Richard Cohen's review of
An Inconvenient Truth is pure MSM--sloppy, incoherent and primitive to an unbelievable degree.
"Boring Al Gore has made a movie," the piece begins. Oh, well, yawn! God forbid that Al Gore, the man who won the 2000 US presidential election, should fail to entertain Richard Cohen ...
But wait, let's be fair, now; Mr. Cohen goes on to recommend Boring Al's movie, even though it's about
the most boring of all subjects -- global warming.
Tempting though it may be to wonder what Mr. Cohen might find really engrossing, suffice it to say that the message of An Inconvenient Truth eventually penetrated even his concrete skull:
It's not just that polar bears are drowning because they cannot reach receding ice flows or that "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" will exist someday only as a Hemingway short story -- we can all live with that.
(Hwa?)
It's rather that Hurricane Katrina is not past but prologue. In the future, people will not yearn for the winters of yesteryear but for the summers. Katrina produced several hundred thousand evacuees. The flooding of Calcutta would produce many millions. We are in for an awful time.
(By George, I think he's got it!)
It's idiocy like this--a refusal to demand such 'boring' attributes as competence, intelligence and understanding of policy of our presidential candidates--that brought us Alfred E. Bush in the first place. That this lame excuse for an editorial could make it into a newspaper of national prominence still just really freaks me out.
I'll leave you with a final comment from Mr. Cohen, which maybe you can figure out what it means, because I sure as hell couldn't (don't they have copyeditors at the Washington Po--oh, never mind.)
It may be that Gore will do more good for his country and the world with this movie than Bush ever did by beating him in 2000.