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09

Al Gore: Master of Understatement

The President of the Environment is still reeling from his tough loss in the final round of Deceiver Madness, and he’s determined to go all the way this year. This time he’s saying… well, you wouldn’t believe me if I told you. But according to The Times of London, he really, honestly did say this:

Al Gore today compared the battle against climate change with the struggle against the Nazis…

Speaking in Oxford at the Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment, sponsored by The Times, Mr Gore said: “Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War II.”

He added: “We have everything we need except political will but political will is a renewable resource.”

So is hot gas from Al Gore’s piehole.

Mr Gore admitted that it was difficult to persuade the public that the threat from climate change was as urgent as the threat from Nazi Germany.

“The level of awareness and concern among populations has not crossed the threshold where political leaders feel that they must change.”

Okay, so let’s tally it up, shall we?

    Nazi Germany: Started World War II; killed 6,000,000 Jews; ruined perfectly good style of mustache.

    Global Warming: Killed zero Jews or anybody else for that matter; caused millions of cubic tons of carbon dioxide to be emitted by talking-points-spewing dunces; made Al Gore very fat and very, very rich.

So you can see the comparison! The question is, do we have the political will to make Al Gore even fatter and even more ridiculously wealthy? Shouldn’t you have to pay more at the gas pump so Al can afford to fly all over the world in private jets telling you how gluttonous you are?

And if you’re a Holocaust survivor, even better! You’ve lived long enough to see the German Nazis defeated and the environmental Nazis rise to power.

Just in case you haven’t had your fill of GW scare tactics for the day:

Gore said future generations would put one of two questions to today’s adults.

“It will either be ‘’what were you thinking, didn’t you see the North Pole melting before your eyes, didn’t you hear what the scientists were saying?” Or they will ask ‘how is it you were able to find the moral courage to solve the crisis which so many said couldn’t be solved?’.”

“Mommy, why did Santa drown?”

“Well, dear, nobody would listen to Al Gore no matter how much of a blatant hypocrite he was. Luckily, he floats. Now finish your plankton, put on your diving suit, and go finish mowing the seaweed.”

Update: The Times of London has now removed all mention of the Nazis from the story and changed the headline to “Al Gore invokes spirit of Churchill in battle against climate change.” (So he must have meant some other enemy Churchill fought.) Although in their defense, this sort of self-censorship is less Hitlerian than Stalinist.

Update: Looks like they didn’t do a good enough job cleaning up! Even though the story now looks like this:

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They forgot to change the browser header:

Al Gore likens fight against climate change to battle with Nazis

Oops! Somebody’s about to get demoted at the Ministry of Truth.

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33 Responses to “Al Gore: Master of Understatement”


  1. 1 Pastafarian Jul 7th, 2009 at 1:35 pm

    I don’t know Al, it’s been a pretty cool summer ’round these parts. 75 degrees today for the high. Pretty nice for Chicago in July. It’s almost as if he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

  2. 2 Toubrouk Jul 7th, 2009 at 1:56 pm

    I never knew Al gore would be foolish enough to venture in the Godwin’s Law territory…

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin’s_law

  3. 3 ScottB Jul 7th, 2009 at 2:41 pm

    Forget the last ten years of global cooling. Global warming is going to kill us all. Here’s how to tell that this is all bullshit: they had to change the name from global warming to climate change. What an insufferable douche bag.

  4. 4 Jenn Jul 7th, 2009 at 2:43 pm

    Every time some liberal doesn’t get their way they call the opposing side nazis. Not only is it tiresome it also is an absolutely ludicrous comparison as pointed out. I would think survivors of the holocaust would be outraged to hear ManBearPig’s personal crusade likened to the atrocities they endured. God, I wish Al Gore would go away.

  5. 5 Beige Jul 7th, 2009 at 2:56 pm

    AHHH! Toubrouk pointed out the Godwin’s Law thing! YAY!

    When is this bloated turdburglar going to realize that we’re onto his stupid, hypocritical quest to remain in the public eye, and we don’t care, and half of us at least are wishing he’d burst into flames?

    Why isn’t someone on MBP’s case about eating what has got to be a raft of double cheeseburgers and two rashers of bacon each day? Because I doubt he’s developed his own gravitational field by eating soy meat substitutes. He probably can’t go outside without people sniffing and asking, “You frying bologna?”

  6. 6 angry army wife Jul 7th, 2009 at 3:24 pm

    I think Al has been sniffing his own gases too long.

    He needs to apologize to the survivors and their families for evening thinking up the comparison.

