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Gore’s Nobel Prize Could Sideline Hillary



It is being widely reported that Al Gore's winning of the Nobel Peace Prize could propel him into the presidential race, but the award is tainted and the former vice president received it shortly after a British Court issued a ruling alleging numerous errors in his film on global warming. In short, Gore's prize is a joke, something that should be fodder for late-night comedians.

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But there can be no minimizing the propaganda value that such an award can garner. If Hillary falters in her race for the Democratic presidential nomination, it could be enough for Gore to make a move, and try to seize the White House for himself. That will depend, in part, on the fickle finger of the Big Media. The Competitive Enterprise Institute has a point in saying the award to Gore is a "sad day" for the Nobel legacy, except for the fact that other recipients of the prize have been as notorious and controversial as Gore. "Al Gore should probably get a prize for most travel in a private jet, but not the Peace Prize," said Myron Ebell, Director of Global Warming Policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. He was alluding to Gore's penchant for using so much of the energy that he blames for jeopardizing the future of the planet. Indeed, Ebell's comments are precisely the tone that should be set. The prize is something to be mocked, not celebrated. Gore is a first class hypocrite who has not let his theory about the end of civilization inhibit his own luxurious lifestyle. Gore won the award along with the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a controversial body, for "their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change." Such "measures," if Gore has his way, will include higher taxes and loopholes such as "carbon offsets" for the rich to avoid them. The award sounds impressive, but in the past it has gone to Yasser Arafat, a terrorist who was responsible for the assassination of U.S. diplomats in Sudan; Jimmy Carter, the failed former U.S. president who while taking millions of dollars from Arab countries has been on a rhetorical rampage against Israel; and Rigoberta Menchu, who postured as a human rights activist before many of her biographical claims were exposed as outright lies. Winning a Nobel Peace Prize does not carry much prestige these days. However, basking in the glow of the tainted Nobel Peace Prize, Gore claims to be "gratified" by the British court findings that his global warming film, "An Inconvenient Truth," contains a number of inaccuracies but was "substantially founded upon scientific research and fact." (Ian Murray, in National Review Online's Planet Gore, presents the 11 inaccuracies found by the court, and details the case brought against the film.) Gore insists that his main theme that man-made activity is causing the warming


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Roger Aronoff is a member of Citizens Commission on National Security.  Roger is the writer/director of Confronting Iraq: Conflict and Hope


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