Bunny ranch Hannity and Oxy rush are trying to paint Gore as a hypocrite

[greenbriar]

I for one am not going to let them.

I do not know much about the offsets Gore buys...can someone enlighten me???

[NYCGirl]

1. Here's some info:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-roberts/talking-points-on-the-gor_b_42335.html

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/8/17/133652/848

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/26/gore-responds-to-drudge/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-johnson-and-james-boyce/a-far-too-convenient-mea_b_42171.html

[greenbriar]

2. thank you

will read up about it

[Double T]

3. Isn't that what Bunny ranch Hannity and Oxy rush were hired to do?

Only their lemming minions believe their destructive babble anyway. Gore could certainly help himself from being attacked and 'the cause' by living as he tells others to live; smaller house, etc. Buying carbon offsets is setting yourself up as a target for the RW neocon conservatives.

[Skidmore]

4. Is there something about Hannity I haven't heard?

Bunny Ranch?

[NYCGirl]

5. He did a show from there. NT

[ORDagnabbit]

6. More information.....about the lets make stuff up crowd...

the Gore hit piece done by the TCPR (The Tennessee Dept. of Revenue has actually termed the TCPR as "not a legitimate organization.") guess who funded it?

can we say exxon? I knew you could.

http://guerillawomentn.blogspot.com/2007/02/tennessee-center-for-policy-research.html


more info on the Gore hit piece

http://mediamatters.org/items/200703010008

and finally

http://threewaynews.blogspot.com/2007/02/al-gores-personal-energy-use.html#comments


The press release claimed that Al Gore's home in Nashville consumed 221,000 kilowatt hours (kWh) (btw the exxon funded research team pulled this number out of their ass...for the real number of 191,000 http://www.news2wkrn.com/goreelectricbill.pdf) of electricity last year compared to a national average of 10,656 kWh per household. I have no idea whether the number cited for Gore's house is correct, but let's assume it is. The 10,656 number comes from data published by the Department of Energy. But it's an average of all households nationwide (including apartment units and mobile homes) and across all climate regions. As it turns out, the region in which Gore lives--the East South Central--has the highest per household energy usage of any climate region in the country, a good 50% higher than the national average quoted in the press release (I assume this is due to the combination of cold winters and hot, muggy summers). So that's misleading in and of itself.

Moreover, Gore lives in a large home (10,000 sq. ft.). If you look at the data, it's clear that Gore's energy usage per square foot (even assuming the 221,000 kWh number is accurate) is well within the average range for his climate region. So all this accusation boils down to is a claim that it is somehow "hypocritical" for Al Gore to live in a large house.

What Al Gore wants people to do is reduce the carbon footprint of their residence as much as possible and then purchase carbon offsets to reduce the remaining footprint to zero. Gore has installed solar panels in his home, he uses fluorescent light bulbs and other energy saving technology, and he purchases his energy from Green Power Switch, a provider which utilizes solar and wind power. He then purchases carbon offsets to reduce his remaining carbon footprint to zero.

Could Gore use less overall energy if he and Tipper moved into a one-bedroom apartment? Of course. But he's not asking people to move into smaller homes. He's asking them to reduce their carbon footprints, which is exactly what he has done. He practices what he preaches.

[TerdlowSmedley]

13. The Tennessee Commission for Issuing Press Releases

on Al Gore's Utility Bill?

[malaise]

19. Who make up the

Tennessee Commission. Name names and start digging.

[muntrv]

7. How come we don't swift boat these asshats? Beat 'em at their own game.

[greenbriar]

8. any time I reference them it will be bunny ranch hannity and oxy boy sex rush

they deserve nothing less

[NYCGirl]

9. Except that sex is such a wonderful, life-affirming thing. I hate to see it associated

with those two boils on the ass of humanity.

[greenbriar]

10. you don't see the hypocrisy in calling them that?

members of such a moral upstanding party ?

[NYCGirl]

11. Sex is good. They are not. Yes, I do see what you're getting at,

but I prefer to celebrate sex, not make it ugly by association.

[greenbriar]

12. yes sex is good...at the right time and place with the right person...neither of those names

suggest either

[Robbien]

14. No matter what the real facts are

Freeperville and the hate talk radio gang have already hung the hypocrite label on Gore. The truth will not change them.

They still insist WMDs were found in Iraq and that Bin Laden and Saddam were buddies.

They will insist on calling Gore an environmental hypocrite just because they know it gets under lefties skin. You can bury them in facts but it will not faze their name calling.

[Warren DeMontague]

15. Right. Rush knows Hypocrites.

"We should lock up those filthy druggies, and throw away the key."

"Um, except for me"

[greenbriar]

16. love your gore pict

that is awesome

[Warren DeMontague]

20. Thanks!

The reaction has been generally positive-- although one guy said he thought that it would lock up the "12 year old girl, magical unicorn" vote for Gore.... and felt real bad when he found out I designed it myself.

I said, hey, man, no skin of my nose. For criticism, it was pretty funny. :rofl: And aesthetic appreciation is nothing if not totally subjective; what can I say, I happen to like color.

[Beelzebud]

17. Hannity flunked out of community college. He wouldn't know science from shinola.

[johnaries]

18. Gore uses 100% Green Power Switch.

All of his electricity comes from Green sources:

http://www.tva.gov/greenpowerswitch/

The offsets are for flying, driving, etc. But his electricity usage is already 100% green.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

21. bunny ranch hannity?

that one's new to me. please elaborate...

[NYCGirl]

22. He did a show about it. NT

[greenbriar]

23. he did "show" from the bunny ranch

and afterwords,,, I bet he did a lot more...

there is a picture of him there with an obvious boner