Video: Hannity on the inconvenient truth of Al Gore
posted at 10:05 pm on February 20, 2007 by Ian
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On Sunday’s Hannity America, host Sean Hannity investigated Al Gore’s private airplane travel and noted his hypocrisy when the former Vice President claims to be an environmentalist:
Gore apologist blog News Hounds writes this in defense of Inconvenient Al:
Hannity used records of Gore’s 16 private jet flights during the 1999-2000 campaign season, claiming that those trips show the former Vice President to be a hypocrite. In a disclaimer later in the piece, Hannity admitted that Gore’s office responded that the former Vice President had purchased carbon offsets for the trips, thereby maintaining the carbon neutrality of the jet fuel consumption. Hannity did not let this disclaimer deter him from making all kinds of specious linkages, false analogies and non sequiturs in his report.
For example, he gave statistical information about the carbon imprint of commercial vs private jets, showing that flying in a private jet does four times the carbon emission damage than flying in a commercial jet. Hannity then conflated two terms “carbon imprint” and “carbon neutrality”, once again implying that these terms are interchangeable when they are not, stating “So if you were worried about your quote-unquote ‘carbon footprint’ on the environment and if you’re concerned about carbon neutrality, the last you should be doing is flying on private jets. Sit in coach. You might save a polar bear!”
The point Hannity was trying to make isn’t what Gore adds to the environment to increase global warming, it’s that he is living the life he tells others not to live. In other words, do what I say, not what I do. In laymen terms: Hypocrite!
Al Gore’s office wrote a response prior to Hannity’s investigation:
– Gore lives a strict carbon-neutral lifestyle both in his work and private life. That means he tries to reduce his emissions as much as possible, and then purchases carbon offsets for the remaining emissions.
– In his private life, Gore tries to reduce his emissions as much as possible. He drives a hybrid, flies commercially whenever he can, and purchases green power. In the few instances where work has demanded that he travel privately, he purchases carbon offsets for the emissions.
Because Gore can never “demand” to do what he demands other people to do.
– Gore lives a strict carbon-neutral lifestyle both in his work and private life. That means he tries to reduce his emissions as much as possible, and then purchases carbon offsets for the remaining emissions.
– In his private life, Gore tries to reduce his emissions as much as possible. He drives a hybrid, flies commercially whenever he can, and purchases green power. In the few instances where work has demanded that he travel privately, he purchases carbon offsets for the emissions.
(h/t Noel at Newsbusters)
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The fact that you do not care about whether you are right or wrong shows that any information given to you that does not support what you believe will be discarded. You don’t care. A class in college in earth sciences hardly qualifies you to ask me to do some research. Your snotty attitude tells me that you are still very young and foolish.
Here is one for you to reesearch. This gentleman I had the opportunity to hear lecture. This is someone not bought by frants nor is he political. Even though he has been drug in by Gore and his supporters. He has stayed above the political fray. I might add that he is the most respected meterologist in the world. His papers have been ignored, but his findings have never been dismissed or proven to be false. You cannot find anyone of his caliber on the side of “global warming”. His credentials are impicable.
Richard S. Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
You can google him and find his many articles. BTW he tangled with Stephen Schneider and Crispin Tickell in the 60’s. They were the two predominant spokespeople for global cooling, who are now behind the global warming.
You apparently, in all of your research and education, overlooked Mr. Lindzen. The worlds most revererd and known expert.
right2bright on February 21, 2007 at 3:10 PM
“Carbon Offsets”
Sounds like cheating on your wife, then dropping a $100 in the church offering.
Black Adam on February 21, 2007 at 3:11 PM
It makes me sick how these gore people who are pushing this agenda threaten jobs and others for speaking out against them. They are far from wanting a free speech country…the only free speech they want is for their side…and their side only.
Highrise on February 21, 2007 at 3:38 PM
I’ll go with that one. It also has something to do with his stiffness.
R D on February 21, 2007 at 3:43 PM
Thanks for the algore explanation, y’all.
Laura on February 21, 2007 at 4:04 PM
Al Gore is RICH.
He joined Google prior to its current CEO, Eric Schmidt. If Gore has an options package even 1/50th as valuable as Schmidt’s, which seems likely, his net worth is greater than $100 million.
The rich have throughout history had the luxury of buying “indulgences”. When Gore commits to a carbon “footprint” equal to a “safe” level divided by the global population, he can be considered a non-hypocrite.
Anil Petra on February 21, 2007 at 5:28 PM
That reminds me of that one skit a comic came up with after states started putting up highway signs listing the fines for speeding:
“Hmmmm… 85 mph? Yeah, I can afford that.”
Me, I keep the thermostat at 66 ’cause I can’t afford to be warmer. Good thing I kept my old sweaters from the Carter malaise years.
saint kansas on February 22, 2007 at 10:02 AM
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