Gore-ah’s Ark
The Tennessean on Al’s big boat. Don’t worry, it’s green. Like the mansion(s). We should all be rich enough to have that small a carbon wake. My radio pal Steve Gill among others are whacking the Goreacle for having a 100-foot houseboat. I dunno. When the water level starts rising, he’ll start looking like a genius.* Unless Bio-Solar One gets locked in the ice by that mini-Ice Age. Inconvenient truth re eco-hypocrisy:
“Here’s the good news for him,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “It doesn’t matter a whit. He’s out of politics. He’s won the Nobel Prize, the Academy Award and goodness knows what else. … He’s got the last laugh on anybody.”
The latest angry anti-Gore round boiled up when radio talk show host Steve Gill, a regular Gore basher, fired up listeners over the family’s new 100-foot houseboat that’s docked on Center Hill Lake.
As he often does, Gill labeled Gore a hypocrite who preaches energy conservation to curb what Gill refers to as “so-called global warming,” but who doesn’t practice it.
A Web post by Gill on Sept. 6 had elicited as of Saturday a hefty 181 comments — the large majority in agreement with the radio host and many of them scathing. At least one was downright threatening.
The fact that the houseboat, called Bio-Solar One, has a roof blanketed with solar panels and runs on biodiesel seemed only to annoy some of those commenting. No one was praising him for vacationing locally.
“He’s put himself out there on climate change and, as he knows, in the public square, you get criticized for everything,” Sabato said.
Yeah, but as Sabato pointed out, who cares? Damned peasants!
* I kind of doubt there’ll be much in the way of livestock marching up the gangplank, though if Gore really cared about the environment, he’d start loading up endangered species two by two. Maybe some polar bears, a couple of Bengal tigers, orangutans, lowland gorillas, that kind of thing. Salamanders. Newts. Lots of those. Come on, Al. Save them. It’s the right thing to do. Hey, side issue, what kind of hardwood trim does that thing have inside? Mahogany or teak? The outside’s got a cheap, fiberglassy look. So how many hydrocarbons, assorted volatiles went into the atmosphere when they made that tub? Just curious. Not that there’s anything wrong with rich people enjoying the fruits of their labor, and Al’s earned his rest after all that jetsetting in defense of Gaia.
Topics: warmalism
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:14 pm on Monday, September 15, 2008
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September 16th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
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September 17th, 2008 at 12:15 am
What’s the phrase, “don’t piss on my boots and tell me it’s rain”? Can you believe the lemmings are actually defending this monstrosity?
January 11th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
“… he’d start loading up endangered species two by two.” reminds me of a Far Side cartoon with Noah inspecting the remains of a unicorn with a sideways glare at the pair of lions. “Well so much for the unicorns. From now on all carnivores are confined to C Deck.”
I’d change that to, “Well so much for the Gore-ah’s” Algore isn’t the only guy out there that made millions off a fraud. As P.T. Barnum said, “There’s a sucker born every minute.” Algore is apt pupil of Barnum and there’s still a whole world of suckers out there begging to be fleeced.