Meteorologist Compares Al Gore to Adolf Hitler

In this weekend’s Washington Post magazine, meteorologist Bill Gray – one of the most prominent climate skeptics – directly compared Al Gore to Adolf Hitler:

Gore believed in global warming almost as much as Hitler believed there was something wrong with the Jews.

It’s telling that so many of the attacks on Al Gore and his movie are ad hominem, not substantive. There really is no credible scientific rebuttal to An Inconvenient Truth, so people are forced to attack the messenger.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/23/AR2006052301305_pf.html
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/28/comparing-gore-to-hitler/

But where's the outrage?

MIA, as usual.

:hi:

Bush believes in trickle down economics as much as Hitler believed something was wrong with the Jews?

Bush believes in pre-emptive war as much as Hitler believed something was wrong with the Jews?

Bush believes in fascism as much as Hitler believed something was wrong with the Jews?

bush is a fascist.

Neoconservatism: 21st Century Fascism.

in fact, Bush believes in Jesus exactly like Hitler believed in the final solution, and for the same reasons.

Santa Claus believes in giving presents to good children as much as Hitler believed something was wrong with the Jews.

What a silly argument any way you look at it!!

Almost like it was scripted by somebody.....

Very sick society.

(But we still need you). Please wake up and do something good.

Some idiot on Fox said Gore was Goering.

"climate" and "blaming it" for "how the natural systems are falling apart"... I laughed.

This isn't funny.

Seems a constant thread of late is meant to stir the feelings of jews. First it was stars. Now it is scientists who are after them.

There is enough crazy bullshit in the world and attacks on all types of people.. that we really don't need more myths created.

Seems to be a theme for this election: scare the jews.

I am a Jew and I've been known to get totally furious at the (usually unconscious) anti-Semitism that emanates from the Right, but that statement is so lame and pathetic it didn't even make me angry. I took a skeptical wait-and-see approach when I read about the yellow badges supposedly mandated by the Iranian government. It sounded pretty horrible but I didn't immediately hit the panic button, I guess because I sensed that's exactly what the neocons WANTED me to do. So I was relieved but not surprised when I found out the story was a fake.

If the Bush mafia wants to make "scaring the Jews" into a campaign theme, they don't know as much about us as they think they do.

on... cause I only read that paper to get the odd fact.. not because I buy most of what they write.

Good for you.

And yeah.. I think you are not alone. Yep - once you've been manipulated.. you don't fall for it as easily.

Think it through. With your heart, mind, adult sensibilities. And don't jump just because someone writes something.

For christ's sake . . .

Not only is the comparison to hitler ridiculous, the analogy isn't parallel.

They can't steal our dirty tricks!! How Rovian of them.

:eyes:

It's like having a dialog with a 5 year old. First they whine & cry, then they imitate.

They've been doing it for years - if we trademarked all of our expressions/impressions of their actions, they would be left moot. :rofl:

and that's that the neocons are scared shitless that he'll actually run in 2008 . . . they know he won by a half million votes last time, and things have changed a LOT since then . . .

we definitely need Al Gore as our candidate . . . running on a progressive platform with NO corporate support of any kind . . .

and telling the American people THE TRUTH -- a concept that's become foreign to our elected officials . . .

he's gone native...
he's out of control...



not even a lieberMAN can stop him now

How can anyone possibly find an analogy between accepting the views of the vast majority of the scientific community on an environmental issue, and sending 6 million Jews to die? Let us ask the Washington Post this question, I would love to hear their response.

Essentially this is not just an attack on Al Gore it is an attack on everyone who believes in science. I am not a nazi, yet the Washington Post is implying that I am.

...if he is not being paid to lie, he might change his tune.

Mr. Gray needs to read his history.

How about writing the wapo's ombudsman, Deborah Howell?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/19/AR2006051901546.html

:sarcasm:

She probably would take Grey's position.

her ass and deluge her with letters letting her know that shit don't fly out here.

If the editor let it go the first time, it's not likely they are going to see the 'problem' a second time around...

But it might be nice to see WaPo explain how it's fair comment and a style fitting of the Washington Times--er--Post.

This is why they quite literally get laughed at these days in grad school.

ZERO credibility.

It's kind of sad, really- to see how far they've fallen.

0 Credibility...

Just don't compare him to bush*, that would be outrageous!

The Jewish people were not a climate change! They are people. Hitler was advocating the murder of a people. All Al Gore is doing is bringing one interpretation of science regarding climate changes to light. If poor gray can't stand the idea of informed thinking maybe he should just retire.

and prejudices-the way Bush uses his "gut" to tell him what's true. It's not even apples to oranges-it's reality vs. fantasy.

I've noticed this tactic being used a lot by the right wing; "if you have a strong belief, and Hitler felt strongly about something else, then you are like Hitler because you both had beliefs". "Hitler was a vegetarian, so not eating meat makes you like Hitler" (Gandhi was a vegetarian too; can one simultaneously be both Hitler and Gandhi?). "Osama bin Laden thinks the US should leave Iraq, and so do most Democrats-Democrats are just like Osama bin Laden". By this logic all Germans, White people, men with beards, Muslims,Christians, people who had mothers and people who drink water must be JUST LIKE Hilter and Osama bin Laden because they share something in common with them. Is this really acceptable to any reliable news source as "debate"?