  7. 7 California Dave Jul 7th, 2009 at 3:28 pm

    Angry Army Wife – there’s probably not that many survivors left (unfortunately), so maybe His Goreness figures he can get away with it.

  8. 8 Justin T. Jul 7th, 2009 at 3:37 pm

    Did you by chance screencap the story at the ToL link? Because they seem to have softened the story somewhat since you posted about it.

  9. 9 LN Jul 7th, 2009 at 5:25 pm

    I can not believe how “big bones” Al has become. I guess he is getting ready for the 2nd little ice age.

  10. 10 Kristine Jul 7th, 2009 at 8:32 pm

    Yeah, well, I feel the same way about the struggle against thought-less Obama-ites. (can already hear the outrage building)

  11. 11 Minnow Jul 7th, 2009 at 8:43 pm

    Awwwwww man, does this mean we gotta storm Normandy again?

  12. 12 angry army wife Jul 7th, 2009 at 8:50 pm

    Al Gore is gaining weight so he can go into hibernation, at least I hope he does.

  13. 13 Beige Jul 7th, 2009 at 9:17 pm

    I heard he got stuck on the couch yesterday and couldn’t get up ’til Greenpeace activists ran in with buckets of water.

    “Turn him! TURN him!”

  14. 14 Scott F. Jul 7th, 2009 at 10:56 pm

    “Awwwwww man, does this mean we gotta storm Normandy again?”

    Minnow, I think I can safely speak for all the Marines who would be responsible for that landing when I say the only way we’re ever taking Normandy again is is we get to kick out all the French and use it as a beach resort, or we could just dedicate the entire country to all the American dead who got that way bailing Europe’s ass out of the fire and let our veterans retire there free of charge.

  15. 15 metnav Jul 8th, 2009 at 2:37 am

    And this guy is allowed to testify before Congress on the Global Warming/Climate Change scam. That man is no climatologist or scientist. Madness! I wish he’d wear a carbon capture device to store all the CO2 he spews. Yeah attachments for all his orfices too.

  16. 16 Tax Liens Jul 8th, 2009 at 4:31 am

    Invented the internet and made up global warming. What do you Expect

  17. 17 sic721 Jul 8th, 2009 at 4:36 am

    Check out this
    The un-Official Official Al Gore Global-Warming Lie Detector Kit:

    http://www.citrusga.org/Images/Outdoor_Thermometer.jpg

  18. 18 Pinandpuller Jul 8th, 2009 at 6:05 am

    He’s right you know. Global Warming is as much of a threat to the world as Nazi Germany.

    Did anyone bother to tell him that Nazi Germany is no longer a threat? It went through a cooling period called WWII.

    I think that he meant to say that GW is as much of a threat as Israeli settlements on the West Bank.

    FIFY Al.

    PS One of the side benefits of moving to the Nashville area was getting to drive my gas guzzling truck out to see his tony Belle Meade neighborhood. The guy’s awash in hypocricy. I bet Tipper listens to Twisted Sister too.

  19. 19 Jenn Jul 8th, 2009 at 9:13 am

    Good work Simon. Just read the updates over at Hot Air.
    And Beige thanks for the laugh. Whale on the couch!

  20. 20 Beige Jul 8th, 2009 at 9:22 am

    You know, I bet Gore’s secretly glad he didn’t actually “invoke the spirit” of Winston Churchill, because Churchill would kick his fat ass up between his shoulderblades for him for being such a moron and for trying to stamp his goofy crap with Churchill’s posthumous approval.

  21. 21 Minnow Jul 8th, 2009 at 4:47 pm

    …Gore’s secretly glad he didn’t actually “invoke the spirit” of Winston Churchill…

    Apparently you didn’t get Presidential ObaMemo #1952 which expressly bans any and all references or likenesses of “colonialist bastards”.

    Ooh-a um boppa, um boppa, um boppa, Mau Mau…

  22. 22 DrD Jul 8th, 2009 at 9:26 pm

    He looks like he’s winning the battle of the cheeseburger, but that’s about it.

  23. 23 jenn Jul 13th, 2009 at 9:10 am

    Gore finally admits what we have known all along. This is not about the climate and the environment, it is about power:

    http://www.climatedepot.com/a/1893/Gore-US-Climate-Bill-Will-Help-Bring-About-Global-Governance

  24. 24 Angry Army Wife Aug 10th, 2009 at 10:54 am

    Political climate for energy policies cools

    http://www.lvrj.com/news/52828402.html

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