Posted by
The Town Crier on Tuesday, February 27, 2007 5:26:56 PM
While living in Tennessee and working for a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives, I was able to learn about the true Al Gore. You will remember that Al Gore lost the state of Tennessee in that election--the first presidential nominee to do so in 28 years. Gore said he was going home to Tennessee to "mend some fences"-----to us in Tennessee, we hoped he meant it literally.
Al Gore's hypocrisy is in his blood........plus, in light of his Global Warming scares + his $30,000 annual energy bills, he is showing once again that he is an out-of-touch elitist.
As a recap, during Al Gore's run for President in 2000, a story broke tagging the presidential nominee a "sanctimonious slumlord". A family, they Mayberry's, renting a house within sight of Al Gore's family farm in Carthage, Tenn.(*actually I have seen it, and it is ON the same property) were so upset with the living conditions that they went to the media. Ms Mayberry called Al Gore a "slumlord" on TV, prompting Gore to call and promise to put the family up in another house while the home was repaired. Nashville writer Matt Labash, described a grim picture: "The plaster was coming off the walls, the linoleum was peeling off the kitchen floor, the basin of the bathroom sink was a constipated sludge puddle, the guts of one toilet tank had to be held together with Sunbeam bread bag twisties, and both bathroom toilets overflowed -- when they flushed at all."
As one would expect from such a man of integrity, Al Gore said he had no idea of his property's plumbing problems. Should we believe him? Consider what the Washington Times wrote: "The family farm where Sen. Al Gore said he learned his environmental values has been the site of a large open dump-filled with pesticide containers, aerosol cans, old tires, used tilters filled with waste oil, and unrecycled cans and bottles--for several years”. The reporter found the dump appearing to violate state and federal statutes, according to environmental officials. Gore denied the claims, and refused to allow reporters to look at the dump, upon which they promptly flew a helicopter over the land immediately broadcasted footage of the dump, just as the Times had reported it.
Network coverage? ZERO.
If this had been George Bush, or any other Republican for that matter, the mainstream media would have been crying "slumlord".
The network's apathy on this story stands in sharp contrast to the treatment of President Bush, including a false NY Times story that Bush seemed impressed by a regular supermarket scanner, and network needling over his decision to appear like a man of the people November 1991 by buying socks at JC Penney.
Moreover, Al Gore’s personal energy use is his own “Inconvenient Truth”.
Gore’s 10,000 square foot home, uses more than 20 times the national average, and in fact, since the release of “An Inconvenient Truth”, Gore’s energy consumption has increased. Last night, Al Gore’s global-warming documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth”, collected an Oscar for best documentary feature, but the Tennessee Center for Policy Research has found that Gore deserves a gold statue for hypocrisy (evidently he still hasn’t mended those fences in his home state.)
Gore’s mansion, located in the posh-and I mean POSH- Belle Meade area of Nashville, consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Nashville Electric Service.
In contrast, President Bush’s Crawford, Texas Winter White House has 25,000 gallons of rainwater storage, gray water collection from sinks and showers for irrigation, passive solar, geothermal heating and cooling. “By marketplace standards, the house is startlingly small,” says David Heymann, the architect of the 4,000-square-foot home. “Clients of similar ilk are building 16-to-20,000-square-foot houses.” Furthermore, for thermal mass the walls are clad in "discards of a local stone called Leuders limestone, which is quarried in the area. The 12-to-18-inch-thick stone has a mix of colors on the top and bottom, with a cream- colored center that most people want. “They cut the top and bottom of it off because nobody really wants it,” Heymann says. “So we bought all this throwaway stone. It is fabulous. It has great color and it is relatively inexpensive.
Al Gore and his hypocrisy…….and we thought John Kerry was Unfit for Command.