Some have criticized Al Gore's hypocrisy. Id est, in the book Al Gore denounces the media saying that they put little difference, if any difference at all, between news and celebrity, yet he is an ex Vice President of the United States and an Academy Award winner.
Michael C. Moynihan wrote in In a June 12, 2007 review for Reason Magazine, Michael C. Moynihan wrote:
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The Assault on Reason reestablishes Gore as America’s premier besserwisser and moral scold: the politician who both warns that we are scaring people to death and argues that Manhattan will soon be submerged beneath the Atlantic.<ref>[http://reason.com/news/show/120701.html Free Speech for People Who Think Like Me], Michael Moynihan, ''Reason'', June 12, 2007</ref>