Sep 15 2008
Fat Albert and the Hypocr-i-tic Oath
hypocrisy |hi päkris e|
noun ( pl. -sies)
the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one’s own behavior does not conform; pretense.hypocrite | hip o krit|
noun
a person who indulges in hypocrisy.al gore |fat | alburt|
noun
a person who is a hypocrite.I'm falling asleep just looking at him!
Do all politicians take a Hypocr-i-tic Oath or what?
You know an oath to always tell others to abide by a set of moral standards and ethics that they don’t even plan on abiding! I’m telling you I will not abide another toe, with or without toenail polish! No sir!
politician | päl i ti sh on|
noun
a person who is professionally involved in politics, esp. as a holder of or a candidate for an elected office.
• a person who acts in a manipulative and devious way, typically to gain advancement within an organization.
Yeah, yeah, yeah Al isn’t a politician any more… right!
What is Fat Albert’s problem, he wants us to save the planet and then he just doesn’t care! Why should his behavior attract heat? He wants praise!
‘Global warming’ Gore attracts heat
His new houseboat is the latest target of critics’ attacks
His large Nashville home, utility bills and jet travels have drawn flamethrowers over the last year and a half. Now, it’s a houseboat he bought this summer.
Said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “It doesn’t matter a whit. He’s out of politics. He’s won the Nobel Prize, the Academy Award and goodness knows what else. … He’s got the last laugh on anybody.”
The latest angry anti-Gore round boiled up when radio talk show host Steve Gill, a regular Gore basher, fired up listeners over the family’s new 100-foot houseboat that’s docked on Center Hill Lake.
Gill labeled Gore a hypocrite who preaches energy conservation to curb what Gill refers to as “so-called global warming,” but who doesn’t practice it.
A Web post by Gill on Sept. 6 had elicited as of Saturday a hefty 181 comments — the large majority in agreement with the radio host and many of them scathing.
The fact that the houseboat, called Bio-Solar One, has solar panels and runs on biodiesel seemed only to annoy some of those commenting. No one was praising him for vacationing locally.
“He’s put himself out there on climate change and, as he knows, in the public square, you get criticized for everything,” Sabato said
He’s long been a target
Gore, who declined to be interviewed last week, has been a lightning rod for years. It started with his political career.
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Later mixing in the hot-button issues of global warming and climate change made him “an even larger and more inviting target,” Nolan said.
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It’s also difficult “to be correct enough” when it comes to global warming and the environment, Nolan said.
“There’s always something you can do better. You’re kind of guilty until you can prove yourself innocent.”
Mike Kopp, who worked for Gore from 1981 to 1988, chuckled as he talked of his former boss’s earnestness and inability back then to catch a break on a much simpler matter: how he dressed.
“When he was in the House of Representatives and pretty much all the years in the Senate, he wore the same blue suit. We used to joke about it.”
…”It was damned if he did and damned if he didn’t. People thought he was just cheap when it came to clothes.”
The handwritten message, dated May 29, 1987 — about a month into Gore’s first campaign for the presidency — reads:Dear Mr. Gore,
I am working hard for you to get elected to any office you seek, but please go to your tailor and get your pants lengthened to the top of your shoes.
Good luck,
One of your supporters.
When Gore tried to figure out a better way to dress and present himself, he hired an image consultant..
“You’ve got to develop a thick skin and get over it. I’m sure he’s had plenty of practice.”
Al Gore has become a cartoon character! Fat Albert!
Let them eat cake!
—iChef Politikos abides…
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