The Coalition of the Swilling

"We must stop tolerating the rejection and distortion of science."

"We must insist on an end to the cynical use of pseudo-studies known to be false for the purpose of intentionally clouding the public's ability to discern the truth."

Take your own advice you fat-assed charlatan!

It's truly scary just how close that sack of pus came to becoming President.

Dude needs to carefully read some Hayek, starting with "The Fatal Conceit". Didn't he major in Poly Sci? How could he not have read that book?

Oh yeah, I forgot, he was a "C" student. And he probably paid someone else to write that particular book report for him.

As for experts:

"One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid."

-- James D. Watson (you know, the Dr. Watson of Watson and Crick fame)

Hmmmm.

Rely on experts?

Isn't the public educational system in this country run entirely by *experts*?

'Nuff said.

Gunslinger, Gorezilla could still become President. Zeus knows enough people are begging him to run.

Mr. Bingley, a good analysis. Gore remains a self-centered person with a wooden personality, and it shines through in that article. What scares me more is that it's possible that he actually believes his own schtick.

So his plan is to improve Democracy by installing leaders who cannot be questioned and will be mostly unresponsive to the will of electorate at large.

That's a funny version of Democracy there.

"We must create new ways to engage in a genuine and not manipulative conversation about our future."

Um...why? I think the conversation works just fine now. Of course there are some pricks at the table, but what sorts of "new ways" is he talking about here? Does he give any suggestions, or is this just another yapper uselessly going on about how we have to "do something" without putting forward any innovative ideas of his own?

Not only is he wooden - he's warped and cracking. Don't question the experts, huh.

"Experts never want to learn anything new, because if they did they wouldn't be experts anymore." - Harry S Truman

Ohhhhh, snap!

And while I'm at it, geez, can't the guy quit it with all of those adjectives and buzzwords? "Impulse to power" - WTF?

"And while I'm at it, geez, can't the guy quit it with all of those adjectives and buzzwords? "Impulse to power" - WTF?"

"There was a time when politicians spoke in sound bites, now they think in them." - Dennis Miller

We must insist on an end to the cynical use of pseudo-studies known to be false for the purpose of intentionally clouding the public's ability to discern the truth.

Wow. Cynicism in its finest clothing.

Heh, 'slinger. Personally, if I get to Al's territory, and the cartoon representation of my head floating in a jar ever makes more sense than I do, I think I should be forcibly retired.

"we Americans must resolve to repair the systemic decay of the public forum"

That's pretty rich, coming from a man who has made a career of calling his opponents "evil".

The promulgation of falsehoods has been the very essence of the leftist project from way back when:

"You are no longer obliged to tell the truth if you don’t feel like it"

THANK YOU!!! Great post!!

I got the same exact thing out of this, only I'll add a bit more... I think that Al is absolutely and completely insulting to the American people by assuming that we don't have the brainpower to figure things out on our own.

Check out my review on Al Gore's Mein Kampf:
http://www.pheistyblog.com/archives/198

You think he really wrote that? I know he used to work on a newspaper and all, but he strikes me as a deeply stupid human being incapable of stringing that many sentences together. I'm not convinced he read the thing.

On a happier note, I love the way it naturally describes itself as "Al Gore's Assault on Reason."

Elegant proof of Al's points!

In what way, K.? And which points?

When politicians like Bush prevent scientists from contributing to the public debate and when his political functionaries re-write the scientific reports, that is dangerous. Numerous times the community of atmospheric scientists have nearly unanimously agreed that human generation of C02 is causing global warming, it is not censor to silence the one or two scientists who may disagree. It is the scientific method. It is not science to place on equal footing opinions that have been weighed and discarded. It is ignorance to claim that every argument has equal validity, when peer-review and communication of ideas is successful. Anyone who claims the opposite is not a rational thinker. That's right. I will say it again: it is irrational to place on equal footing science that has been tested and discussed at great length with ideas that have been discarded as incorrect.

Hughes, I looked at your site.

You are a loon.

"...it is not censor to silence the one or two scientists who may disagree. It is the scientific method...."

And a fascist.