Gore: 'Democracy is Under Attack'

Former veep Al Gore continues to get slavishly great press (the kind a Republican could only get by switching parties à la Jim Jeffords), this time for a speech he gave in Scotland claiming that "democracy is under attack" from media consolidation. I'm doubtful that he mentioned similar dangers from ultrarich leftists like George Soros trying to buy their own governments in various countries.

The first few grafs from AP reporter Jill Lawless are relatively straightforward (minus the fact that she did not ask other media thinkers to counter Gore):






Later in the story, though, Lawless's article turns into a Gore press release:




At the end is the trademark Gore insanity, asserting that media consolidation is all a grand conspiracy of polluters. As you might expect, Lawless provides zero skepticism for the nutty Gore pronouncement, ending the story like this:


"Questions of fact that are threatening to wealth and power become questions of power," he said. "And so the scientific evidence on global warming - an inconvenient truth for the largest polluters - becomes a question of power, and so they try to censor the information."

Matthew Sheffield
Matthew Sheffield