I am ‘an *** for defending’ Al Gore

With the help of Al Gore, I finally made the big time!

Not just one asterisk, not just two — I’m a three asterisk kinda guy.

This is because I wrote a column for the Mother Nature network in which Gore responded to questions about his finances (the transcript of his responses is here).

The first commenter wrote this: “al gore is a crook. and you are an *** for defending him.” An ***! Maybe, this is just MNN’s way of cleaning up the language.

Oh, please, please, please. Puhrty please. Go to this week’s Media Mayhem column and comment there. Maybe if you do, I will earn my fourth asterisk.

Here’s the lead of the column:

If you want to scare people, you need a bogeyman.

For the assortment of politicians, lobbyists, provocateurs and media personalities who are trying to convince us we shouldn’t do anything about climate change, that bogeyman is Al Gore.

Maybe, the former vice president’s manner draws this kind of thing upon him. An Inconvenient Truth was a startling comeback for the losing presidential candidate. You can’t get much higher kudos than an Academy Award and the Nobel Peace Prize.

But Gore’s kind of geeky for a pop-culture icon. He’s stiff and stentorian – at least in his public image, not the first guy you’d want to drink a beer with. He’s the opposite of the smooth “Teflon” politicians — Reagan, Clinton, Obama — whose charisma causes sticky questions to slide off of their backs with no damage.

For the rest of the column, go to the Mother Nature Network.

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