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November 03, 2009
Al Gore, Soon-To-Be Billionaire?
The combination of Gaia worship, agitprop and rent-seeking pays very well indeed. So, given that Gore is reaping huge rewards, doesn't this call into question just a teensy bit the objectivity of his business partner James Hansen, the man NASA has administering the numbers telling us how much the climate is allegedly warming (when he's not busy comparing coal trains to Auschwitz or getting arrested outside power plants)? I mean, if warmies can get upset at a mere $10,000 "blood money" in funding for anti-AGW research, how much outrage is a billion dollars worth? Quoth the Goracle: "Do you think there is something wrong with being active in business in this country?" Mr. Gore said. "I am proud of it. I am proud of it." Somewhere Milton Friedman is shaking his fist and Friedrich Hayek is vomiting. Advocating quasi-religious laws that get your companies fat contracts is not business, it's rent-seeking, and Al Gore is Chief Glazier in the Church of Broken Windows. UPDATE: You thought I was kidding about the religious angle, didn't you? Al's Gore's much-anticipated sequel to An Inconvenent Truth is published today, with an admission that facts alone will not persuade Americans to act on global warming and that appealing to their spiritual side is the way forward. posted by Dave on 11.03.09 at 11:35 AM
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His names haven't been Goracle or Gorequemada for nothing. What's funniest about that is that both of those were really just a case of using religion to get money. Oracles, like the Oracle at Delphi, charged high for their prophesies and of course, Torquemada became rich because he got to keep the money from the "heretics" he burned. More apt than I ever knew. Veeshir · November 3, 2009 05:36 PM As I have documented repeatedly, Al Gore is little more than a religious fanatic. Here is is waving the Bible and looking just like the Orwellian Falwellian he is! http://www.classicalvalues.com/archives/2008/02/post_641.html And here's "L. Ron Gore the Pious Monk": http://www.classicalvalues.com/archives/2007/05/post_341.html And like many a religious huckster, his wife was a raving anti-porn social conservative: http://www.classicalvalues.com/archives/2004/03/running_with_zo.html What more proof does anyone need? Eric Scheie · November 3, 2009 11:05 PM I need to see him in a pope-hat. Veeshir · November 4, 2009 08:37 AM Post a comment
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Gore has always been a hustling apocalyptic preacher. When his '80s televangelist-style culture warrior act stopped paying off, he switched schticks. I don't think he switched audiences, much.