The World According to Newsweek
Tuesday, 10 November 2009 19:44 Last Updated on Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:25
Diet Coke almost shot through my nose when I saw this cover of Newsweek at the newsstand recently:
Al Gore is "The Thinking Man's Thinking Man?" Really? I know he's the Hypocrite's Hypocrite. I know he's the blowhard making millions off of preaching the gospel of catastrophic man-made global warming. I know he's the loser who just-won't go away. But "The Thinking Man's Thinking Man?"
Come on. Now I didn't go to Hah-vahd, but I'm smarter than Al Gore. I'm WAY smarter than Al Gore-- if you go by IQ and grades that is. But Gore hasn't gotten ahead because of his smarts, he's gotten ahead because of his name. From a 2000 Washington Post article titled "Gore's Grades Belie Image of Studiousness":
Davis wrote Gore's recommendation, and said he was never concerned about the young man's transcript full of C's and B's and his middle rank in the class. "In Al's case he was what Harvard most wanted at that time," Davis said. "What they wanted was competent academic performance plus future potential. Plus they were very impressed by the fact that he was a political son. Colleges like Harvard, Princeton and Yale are just as excited to get important sons as top academic scholars. They want our boys as much as our boys want them. And Al was captain of the football team. Any nice big boy was welcome if he played football."
And this guy is the one who- more than anyone- is personally responsible for Cap and Trade (aka "let's tax ourselves for absolutely no reason") legislation that has already passed through the House. He's the man who has made "carbon credits" a household term. (I sit here with "18 Kids and Counting" in the background with some homely liberal asking them "What do you think of how enormous your carbon footprint must be with all of those kids?" Good old Jim Bob sets them straight.)
Newsbusters has its take on the Newsweek piece which leads us to what global warming extremism is all about-- Marxism-- by pointing out a really obtuse quote that Gore cites in his new book as his "favorite." Newsweek neglects to research the origin of the quote as being from a Marxist.
Newsweek is a kooky-kooky place these days with Editor Evan Thomas "Mr. Obama is sort-of-God" at the helm.
Thomas lamented on "Inside Washington" (about the Major Hasam and the Ft. Hood murders):
I cringe that he's a Muslim. I mean, because it inflames all the fears. I think he's probably just a nut case. But with that label attached to him, it will get the right wing going and it just -- I mean these things are tragic, but that makes it much worse.
NPR’s Nina Totenberg soon chimed in with the agreement: “It really is tragic that he was a Muslim.”
Blogger Beers With Demo says it best:
Translation: Dammit, my plans to take in that polo match out in the Hamptons had to be scratched because of this idiot. Instead of chardonnay with the beautiful people, I’m working the weekend, spinning furiously for the ‘religion of peace’.
Why could it not have been some white guy named John Smith that was a regular attendee of an evangelical church and a Fox News-watcher? We’ve got the template for that. That baby would’ve been on autopilot the moment he was brought down by that cop. But, nooooo… now we have to deal with that whole tedious Islamo-fascist/terrorism thing again. That was so, like, 8 years ago. Can’t we just move on?
The liberal elite media.....where opportunists like Gore are deep thinkers, murdered soldiers are simply "these things", Islamic extremists are a pity indeed and people like me are "the violent fringe" .
Time to go do my nails.
