{"id":6566,"date":"2013-09-30T10:41:22","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T17:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=6566"},"modified":"2013-09-30T10:41:22","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T17:41:22","slug":"a-man-for-the-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/a-man-for-the-times\/","title":{"rendered":"A Man for the Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Victor Davis Hanson \/\/\u00a0NRO’s the Corner<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Al Gore is at it again, recently charging that \u201cAmerican democracy has been hacked\u201d by \"8655627250_bc8235032c\"special interests and accusing his political opponents of \u201cpolitical terrorism<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

This comes from a big-government, high-tax advocate who raced to unload his share of a hyped, but failed cable station to avoid newly enacted higher capital-gains taxes. Gore sold his wares to an anti-Semitic and often anti-American Middle Eastern media conglomerate that became the de facto public megaphone of bin Laden (a real, not a just a \u201cpolitical,\u201d terrorist), and whose business losses and Gore\u2019s huge profits were subsidized by a Middle Eastern authoritarian regime, whose riches came almost exclusively from selling climate-changing oil and natural gas. All that is hard to pull off, even for Gore.<\/p>\n

Whether we look at recent climate data versus Gore\u2019s last two decades of hysterics, or follow Gore\u2019s entrepreneurial career of using his contacts in government and his government-made media profile both to hype a \u201ccrisis\u201d and then offer his own-profit driven bromides to enrich himself from it, there is no better example in contemporary American life of a proverbial \u201cspecial interest\u201d taking full advantage of the elite contacts he made during long government service.<\/p>\n

Listening to Gore makes one almost believe in the old Freudian syndrome known as \u201cprojection\u201d\u2014each time Gore accuses someone of some supposed sin we see a glimpse into his own anguished soul, as the loud accusation becomes a sort of tortured way of coming to terms with his own unattractive and morally compromised career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Victor Davis Hanson \/\/\u00a0NRO’s the Corner\u00a0 Al Gore is at it again, recently charging that \u201cAmerican democracy has been hacked\u201d by special interests and accusing his political opponents of \u201cpolitical terrorism.\u201d This comes from a big-government, high-tax advocate who raced to unload his share of a hyped, but failed cable station to avoid newly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[187],"tags":[56,165,291],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-1HU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1743,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/more-bottled-piety\/","url_meta":{"origin":6566,"position":0},"title":"More Bottled Piety","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 1, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson NRO's\u00a0The Corner This week\u2019s talking point is the sudden danger of new right-wing violence, and the inflammatory push-back against healthcare. 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