I agree. Al gGore is an easy target and McAleer should have been better prepared.
McAleer should have simply replied “Of course they’re not endangered. They weren’t endanged before and their numbers are increasing.”
He did come across as a microphone hog rather than someone who was being silenced.
I don’t understand you criticism, McAleer said almost exactly that... he then had his microphone cut off to prevent further embarrassment to a blustering Al Gore.
Phelim McAleer; “the number of polar bears has increased.....I mean if the number of polar bears increase surely they are not endangered?”
I would have mentioned the State of Alaska vs. The United States that argued Polar Bears are not endangered and guess what Sarah Palin was in on that case and WON!