Naturalized-Texan
05-26-2006, 05:11 PM
The New Al Gore: Same old (http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MzQwMWRjZWFmMzIyNzc3OWQ3YjUwMTk0OWYzMWMwZGY=)
The global-warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth supposedly raises the curtain on the new Al Gore. And it does, in the sense that it’s not possible to have a nearly two-hour feature film devoted to lionizing you and your views without sprucing up your image. If nothing else, Gore’s dogged devotion to his cause—raising the alarm on global warming—is admirable.
But the Al Gore of An Inconvenient Truth, which is built around his PowerPoint presentation on the topic, isn’t really that new. There is the same earnestness. The same dire comparisons—he likens global warming to the threat from Nazi Germany and Islamic terrorists. The same nearly religious fervor. Gore has a gnostic’s faith that he gained special insight into the most important force in the universe when a college professor of his warned of rising C02 levels in the atmosphere decades ago.
Thus, his movie has about as much nuance as Basic Instinct II. It plays by the rules set by Michael Moore, which established that no left-wing political documentary can hope for success unless it is dishonest, or at the very least, extremely tendentious. Gore scores his most compelling points on behalf of his inconvenient truth by leaving out inconvenient facts.
{More at the link above.}
The global-warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth supposedly raises the curtain on the new Al Gore. And it does, in the sense that it’s not possible to have a nearly two-hour feature film devoted to lionizing you and your views without sprucing up your image. If nothing else, Gore’s dogged devotion to his cause—raising the alarm on global warming—is admirable.
But the Al Gore of An Inconvenient Truth, which is built around his PowerPoint presentation on the topic, isn’t really that new. There is the same earnestness. The same dire comparisons—he likens global warming to the threat from Nazi Germany and Islamic terrorists. The same nearly religious fervor. Gore has a gnostic’s faith that he gained special insight into the most important force in the universe when a college professor of his warned of rising C02 levels in the atmosphere decades ago.
Thus, his movie has about as much nuance as Basic Instinct II. It plays by the rules set by Michael Moore, which established that no left-wing political documentary can hope for success unless it is dishonest, or at the very least, extremely tendentious. Gore scores his most compelling points on behalf of his inconvenient truth by leaving out inconvenient facts.
{More at the link above.}