Al Gore: The man with a messianic complex and the Nobel people who love him
Only in an alternate universe should Al Gore be able to win a Nobel Peace Prize for his relentless ravings about man-made global warming and the potential for planetary doom. And yet . . .
And yet he just did. Well, okay, he won it jointly with the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. But c’mon, this is all about Al because without his interminable climatic scaremongering, there probably wouldn’t have been a UN panel.
So it goes without saying that the Nobel folks are impressed by ponderous sounding claptrap such as, “We face a true planetary emergency. It is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.”
Whatever. But what does his messianic posturing about global warming have to do with “peace,” anyway? As I said when he was first nominated for the Peace Prize, if he can get some of the world’s most violent people to lay down their arms and live in peace, then I’m all for it. But the last time I checked, Islamic radicals don’t give a damn about global warming or other such infidel nonsense. They’ve got their own apocalyptic scenarios in mind and if they ever get their hands on a nuclear weapon, we’re all going to forget about global warming so fast it’ll make Al Gore’s head spin right off.
If you ever had any doubt that the guys down at Nobel Inc. are dyed-in-the-wool leftists, that doubt should now be utterly dispelled. Of course, it should have been dispelled when Jimmy Carter won his Peace Prize. This is the man who, if he could, would appease the world’s mass-murdering tyrants until there was nobody left on earth but . . . well, mass-murdering tyrants and their oppressed subjects. When has appeasement ever led to “peace?”
Anyway, now, of course, there’s fevered talk of Gore using his Peace Prize as a springboard into the ‘08 presidential race. He continues to vehemently deny he has any such plans and I believe him. I think he would prefer that history depict him as the man who saved — or at least tried to save — the planet and civilization rather than as just another bad Democratic president.
Whatever fanciful notion keeps him out of the presidency is fine by me. I only wish I could be around to see what history really has to say about him after the earth has clearly gone back into its next cooling cycle.
Greg Strange provides conservative commentary with plenty of acerbic wit on the people, politics, events and absurdities of our time. See more at his website: http://www.greg-strange.com/.
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October 12th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
Arafat and Carter got the Nobel Peace Prize, now Al Gore.
Who’s next…50 cent? Snoop Dog? Bin Laden?
Seems that the Peace Prize doesn’t mean what it used to.
October 12th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
Tukey Williams, the LA Crypts founder who was recently iced, also was nominated for the Peace Prize or something similar. Peace prizes are badges of shame.
I’m sure glad I never won any peace prizes or awards…
…(those $#@# bastards, them!)
October 12th, 2007 at 5:47 pm
Perhaps Weird Al will win next year.
Has he not made millions of us laugh with his witty parodies over the years?
That’s worth a gold star or something.
October 12th, 2007 at 5:57 pm
Al Gore is one of the pathetic and tragic figures of our times.
Groomed to be President and then losing it legitimately by a handful of votes was more than he could bear. Throw in the problems he has had with at least one of his sons is utter agony for someone who must always appear to be a messiah or savior as Mr Strange says.
Just remember that embarassing kiss with his wife at the 2000 Convention that was supposed to prove…what? that he was a fantastic husband and lover?
What it made me do was cringe at the show biz aura around the whole thing.
Now he has taken over the global warming fisaco as a spring-board back it the public’s attention.
He is acting like a man who will take anything to restore him to his in-his-view
rightful place in the public arena.
October 12th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
Gus, you pay Al Gore way too much respect and honor with your comment.
October 13th, 2007 at 1:02 am
When they started awarded the Nobel Prize to feminists it automatically sank that organization down to that level.
Now that “Prize” is akin to a bumper sticker bragging about the really important school your kids go to.
May seem great to the owner, but it’s just bragging/gloating, to everyone else.
October 13th, 2007 at 9:46 am
Nothing undermines a cause these days as much as one of its profits winning the Nobel Peace Prize. It’ll be nice for Al. He’ll get to go to lots of dinners and give speeches.
October 14th, 2007 at 7:15 am
Perhaps someone should ask whether Al Gore deserves two Nobel Prizes. Have we all forgotten that he invented the internet?