The rulings by the British High Court Judge Michael Burton that former Vice President Al Gore's movie may not be shown in schools without disclaimers and warnings that it contains many factual and material errors came too late to prevent the defeated candidate for president from winning the Nobel Prize for "peace."
The award places Gore in the company of PLO boss Yasser Arafat, disgraced United Nations chief Kofi Anan and one-term President Jimmy (look out for that rabbit!) Carter, all recent other winners of this formerly significant and respected award.
What sad solace for the self-proclaimed inventor of the Internet. Perhaps this will start the unraveling of the ambitious dreams of energy and carbon credit empire that Gore dreams he might one day foist on America and the world.
It all brings to mind two poems by the Roman writer Ovid:
Treason doth never prosper;
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What's the reason?
For if it prosper,
None dare call it treason.
And
Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step
From one to the other, and that very
slippery.
Only lying makes the difference;
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Add that to cunning, and it is knavery.
Dan Dillon, Fargo, Letter: Peace prize no longer worthy of respect 20071021
