Originality, Or Lack Thereof
Paul Krugman is completely unable to come up with a new term, so he just rewrites one invented by Charles Krauthammer and unveils the left's newest meme: Gore Derangement Syndrome. Then he busily projects the left's routine behavior.
Partly it’s a reaction to what happened in 2000, when the American people chose Mr. Gore but his opponent somehow ended up in the White House. Both the personality cult the right tried to build around President Bush and the often hysterical denigration of Mr. Gore were, I believe, largely motivated by the desire to expunge the stain of illegitimacy from the Bush administration.
And now that Mr. Bush has proved himself utterly the wrong man for the job — to be, in fact, the best president Al Qaeda’s recruiters could have hoped for — the symptoms of Gore derangement syndrome have grown even more extreme.
The worst thing about Mr. Gore, from the conservative point of view, is that he keeps being right. In 1992, George H. W. Bush mocked him as the “ozone man,” but three years later the scientists who discovered the threat to the ozone layer won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. In 2002 he warned that if we invaded Iraq, “the resulting chaos could easily pose a far greater danger to the United States than we presently face from Saddam.” And so it has proved.
But Gore hatred is more than personal. When National Review decided to name its anti-environmental blog Planet Gore, it was trying to discredit the message as well as the messenger. For the truth Mr. Gore has been telling about how human activities are changing the climate isn’t just inconvenient. For conservatives, it’s deeply threatening.
No, it isn't. I have documented many instances where the supposed cures for global warming are either useless, harmful or even fraudulent. I have linked repeatedly to discussions about and with people who have serious issues with anthropogenic global warming theories. I have also linked to measured responses to the hysteria Al Gore is promoting. Along the way, I have also made a lot of fun of Gore and his true believers.
This is just another attempt to demonize, marginalize and suppress anyone who disagrees with Al Gore - no matter why they disagree.
Environment, Left Wing | Gaius Monday, 15 October , 2007
By syn, Monday, 15 October , 2007 @ 10:34 am
The Goricle: modern day Mayan priest using the environment to scare non-believers into believing hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, tsumanis will destroy everything in its path if they do not offer a purified virgin to be thrown into the volcanos as a means to calm the Gods.
In other words, if we don’t believe in Global Warming Goricle promises our homes will be flooded because we were not pure in our belief in Al Gore.
Using the environment to get people to believe in something they might question has been around since forever.
By mockinbird, Monday, 15 October , 2007 @ 12:35 pm
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I've had it with Al Gore.
(Edit - over the top.)
By FedUp, Monday, 15 October , 2007 @ 12:54 pm
But… Gore IS deranged…
By Gaius, Monday, 15 October , 2007 @ 1:01 pm
He’s certainly a fraud - he knows it, too. That’s why he will not debate.
By Steev, Monday, 15 October , 2007 @ 1:55 pm
Gore was originally critical of Bush for not going into Iraq.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=27367_Al_Gores_Hypocrisy_Revealed&only