2/27/2007, 5:52 pm
Nothing is so pathetic as watching the Left try to defend themselves. It's like watching a small child try to lie. In this regard I refer to the latest revelations about Al Gore and his huge electric bills:
I don't find Al Gore's enormous electricity bills and his hypocrisy to be nearly as interesting or revealing as the Left's defense of Al Gore. Revealing for what the defense doesn't say. Perhaps most interesting is the article from the Huffington Post that I found at the AlGore.org website:
The funny thing for me about this is that all the smear tactics used against The Tennessee Center For Policy Research that released this information, all the rationalizations used to justify Al Gore's enormous use of electricity and gas, Al Gore's statement that his energy use is offset by his purchase of energy credits (do any of you use so much electricity that you need to offset it with energy credits?) is all really beside the point.
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Fifty years ago... forty years ago... even thirty years ago, no one would have had any problem with someone spending so much money on electricity or using so much natural gas to warm their house or flying around the world in his big jet plane. They had a phrase back then that summed up the best defense ever devised for such behavior. It isn't a paradox that in the freest country in the world Al Gore not only can't use the oldest, best defense for his behavior, it would destroy him if he did use it. I'm sure the defense doesn't even occur to Al Gore or his fellow travelers. The best defense Al Gore and his fellow travelers could use to defuse this new revelation of his hypocrisy is to simply state in clear language:
"It's my money. This is a free country. I can spend my money however I want."
This is what everyone that drives a SUV that only gets 9 miles a gallon should say. It's what everyone that wants to fly just for the fun of it should say. It's what everyone that wants to do whatever goes against the latest Left Wing fad of the moment should say.
But Al Gore can't use this defense. Funny isn't it, that saying a simple statement that "this is a free country and I can spend my money however I damn well please" would be the beginning of the end of Al Gore and destroy him. The man who would be the leader of the free world wouldn't be able to survive the political fallout of simply saying to his critics that this is a free country and he can spend his money however he wants. That says quite a bit about the present culture, let alone Al Gore.
But it is his only real defense. And I for one stand up proudly and say this is a free country. I can spend my money however I want. It's my money. Will Al Gore? Does he have the balls to stand up for his own freedom? Does he have the brains to even understand that that is what is in the balance?
(you can click this to go to the story)ABC News wrote:Al Gore's 'Inconvenient Truth'? -- $30,000 utility bill
I don't find Al Gore's enormous electricity bills and his hypocrisy to be nearly as interesting or revealing as the Left's defense of Al Gore. Revealing for what the defense doesn't say. Perhaps most interesting is the article from the Huffington Post that I found at the AlGore.org website:
(you can click this to go to the story)AlGore.org wrote:From the HuffingtonPost: A Far Too Convenient $mear: Part One
The funny thing for me about this is that all the smear tactics used against The Tennessee Center For Policy Research that released this information, all the rationalizations used to justify Al Gore's enormous use of electricity and gas, Al Gore's statement that his energy use is offset by his purchase of energy credits (do any of you use so much electricity that you need to offset it with energy credits?) is all really beside the point.
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Fifty years ago... forty years ago... even thirty years ago, no one would have had any problem with someone spending so much money on electricity or using so much natural gas to warm their house or flying around the world in his big jet plane. They had a phrase back then that summed up the best defense ever devised for such behavior. It isn't a paradox that in the freest country in the world Al Gore not only can't use the oldest, best defense for his behavior, it would destroy him if he did use it. I'm sure the defense doesn't even occur to Al Gore or his fellow travelers. The best defense Al Gore and his fellow travelers could use to defuse this new revelation of his hypocrisy is to simply state in clear language:
"It's my money. This is a free country. I can spend my money however I want."
This is what everyone that drives a SUV that only gets 9 miles a gallon should say. It's what everyone that wants to fly just for the fun of it should say. It's what everyone that wants to do whatever goes against the latest Left Wing fad of the moment should say.
But Al Gore can't use this defense. Funny isn't it, that saying a simple statement that "this is a free country and I can spend my money however I damn well please" would be the beginning of the end of Al Gore and destroy him. The man who would be the leader of the free world wouldn't be able to survive the political fallout of simply saying to his critics that this is a free country and he can spend his money however he wants. That says quite a bit about the present culture, let alone Al Gore.
But it is his only real defense. And I for one stand up proudly and say this is a free country. I can spend my money however I want. It's my money. Will Al Gore? Does he have the balls to stand up for his own freedom? Does he have the brains to even understand that that is what is in the balance?