A Nov. 19 NewsBusters post by Noel Sheppard begins: “As NewsBusters readers are well aware, we have for months been chronicling Nobel Laureate Al Gore’s profit motive concerning the advancement of climate change hysteria.”
Well, actually, no. As we’ve detailed, Sheppard has regularly attacked Gore for making money in connection with his global warming activism, but he has never provided evidence to support his central thesis — that Gore is involved in global warming activism for the sole purpose of making money.
Sheppard couldn’t even confine today’s outbreak of Gore Derangement Syndrome to a single post; he penned another Nov. 19 post featuring the smear that Gore “could be this decade’s Ken Lay.” Again, Sheppard offers no evidence that Gore is motivated only by the Benjamins.
In fact, given his aggressiveness in making false and misleading claims about global warming, one might more rationally conclude that it is Sheppard, not Gore, who is the mercenary, hurling smear after smear in order to rake in the cash that the MRC sends his way as a NewsBusters associate editor, plus whatever he might be taking on the side from the the various energy industry-funded interests that typically fund claims by folks like Sheppard. He needs to disclose such connections to his readers so we can judge if he is any purer than Gore.