I think it was invented by tv weathermen who found that often the temperature just wasn't exciting enough. "Well it's 39 degrees today, but it FEELS like it's 12 below!"

If you directly observed this, write one now.

It's the only way to stop the hate.

... unless he's telling us about a tornado or something...

Toss that opinion in the wastebasket.

I don't see that "believes in global warming" is an attack, given the strength of the scientific evidence for it, although it's clearly meant as one.

"Al Gore cares about brushing his teeth nightly, almost as much as Hitler cared about killing Jews."

When will that statement appear in the Post, I wonder..?

The GOP is scared of Al Gore. They KNOW his political capital, they KNOW that he won. I have zero doubt that there is a concerted effort going on right now, to swiftboat him. I read a vicious and bitchy review of Al Gore's film, on the Yahoo movies page. It was from Kyle Smith of Murdoch' NY Post. He trashed Al Gore personally throughout the entire review http://www.nypost.com/movies/66485.htm In the view, the "reviewer" takes shot after shot against Gore, personally tries to say that global warming is bullshit, and more. It's not our imagination.. they are trying to quell his sudden popularity, just in case. I did write to the pinhead Smith over at the Post, correcting HIS factual errors (like he said his proof that global warming is bullshit is because LA has less Stage One smog alerts in 2003... well.. if that idiot actually READ something, he'd know that it's not improved air, it's Bush's administration who changed the threshholds for the different levels of Smog alerts, so they're will be less of them). I also told him to stick to movie reviews, and leave the political hack jobs to Sean Hannity. God.. I'm so sick of those people..

..comparing liberals to Hitler?

Wasn't Rumsfeld comparing Hugo Chavez to Hitler just a few weeks ago, and nobody in the media made mention of it?

Especially if he's calling Al Gore "Hitler".

about environmental issues, Al and Tipper and the kids are out persecuting Jews.

It doesn't get much play in the LIBERAL MEDIA, of course, but that's how they spend their weekends.

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A good manager/editor would fire Bill Gray for a slanderous statement like that. It's ok to make strong claims. If there's no substantiation to the claim, though, it borders on character assassination, and it's sloppy, and a good editor/manager ought to be able to make such distinctions.

To understand a physical phenomenon, produce a model. Of course the model won't be completely right. One nevertheless does one's best and hopes the model's defects can gradually be eliminated. Without modeling, one produces merely rhetoric.

"You'll find S. Fred Singer, author of Hot Talk, Cold Science, who points to the positive side of the melting Arctic: "We spent 500 years looking for a Northwest Passage, and now we've got one."

Oooh, you've convinced me: if global warming existed, which is doesn't, it would be a GOOD thing!

It reminds me of a Cheney remark: "just goes to show there's such a thing as too much education." Dumbasses.

If this is all they have on the anti-science, anti-environment side, then I think we will be o.k.

J

He wanted his audience to know how 'liberals have completely closed their minds on this issue.' So he related the following 'story'.....

...He wanted to have a scientist on his TV program to counter Gore's view on global warming. He was told by the 'extremely liberal person who finds guests' (he claimed he liked to talk to her about politics usually) that it was impossible to find a reputable scientist who did not consider global warming to be fact. He said he kept asking 'really??' and she kept saying 'there is no reputable scientist who denies global warming'.

...So on his own he found one at MIT in 15 minutes; he ended his cute little story with 'you see what closed minds liberals have?????'

who denied the reality of global warming, he went and found a DIS-reputable one on his own. Way to go!

At a point when most of America is confused about global warming and looking for answers, you don't run a fucking personality profile on a kook and let him spew all his cockamamie theories without some sort of scientific rebuttal or analysis. Every one who read this article is going to come away with the idea that global warming is in doubt, when it is not. But looney Gray's unrebutted slurs and assertions will be what they remember the next time the subject comes up.

Way to go, Washington Post.

Can the media in this country sink any lower?

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Let's see... let's try Google News:

soldiers compare Marianne Kearney to Bush

Yahoo news:

Quake compares Bonds to Ruth

Washington Post:

U.S. compares Bush to Bonds

Christian Science Monitor:

Monitor compares Abbas to Hamas

Oh, never mind me. I'm just goofing around.

They haven't any idea what Nazism was.

Last week they compared him to Goebbels.

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Re >>Gore believed in global warming almost as much as Hitler believed there was something wrong with the Jews.<<

Nobody can say something like that and expect to be taken seriously. My compatriots can be more stupid than I would like more often than I would like, but nobody's THAT stupid (I hope).

Science is not the RW's friend. They can't credibly attack the science behind global warming in an identical fashion that they attack Darwinism. They claim both are unproven theories. And to the minions of less than a high school education that the RW primarily relies on, they have to believe the RW so that they can feel that they too are an "intellectual". The RW focuses on giving these people the feeling that just because they are less learned, if they listen to the RW's soundbites and less than fully factual articles, they too can become experts despite their lack of education.

"what does meteorologist mean in English? It means liar." What a loon.

when an elder statesman of the weather/climate science community abuses his reputation by launching empty ad-hominem attacks. Gray is retiring this year. If this is the best he has to offer, he should have retired sooner.