The 'Swiftboating' of former Vice President Al Gore has begun.
Fresh on the heels of his hugely successful documentary film, An Incovenient Truth, the radical right has swung into battle mode, attempting the squash the buzz that Democrats, hungry for a viable candidate to run for president in 2008, want Gore to throw his hat into the race.
From ThinkProgress:
Last week, Sterling Burnett – a senior fellow at the Exxon-backed National Center for Policy Analysis – compared Al Gore to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.
In this weekend’s Washington Post magazine, meteorologist Bill Gray – one of the most prominent climate skeptics – directly compared Al Gore to Adolf Hitler:
Gore believed in global warming almost as much as Hitler believed there was something wrong with the Jews.
It’s telling that so many of the attacks on Al Gore and his movie are ad hominem, not substantive. There really is no credible scientific rebuttal to An Inconvenient Truth, so people are forced to attack the messenger.