Pogo,
As to Al Gore –adjudicated liar!
“Al Gore’s inconvenient judgment
Al Gore’s award-winning climate change documentary was littered with nine inconvenient untruths, a judge ruled yesterday.
An Inconvenient Truth won plaudits from the environmental lobby and an Oscar from the film industry but was found wanting when it was scrutinised in the High Court in London.
Mr Justice Burton identified nine significant errors within the former presidential candidate’s documentary as he assessed whether it should be shown to school children. He agreed that Mr Gore’s film was “broadly accurate” in its presentation of the causes and likely effects of climate change but said that some of the claims were wrong and had arisen in “the context of alarmism and exaggeration
In what is a rare judicial ruling on what children can see in the class-room, Mr Justice Barton was at pains to point out that the “apocalyptic vision” presented in the film was politically partisan and not an impartial analysis of the science of climate change.
“It is plainly, as witnessed by the fact that it received an Oscar this year for best documentary film, a powerful, dramatically presented and highly professionally produced film,” he said in his ruling. “It is built around the charismatic presence of the ex-Vice-Presi-dent, Al Gore, whose crusade it now is to persuade the world of the dangers of climate change caused by global warming.
“It is now common ground that it is not simply a science film – although it is clear that it is based substantially on scientific research and opinion – but that it is a political film.”
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/corp...w/article2633838.ece
Perhaps, one should remember that part on “An Inconvenient Truth” s contains video clips from “Day After Tomorrow – a fictional movie and a highly unscientific one, to boot.”
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Not one scintilla of proof or one iota of evidence has ever surface to connect Karl Rove with the Dan Rather fiasco. Its another imagineering job from the fever swamps of the left.
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As to Al Franken, not exactly a rose, himself.
We still don’t know his part in the scam that funneled $800,000 from a children’s charity to Air America.
I suppose he may use the excuse – I talked to Willie Nelson about my taxes, while we were smoking in the back of the bus.
“Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Al Franken, front-runner in the race to challenge Republican U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman, said on Tuesday that he has paid $70,000 in back taxes and penalties owed in 17 states, going back to 2003.
Franken, who has earned income across the country for celebrity appearances and speeches, blamed his accountant of 18 years for failing to pay the appropriate taxes owed in each state.”
http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/senate/18377884.html
Then, like the bleeding heart liberal, he is, he stiffs his employees for three years worth of benefits
“Not only did Franken "forget" to pay workers comp insurance in New York, where the transgression occurred, but he also neglected to provide disability benefits insurance in the state.
Of course, the self-avowed Liberal would be the first one to lambaste a Republican or Conservative who did so much as not acquire mandated automobile insurance coverage, or professional liability coverage. But in the case of providing workers comp insurance for the common man -- workers who belong to unions or who are paid an hourly wage -- well, Franken somehow appears to believe that he should be given a pass.”
http://www.ifawebnews.com/articles/2008/04/18/blogs/pub...ef45604899974895.txt