Al Gore Receives Honorary Doctorate
Yesterday, the University of Tennessee gave Al Gore an honorary doctor of laws and humane letters in ecology and evolutionary biology (it sounds better than “Hoaxology”). Gore also delivered the commencement address, and would have been remiss if he didn’t peddle his wares like Mr. Haney in front of Sam Drucker’s store.
I’m only assuming that earlier in the program it was announced that carbon credits would be for sale in the lobby following the commencement speech:
“You would be surprised if I did not make at least brief mention of the one problem that I think is the biggest item of unfinished business on our agenda,” Gore said. “And that is the climate crisis.”
Gore said “it is time to disenthrall ourselves” from a dependence on oil, coal and natural gas and begin the transformation to renewable energy sources and higher levels of efficiency and sustainability.
“Your generation is going to be the generation that succeeds in completing this transition,” he said.
Well, the next generation will have to be the one that begins the transformation to sustainability, because judging from the latest edition to Gore’s mansion collection, Al’s not willing to be the one to do it:
Chasity Goddard of the Knoxville Examiner speculates about the real reason Gore received this honorary degree:
UT Chancellor Jimmy Cheek stated that Gore’s work “has quite literally changed our planet for the better.” Gore’s “work” the Chancellor refers to is the promotion of global climate change lobby, which has earned him millions since he co-founded Generation Investment Management LLP in 2004.
Al Gore received an honorary degree from UT as a solicitation for a donation because his work to date has been less than stellar and rife with controversy.
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The University of Tennessee just devalued their product.
How low can academia go?
Come now. You must know there is one set of rules for the Lords in the mansion, and another set of rules for us serfs outside the gates.
A doctorate from UT ranks right up there with a Nobel Prize and an Oscar – worthless.
Is that a polite way of calling the lying SOB a lying SOB?
Even relatively conservative Tennessee has allowed the hard left to take over it’s schools and universities-a true nationwide epidemic of stupid. That there are con artist and grifters such as algore is a given-that our universities facilitate such nonsense is heartbreaking.
Our schools and universities run ads crying for ever more money to facilitate ever more nonsense. We need to take a broad axe to their budgets and cut out the waste, the fraud and the How Are Your Hemorrhoids and the “Hoaxology” classes.
Fire up the charcoal grill in honor of Doctor of Grif & Hoaxology algore.
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Let your sidearm be like Master Card:
Don’t Leave home without it.
I am amazed how some people of questionable IQ still persist in slobbering all over Al Gore. This guy rakes in millions and a peace prize just for cranking out a cheap science fiction movie and milking the lecture circuit with the same old dried-out theories that we are all doomed because we are evil oil-users. Once again the liberal commandment “Do as I say not as I do” is reaffirmed as “Moses-Gore” continues to preach doom and gloom while gorging himself with fat bank accounts, building kingly mansions, and all the while avoiding one-on-one interviews with people who have “irritating” questions about his antithetic lifestyle and questionable theories. The guy is so scared of having to answer impromptu questions that he has an army of bodyguards that protect him from pesky “unbelievers”. Yet, still, there are throngs of loyal followers willing to smother him in rewards, honorary degrees and treat him like the savior of the planet while he picks their pockets with a grin.
Talk about green-house gases. The commencement auditorium was full of flatulence coming from the lie-hole of Al Bore.
“Once again the liberal commandment “Do as I say not as I do” is reaffirmed as “Moses-Gore” continues to preach doom and gloom while gorging himself with fat bank accounts, building kingly mansions, and all the while avoiding one-on-one interviews with people who have “irritating” questions about his antithetic lifestyle and questionable theories. ”
Well said and exactly on point prendad!
I’d hate to think that I lived my whole life trying to make everyone believe some fantastic lie. Al Bore is nothing more than an insignificant pimple on the butt of humanity.
