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September 02, 2010

Set the Wayback Machine for a deadly Flashback!

In the wake of the psychotic environmentalist gunman who took hostages at the Discovery Channel, a lot of people are wondering what it is with Al Gore and his vast power to do what the left so loves to accuse Rush Limbaugh of doing?

As Glenn puts it sarcastically in his roundup,

"Won't Al Gore please stop it with his extremist, eliminationist rhetoric before he inspires still more violence?"

It's painfully obvious that there's a double standard where it comes to eliminationist rhetoric.

This is a topic I have discussed in so many posts that it's painful to repeat myself, and I wouldn't normally consider Al Gore and his books to merit another post but for the fact of a very disturbing pattern.

Anyone remember Al Gore's Earth In The Balance? It was loaded with junk science and half truths, and so much New Age nonsense that it reads like a religious tract. (Among many other mis-truths, Gore blamed the "ozone hole" for blind sheep in Patagonia, and it turned out the sheep were suffering from pink eye.) I am sure Gore would love to have us forget about the inaccuracies of Earth In The Balance, and while some die hards are still calling him "Ozone Al," for the most part, few remember.

Even fewer remember the role of Al Gore's book in inspiring ecoterrorist Ted Kacsczynski.

among his only possessions was an underlined copy of Al Gore's Earth in the Balance.

It was more than just underlined; Kaczynski seems to have been almost obsessed with it:

Kaczynski apparently was quite taken by Al Gore's missive. His copy of Earth In The Balance was dog-eared, underlined, marked and well worn. He obviously saw himself as some sort of "resistance "fighters.

Many who slogged through the rantings of Al and the rantings of Ted noticed a distinct similarity in writing style:

the Unabomber is known to have owned a well thumbed copy of Earth in the Balance. Indeed, parts of the book are indistinguishable from his manifesto. Lest I be accused of engaging in the same type of insidious comparison that I just accused the President of, let me make it clear that I don't believe that Al Gore caused the Unabomber. But I would note that the two men display a similar kind of dysfunctional animus towards technology and human innovation that smacks of a modern day Luddism.

Anyone who doubts should take a walk down memory lane, and check out the quiz which was linked at a Tim Blair thread:

Did Al Gore say it? Or was it the Unabomber?

It may be more difficult to decide than you think.

Now, I am not seriously suggesting that Al Gore is personally to blame for the terroristic acts of his readers. That deeply antisocial environmentalist psychopaths would read deeply antisocial tomes should surprise no one. However, the incongruous way that Gore is treated compared to the way a conservative writer would be treated simply cannot be ignored.

The double standard notwithstanding, I of course support absolute freedom of speech for Al Gore -- even though he has made it clear that he takes a dim view of freedom of speech where it comes to disagreeing with him.

But in light of the violence his dishonest rhetoric has repeatedly inspired, might it not be time to reconsider the propriety of awarding him the Nobel Peace Prize?

posted by Eric on 09.02.10 at 11:17 AM

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I was with you until the last paragraph.

I find it utterly proper and absolutely fitting that he has a Nobel Peace Prize.

It goes well with Arafat's, St. Jimmeh's, Obama's and a slew of others.
People who did not help foster peace but indeed, did exactly opposite, is exactly the type of person who gets that prize. So long as they hate Amerikkka.

When the US military gets a peace prize, I'll consider it rehabilitated.

Until then, sod off swampy.

Veeshir · September 2, 2010 12:12 PM

There is one possibility you do not address re the Unabomber, he plagiarized Gore.

Alan Kellogg · September 2, 2010 08:35 PM

Al Gore will return his Nobel Prize when the NYT returns Walter Duranty's Pulitzer Prize: when Houston freezes in August.

Gringo · September 3, 2010 12:26 AM

The Left doesn't have a double standard they have one standard. Say whatever is necessary in the moment to change the subject or demonize your opponent and say these things as if they are based on some enduring principle. The moment that argument is concluded the Left are free to dent the argument happened, alter the meaning of all words used in the argument to arrive at a contrary conclusion, or change the subject.

A commie-lib speaks not to transmit a description of their reality but to have an effect on their audience or their own emotions. The Left won't even listen to the argument of their opponent, witness the Ground Zero Mosque. The Left claims opposition is based on bigotry and when anyone explains what their opposition is based on, the Left claims the opposition is bigotry. I listen to all manner of NPR radio talk shows and numerous conservative talk shows. The conservatives have gone horse trying to explain their opposition and weeks later all of the hosts, guests, and callers on liberal radio and TV claim the opposition is just bigotry and they haven't even heard an alternative explanation from the conservatives.

There is no point is analyzing liberal words when their words mean whatever liberals want them to mean regardless of any clear meaning. The didn't invent neurolinguistics and deconstruction to allow less room to maneuver in an argument. They claim to be "sophisticated" soley for the purpose of claiming that any word or sentence means whatever is required to get out of a jam.

Scott M · September 3, 2010 05:53 AM