Geek-Chic Al Gore

Have you noticed that the Democrat Party has a lot of "rock stars"?

For weeks, the liberal media have talked about rock star Barack Obama.

Al Gore has also been crowned a rock star.

The Washington Post slobbers over Gore, "Oscar Hopeful May Be America's Coolest Ex-Vice President Ever."

HAHAHAHA

Now that's funny!

In the annals of vice presidential history, tonight will be something different. In his black tux, the man known to his most fervent fans as "The Goracle" will arrive by hybrid eco-limo and, surrounded by fellow Hollywood greenies Cameron Diaz and Leonardo DiCaprio, will stroll down the red carpet at the Academy Awards to answer the immortal question: "Al, who are you wearing?"

An "eco-limo"?

How phony! How Hollywood!

Gore isn't nearly as green as he professes to be. Rock star Gore doesn't practice what he preaches.

Graciously, Gore tells consumers how to change their lives to curb their carbon-gobbling ways: Switch to compact fluorescent light bulbs, use a clothesline, drive a hybrid, use renewable energy, dramatically cut back on consumption. Better still, responsible global citizens can follow Gore's example, because, as he readily points out in his speeches, he lives a "carbon-neutral lifestyle." But if Al Gore is the world's role model for ecology, the planet is doomed.

For someone who says the sky is falling, he does very little. He says he recycles and drives a hybrid. And he claims he uses renewable energy credits to offset the pollution he produces when using a private jet to promote his film. (In reality, Paramount Classics, the film's distributor, pays this.)

Public records reveal that as Gore lectures Americans on excessive consumption, he and his wife Tipper live in two properties: a 10,000-square-foot, 20-room, eight-bathroom home in Nashville, and a 4,000-square-foot home in Arlington, Va. (He also has a third home in Carthage, Tenn.) For someone rallying the planet to pursue a path of extreme personal sacrifice, Gore requires little from himself.

Then there is the troubling matter of his energy use. In the Washington, D.C., area, utility companies offer wind energy as an alternative to traditional energy. In Nashville, similar programs exist. Utility customers must simply pay a few extra pennies per kilowatt hour, and they can continue living their carbon-neutral lifestyles knowing that they are supporting wind energy. Plenty of businesses and institutions have signed up. Even the Bush administration is using green energy for some federal office buildings, as are thousands of area residents.

But according to public records, there is no evidence that Gore has signed up to use green energy in either of his large residences. When contacted Wednesday, Gore's office confirmed as much but said the Gores were looking into making the switch at both homes. Talk about inconvenient truths.

The truth is inconvenient for Gore.

He's a fake. He's a hypocrite.

He's the embodiment of Hollywood and its holier-than-thou greenies globbling up energy living in enormous homes, flying in private jets.

What a year it has been for Al Gore and his little indie film.

...In the year since his film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, to a standing ovation, Gore has gone from failed presidential contender -- and a politician who at times gave new meaning to the word cardboard -- to the most unlikely of global celebrities.

Incredible as it may seem, Al Gore is not only totally carbon neutral, but geek-chic cool. No velvet rope can stop him. He rolls with Diddy. He is on first-name basis, for real, with Ludacris. But what does this mean? And how did it happen? Did Gore change? Or did the climate -- political, cultural, natural -- change around him?

In an e-mail exchange with The Goracle himself, "AG" typed to The Washington Post that the Oscar craziness and pageantry of the film premieres has been fun (his word) "but I'm old enough to know that a red carpet is just a rug, so I've been able to enjoy that part of it without losing perspective."

Just a rug, people. Because, Gore continued (this was on Friday during a break from his tux fitting): "Actually, for me, the most moving moments have been in conversations with people who have told me that the movie had a big impact on the way they think and feel about our moral responsibility to protect the Earth."

The Post doesn't fact check.

Gore is NOT totally carbon neutral.

I wonder how much global warming can be traced to the making and care of red carpets.

That "just a rug" might be responsible for melting the ice caps!

The red carpet is a polar bear killer! It's the symbol of excess and polar bear death!

Gore should refuse to make his greatly anticipated walk down the Oscar red carpet.

"He is more popular now than he ever was in office, and he knows it," says Laurie David, one of the producers of "Inconvenient Truth" and a Hollywood environmental activist (and wife of "Seinfeld" co-creator Larry David) who has traveled around the world promoting the film with Gore. "He's a superhero now."

...Before the film? He was more Willy Loman than Green Avenger. After his loss in 2000, a battered Gore began to schlep around the country, often solo, flying coach, giving his ever-evolving slide show about climate change, a threat that Gore, now 58, says he has felt strongly about since his Harvard days.

After the film? Says director [Davis] Guggenheim, "Everywhere I go with him, they treat him like a rock star."

Al Gore Superhero.

Al Gore Rock Star.

Al Gore Geek-Chic Cool.

I don't see it. There's nothing about Gore that excites me in the slightest. I mean ZERO.

Gore has loosened up a little bit, but it's all relative. In his case, being less stiff still places him way up there on the stiff meter.

Gore is only a celebrity in that parallel universe that the libs inhabit. Yes, he is worshipped as one of the loony Left's gods; but he's a false idol. His popularity stops at the Left's edge, where reality intrudes.

The Gore phenomenon is definitely a lib thing.

...At the "Live Earth" press conference, Gore once again affirmed that he is not planning to enter the 2008 presidential fray, though this has not stopped the lefty blogosphere from imagining the jaw-dropping holy cow if The Goracle announces his run on Oscar night. That, say Gore's most intimate insiders, is most definitely not going to happen.

Only complete nutjobs would believe that Gore would toss his hat in the ring at the Academy Awards.

Of course, it takes a nutjob to swallow much of what Gore has to say about the planet's future. I guess the goofy speculation fits.

As for whom Gore will be wearing, his people reveal: It'll be Ralph Lauren.

Was that Naomi Wolf's idea? Is she still giving Gore that priceless fashion advice? What about the earth tones?

Anyway, I can understand why Gore fits in so well with the BOTOX Hollywood crowd. His face is already immobilized. He's a natural.


Al Gore has never looked more comfortable in his own skin.

(From Pero's "This Week in Pictures.")