John McCain’s favorite friend-with-benefits, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, today brought to the world’s attention an interesting fact: [McCain] has done more for Global Warming Change than Al “Global Warming = Peace” Gore.
It seems that being a Republican means being able to create your own reality with the absolute conviction that the mere act of saying something makes it so. Who knew that Sen. John McCain was such an ardent environmentalist? Apparently, Lindsey Graham (R-SC) did, and he’s not afraid to stand up for the truth he’s constructed in his own over-active imagination.
On it’s face, this claim is absurd and barely worth refuting. Any intelligent, lucid person with even the most tenuous of grips on reality would recognize Graham’s assertion for what it is- a comedy gold mine. Nonetheless, like most Republicans, Graham seems to feel that the very actually of saying something, no matter how absurd and baseless, makes it so.
OK, then; for the sake of argument, what has Al Gore REALLY done for the environment? Well, not much…as long as you’re willing to discount all of this:
Gore held the first Congressional hearings on global warming…IN THE LATE ‘70S.
Gore helped bring nations together to sign the Kyoto Protocol. McCain did vote for Kyoto, but afterward he said that while America has “an obligation” to cut greenhouse gases, he also said the Senate did the right thing in failing to ratify the treaty. Yeah, NO ONE tells America what to do….
Gore has devoted much of the past few years to educating Americans on the dangers of global climate change. His Oscar-winning An Inconvenient Truth is perhaps the single strongest and most convincing argument that we’re burning down the house we live in.
Now Sen. McCain is heavily invested in trying to wrap himself in a green flag when he’s been anything but. Then again, being a Republican means the truth is what ever you can convince the American Sheeple it is. Before you know it, there will be a drumbeat of commercials featuring Sen. McCain standing in vast green meadow, surrounded by animals and babbling brooks. And willing propaganda merchants like Graham will actively promote the myth that McCain is the TRUE environmentalist.
Yeah, that Al Gore sure is a poseur, isn’t he??