Thursday, April 03, 2008

Gore Campaigns to Win Over 'Tiny, Tiny Minority'

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I am proud to raise the “They” flag. Because I dare ask questions, those pesky things journalists are supposed to handle. Who is funding Gore’s $300-million campaign? Lesley Stahl let Gore emphasize how much he is helping underwrite the ads. “Well, Tipper and I – thank you again – have put all of the profits from the movie and the book that we would have otherwise gotten, ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ to this,” Gore said.

But according to The Washington Post, he’s committed “more than $2.7 million.” Let’s assume a new Gore book and a few proceeds from the Live Earth fiasco add another few million.

So where does roughly $290 million come from? Are there donors, like Gore, somehow involved in carbon credits, alternative energy or some standard left-wing cause? We don’t know because journalists are so blinded by their devotion to Gore that they don’t dare challenge him with questions a high school journalism student would ask.

Journalists usually love to investigate funding. They point out the funding for conservative groups all the time. Last summer, a left-wing front group called The Union of Concerned Scientists complained that groups opposed to Gore received funding. NBC’s Anne Thompson told viewers “interest groups fueled by powerful companies” had funded “denier groups.”

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