Al Gore Responsible for Discovery Channel Hostage Crisis?
If a gunman took hostages and once claimed he had “experienced an ‘’awakening’ when he watched” Glenn Beck or Bill O’Reilly’s shows, you can bet the headlines would label him a right-wing kook while left-of-center pundits would deplore the “extremist, eliminationist rhetoric” spewing forth from conservative media.
But, James J. Lee, the late gunman who took hostages yesterday at the Discovery Communications Building only said he he experienced his ‘”‘awakening’ when he watched former Vice President Al Gore’s environmental documentary ‘‘An Inconvenient Truth.’” So, that means, he was just a lone nut and Gore’s “documentary” had nothing to do with the acting out of his violent tendencies.
I highly doubt the MSM will mete out the same treatment to Mr. Gore they offered to “Ground Zero” Mosque Opponents.
Here, I’m with Allahpundit who’s
. . . not going to blame the actions of a nut on all lefties and environmentalists. I will, however, be sure to remind them of this the next time they pull that on the right. Which they do, merrily, at every conceivable opportunity.
(Via Patterico.)
Indeed, I offered a similar “reminder” when I posted earlier this week on the murder of the Mormon bishop in California. They blame every crime against a member of an approved American victim group on conservatives, but when leftists commit such crime (or the victim is a member of a non-approved group), it never occurs to them that, using their very logic, liberals groups in general and leftist rabble rousers in particular should thus be held responsible.
No, Al Gore is not responsible for the actions of this disturbed man. But, neither are conservatives responsible for the attack last week on the NYC cabbie.
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It would be wrong to blame Al Gore and the Left for Lee’s actions. Everyone knows that environmentalism is a religion of peace.
Comment by Sean A — September 2, 2010 @ 3:05 am - September 2, 2010
lol @ sean. Good one, but its not. Tally up all the deaths in the name of environmentalism, from ELF to ALF, to the lives lost because of the left’s anti-scientific activism against DDT, genetically modified crops, food shortages caused by the push for biofuels, and the like, and environmentalists have killed millions of people (not to mention all the harm their asinine policies do to the environment)
Comment by American Elephant — September 2, 2010 @ 5:14 am - September 2, 2010
Montgomery County is saving the environment one bullet at a time.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — September 2, 2010 @ 5:56 am - September 2, 2010
Don’t be silly. Of course Al Gore isn’t responsible. Obviously, this man was motivated by GOP-incited Islamophobia.
Comment by V the K — September 2, 2010 @ 7:14 am - September 2, 2010
Great points, Gay Patriot, except for the last line in your article about the cabbie slasher. The fact about that matter is that the psycho who attacked the cab driver in NYC last week was NOT a conservative, he was a LIBERAL who SUPPORTS the Ground Zero mosque! Everybody keeps leaving that fact out, because it doesn’t fit the narrative of the left and the lamestream media.
Comment by PolitiZilla — September 2, 2010 @ 7:46 am - September 2, 2010
Haliburton.
Comment by heliotrope — September 2, 2010 @ 7:55 am - September 2, 2010
Tax cuts for the rich.
Comment by Sean A — September 2, 2010 @ 8:14 am - September 2, 2010
What no Bush blaming… Man I thought that would never get old…
Comment by Stone K — September 2, 2010 @ 8:42 am - September 2, 2010
Cheney.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — September 2, 2010 @ 9:52 am - September 2, 2010
The Discovery Channel gunman (never thought I’d even have written that) posted an on-line manifesto that, according to the Washington Post:
Come on guy, it’s not as if Obama wasn’t trying…..
Comment by Sonicfrog — September 2, 2010 @ 9:53 am - September 2, 2010
Could we say that Al Gore *contributed* to the Discovery Channel Hostage Crisis?
Looking at it rationally. The gunman is responsible for his actions. But he was acting on a malevolent, not to mention false, set of ideas. Ideas that Al Gore has visibly spread to many. Haven’t I seen a couple _Law and Order_ episodes where they set up some Christian preacher straw man that they could go after as a contributing cause of someone else’s criminal acts?
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — September 2, 2010 @ 10:03 am - September 2, 2010
A protege of Al Gore. Doesn’t this qualify him for a Nobel Peace Prize?
Comment by Dina — September 2, 2010 @ 10:17 am - September 2, 2010
Quick Quiz: Pick the thing that actually happened:
1. A Tea Party Activist, inspired by Glenn Beck, goes into MSNBC Headquarters with a gun and a bomb, taking hostages and demanding support for his agenda.
2. An NRA Activist, inspired by Wayne La Pierre, goes into CNN Headquarters with a gun and a bomb, taking hostages and demanding support for his agenda.
3. A Mormon opposed to Gay Marriage, inspired by Sean Hannity, goes into LOGO Headquarters with a gun and a bomb, taking hostages and demanding support for his agenda.
4. An Environmental Activist, inspired by Al Gore, goes into Discovery Channel Headquarters with a gun and a bomb, taking hostages and demanding support for his agenda.
Comment by V the K — September 2, 2010 @ 10:25 am - September 2, 2010
I said Cheney, because according to _The Day After Tomorrow_, it was his personal reluctance (as the real President, wink nudge) to coerce Bush in adopting the Kyoto Protocol which U.S. Senate Democrats rejected in the 1990s, that caused bowling-ball-sized hailstones to destroy Tokyo.
And we all know that movies are even more real than TV.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — September 2, 2010 @ 10:30 am - September 2, 2010
V: good one!
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — September 2, 2010 @ 10:37 am - September 2, 2010
I was watching my local news this morning, the male anchor was talking about the incident (btw Paris getting banned from the wynn got more air time) But when the male anchor was explaining the attack was environmental in nature and started to explain the man’s reasoning they did a very rough cut to the other anchor who seemed actually stunned for a moment because she was not ready to read the next story. it was very odd.
Comment by Stone K — September 2, 2010 @ 10:50 am - September 2, 2010
War for oil.
Comment by Sean A — September 2, 2010 @ 12:06 pm - September 2, 2010
Bush lied – my boyfriend cheated on me
Comment by Eric in Chicago — September 2, 2010 @ 2:11 pm - September 2, 2010
Hey – no lefty trolls? It’s less fun, without them to kick around – or at least to ‘admire’.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — September 2, 2010 @ 2:18 pm - September 2, 2010
I suspect Ed Schultz’s chins will go apeshit and do that the next time he doesn’t get his way.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — September 2, 2010 @ 6:58 pm - September 2, 2010
Big Hollywood Blog says: Today’s Inconvenient Truth: Al Gore Lied, James J. Lee Died
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2010/09/02/todays-inconvenient-truth-al-gore-lied-jason-jay-lee-died/
Comment by ThatGayConservative — September 2, 2010 @ 10:33 pm - September 2, 2010
This story made the news here in Australia. They covered up the fact that he was inspired by Al Gore. They also covered up the fact that he had a list of demands. The real reason was downplayed. If I had not read about the story on a few blogs I would never have known the truth.
Comment by StraightAussie — September 3, 2010 @ 5:18 pm - September 3, 2010