Fortunately the story has grown over night and has some of the facts. If people go on to the second page it will show that this is “an obscure conservative think tank.” At least that’s better than the early coverage, especially in the more outright conservative media, which tries to pass this off as a nonpartisan research group. The current ABC story is better than the initial reports on this, but the partisan nature of the attacks should be revealed from the beginning if they are going to repeat this stuff.

Besides being misleading in not immediately disclosing the fact that this is a partisan attack from a group tied to the energy industry, not a report from a real think tank, the story repeats the charges of hypocrisy when there’s no validiy to it. Gore is doing exactly what he promotes as described in the previous post. He has taken concrete efforts to decrease his energy use, and is purchasing carbon offsets to compensate for the energy he does use.

The attackers misrepresent what Gore advocates and then accuse him of hypocrisy for not following their false descriptions of what Gore advocates. There’s no legitimate story in charging someone with hypocrisy for not doing what they never advocated in the first place.