Al Gore: Leftwing Con Artist
While the Truth shall, indeed, set you free, our leftwing leaders have decided that a fat paycheck is worth a lot of lies and arrogance:
Al Gore has come under fire for making personal gain from his mission to save the planet – after charging £3,300 a minute to deliver a poorly received speech.
The former American Vice-President was also accused of being “precious” at the London event, demanding his own VIP room and ejecting journalists, despite hopes the star-studded gathering would generate publicity for the fight against global warming.
Many of the audience at last month’s Fortune Forum summit were restless as Mr Gore, who has won both a Nobel Peace Prize and an Oscar for his campaigning work this year, delivered the half-hour speech that netted him £100,000.
The glittering fundraiser was held in The Royal Courts of Justice and attracted world leaders, entrepreneurs and celebrity activists including Bob Geldof, Darryl Hannah and Jerry Hall, who was there as “a Special Ambassador of The Alliance for a New Humanity”. Guests had paid between £1,000 and £50,000 to attend.
But a source told The Mail on Sunday: “Many guests looked tired and began to talk among themselves during his speech. Heads began to twitch with tiredness.
“Al uses his position for great personal gain. He goes from event to event delivering a similar speech, earning a large fee, and a lot of the time he doesn’t actually inform the audience.
I wonder how long it will take before the rank and file lefties realise that each of their icons has been a con artist living a high life off of them? As I’ve noted before, if I were a man willing to be quite dishonest I could gain wealth and fame if I were to merely change my blogging name and, by using fictitious reports and studies, were to start writing anti-Bush/anti-American/anti-Christian polemics. It wouldn’t matter what I said provided I blamed Bush/America/Christianity - no lefty would actually examine anything I asserted as fact and when conservative bloggers and writers would start to demonstrate conclusively that I’m lying, the lefties who bought my initial BS would rise to my defense rather than admit they were fooled.
One of the greatest ironies of modern times is that our lefties stoutly assert that they are part of the “reality based community” - this a sly dig at both religious believers and the supposed lack of intellectual curiosity on the right in general. It is easy to make a list of BS the left believed - Mumia, Farenheit 911, Tawana Brawley, Joe Wilson, October Surprise, Florida 2000, torture at Gitmo…as each and every leftwing story is proven not just false, but laughably false, the left just ignores the facts - the reality - and MovesOn as if nothing had changed. A constant refrain of mine here on the blog is my asking of lefty critics to think about things. Just think - consider everything in context and ask the question: Is there anyone advocating this who is gaining personally from it?
As to why Gore got into environmentalism, I don’t know - and for all I know, he got into it with the purest of motives. Whatever the initial motivation - and whatever Gore tells himself when he looks at himself in the mirror these days - the plain fact of the matter is that he’s milking the issue of global warming for personal gain. And, beyond that, he’s either been convinced or convinced himself that he’s a superior being on the strength of his advocacy of the theory of catastrophic, anthropogenic global warming. While he still might have interesting things to say on the subject, anyone with any sense at all knows that anything he says must be taken with a grain of salt - his whole public persona and a very large amount of his yearly paycheck is dependent upon his being right about what he advocates. This means he’s unlikely to even listen to anyone who has a contrarian point of view - Gore, unless he’s a man of extraordinarily strong character, is unlikely to ever admit he’s wrong on global warming; he owns “doom and gloom” on it, and a reversal would be humiliating and only a man who has freed himself entirely from the sin of pride could bear to admit he’s wrong - and demanding a special VIP room is not the act of a humble man.
You know, I know - the guy down the street knows. Our lefty friends, however, don’t know - and they don’t want to know. Since Gore says what they want to hear about the isse of global warming and just so long as he keep singing out of the lefty hymnal on the subject, the leftwing rank and file will defend him against all comers. Not only conned, but quite happily conned; that is our modern left. Its easier than thinking, I guess.
5 comments December 10th, 2007
