In a recent interview, former Vice President Al Gore suggested his mission to save the world from Global Warming is comparable to Jackie Robinson‘s achievements, Jackie’s effort to break down US racial segregation, by becoming the first African American to play Major League Baseball in modern times.
I don’t want to compare you to Jackie Robinson, but I’m going to draw a parallel. When you’re first at something or, in your case, out front, it’s often difficult. You had naysayers. Even though you were at the top of the New York Times bestseller list, there were people who made fun of it.
Oh, yeah. A few still do.
How do you deal with that? How are you able to keep putting yourself out there? How do you emotionally tell yourself, “It’s worth it?”
There is a time-honored tradition of people who strongly disagree with a message and take it out on the messenger, and opponents of integration had a personal animus for Jackie Robinson. Opponents of all the great social movements would take out after the advocates that were most effective in asking people to change.
As a result, I don’t take it personally when the criticism comes at me. I believe so passionately in this mission, if you will. The word “mission” might sound a little grandiose, but that’s kind of what it feels like to me. Honestly, it is a joy and a privilege to have work that justifies pouring every ounce of energy you can pour into it. That is a blessing that is to be cherished.
Words fail me.
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Big Papi is laughing at you, Al.
http://www.farandulismo.com/david-ortiz-se-pasea-por-santo-domingo-en-su-lamborghini-aventador/
Maybe will become a basketball star too…
http://mobile.twitter.com/CelebCarz/status/480396814567215105/photo/1
So the E he put at the end of potato stands for “environment” then? Well, lets see where his E really is shall we:
MonEy
PowEr
FamE
Hmmm…seems that E stands for more than environment Al.
As for the comparison, the man is so dumb he probably didn’t know who Jackie Robinson was unless the reporter outlined it for him first. Chances are once the interview was finished he ran a search on his internet invention to find out.
…Ummm, you missed Egotistical Error loving Elitist !
You are so right! How could I miss those? How about:
Egregious Egotistical Enormous Error Eluding loving Entitled Elitist.
Hmm…I’m sure there are a few more E words we could add….
‘Twas Dan Quayle put the e in potato.
OMG, you are so right! LMAO at my faux pas! Whoops.
The two are linked in my head—being so similar in their worldview–only they know what is right.
Please articulate their worldviews and how they are the same.
Aside from being dim bulbs what other ideologies do they share? What similar policies do they advocate?
I am not sure Quayle has articulated a position on the religion of Anthropogenic Global Warming. Do you know what it is?
@ur momisugly Bill Powers:
“I am RIGHT!” even when they are wrong. Worldview wasn’t a good choice of wording on my part–as it does imply ideologies how bout blinder viewpoint due to low intelligence?
I don’t want to compare Al Gore to a pompous ass but one could certainly draw a parallel.
Al Gore actually claimed that as a young man he used to plow the steep side of a hill with a mule.
No. Really, he did. The same young man that grew up as the rich son of a powerful US Senator used to plow hillsides with a mule. Sure…
Today we have [class] diversity and scientific mysticism. Progress.
I would compare Al Gore’s mission to Scientology and David Miscavige. The relentless pursuit of money and fame, all the while saying they are the victims of evil people trying to bring them down. You can really compare anyone to anyone if you want. At least he’s not comparing himself to Jesus Christ. Yet.
Flunked out of Divinity school and started his own religion. I’d buy that comparison.
Yeah, like all great people who make it their mission/embark on profound social changes for the benefit of humanity…………..also make hundreds of millions of dollars from their actions (-:
Give me somebody not getting filthy rich or reaping gains to themselves from their actions and I’ll give you somebody, who’s actions stand out as being intended entirely to benefit others.
It was probably 20 years ago, but I recall him likening someone (Rachel Carson?) to Rosa Parks while he himself was the Martin Luther King of the enviro movement.
VERY prominent tactic currently engaged by the Progressive Left on almost ALL issues – attach it to racism somehow, playing on the hyper-sensitivity that has been taught to any reference at all to ethnicity, as well as attributing hateful qualities to those they’ve decided to attack – i.e. making them someone they are allowed to hate. People LOVE being allowed to hate and vent on an approved target. And it’s amazing how fast and how total the paint job happens.
Imagine how surprised I was to find my views on Climate Change made me a racist.
In addition to being a Bible-thumping, science denier, of course.
Arrogant, self-centered b@stard.
It may take a while, but it warms the cockles of my heart to know he’s going to be very hot for all eternity.
He’s no Jackie Robinson. He considered MLK first, but his handlers talked him out of that. He may end up like H. Hughes over time. How long are his fingernails by the way?
Al Gore. The one and only ballot choice on the planet who could make me vote for Hillary.
Except Jackie Robinson had statistics and results in his case to demonstrate plainly and fairly and with independent checking.
Having listened to the man speak often (too often) I have never considered him the sharpest pencil in the box but in his defense it was the fawning interviewer who drew out the Jackie Robinson comparison. I wouldn’t lay that at ALGORE’s feet. There is a different metaphor i would use to describe that portion of the oral interview and ALGORE didn’t have to pay for it.