When major alumni donors refuse to contribute anymore to this foolishness, the universities will “sing a different tune”. Money always talks. I would love to go back to college, not for any degree, but just to take some interesting courses. I wonder if I will waste my money.
Its flat, like the earth he lives in.
I don’t think it would be a waste at all. You would be a great influence on the students with “minds of mush” as Rush says because you could debate the issues if you ran across a liberal professor who tried to shove a radical, liberal view down your throat.
We actually learn a lot about who is running these CRIME INC universities when they do this.
I wonder, did they do their do diligence peer review?
Honorary Doctorate of Idiotology, from a group of Idiotologists.
They should’ve given him a BS degree.
More like a dog tick.
Actually a PhD stands for “piled higher and deeper”. If that doesn’t describe Al Bore, nothing does.
…evolutionary biology
Does anyone else find that ironically funny?
Wow, what a stream of nonsense. Let me see if I can figure this out.
The law definitely needs a doctor, but Al isn’t it.
What the heck is that? As opposed to abusive letters in ecology I suppose? What about the other letters?
Oh, there it is. It’s a religious degree.
How long do regular folks have to study to get such a degree? A doctorate in foolishness.
Just another example of the Lame & Foolish honoring one of their own.
Every time I read another article about that piece of sh@t, I gag. I seriously despise that hypocritical pile of garbage. How can he not see the double standard that is his entire life? Mansions for him and carbon taxes for the rest of us. One thing I know for sure is he will pay someday…big time.
Happy, he’s storing his treasures here on earth but he’ll be a pauper in the next life. He will also have to account for all the lies that are his life. He’ll be lucky if he’s not a pauper in hell. I wouldn’t trade him all his wealth, would you?
I think it would be hell on earth just to live in that body!! I have all I need right here. A nice, middle-class home that needs fixin’ up, some mis-matched furniture that we inherited and that have memories attached, a worn carpet that the grandkids can spill on and I don’t get upset, a beautiful view out my windows…of dear neighbors who I have had for 30+ years. I could go on and on. I know the Gores are very comfortable in their cavernous, carbon guzzling homes and in their travels on their private gas-guzzling jet. Let them enjoy it while they can. This is all going to come crashing down someday when his lies are fully exposed. I think that will happen in this life. I’m stocking up on popcorn for the big event.
Exactly, he has nothing that I want or need.
As for the show, I buy the old style popcorn and pop it myself. I expect somewhere around November we’re going to get a blockbuster of a show. Where’s Rogue with the cheese?
Speaking of popcorn, when I was growing up, my grandparents grew popcorn on their farm. When we visited them, we always came home with a big burlap sack full of popcorn. It was the best thing I have ever tasted!! Small, white kernals that we popped up in an old beat-up pan. Mom filled our huge metal dishpan with popcorn every Sunday night. That was our supper as we sat around the big floor-radio and listened to The Shadow and Inner-Sanctum. I would eat until I could hardly waddle. Of course, it was popped in lots of Criso shortening and tons of salt. I have not been able to find popcorn I truly love since I was spoiled by my grandparents. I do know that popping your own is the best way. And I always use the small white popcorn. Anyway, this is way off topic, but I am stuck in a reminiscing kind of mood today!!
Time to get outside and do some weeding!
Brought back a lot of memories, sitting around the radio listening to Suspense and The Shadow. Suspense was my favorite. Yes, we had a pan for popcorn too. Great eating!
I would like to know how many, if any, students got up and walked out in disgust.
If we could wean ourselves off oil without wrecking our economy, I would support the idea. Energy security would be greatly improved if we didn’t depend so much on the Arabs for our needs. But we’ve got a long way to go before that will happen. Gore’s demagoguery is no help, just a hindrance.
Like Leonna Helmsley who once said that “paying taxes is just for the little people”, Gore believes that living a “green” lifestyle (whatever the hell that means) is only for the common peasants. Shameless hypocrisy. Gore is the embodiment of the elitist gasbag issuing edicts to people on how they should live their lives. Just seeing this bloated slob makes my blood pressure rise instantly.
