Energy used by Gore’s home in past year could power 232 homes for a month

Bravo, bra-freaking-vo.

 

Actually, JR's Kennedy analogy illustrates a common logical fallacy, the Ad Hominem Tu Quoque.

http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/ad-hominem-tu-quoque.html

From the link:
"This fallacy is committed when it is concluded that a person's claim is false because 1) it is inconsistent with something else a person has said or 2) what a person says is inconsistent with her actions. This type of "argument" has the following form:

1. Person A makes claim X.
2. Person B asserts that A's actions or past claims are inconsistent with the truth of claim X.
3. Therefore X is false."

Happens all the time...and it's a favorite fallacy of those whose approach to politics is to play GOTCHA.

Off topic, this page
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/
provides a great summary of fallacies. It's a nice way to fine-tune one's bullshit detector.

 

So, all of you who feel this article is sufficient evidence in the case against vile hypocrite Al Gore, can we conclude that -- if you are an editor, and this article, as is, came across your desk -- you would green-light it for publication?

 

Does it matter WHY Gore's house consumes 12-times as much energy as the average house in Tennessee?

Shouldn't he, for the good of the enviroment and for the sake of conservationism, move into a smaller, more efficient house to ensure he is doing "his part"?

 

Wow on the same day we find 2 environmental champions - Al Gore and jr are really just environmental hypocrites.

 

YES because you can't compare apples to pygmy rhinos!
If it's actually an office, you CAN'T compare it to other Tennessee houses. PLUS it matters how he produces his electricity, because if he produces it all through "green" methods, his carbon footprint might be smaller than your average Tennessee home owner.

/Hardly a green person
//Have no affinity for Al Gore
///Hate stupid logic

 

Just for fun, let's say that the article had no characteristics of a propagandistic screed. Say it was a sterling piece of investigative journalism that proved without a doubt that Al Gore is an eco-FRAUD. Ok, well? AND?

Al Gore being an eco-FRAUD would be, I suppose kind of the Democrats' equivalent of Larry Craig having a secret gay sex life. HA-HA! Homophobe gets caught trolling for cock in a men's room- FRAUD!

The fact that people get so worked up over this type of story is a testament to how degraded our public discourse has become. We know so little about our own country's past and present, we know even less about the world beyond our national borders, yet we compound our ignorance by spending our limited energies obsessing over stupid, inconsequential shit.

We obsess on the personal details of the various nincompoops who have worked their way into a position of celebrity- whether through wealth, power or some other reason. Sometimes a positive obsession, sometimes a negative obsession, but always a passionate one.

The media, particularly TV, present these characters to us in a postmodern heap where people, personalities, "branding" and symbols all blur into one another and become indistinguishable. It is a tar-pit of images and gibberish from which critical thought can emerge only with great effort.

The result is a society lacking in self-awareness or self-concern, despite the inevitable lip-service to such matters. If we ever became as interested in each other's lives as we were in the lives of the entertainers, politicians and other cartoon characters who dominate our common culture, we'd be a lot better off.

 

It'll probably be on the cover of the next Vanity Fair.

Like the Bill Clinton ambush piece — lots of second- and third-hand whispers and suppositions and nothing concrete to back it up.

Like I said before ... more holes than Blackburn Lancashire.

 

Two can play the global-warming hypocrisy game . . . none better than the frequently-hilarious WSJ editorial pages.

Their general pattern, re the topic, during recent years:

What global warming?
What global warming?
What global warming?
WHAT global warming?
WHAT global warming?
It's too late to do anything about it, now.

Whores.

 

This is probably part of the reason even his home state went for Bush.

 

And with "reasons" like that, his home state gets exactly what it deserved.