It is worth noting however his “Mission” analogy is stomach turning. Missionary brings to mind charitable acts done to help the downtrodden out of love and mercy without regard to personal sacrifice. ALGORE has parlayed his “mission” into personal wealth measured in multi-millions thanks in large part to the very same fawning media that sees him as a white Jackie Robertson (pardon my retching). That led to large speaking fees, a Head scratching Nobel prize, an Oscar for a fictional documentary (can anyone say oxymoron) and partnership in a cap and trade plan that is nothing more than a license to print money. His Mission is to get as rich as he can. Screw the downtrodden who can’t pay their electric bills. Is this a great country or what.
I don’t see the problem here. It was the interviewer who suggested the analogy with Robinson because of the controversy and criticism Gore has “endured”. Gore didn’t exactly reject the analogy, but neither did he accept it either… he deflected the question into a discussion of one similarity with Robinson, the idea that he felt like he was on a mission, and even allowed that this was a “grandiose” way to phrase it. Maybe he should have explicitly downplayed the analogy, but he is a politician and they seldom reject praise.
The interviewer’s fawning softball question is what deserves derision here.
I wrote the first in-depth critique of An Inconvenient Truth (in March 2007: https://cei.org/pdf/5820.pdf), co-produced and narrated the first documentary rebuttal to AIT (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6dlGpDXkb8), and sung out against Gorethodoxy on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbmnODQPFcM). So clearly I’m not a Gore apologist.
Nonetheless, in the text quoted above, it was the interviewer, not Gore, who suggested the Jackie Robinson analogy, and the interviewer who asked Gore to comment on the “parallel.” So Gore can hardly be blamed for discussing it.
Moreover, Gore’s point that people “who strongly disagree with a message take it out on the messenger” is in fact what happens in some cases, just as, in other cases, people who strongly dislike the messenger take it out on the message.
In short, the headline in the post imputes to Gore a megalomaniacal boast that he did not make in the interview.
Very often interviews are done – most particularly with people like Al Gore – with questions provided by the interviewee. You do not interview Gore without a great deal of oversight.
When Al Gore sees a picture of Jackie Robinson, he only sees the man’s skin colour.
Typical “Progressive”.
Ohhhhhh dear – digging a hole, keep going Al, you are doing a good job there.
He hits everything out of the park, but they’re all foul balls.
AL GORE — AMERICAN BLOVIATOR
Forever, forever it’s all Al Gore
Now, in the future and always before
Spinning himself with the words he can whirl
The earth is his oyster, he is its pearl
Carbon dioxide is filling the air!
And there’s no escaping — IT’S EVERYWHERE!
it’s up in the sky, it’s under your bed
It’s deep in your lungs, comes out of your head!
The polar caps melt from CO2’s heat
The seas with be rising twenty-five feet
The Ocean Conveyor ceasing to flow
Where water goes stagnant algae will grow!
A growth in plant life carbon promotes!
Green seas where sargasso seamlessly floats!
If acid rain scared you — THINK ABOUT THIS!
Oceans acidic and warmer than piss!
The teddy bears — Wait! — the polar bears drown
As carbon goes up survival goes down!
Once as a young man Al fully believed
First before others himself he deceived
Then sure of THE TRUTH his dictums were hurled
Like God, by The Word, creating the world!
The sky! It is falling upon your head!
Sharknaoes increasing with millions dead!
(That’s in a movie — I make movies too
Seeing’s believing so all of it’s true!)
Weather is weirding and it’s everyplace!
Our footprint of carbon on Gaia’s face!
Calamitous Climate! None can escape
Gaia’s revenge for Capitalist rape!
Science is settled! We know all the facts!
These super storms need a new super tax!
The U.N. will lead! The models are right!
Peer reviewed models! — Mankind is a blight!
So go buy a bike and pedal to work!
2000 WAS MINE! AND BUSH IS A JERK!
Al’s actions say more than bluster explains
A hypocrite now he flies private planes
Mansions and autos, a party time yacht
Al owns such but preaches — others must not!
Note: Al’s four decker, fantasy class yacht is named the Bio-Solar One
and where it is docked called by all the BS One.
Eugene WR Gallun
He never mentions me.
https://youtu.be/2Ku6oBDiZ28
Once upon a time I saw a group of people standing in a field. They had been there for a couple of months. Another time I saw a group of people who not only killed themselves by drinking poisoned Kool aid, but forced their children to drink it as well.
Can you imagine the jokes about humans in an alien civilization? It’s sad, and it’s embarrassing. The 10 year window to Save the World came and went. I keep saying this, but the ultimate proof of the end was near in warming terms was/is their math. They weren’t/aren’t kidding. They haven’t/aren’t kidding about trying to use the law to silence skeptics. They’ve been saying we should be tried on the same basis as war criminals. I think the crazies will be competing to see who has standing room in that mental hospital.
I don’t think Al is dumb. He’s making a boat load of money. I also don’t think he’s doing the world any good. In fact, ” to thine own self be true “, I don’t think he believes it either or he wouldn’t have bought property that would have been literally underwater by now. His mission of disrupting people’s lives is just as wrong as getting people to stand around wasting their lives or drink poison for some greater good.
The difference in the two men couldn’t be any clearer. They share nothing in common.
By the way, pushing the dates out on AGW disproves AGW…. why? It’s the math.
In order to make a nuclear weapon you have to know when it goes critical. It can’t be 1 second later. It’s the math. AGW is a weapon built on math. The math is wrong.
Two late comments.
1. Most of of us in the real world have never heard of of Robinson.
2. What was Al Gore first at?