I’ve seen some in the Blogosphere ready to pounce and blame Al Gore for yesterday’s Discovery Channel Bomber. While most of this is tongue-in-cheek, those who would use this unfortunate event to use a progressive style attack against Gore and his liberal friends are missing an opportunity to once again paint the left as out of ideas and out of touch.
We all knew Bill Clinton, Bill Mayer and the loons at MSNBC were wrong when they preemptively blamed Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Tea Party groups for violence that never happened. We shouldn’t blame Al Gore and the Environmental Wackos for the violence that did. Why? Because as much as I loathe Al Gore and believe his “Inconvenient Truth” is anything but true… he didn’t pick-up a gun, grab some homemade explosives and take people hostage. He might be trading on fear and false arguments, but he didn’t create James J. Lee.
If someone trading on lies didn’t create James Lee, even though Lee cites Gore’s book as a turning point, then you certainly can’t blame Beck and others for speaking the truth. This is an opportunity to take the high road and point out the sheer ignorance in the left’s attempts to silence the opposition. Will they stop their shenanigans and apologize for claiming conservatives and tea parties are inciting violence? Probably not, but the American people see the truth and it will pay dividends, if not now, certainly at the ballot box.
