Difference between revisions of "Assault on Reason"
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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. | 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. | ||
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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> | 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> | ||
Revision as of 21:35, June 21, 2007
The Assault on Reason is a political book [1] by Al Gore which he denies is political. [2] In the book, Gore accuses President Bush of having an unprincipled hunger for power.
ABC's Jake Tapper wrote
- "The Assault On Reason" is an assault on President George W. Bush -- 308 pages of professorially rendered, liberal red meat . . .
In the book, Al Gore discusses how he thinks that the American democracy has been undermined by the current administration's intrusions of power. While claiming that the book is not political, Gore attacks the current President and his administration relentlessly.
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.
In a June 12, 2007 review for Reason Magazine, Michael C. Moynihan wrote:
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.[3]
Notes
- ↑ Gore still says he has no plans to run for president, but his latest book, "The Assault On Reason," is so nakedly political and sharply critical it's hard to discern what his plans may be. ABC News
- ↑ "I'm not a candidate and this is not a political book, this is not a candidate book," Gore told Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America. ABC News
- ↑ Free Speech for People Who Think Like Me, Michael Moynihan, Reason, June 12, 2007
