{"id":4345,"date":"2008-03-31T19:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T19:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4345"},"modified":"2017-11-12T06:19:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T12:19:51","slug":"the-pot-calls-the-kettle-an-unimpressive-intellect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/31\/the-pot-calls-the-kettle-an-unimpressive-intellect\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pot Calls The Kettle An Unimpressive Intellect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a snippet from Al Gore&#8217;s appearance on <i>60 Minutes<\/i> talking about global warming skeptics:<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HFpQllmOkiA&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HFpQllmOkiA&#038;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Two things about this clip, particularly in naming the skeptics of global warming:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;You mean Dick Cheney?&#8221; he asks.  Seriously, who&#8217;s the vice president in his world?  Al Gore throws this out just so that he can say the fighting words <i>Dick Cheney<\/i> and so the faithful can react appropriately to the invocation of the demon.  Seriously.  And then, &#8220;Mm-hm.&#8221;  Pompous (can&#8217;t think of appropriate noun for Al Gore, sorry).\n<\/li>\n<li>Secondly, who does this fellow think he is?  <i>Doctor<\/i> Al Gore, credentialed climatologist?  The only reason he&#8217;s gotten the attention he&#8217;s gotten for his position and the stepladder to the pedestal he&#8217;s standing on come from having the titles <i>Senator<\/i> and <i>Vice-President<\/i> in front of his own name.  So he&#8217;s going to start demeaning them now?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Goofball.  Pompous goofball.  There, I have a noun for him.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe he&#8217;ll get pulled from the Democratic bench this year, and the Republicans can beat him again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a snippet from Al Gore&#8217;s appearance on 60 Minutes talking about global warming skeptics: Two things about this clip, particularly in naming the skeptics of global warming: &#8220;You mean Dick Cheney?&#8221; he asks. Seriously, who&#8217;s the vice president in his world? Al Gore throws this out just so that he can say the fighting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17544,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345\/revisions\/17544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}