Sunday, June 11, 2006
Polticians - "Al Gore's convenient fiction"
I don't think Al Gore is the only politician with behavior like this...
Debra J. Saunders writes:
"In 'A Streetcar Named Desire,' character Blanche DuBois depended on the kindness of strangers. In the newly released film, 'An Inconvenient Truth,' Al Gore depends on their forgetfulness."
"Just 10 years ago, Gore told the Democratic National Convention that after his sister Nancy's needless death in 1984 from lung cancer, he committed himself 'heart and soul into the cause of protecting our children from the dangers of smoking.' In his new film, Gore again dredges up his sister's death and how it led his once tobacco-growing family to turn away from tobacco."
"After the DNC speech, reporters with memories intervened. America learned that contrary to his rhetoric, in 1988 Gore campaigned as a tobacco farmer who told his brethren that 'all of my life,' I hoed it, chopped it, shredded it, 'put it in the barn and stripped it and sold it.' The year his sister died, Gore helped the industry by fighting efforts to put the words 'death' and 'addiction' on cigarette-warning labels. For years, Gore supported Big Tobacco in other ways."
