Al Gore and Charlie Rose and the Twilight Zone

I feel like I entered the Twilight Zone.

I watched Al Gore talk with Charlie Rose about global warming.

At the beginning of the interview, Gore was speaking slowly and in a gentle whisper. Couple that with his singsongy delivery and it was like watching Mr. Rogers without the sweater.

Gore said that he's deeply immersed himself in environmental science.

He claimed that scientists trust him to such an extent that they tell him things "off the record" and beg him to get the truth out -- a sort of "Please, Al. Save us!"

Some direct quotes from Gore on global warming and An Inconvenient Truth:

"Science thrives on uncertainty by its nature."

"The case I present is not the extreme case."

"The debate is over."

As the hour progressed, it got more bizarre.

Gore said that the people who dispute global warming are like the people who believe the moon landing was a hoax and filmed in Arizona.

Rose asked Gore: What is the President's position on global warming?

After a long sigh, reminiscent of his moans and groans during his first presidential debate with Bush in 2000, Gore responded: "To do nothing."

He went on: "Actually, it's worse than nothing."

Gore accused Bush and Cheney of actively trying to prevent the public from understanding what Gore considers to be a truly alarming global warming crisis.

Rose asked if the reason they are promoting falsehoods is because their "natural allies" are people who would suffer by addressing the problem, meaning their oil company cronies.

Gore said that Bush "appears to be an incurious person" and he has "a surpising lack of curiousity about things that most people would be curious about."

Then, on Iraq, Gore called the war "the worst strategic mistake in American history."

Rose accused the Bush administration of "looking for reasons to go to war" in Iraq.

Gore kept talking about the "perfect storm" that enabled the Bush administration to get the country to go to war. He depicted Bush as being influenced, almost manipulated, by the evil Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Karl Rove.

In short, Gore said that the Iraq war was about oil. The neocons had a master plan to help their big oil buddies profit.

Unbelievable.

Together, Gore and Rose created the "perfect storm" of liberal lunacy.

At the end of the interview, I expected Rod Serling to step from out of the darkness and say:

You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension. A dimension of sound. A dimension of sight. A dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both style and substance of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into the Twilight Zone.
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NewsBusters has a partial transcript of the "other dimension."