In case you missed it: CJ’s Mitch Kokai talks Al Gore with CEI fellow Marlo Lewis. Just so you know, it’s required reading:
Al Gore does not present himself as an advocate for a single viewpoint. He presents himself as Mr. Science, okay, and also as Mr. Morality — and when you do that, when you present yourself as a spokesman for science and morality, then you have an obligation to be balanced. But, so, what he’s doing is … it’s a standard political trick: You present yourself as though you’re above politics, as though you’re really not speaking as a politician, in order, then, to give your political advocacy more weight than it deserves based on the merits of your science or your morals. And so that’s the trick that he pulls off in An Inconvenient Truth. It’s really not that difficult to see through it, and yet so many people in the media have been hoodwinked by it.
Presenting yourself as Mr. Morality in order to give your political advocacy more weight. Sound like anyone else we know?
