{"id":2226,"date":"2006-08-22T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2006\/08\/22\/despinning-al-gore-and-penn-teller\/"},"modified":"2006-08-22T01:30:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T01:30:00","slug":"despinning-al-gore-and-penn-teller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/despinning-al-gore-and-penn-teller\/","title":{"rendered":"Despinning: Al Gore and Penn &#038; Teller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennandteller.com\/03\/webimages\/bullshit.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pennandteller.com\/03\/webimages\/bullshit.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Blogging on sustainability issues has gotten to be even more rewarding over the past year and a half as green consciousness seems to be <a href=\"http:\/\/sustainablog.blogspot.com\/2006\/06\/sustainability-increases-profitability.html\">awakening<\/a> on a very <a href=\"http:\/\/sustainablog.blogspot.com\/2006\/07\/newsweek-on-going-green.html\">large<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/sustainablog.blogspot.com\/2006\/05\/new-york-times-publishes-special-green.html\">scale<\/a>. Of course, with that greater consciousness comes renewed efforts to muddy the waters by people and organizations that see such developments as a threat.  I ran across a couple of items today that show the lengths some are willing to go to undermine cleaner and greener ways of making progress:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/groovygreen.com\/groove\/?p=444\">number<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/gristmill.grist.org\/story\/2006\/8\/17\/133652\/848\">other<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2006\/8\/17\/185225\/912\">blogs<\/a> and news outlets have taken note of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/opinion\/editorials\/2006-08-09-gore-green_x.htm\">recent effort<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoover.org\/bios\/2811796.html\">Peter Schweizer of the Hoover Institute<\/a> to brand Al Gore a hypocrite.  Odiyya at The Conscious Earth <a href=\"http:\/\/consciousearth.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/gore-cracks-conservatives-lies_20.html\">lays out the facts<\/a> behind Mr. Schweizer&#8217;s claims. In case you&#8217;re interested in Schweizer&#8217;s motivation for publishing such false claims, take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sourcewatch.org\/index.php?title=Hoover_Institute\">his employer<\/a>&#8230; Also take note how Schweizer engages in a typical ad hominem attack, never addressing Gore&#8217;s argument in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatecrisis.net\/\">An Inconvenient Truth<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>And when Penn &amp; Teller decide to call a show Bullshit!, they don&#8217;t screw around.  I&#8217;ve watched one or two episodes of the show <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H5rWcJbhEa0\">via YouTube<\/a>, and have been amazed at how brazenly they push a right-wing line on, well, everything&#8230; Richard Littlemore at DeSmog Blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/penn-and-teller-uncontested-experts-in-bullshit\">takes them to task<\/a> specifically for their show on global warming.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t done as much political coverage lately &#8212; it&#8217;s not much fun these days &#8212; but these kinds of efforts (which have even taken in a few lefties here and there) have to be addressed.  What&#8217;s that thing again about a liberal media&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>Categories: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/green\" rel=\"tag\">green<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/sustainability\" rel=\"tag\">sustainability<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/environmentalism\" rel=\"tag\">environmentalism<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/algore\" rel=\"tag\">algore<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/penn&amp;teller\" rel=\"tag\">penn&amp;teller<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/globalwarming\" rel=\"tag\">globalwarming<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/bullshit\" rel=\"tag\">bullshit<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/spin\" rel=\"tag\">spin<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/us\" rel=\"tag\">us<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogging on sustainability issues has gotten to be even more rewarding over the past year and a half as green consciousness seems to be awakening on a very large scale.&nbsp;[ &hellip; 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