*Note- I didn't know where to put this because it's a blog and I didn't know if blogs were meant for one section or another.


Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog

January 7, 2013

We still think of idealists as men in worn coats sleeping on cots in cold basements. Those sorts of men can still be found, but the basements are the old digs of an evicted Latino 7th Day Adventist Church with the paint scraped off to expose the fashionably bare brickwork and go for $2,500 a month on the wrong side of the Williamsburg Bridge strewn with cots from IKEA and kept cold as a statement about Global Warming. Their shivering denizens work profitably at an environmental non-profit as social media managers in the great national and international network of the left.

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http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2013/01/...llow-earth.html

Great article. This part stuck out to me.

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Communism criminalized commerce and then legalized it on its terms. Environmentalism criminalizes life and legalizes it on its terms. The terms are paying a tribute to one of the many green companies owned wholly or partially by Al Gore and his merry band of green investors who steal from the rich and give to the even richer, and steal from the poor and give to the Gore..

Idealism is a commodity and when the investment comes due, you sell out in exchange for power and profit. One minute you're standing in front of a spreadsheet of a quarter ton of cow farts a minute being emitted by the livestock of New Zealand which, you claim, spells imminent doom for all the ice on the planet, and the next minute you're opening a business to sell pollution indulgences to the environmentally minded who want to fly to Fiji on a first class moral ticket.

One minute you're warning about fossil fuels and the next minute you're selling your news channel to a Middle Eastern oil tyranny for 500 million bucks. And you're doing it because idealism is a commodity to be cashed in for a tidy profit right before tax season. The longer you allow your idealism to appreciate, in the eyes of others, the more money you can make cashing it out.

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The Kitchen Cabinet
Internet Inventor Al Gore, may be losing all of his friends in BROADCASTING. Al Jazeera teleconferenced this week with the San Francisco staff of "Current TV" to lay out plans for the future. The Left-hugging staff was MISERABLE:

“Of course Al didn’t show up,” said one high placed Current staffer. “He has no credibility.

“He’s supposed to be the face of clean energy and just sold [the channel] to very big oil, the emir of Qatar! Current never even took big oil advertising—and Al Gore, that bulls***ter sells to the Emir?”

The meeting, while not contentious, was, according to staffers who spoke on the condition of anonymity, miserable.

The mostly left-leaning group—some still in denial —weren’t buying what Al Jazeera was selling.

And what are they selling? Al Jazeera’s image of —are you ready?— “inform, inspire and entertain!”

There's more here:

http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/tv...v6I9Gbyqe6Z4pFP

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There are idealists who sell out and become hollow men, and there are hollow men who pretend to be idealists. Gore is a hollow man selling someone else's alarmist hollow earth theory so he can make it to the next stage of a career that has no meaning or purpose. Like most professional idealists, Al Gore cares for nothing except money. Having sold out so many times, his only idea is to keep doing it again and again.

The professional idealist is a hollow man. A soulless man who is tasked with convincing everyone of the existence of the thing that he does not have. The left has created an endless number of professional openings for such soulless men, for paid liars and faithless tricksters, who live only to convince the world that they believe just long enough for them to sell out one more time.

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They want to whine today about Al Gore being unethical? No. I don't buy it. What they are really whining about is that they were taken in by his deceit and paid handsomely for it. They were truebelievers at the altar of Algore. They only have themselves to blame, but they are so morally bankrupt that they have no ability to look inward and see this. They are left without a compass now. It's either Gore or... the next thing if Obamamania doesn't suck the life out of every remaining liberal out there.

Yep they were big suckers.

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And it stroked their egos by telling them that, just like in all their favorite Saturday Morning Cartoons, only they could save the world.

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Does anyone remember Captain Planter and the Planteteers? That was horrible.

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That makes Pokemon look like Shakespeare in comparison.

Captain Planter and the Planteteers. Wasn't that a Ted Turner creation? I recall where Tom Cruise was set to be the voice of Captain Planet but then discovered he simply didn't have the time for such a demanding chore (or discovered Ted wouldn't pay him enough). Is that thing still on?

There was, at one time, another show like this but I cannot remember its name. All I recall is that one of the "team" had a remarkable schnoz that could sweep up anything and the leader of the team had a mother who sounded very Jewish.

Ok, stop laughing. I am not crazy. It was a real Saturday morning cartoon in like the 80s. Anyone else recall this apogee of American culture, especially its title? Vaguely I recall swamp something or other.