» Al Gore: Media Didn’t Do Enough on Global Warming - Big Government

But consider also when Gore appeared on 60 Minutes a couple of years ago. After boasting that he was the recipient of a huge bag of money to re-brand as the ‘climate crisis’ what we had just gotten used to calling ‘climate change’ (which had already been rebranded from global cooling, then global warming and before that, I believe, weather), Lesley Stahl asked of his “huge, new $300 million advertising campaign“, “how are you paying for this?”.

Unaccustomed to challenge, this man who keeps the media away from him so he doesn’t have to answer such silly questions trotted out some weasel-wording about passing through profits from his movie to his new endeavor, which stumbling harkened back to his “no controlling legal authority” days (still lacking the dexterity of “I never inhaled” by Bill “Bring More of Those Funny Brownies!” Clinton).

So read his statements yourself in the transcript linked above; I am not aware that his implication that none of it went to him but to an ad campaign (which he ran) has been substantiated, or how much of that money he donated to the new group he heads then paid him for heading it, erasing all difference from any distinction that might exist. All of which is odd for a guy so hell-bent insisting that everyone is motivated by where they get their money. Presumably, like with his lifestyle demands, he means everyone else.