Tennessee Center for Policy Research: Slime Machine

Wow, it didn't take long for the Republican right wing slime machine to spring into action. The so called non-partisan neocon think tank called "Tennessee Center for Policy Research" attacked Al Gore one day after his film "An Inconvenient Truth' won an Academy Award for best documentary. Somehow they got ahold of his monthly energy bill and tried to show how much energy Al Gore is wasting. What they failed to report however is how the energy consumption is based on "green" sources, which are actually more expensive than conventional power sources. It was a cheap shot at a former politician who has been at the forefront of the global warming battle for the last thirty years. For most of that time, his positions are global warming were met with big yawns or worse. Now that the rest of the world is waking up to the fact that global warming is for real, Mr. Gore is being attacked in an very underhanded way. Take a look at this so called non-partisan outfit. They are also against the minimum wage. If you look at their position papers, it reads like the Fox News roundtable and Republican talking points. Al Gore has performed a tremendous public service for the world and it is sad, that some still haven't gotten the message.