Dennis Miller on Al Gore

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DENNIS MILLER, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: He seems like a genial guy. He seems like a great husband, father, all of the things that really matter. He just seems politically insipid. And I'm always amazed at his ability to adjust the size of his pond.

You know, given his chance when he ran for the presidency in a time of peace and prosperity — and I think I screwed up all the "R's" there — America looked at him and found them wanting, so he adjusted the size of the pond that he speaks to and the caliber of the plankton. And now all of a sudden, he's an oracle. He's like the guy in the Tarzan movies or "Mutiny on the Bounty" who would, you know, amaze the locals with shiny objects or something.

But I just find it a little irresponsible what he does. When he said the debate was over as far as global warming, I stopped listening to him. He seems like a nice guy. I have no doubt he feels bad about the Tony Snow-Daily Kos thing. But I just find him to be a bit fatuous, politically.

O'REILLY: OK. Now, do you have any problems with his lifestyle vis-a-vis the global warming crusade? We got a ton of mail from people who live near him in Tennessee and say, hey, look, the guy drives around in an SUV. He's gas guzzling. He does the private jet thing. He's got a big boat that he whips around on a Tennessee lake. His house, as we all know, is a humongous house that uses a tremendous amount of energy. Do you have a problem with him in that regard?

MILLER: You know what? I don't think Al Gore believes in global warming to the extent that he — people think he does or even he might think he does. If he believed in it to the extent that he advocates and he flew — listen, I fly in a private jet whenever I can. You know, if somebody offers, I'm there, but I don't believe in global warming. Or I don't believe man's culpable in it. So if Gore really believes that, and he's still leading this lifestyle — and this is why I don't think he believes in it to the degree that people think — he would be a monster. And I don't think he's a monster.

O'REILLY: But if he doesn't believe in it, that makes him even worse. Because then he's profiting, by one account — I don't know. I can't possibly know this. He's made $100 million himself by the books and the movies and the lectures and all of these things of global warming. Now, if you're telling me that you believe that he doesn't even — you know, he's hyping it and is not as emotionally engaged as he appears to be, that would be even worse, would it not?

MILLER: No, not to me. It would be worse if he really believed he was doing the planet in, leading the lifestyle that he's living, and he still went ahead and did it. That's monstrous. This is just shallow. He's a bit of a shallow guy. Maybe the oceans should rise a little, because he's a little shallow, Al.