Al Gore is starting to sound like an eco-echo of the MediaMatters "the media are too conservative" canard:

"I believe that is one of the principal reasons why political leaders around the world have not yet taken action," Gore said. "There are many reasons, but one of the principal reasons in my view is more than half of the mainstream media have rejected the scientific consensus implicitly -- and I say 'rejected,' perhaps it's the wrong word. They have failed to report that it is the consensus and instead have chosen ... balance as bias.

"I don't think that any of the editors or reporters responsible for one of these stories saying, 'It may be real, it may not be real,' is unethical. But I think they made the wrong choice, and I think the consequences are severe.

"I think if it is important to look at the pressures that made it more likely than not that mainstream journalists in the United States would convey a wholly inaccurate conclusion about the most important moral, ethical, spiritual and political issue humankind has ever faced."

Gore would not answer any questions from the media after the event.

How biased of them that would be.

I have to say, though, I like that "most important moral, ethical, spiritual and political issue humankind has ever faced" part.

Yes, it's the most important moral, ethical, spiritual and political issue humankind has ever faced ever since the last most important moral, ethical, spiritual and political issue humankind has ever faced. (I think that was Al Gore's unbalanced Ozone Hole.)

Who says morality can't be manufactured like sausage?

MORE: Unless I am reading him wrong, Gore isn't saying that there isn't another side to the global warming/greenhouse gas dispute.

Only that it shouldn't be reported.

HMMMM.... I guess under the same logic, if Gore ran for office, he could claim it was "bias" for the to media report what his opponent said.

Maybe he is looking ahead after all.

UPDATE (03/02/07): How dare the National Geographic report this story about Global Warming on Mars being caused by the sun?

How dare they?

And how dare Glenn Reynolds link to it?

Children -- especially human children here on earth -- might read it and get confused.

Really, the idea that the sun might be heating the earth because it's heating Mars! The very idea!

Talk about planetary moral, ethical, spiritual and political equivalency.

This has the most biased piece of balance I've ever seen!

Doesn't Glenn know that with the earth in the balance, balance harms the planet?