Bookworm on Feb 07 2008 | Filed under: Presidential elections
I’ve frequently heaped scorn on Obama’s oratorical abilities. His speeches remind me of the political speeches in old Hollywood movies. In those days, the movies were careful not to take sides in any obvious way, so they’d have political characters make speeches using orotund phrases that contained high sounding platitudes, but that actually said nothing [...]
Bookworm on Dec 19 2007 | Filed under: Al Gore, Climate change
Poor Al Gore. He thought his inconvenient truth was that poor frog in the boiling water. It’s beginning to look as if the real inconvenient truth, however, may be that the anthropocentric global warming hysteria convulsing the Western world is fiction:
An inconvenient new peer-reviewed study published in the December 2007 issue of the [...]
Bookworm on Nov 15 2007 | Filed under: Climate change
Marc Sheppard deconstructs the factual assertions Gore makes in his recent Rolling Stone interview. Al Gore’s ultimate conclusions about climate change may be right but, for me, it saps his credibility when he relies on hysterical, inaccurate statements to make his argument.
Sphere: Related Content
Bookworm on Nov 01 2007 | Filed under: Climate change
I’m all for clean air and water, and a lovely environment. I’m extremely hostile, however, to being bullied. I’ve gotten to the point where I often find myself turning a light on in my home and thinking “Take that Al Gore. I’ll start conserving energy in a serious way when you move [...]
Bookworm on Oct 19 2007 | Filed under: Al Gore, Leftist morality, Media matters
Nicholas Wishek has used Bore’s Nobel Prize as a leaping off point for a pointed expose of the looniness that is modern liberalism, and the complicit media that protects and serves the liberal agenda. Here are some nice little gems from the column, but I do think you should read the whole thing:
Now, I [...]
Bookworm on Oct 12 2007 | Filed under: Al Gore, Hillary Clinton
Al Gore is refusing to run:
The win is also likely add further fuel to a burgeoning movement in the United States for Gore to run for president in 2008, which he has so far said he does not plan to do.
Kenneth Sherrill, a political scientist at Hunter College in New York said Gore probably enjoys [...]
Bookworm on Oct 12 2007 | Filed under: Al Gore
I was glad to see that the Nobel Prize committee hasn’t lost its touch. Al Gore, the man whose movie is so inaccurate it needs to come with a warning, has now joined the august panoply of other recent Nobel Peace Prize winners. In case you’ve forgotten, here are some of the highlights [...]
|
