Horror: Gorebot building robot army
posted at 2:46 pm on April 25, 2007 by Allahpundit
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Of environmentalist Avon ladies or something. I think this is how Sadr got started:
Meet, no, not Al Gore, but Gary Dunham, 71, a grandfather from Texas who was the first of 1,000 Americans Gore trained to deliver his Oscar-winning An Inconvenient Truth slide show to schools, Rotary clubs and nursing homes around the nation.
Two weeks ago, the last 150 of this hand-picked crew arrived here — paying their own way for everything but food — to go through a two-day seminar starring Gore but effectively led by Dunham and a few other graduates of the former vice president’s global-warming boot camp.
To date, The Climate Project has drawn everyone from Wal-Mart workers to Cameron Diaz. And though the 1,000 mark has been reached, “we keep hearing whispers that (Gore) might do more,” project director Jenny Clad says. “I wouldn’t call this final.”
Smart move. If Gore’s serious about spreading his gospel, he’ll do whatever he needs to do to remove himself from the equation. Conservatives dislike him viscerally, myself not excepted. Decouple him from the science and the science stands a chance at a fair hearing.
Lots of anecdotal stupidity at the link about Eagles linebacker Dhani Jones watching “An Inconvenient Truth” to psych himself up before night games and how Chevy Chase is “really upset” about global warming, according to his wife. Exit question confession: Much to my chagrin, I suddenly find myself excited about Live Earth.
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“Decouple him from the science and the science stands a chance for a fair hearing.”
Except that the entire Algore position is NOT about science, but about hype and alarmism.
IPCC prediction of sea level rise (already inflated by politics): 20 inches
Algores prediction of sea level rise: 20 feet
Clark1 on April 25, 2007 at 2:51 PM
so its officially a religion now, huh?
lorien1973 on April 25, 2007 at 2:54 PM
Weren’t the Cybermen built in a similar fashion?
Gottafang on April 25, 2007 at 2:58 PM
Can’t wait for Nigel to get on the piano and play his Mach piece.
RW Wacko on April 25, 2007 at 2:58 PM
Do graduates get official brown shirts?
Blacklake on April 25, 2007 at 2:58 PM
Well, if you can’t actually win on the science, you’d better depend on a cult of personality and brow-beating children.
Wait, why does that sound eerily familiar?
Do they have uniforms for this army of proselytizers?
Wake me up when they have bumper crops of wheat in Greenland.
Merovign on April 25, 2007 at 3:00 PM
Blacklake sniped me? That’ll learn me to be so verbose!
Merovign on April 25, 2007 at 3:02 PM
This is getting weird…I hope there is’nt going to be a kool-aid meeting in Carthage!!!
DCJeff on April 25, 2007 at 3:04 PM
Yeah, but he won’t. He lives for the attention and the “rock star” treatment.
The fun thing about Gore is you can out-PC him — my daughter’s science teacher threatened to show his stupid movie in class, and I brought up Al’s hurtful and insensitive “extra-chromosome” comment — which would have gotten a student disciplined for sure.
saint kansas on April 25, 2007 at 3:08 PM
I question the timing.
amerpundit on April 25, 2007 at 3:09 PM
Looks that way.
PRCalDude on April 25, 2007 at 3:10 PM
How many carbon offsets do you need for a combusted drummer?
KelliD on April 25, 2007 at 3:11 PM
From Allah’s exit comment article:
I just hope all that marching doesn’t leave any carbon footprints. If so Gore’s going to have to purchase a ton of credits from himself.
wardrobedoor on April 25, 2007 at 3:14 PM
I smell pyramid scheme. Gore is interested in making money, and little else.
Does this remind anyone else of Scientology?
Krydor on April 25, 2007 at 3:15 PM
Good question. Dozens of people spontaneously combust each year. It’s just not really widely reported.
RW Wacko on April 25, 2007 at 3:16 PM
The Giveaways:
- Cameron Diaz is one of the sharp minds taken in by the Gorebot, and
- Al Gore’s personal fossil fuel consumption exceeds the aggregate consumption of HotAir commenters in a given year, and yet we are supposed to believe that he thinks we are at the tipping point of a global environmental disaster. So what gives?
