lardbutt Yank

lol

I love the way the English use the language--and this writer has the Manbearpig nailed perfectly.

(Save the planet--put Algore on a diet. :-) )
2 posted on 10/12/2007 5:57:56 AM PDT by cgbg ("I give you health care and I say 'no smoking'". "Yassah Miss Hillary.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

albore wasted more fuel going to pick up this award than I will burn in a lifetime.

PRay for W and Our Troops


3 posted on 10/12/2007 5:58:21 AM PDT by bray (Think "Betray U.S." Think Democrat)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Gore saved the world from Manbearpig.
4 posted on 10/12/2007 5:59:12 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Somebody jumped the shark.


5 posted on 10/12/2007 5:59:15 AM PDT by patton (cuiquam in sua arte credendum)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They gave the thing to Yasser and Jimmah...it stands to reason that Gore really does deserve the thing....

The true problem is the Nobel Peace Prize is improperly named...


6 posted on 10/12/2007 6:01:33 AM PDT by in hoc signo vinces ("Houston, TX...a waiting quagmire for jihadis.")
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To: patton

Yeah, the Nobel Committee.


7 posted on 10/12/2007 6:02:10 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"It's full of errors and unsubstantiated claims."

No matter. It reinforces the dominant paradigm of the Western Left. The paradigm itself is constructed of errors, unsubstantiated claims, and other forms of mendacity. Do not expect enlightenment from those committed to the paradigm. They are the blindest of the blind: those who will not see the light of truth.

8 posted on 10/12/2007 6:02:24 AM PDT by Savage Beast ("History is not just cruel. It is witty." ~Charles Krauthammer)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Please, Algor, run for president in 2008!


9 posted on 10/12/2007 6:02:58 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Visualize the Clintons in jail.)
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What has Al Gore done for world peace?

He lost the 2000 election.

10 posted on 10/12/2007 6:03:32 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
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To: in hoc signo vinces

Agreed. This award has become The Nobel Fad Prize.


11 posted on 10/12/2007 6:05:28 AM PDT by ishabibble (ALL-AMERICAN INFIDEL)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

C’mon guys, this is serial!


12 posted on 10/12/2007 6:05:57 AM PDT by OCCASparky (Steely-Eyed Killer of the Deep)
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To: OCCASparky

... and hugh.


13 posted on 10/12/2007 6:07:50 AM PDT by Lurking in Kansas (Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.)
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To: Savage Beast
Liberalism is a religion. It has all the elements of one. The idea it is open minded and dedicated to a search for the truth is a joke. Liberalism will not consider any ideas that do not fit its worldview. The Nobel Committee's decision came as no surprise.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

14 posted on 10/12/2007 6:08:17 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: COUNTrecount

Great Point!


15 posted on 10/12/2007 6:08:22 AM PDT by in hoc signo vinces ("Houston, TX...a waiting quagmire for jihadis.")
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To: COUNTrecount

Bingo!


16 posted on 10/12/2007 6:08:54 AM PDT by Sig Sauer P220
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The Nobel Peace Prize has become a virtual joke...previous winners have included Rigoberta Menchu (1992) a supposed leader of oppressed indigenous people...latter shown to be a fraud, Terrorist, Yasser Arafat(1994), Kofi Annan ...who lined his pockets and those of his cronies as UN head (2001), Jimmy Carter (2002)... friend to dictators worldwide and now St. Algore, creator of the most perfect dogma in the church of global warming.
17 posted on 10/12/2007 6:10:04 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("Mir we bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

With Jimmy Carter Jr., Kofi Annan, Yasser Ararfat, Nelson Mandela, Mikahail Sergeyevich Gorbachev being previous winners of the “Peace” Prize, I believe the prize lost meaning a long time ago.

I think it should be called the piece of **** prize.


18 posted on 10/12/2007 6:11:42 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (DC scandals. Republicans address them, Democrats reelect them. (Tom De Lay 8/30/07))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The Nobel Peace Prize would have been given to Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot.

If only they'd thought of it.

19 posted on 10/12/2007 6:12:44 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Why isn’t this in Breaking News????)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“What has Al Gore done for world peace?”

Promote Socialism (sarcasm)


20 posted on 10/12/2007 6:13:44 AM PDT by PurpleMan
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