We are not enthralled with a dependancy on oil anymore than we are with breathing air and eating food. The truth is there are no viable alternatives for fossil fuels. If there were, we’d be using them already.
Now, if only we could reduce our dependancy on food, think of the money we’d be saving.
I’m thinking that manbearpig could reduce his dependancy on food, but obviously, he isn’t.
We could today, Al. Unfortunately, we’d have to reduce the population considerably, because of the space we’d need for massive charging stations and acres and acres of windmills and solar panels. Your mansions would be the first to be razed for some charging stations, as well as yourself, because your body takes up too much space. A solar panel would fit nicely where you stood. It could also reduce our dependency on food, at the same time, seeing that we would have no fields for farming. Just pop a pill 3X a day. It would be Ms. Obama’s wildest dream.
Well, Gore certainly couldn’t have received an honorary degree for the underlying science that his flimsy “work” is based on, right?
The only “inconvenient truths” that this silver-spooned, liberal hypocrite has proven, are his inabilities to accurately support his “scientific” conclusions…and his inability to follow the miserably, spartan lifestyle that he wants to force on the majority of his fellow citizens.
One would suppose that, as a Ph.D. from Texas A&M, as an author of more than 80 journal articles and as a senior author of a text book, Mr. Cheek would cite specific examples of just how Gore’s work “has quite literally changed our planet for the better.”
It seems more likely that Mr. Jimmy Cheek, Chancellor at the University of Tennessee, bestowed such accolades upon a proven liar like Al Gore because of the following tid-bit:
Today’s Liberal, Environmental Movement + Today’s Liberal Academia = Crime Inc.
Follow the money.
What a joke. My incandescent lights and SUV are destroying the planet, but his huge mansions are not. Hypocrite.
Dr. Gore?
Sounds like a bad guy evil, mad scientist from an old horror movie.
As a Tennessean, I think that UT did the right thing with these awards in reconizing Al’s major contributions 1)Creating the internet and 2)His personal contribution in the scientific explanation of dogfarts as a causative factor in moderate oceanic disturbances. I think that we can all agree that Al deserves something.
Right now I’d use Gore to plug the hole for the oil spill. At least that would put him to better use.
Al Gore:
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PHD=Piled Higher and Deeper. Yes–you can stack P**P that high!
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And the Left Wing Media will pronounce this as another great Al Gore achievement.
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John Bibb
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I received my MBA today and our commencement speaker, one of our doctoral students who spent 30 years in the business world before returning to school to receive his education doctorate, did not have a whiff of politics in his speech. It was about reflecting on what we have, what is important to us, and how we perceive those things. Of course, he’s also former military, so he probably doesn’t hold with that kind of nonsense you hear in a lot of commencement speeches anyway.
No way.
On the whole, Jimmy The Cheek is an ass, so of course he wants to honor Al Gorge!
was the certificate on toilet paper?
mustve been a great ceremony:
“here’s your award Senator lying scumbag”
“thanks gutter-dwelling weasel, keep lying to cover my fraudulent tracks for me, I’ll keep selling those fraud carbon credits to enrich you off the backs of the stupid taxpayers who we hope keep falling for this garbage”
Is there no outrage from at least some of the alumni?
They should cut off their contributions forever, if not longer.
Al Gore will clean the air and poison the water with his thrice darned mercury filled light bulbs.
Is this the country that really put the man on the moon 40 years ago?
Is this the same NASA that was involved with those Apollo missions, and is now engaged in faking the atmospheric data?
Finally, a decline of ethical and scientific standards (from a NASA team using actual science to put the man on the moon, to a team of current NASA scientists generating fake weather data to prove a political point) is considered a PROGRESS?
For a lone super power in the world, we still have sizable population of FOOLS and INCOMPETENTS.
Tell me about it. No wonder I went to USC…
Signed,
Lane Kiffin
*out*