Al Gore: Cheney Supporters Think The Moon Landing Was Fake
 Friday, March 28th, 2008

Al Gore has an Academy Award, a Nobel Peace Prize, and most of Hollywood on his side.  As of March 4th, he also has almost 100 top environmental scientists that have gathered to oppose his notions.  The scientists signed a statement called the "Manhattan Declaration On Climate Change" which was breached at the 2008 International Conference On Climate Change.  The scientists' and researchers' declaration basically said leave the science to the real scientists - we conclude that global warming is not manmade, stop using it as an excuse to scare, tax, and distract people from the real issues.

It was pretty harsh when you translate all of the fancy phrases into human-speak.

I just assumed that everyone was going to pretend it didn't happen, as the mass media tends to do when something significant happens.  I was half-right.  Al Gore is going on 60 Minutes in an episode airing Sunday.  And guess what CBS anchor Leslie Stahl asks him?  Instead of handing him the Manhattan Declaration, Stahl asks,"At a time when there's still lots of controversy about whether global warming is manmade...there's pretty impressive people, like the Vice President...and others."

WHY IN POLLUTION would she bring up Vice President Dick Cheney and then say "others," instead of listing the well-respected experts that just released a contradictory report this month?  You're telling me CBS was that ill-prepared for an interview with Al Gore?  It's as if CBS Corp lives in a bubble world where Dick Cheney has the American public's approval, PBS' explosive series detailing Cheney's war crimes was not released this week, and the Manhattan Declaration can't be called upon by name because what do scientists know?  CBS is perpetuating the very issue addressed in the Manhattan Declaration:  why is it constantly implied that politicians know more about global climate crisis than the very people that study it as a career?

That scares me more than global warming, folks.  Especially considering Dan Rather's insight into Washington's influence on CBS Corp. newsrooms (specifically, 60 Minutes!).  The "manmade" global warming crisis - true or false - certainly has served as a sudden and convenient (not "inconvenient") distraction from the workings of the war machine.

Gore's reply:  "You're talking about Dick Cheney.  I think that those people are in such a tiny, tiny minority now with their point of view, they're almost like the ones who still believe that the moon landing was staged in a movie lot in Arizona and those who believe the world is flat.  That demeans them a little big, but it's not that far off."

And now Al Gore sounds like the smart one again, and either way, the war machine wins.  If John McCain takes the White House, you can be sure that the war will continue.  If the Democrats win - and Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama get elected - well, their voting records in the Senate supported the war as well.

I'm not sticking up for any party in this one. All I want to know is the truth.  And all I want to see is the end to this war.  And I can't have either.

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