Jaibones on April 25, 2007 at 3:19 PM
Hoax.
Jaibones on April 25, 2007 at 3:19 PM
Damn, another group of entertainers scratched off my list .
Oh, well, as sacrifices go it is not that big a thing, but I did enjoy some of their previous work, but no more.
bbz123 on April 25, 2007 at 3:24 PM
How about for their uniform they wear recycled cardboard signs that say “Repent, the End is Near” ?
NellE on April 25, 2007 at 3:25 PM
Rotary clubs?
I’d have to think they would toss him out like a bad joke.
(pun intended)
shooter on April 25, 2007 at 3:27 PM
Does this make Gary an “acolyte” or an “apostle”?
mojo on April 25, 2007 at 3:29 PM
I wonder if Cameron uses Al’s hair jell?
Hening on April 25, 2007 at 3:32 PM
Dhani Jones is a joke. He can do everything but play LB.
budorob on April 25, 2007 at 3:32 PM
My first thought was - so when did environmentalism officially become a cult?
This is getting downright creepy.
Professor Blather on April 25, 2007 at 3:33 PM
What is the penalty for disbelievers?
Having to live through
Meat HeadRob Reiner preachingbitch schoolenvironmentalism or breaking like the wind?Scary! What kind of communion is involved?
Kini on April 25, 2007 at 3:34 PM
Will they be wearing brown shirts?
Perhaps they came down from Planet Goracle.
JammieWearingFool on April 25, 2007 at 3:35 PM
A thousand apostles for the Inconvenient Truth, huh? I guess it’s time for them to build themselves a temple in the wilderness and start mixing the Kool Aid.
Tantor on April 25, 2007 at 3:37 PM
Professor Blather,
Environmentalism became a cult the second cutting C02 became a moral imperative.
It’s getting creepy, that’s for sure. I’m sure Gore’s people are working out how they can get the same kind of tax protection churches get.
He was up here a couple of days back telling the true believers that spring melt and the subsequent floods are signs of Goreball Warminization. Up until now, we silly sod turners called it “spring”.
Krydor on April 25, 2007 at 3:42 PM
Has been for awhile. Today Rush called the boot-camp trainees ‘evangelists’ - quite the accurate term IMO.
infidel4life on April 25, 2007 at 3:53 PM
Environmentalism became a cult the second cutting C02 became a moral imperative.
……
He was up here a couple of days back telling the true believers that spring melt and the subsequent floods are signs of Goreball Warminization. Up until now, we silly sod turners called it “spring”.
Krydor on April 25, 2007 at 3:42 PM
Professor Blather on April 25, 2007 at 4:03 PM
These tags are too complicated for me to figure out today. I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
Professor Blather on April 25, 2007 at 4:04 PM
This is reminding me of the current story arc on the final season of Stargate SG1:Hallowed Be The Ori. We must accept the undisputable teachings from the Book of Origin or our lives will be forfeit.
allie on April 25, 2007 at 4:06 PM
you know, if these people were really all that psyched about cutting their own CO2 output, they’d just stop breathing.
j_ehman on April 25, 2007 at 4:08 PM
Rob Reiner?
Do they still allow people to smoke at Wembley Stadium by the way?
kiakjones on April 25, 2007 at 4:10 PM
Gore is the second coming of Xenu.
I, for one, welcome our new brainless overlords.
unamused on April 25, 2007 at 4:12 PM
Nothing wrong with acting resonsibly toward our environment. As long as we can remain honest about our science and our agendas.
Gore’s problem isn’t that he is environmentally proactive, it’s that he has to make up all this nonsense as a way to get people to follow him. I think this is also the instructions for how to build your own cult.
Lawrence on April 25, 2007 at 4:22 PM
Send in the clones
P. James Moriarty on April 25, 2007 at 4:30 PM
“Zombies man…they creep me out.”
catmman on April 25, 2007 at 4:41 PM
Marching orders?!?!?!
I thought only Bushitlerovians blindly, unthinkingly followed whatever they were told to do - while the People of Reason calmly read The Research in original Scienterrific Language.
