Could DiCaprio's snoot have been any further up Gore's ass?

According to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research:

"Gore’s mansion, located in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville, consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Nashville Electric Service (NES)."

http://www.tennesseepolicy.org/main/article.php?article_id=367

The source of this news is hardly non-partisan, but if it's true, shouldn't Gore be called on it?

1. It was part of the act

2. Why don't find out if it's true first...or don't we seem do that anymore? Or should we "call him on it" first and then make him prove that the "fact" is bullshit. I know, I know. Fact checkers cost money and slow down the swift-boating I suppose.

I thought it was pretty funny; certainly a better sense of humor than cheney.

That's why I wrote, "...but if it's true..."

We'll know soon enough.

I wonder how much electricity Halliburton is wasting ripping off the U.S. taxpayer with Bush's Folly in Iraq - you know, that place where many American soldiers are picked off for target practice each month rather than, you know, going to fight the War on Terror in Afghanistan or Pakistan.

Oh, right. They can't seem to power anything outside of the Green Zone. Never mind.

Guess President Gore's mansion is using up more electricity after all.

Re-elect Gore in '08.

It has no bearing on the truth of his climate change arguments. They're either true (to a greater or lesser extent) or not, regardless of his alleged hypocrisy.

And if he is a hypocrite, it puts him in the company of about 6(?) billion other human beings.

I don't see your point. This has nothing to do with Iraq (though I do oppose everything we've done there since forever).

There was a question mark at the end of the title of my first post because I was asking a question. Maybe Gore's not a hypocrite. Maybe he's using so much energy to house and feed less fortunate people. I don't know, honestly.

But pointing at the boondoggle in Iraq and saying "that's worse!" makes me think you don't think we should ask questions about Gore at all.

I mean, we already know the man is a hypocrite when it comes to marijuana, I'm just wondering if he is when it comes to personal energy use.

I think Gore is 100% correct in warning people about the dangers of global warming and how important it is that we look for alternative fuels while practicing conservation. But he could still be a hypocrite on the matter, just like he was about marijuana (he smoked bales of it in college, but supported putting sick people who use it in prison). Let's also remember that fuel standards during the Clinton/Gore administration actually fell for the first time since their inception.

That said, I don't think the rest of the people on the planet are hypocrites. Sure there are a lot of them, but you can't say that the billions of people who live and work day to day at or under the poverty line are hypocrites.

Multi-millionaires who tell people to conserve energy while using much, much, much more than they need certainly qualify.

Hannity and Colmes had on the president of this Tennesse policy research group and a environmentalist couple from California. Both Hannity and the president of this group drilled the activists trying to get them to say Al Gore was a hypocrite. Hannity then jumped in drilling the unfairness of this report which doesnt mention that the energy Al Gore uses is all renewable "green" and that he contributes thousands of dollars a year in credits, offsetting his emissions and much more!

Heres fair and balanced!

(if you can bare it, check the video clip on fox news)

Some of it might be, but if he's in Nashville, unless he's off the grid, he's using coal and/or nuclear power.

And unless most of his usage is renewable, he's using more coal and nuclear than he ought to be.

Unless he's figured out something else.

Oh, and Hannity is a complete tool, and a pussy to boot!

any by Hannity jumping in I meant Colmes. No, there's know way Hannity would try and balance and argument or present facts that go against his point.

That part of the Oscars was terrific. Gore's fake and cut-short announcement was witty and classy and got a laugh out of me.

As for you douchebags who take any opportunity to bash Gore, get over yourselves. Global warming is not a partisan issue. Stop making it personal against one man. The question is: Is man-made global warming happening or isn't it? Go read the science and decide for yourselves. Don't make it about Gore.

And oh yeah, if the guy has a big house, so what? Apparently he just installed a bunch of solar panels and is on the forefront of technology that allows people to feed solar energy back into their large houses, etc. I don't consider him a hypocrite for living at the level that you'd expect anybody who used to be Vice President to live.

Man, why are people so lame that they have to make something personal that shouldn't be personal?