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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Alighieri who wrote (330070)3/23/2007 10:28:34 AM
From: longnshort   of 1576159
 
'Gotcha' moment

"It's not easy being green. Just ask former Vice President Al Gore," the Fox News Channel's Terry Keenan writes at www.foxnews.com.
"While the newly anointed Oscar winner has made what Katie Couric called a 'triumphant return' to Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Gore was tripped up by a simple question from Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe. Late into the hearing, Inhofe showed Gore a clip from his film, 'An Inconvenient Truth.' The clip challenged the audience with this question: 'Are you ready to change the way you live?'
"Simple enough. But Inhofe took this question a step further, by placing it right at the foot of the former vice president. Correctly noting that Gore is adored by hundreds of thousands for his green message, Inhofe asked the Tennessee Democrat if he'd be willing to pledge to 'consume no more energy for use in your residence than the average American household by one year from today?'
"It was a 'gotcha' moment, and one that was not widely reported in the mainstream media. Mr. Gore refused to take the pledge, adding that, 'We live a carbon-neutral life.' Get ready to hear a lot about carbon-neutral living in the days and months ahead. It's the new euphemism for Escalade-driving environmentalists who 'purchase' carbon credits to assuage any guilt about their private jets and 20,000-square-foot summer homes."
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