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Posted on 03/22/2007 10:33:15 AM PDT by Billy Jacks blog
Al Gore, star of an Academy Award-winning film, was in town for a double feature on Capitol Hill yesterday. But instead of giving another screening of "An Inconvenient Truth," the former vice president found himself playing the Clarence Darrow character in "Inherit the Wind."
"You're not just off a little -- you're totally wrong," Joe Barton (Tex.), the top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, told the former vice president at a hearing on global warming yesterday morning.
"One scientist is quoted as saying, 'This is shrill alarmism,' " said Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.). The reviews only grew more savage when Gore crossed over to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in the afternoon for a second hearing. "You've been so extreme in some of your expressions that you're losing some of your own people," announced Sen. James Inhofe (Okla.), the committee's ranking Republican and the man who has called man-made global warming "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people."
Inhofe informed Gore that scientists are "radically at odds with your claims." Displaying a photograph of icicles in Buffalo, Inhofe demanded: "How come you guys never seem to notice it when it gets cold? . . . Where is global warming when you really need it?"
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Unfortunately, the same can be said of Iraq and virtually every major topic on the board. The dims carry on a coordinated, constant drumbeat and the gop hides in the WH or the congress sitting on their thumbs. Why fight for someone and their policies when they won't fight for themselves
Could it be that they really ARE the PU**IES we've come to believe them to be?
"Rin Tin Tin was a movie star," Gore demurred. "I just have a slide show."
Who's writing this guy's script?
Another pant load from the WaPo.
"The planet has a fever," he lectured Barton. "If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor."
Sometimes you let the fever play itself out to kill the germs. Or you can shovel boatloads of aspirin down a volcano.
Simple as that....
At least Rin Tin Tin wasn't a lying, sanctimonious son of a bitch.
Rinny only put the bite on bad guys.
Gore just bites.
Just had an argument w/ a co-worker about this.
The other side has some "true believers" LOL
LOL. Pee Wee.
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LOL ... what was it being chanted at the GoE?
"What do we want?" Global Warming!
"When do we want it?" Now!
My favorite one was 'traitor' in an accusing tone.
And exactly who is playing on our fears?
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It was, in many ways, a 21st-century version of the Scopes trial. Only this time, Gore, like William Jennings Bryan a failed Democratic presidential nominee, was playing Darrow, champion of scientific thought. Inhofe was playing the Bryan character, defending his beliefs against the encroachments of foes such as the National Academy of Sciences, the United Nations and the Oscar-hoisting former vice president.
Notice how Milbank contradicts himself. First he admits that Inhofe and other Republicans pointed out examples where reputable scientists have cast doubt on Gore's alarmism.
In the next breath, though, Milbank disregards that completely and trots out the familiar-but-false characterization of this as a debate between "Science" and personal beliefs, complete with appeals to authority figures such as the United Nations. But how can Gore be a "champion of scientific thought" when he disregards any scientific evidence that runs counter to his own deeply-held and unshakable beliefs?
Milbank has gotten this completely backwards - it is actually Gore who is decrying the heresy of his critics, and not the other way around (but that's what I've come to expect from him - Milbank rarely lets facts interfere with a good "story")...
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