DAR
Dealt with this one years ago. The debunk:

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Hoover Institute and the art of slander

You know you’re winning the PR battle when your adversary switches from attacking the message to attacking the messenger. Here’s an example that also includes the common spin tactic of cherypicking: removing information from its context in an attempt to mislead.

In a recent USA Today opinion piece, Peter Schweizer, (a “Senior Fellow” at the oil money-laden Hoover Institute) tries to undermine Al Gore’s efforts to enhance public education on climate change. Specifically, Schweizer attacks Gore’s personal commitment to the reduction of green house gas – fair game as long as the accusation is accurate.

But Gore staff members criticize Schweizer’s claims as either misleading or outright falsehoods.

For example:

Claim: Schweizer claims that Gore receives royalties from a zinc mine on his property.

Fact: Gore receives no royalties from the mine, which shut down in 2003. Like many owners of small farms in Smith County, Tennessee, the Gores received royalties on their mineral rights when the mine operated. (A correction ran in USA Today on page 10A, as did a letter to the editor from Gore’s Communication Director)

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CLAIM: Schweizer says that Gore controls stock in Occidental Petroleum.

FACT: Gore has never owned or personally controlled stock in Occidental. His late father, Albert Gore Sr., worked at Occidental and the stock he owned at the time of his death was sold in the 1990s. Gore’s mother also owned stock at the time of her death and it, too, was sold by the trustee of her estate.

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CLAIM: Schweizer attacks Gore for not using green energy alternatives at his home.

FACT: The Gores have signed up for every “green power” option their utilities make available and are in the process of adding photovoltaic panels to their home.

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CLAIM: Schweizer says that Gore does not offset his carbon emissions because Paramount Classics pays for the offsets.

FACT: The Gore’s personal carbon offsets are achieved independently of and in addition to the carbon-neutral leadership shown by Paramount Classics, Participant Productions and Rodale.

LINK.

Four claims, roasted. Did they miss anything? I don’t think so.

D.

DAR
You have moral absolutes? Great. Can I have one too? How come you can never give me a single example of one of these babies when I ask? Still waiting…

D.

This whole citation carp. It is worthless because no matter what people post you make some excuse as to why it is not correct. Gore buys offsets, big deal. Because he is wealthy he can buy offsets to live the lifestyle he wants.

People plant trees so leave them alone and let them drive what they want and use the light bulbs they want.

Gore

And here

DAR
Talk is cheap. I back up my claims as usual, with citation. You just throw insults.

Bigd: Gore rides in big SUVs>>

DAR
Hybrids. And you back nothing up.

Bigd: He also flies in private planes>>

DAR
When necessary, and he buys offsets which consume precisely the equivalent amount of carbon he uses. Your criticisms, as usual, fail.

Bigd: “and if,…his house is what you say>>

DAR
I’ve already posted documentation of this. Let me know if you would like to see it again.

Bigd: it has just been made that way after his hypocrisy was exposed.>>

DAR
You’ve shown you’re an angry person who can really hate people, but you have shown no hypocrisy. Is it really so hard to believe that someone like Al Gore, who has shown a life long interest in such matters, would consistently care about the environment? No, not so hard to believe at all. If you’ve anything besides the same old tired poo to throw, let’s see it. I’ve made this challenge many times, you’ve got nothing.

Bigd: People want reform and not this because it is BAD.>>

DAR
Yes, let’s just keep spending 18x times as much as France for the same medical procedure. This problem should have been dealt with years ago. Canada fixed this in 1966.

Bigd: And some of your Democrats express the same objections as I>>

DAR
You’re right about that. And they are the political whores who have been paid off by the trillion dollar greed machine that lives off the public teat. At least they have a rational reason for selling out. You’re just a ideologue who actually believes this nonsense for free.

Bigd: “You are no freethinker”>>

DAR
Again, for the 14th time, freethought specifically refers to religious metaphysical claims and has nothing whatsoever to do with politics. Nothing. No thing. Do they have a medication for your learning disorder?

D.
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free-think-er n.
A person who forms opinions about religion on the basis of reason, independently of tradition, authority, or established belief.
– Webster’s New World Dictionary

Zero my a$$. But I planted a few trees.

Gore rides in big SUVs and has caravans. Her also flies in private planes and if, and it is a small if, his house is what you say it has just been made that way after his hypocrisy was exposed.

People want reform and not this because it is BAD. There are better, less costly options.

And some of your Democrats express the same objections as I so they must be hacks as well.

Darrel, you can play mightier than though but you are a hack who shills for the libs.

You are no freethinker, you are a partisan hack.

DAR
Americans overwhelmingly want health care reform. To the extent they may not want what is being proposed now, it is largely attributed to the blatant lies and misinformation campaign being put forward by misinformed ideological political hacks, like yourself.

Bigd: “Obama is flying back and forth to Copenhagen”>>

DAR
This is Bigd pretending that Obama is being a hypocrite if he doesn’t travel by bicycle or row boat when he works to address climate change. Absurd + stupid.

Bigd: “I will not be dictated to by people like Gore who use 20 times the average family.”>>

DAR
Again with the lies. Unlike you or “the average family” Al Gore’s carbon foot print is ZERO. He lives in an award winning energy efficient home and…

“In his private life, Gore tries to reduce his emissions as much as possible. He drives a hybrid, flies commercially whenever he can, and purchases green power. In the few instances where work has demanded that he travel privately, he purchases carbon offsets for the emissions.”
–Spokesperson responding to a smear campaign by Hannity in ’07

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/16/hannity-gore/

We’ll see how much you really need your SUV when gas is $5 a gallon. I bet you’ll come to find that a front wheel drive hybrid gets you to church on time just fine. Even if the higher cost of gas doesn’t wake you up to this reality, it will for enough other people that we will find these gas hogs become a scarce commodity (plus the huge tax subsidy is now gone). If you find you do need a Hummer, you can always order one from China.

D.

And the recent events show that.