It's Al Gore Day!
KYLE SMITH BLOG | October 12, 2007
Now that we are all honking the horns of our Priuses to celebrate Al Gore's Nobel Prize victory (and he has finally revealed through an associate the reason he isn't running for president–because he is afraid he can't beat Hillary Clinton, whom he has deemed an unstoppable force), it's amusing to consider that just two days ago, a British judge ruled "An Inconvenient Truth" was full of misleading assertions and was not eligible to be shown in schools because it is "a political film" full of "alarmism and exaggeration." In particular, the judge ruled that the central point of "An Inconvenient Truth," its money shot of doomsdayism–Gore's absurd prediction that sea levels are about to rise 20 feet–was "not in line with scientific consensus."
You can safely rely on any anti-American ruling coming out of Europe to be trumpeted by the US press as evidence of more advanced thinking by our cousins across the ocean; any anti-Gore rulings, though, can be ignored as trivial bleats from irrelevant little nations. The action in the British courts was begun by a protest from a truck driver who has shown more wisdom than our pals in Stockholm, who have now given the UN the Big Papi of prizes three times. Gore, by the way, who has earned tens of millions (at least) from his Google stock, says he is going to donate half the prize money for charity. The other half, I assume, will be reserved for paying the electric bills on his sprawling Tennessee estate with its heated poolhouse.
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