National Post Attack on Gore a Last Gasp from Some Sore Losers

Sun, 2007-10-14 17:36Jim Hoggan
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National Post Attack on Gore a Last Gasp from Some Sore Losers


Which leaves me wondering: has Post business editor Terence Corcoran finally and completely taken leave of his senses? I mean, I can understand someone debating the lifetime record of a Nobel Prize winner like Yasser Arafat, but how can Corcoran dismiss as "obscure and absurd" the work of UNICEF or the (Canadian-led) activists who forged the international land mines agreement?


Any fair or forthright coverage of the court case would note:


2. That the judge rejected Dimmock's position out of hand. He called the movie "broadly accurate" and endorsed its availability to school age children.










Ah-HAHAHAHAHAHA! I think I just crapped myself!

Nice try, Jimbo.

Hoggan's attempt at associating Al Gore with Mother Teresa isn't so far off:


Sound like anyone we know?

Corcoran goes way over the line in the column -- slams Mother Teresa, UNICEF, people trying to de-activate landmines that blow children to shreds everyday, makes me shameful of being Canadian.


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Rescuing and rewarding the obscure and the absurd has been a Nobel sideline for some years. The award has gone to half a dozen fringe movements and futile causes (the Gameen bank, Mother Teresa, nuclear disarmament, land mine activists..." Desperate words from a callous, and uncaring man. Land mine activists "obscure and absurd." Tell me Corcoran, how "obscure and absurd" is this?





But how many landmines has Al Gore defused?

My guess would be exactly zero.


So the correct answer is still zero.

"So the correct answer is still zero."


And how many lepers have been cared for -- even with misguided calousness by Al Gore?

Again: zero.

Nope, Gore received a Nobel "Peace" prize on the basis of flying around in private jets, and giving a Powerpoint slideshow at $250+ per ticket. A true salt of the earth. Maybe he should be canonized too?

No, it's because he's raised the general awareness that we are in an environmental crisis; especially in the United States, which is very poorly served by its media, as well as being infested with lying denialists like yourself, Rob. How's your rightwing political blog going, Rob? It's not likely to win any prizes.


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All the under cover work Donal MacIntyre talks about, he fails to mention that that was in India, things r a bit different there...cultural shock!!! may be. And his choice of words in that article exaggerates what really happen there. I have been there and its not as bad as he makes it sound.



In his "editorial" Corocoran states: "Rescuing and rewarding the obscure and the absurd has been a Nobel sideline for some years. The award has gone to half a dozen fringe movements and futile causes (the Gameen bank, Mother Teresa, nuclear disarmament, land mine activists..."



... I called the exercize of Mr. Corcoran and that of three other columns overall who were published the same day) "junk journalism" ( ).

Corcoran's words are disturbingly similar to those of a neo-Nazi.

He also misspelt 'Grameen' and 'Wangari Maathai'.


I sometimes wish that someone other than Mr Gore had done the commentary on An Inconvient Truth.I personally tend to like Mr Gore, but far too many others, who dislike him for one reason or another, are "shooting" the messenger before they hear the message.
On the other hand....Terence Corcoran is an idiot and I've known that for some time.


"ideoligical driven fist shaking (see Rob, Zog or John Dowell)" Are those guys being paid to post and re-post their dreary, depressing, denialist nonsense? What a soul-destroying job!


"......the messanger[sic] is unimportant....."




For obligingly demonstrating my point!

it's people like you that are the confusing ones. Al Gore gets money from organizations that believe in global warming. The scientists that are your "bad guys" are funded by oil companies. By your statement, we should disregard everything he says because he too is funded by corporations that have their interests at heart. Also, when Al Gore gives up his 10,000 Sq. Ft. mansion then maybe I will listen to him. He can live in either his 4,000 Sq. Ft. home or his other one thats...ah can't remember, but you get the point right? Al Gore has done NOTHING on the scale of Mother Theresa and gets a Nobel Peace prize for telling people about a theory, wheres the peace?

I'll refer you to this statement I made since it seems you missed it entirely.

"Bottom line though, when it comes to science, I listen to the peer reviewed literature."

Gore does a fair job at reporting on that he isnt my primary source. Don't really care much of what he does, or lives, I care more about how I live and what I can do. There's the peace.

The Oct 13 National Post article adds powerful new material to the hyper-skeptics' list of arguments against the physics and meteorology of greenhouse gases. They are quickly gaining ground against the deluded fakers who fill the Universities and research labs of the world. Now we can add Argument 4 to the list:

4) Banking to remedy poverty, health for the poor, nuclear disarmament, land mine reductions and activists, peace negotiations are "fringe movements and futile causes", and they got awards, and Al Gore got an award, so therefore Al Gore is also irrelevant. (A team of logicians are currently in their 3rd day of pulling their hair out, attempting to refute this argument.)


1) Gore is fat.

2) Gore has a big house.

and the recent work of genius from T.Ball’s latest publication:

3) Osama believes in global warming.


Well, that convinced me...


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perusing the comments, I had no idea that so many people were totally wacko. I can imagine a planet where only the insane ones (those who trash Mother Theresa, Mohammad Yurus (Gameen Bank, and Al Gore for examples) . . . those wacko people can sit and babble among themselves, thinking they are in heaven. Still, some doen to earth people here are working to improve the earth's chances for
survival and quality living, if man doesn't destroy it first. I do not know who is the bigger dope - Corcoran or his flying monkeys.

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