Friday, March 23, 2007
Politicians - Al Gore disobeys the rules
I've seen the comment about violating the rules in a few places; but I don't think it's likely to show up in the major media...
Here's the opening paragraph from a article in Canada's National Post:
"The last month has not been kind to Al Gore. Instead of basking in the warm afterglow of winning an Oscar for his blockbuster documentary An Inconvenient Truth and being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, the former U.S. vice-president turned global warming evangelist has had to spend much of his time fending off questions about his own personal impact on the environment. He has also had to ward off allegations from scientists -- many of whom nonetheless support his views on climate change -- that his movie (and his worldwide pitch tour that has accompanied it) contain substantial factual errors and exaggerations. Perhaps all this is why Mr. Gore violated U.S. Congressional rules Wednesday by refusing to provide members of the U.S. Congress with advanced copies of his testimony at two environmental hearings on Capitol Hill, and why he refused to take a 'personal energy ethics pledge' to reduce his 'carbon footprint.'
