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not Al Gore, please

This trial balloon is so pathetic.

A movie about Al Gore giving a PowerPoint presentation about global warming doesn’t sound all that exciting, but if you liked “March of the Penguins,” you’ll love “An Inconvenient Truth.” Gore is as relentless in his travels to save the planet and faces almost as many obstacles as those penguins making their way across the tundra.

Getting the country to face up to global warming is his life’s mission, and it could be his ticket to the presidency. Voters yearning for a principled leader who truly believes in something may find what they’re looking for in the former vice president. [emphasis added]

Any old thing will do…as long as he believes in something.

On the other hand…see this post about the (un)likelihood of getting Americans to respond to the urgent threat of global warming.

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#1 infotainment rules :: documentary persuasion on 05.14.06 at

[...] I’m talking about An Inconvenient Truth, which was supposed to relaunch Al Gore onto the political stage, an idea I made fun of here. And which, a mere two weeks after its appearance, has sunk without a trace… I’m just sayin’. [...]

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