I’m shocked.
eeyore on April 25, 2007 at 4:49 PM
“Greenshirts.”
Blacklake on April 25, 2007 at 5:12 PM
Oh, come on! This is how they sell Amway and Shaklee products…
Jaibones on April 25, 2007 at 5:15 PM
I keep trying not to waste my time on this crap, but I wonder what the Gorebots think of these scientists?
PS The USA Today story says something dumb about the “top 2500 climate scientists in the world”, which begs the questions a) according to whom?, and 2) do the 2500 all know that they have been included in the group?
Jaibones on April 25, 2007 at 5:27 PM
I forgot to mention that Al Gore is a fraud and I hate him.
Jaibones on April 25, 2007 at 5:28 PM
Al Gore is not a fraud.
He’s a REAL robot.
I’m sure of it.
Professor Blather on April 25, 2007 at 5:39 PM
Well, timing is everything.
Jaibones on April 25, 2007 at 5:41 PM
Must suck to be ranked climate scientist # 2501 - no one cares what you have to say.
Fatal on April 25, 2007 at 5:54 PM
Cybermen? We may be closer to the truth than you think.
In trying to find a picture of a green Cyberman, I came upon this interesting nugget:
Revenge of the Cybermen
The guy that created the cybermen for the Doctor Who series actually wrote a book. Here’s the title: The Quest for Gaia: A Book of Changes
Talk about creepy, it’s almost getting Romeroesque in here.
catmman on April 25, 2007 at 5:58 PM
Those are excellent questions…and thus the MSM hasn’t thought to ask them.
I’ve watched a couple of docs that bring up this point, and ask a third question as well: what if you’re a scientist whose name is on the list and you want it taken off? Apparently it’s harder than cancelling your AOL service.
P.S. Cybermen pwn.
saint kansas on April 25, 2007 at 6:06 PM
P.P.S. “As for the former vice president, Gore has been hired as an adviser to the British government, which plans to send copies of his film to schools around England.”
Brought to you by the same country that will no longer use the phrase “war on terror.”
Heart-ache.
saint kansas on April 25, 2007 at 6:12 PM
“decouple him from the science….”
Which science is that then Allah? The fact that he’s trained a bunch of eco-Jehovah’s Witnesses demonstrates the weakness of his cult’s ’science’, not its strength.
His Powerpoint is absolute bullshit, and the amount of actual empirical scientific data it contains is approximately nil.
Martin on April 25, 2007 at 6:41 PM
Might as well be talking to the Sun.
Speakup on April 25, 2007 at 7:39 PM
EQUAL TIME!!!
If a school shows “An Inconvenient Truth” they should be obligated to show “The Lysenko Affair.”
Lysenko destroyed Soviet Agriculture with his theories. Soviet agronomists who did not go with the “consensus” lost their jobs and were imprisoned. Sound familiar? Like the Weather Channel head threatening meteorologists and climatologists with revoking their credentials if they don’t support “Global Warming.”
naliaka on April 25, 2007 at 7:59 PM
These tags are too complicated for me to figure out today. I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
Professor Blather on April 25, 2007 at 4:04 PM
Haaaaa! I was thinking the same thing, … except for the glue part. ! Not sure what my problem is today.
4shoes on April 25, 2007 at 8:27 PM
Ok, ewww!~
Now, now. I’ve been involved with both, and that’s only true about Amway. And hey, please don’t click the link…
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Freelancer on April 25, 2007 at 8:32 PM
Dude, if you actually know anything about Shaklee, you have to admit that this sounds 100% like a Shaklee regional sales event.
Cash, cars, conventions…isn’t that the pitch? Earth-friendly products and packaging? (Here is the cynical Shaklee underbelly: all the products are “concentrated”, so that you “use less packaging and dilute the product at home”, and this is why they cost three times as much as anything else. They know that human nature is to overconcentrate, anyway, so they just end up with huge margins. Buyers pay for shipping on everything, so there’s no distribution system — it’s UPS. Evil genius from liberals, those magnificent bastards.)
Jaibones on April 26, 2007 at 8:43 AM