Cramer is piling on to the story that Gore is a hypocrit because he has a large utility bill. I don't know much about that story, but Cramer has been flogging it lately. The reason it is a cheap shot is because Cramer is making accusations based on assumptions.
Cramer links to a story that says Gore is buying carbon credits from a company that Gore helped establish, and both the story and Cramer conclude that Gore is lining his own pockets by buying credits from his own company.
As co-founder and chairman of the firm Gore presumably draws an income or will make money as its investments prosper.I emphasized the key word presumably. They're just guessing, and willing to call Gore a hypocrit before getting the facts.
Cramer goes beyond just calling Gore a hypocrit. He likens Gore to a Pope that goes whoring. That's a bit over the top, dontcha think?
Cramer also commits, to my mind, another minor transgression. He has a post showing some humorous exam answers, and some are pretty funny. The problem with Cramer's post is that he doesn't credit the source. I got an email a week or so ago with the same exam answers. I'm pretty sure Cramer got them second hand, i.e., not from exams he graded, but he doesn't mention getting them via email, or however. He doesn't take credit for them, but I think it's blog etiquette to at least mention the source.
C'mon Cramer; you're a published author. Where's your intellectual rigor?
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Here you go Alan, enter the fray armed with this. They implicitly acknowledge the impact of global warming and man's role in it by attacking the messenger in this way rather than his message. Hitting Gore doesn't make the problem go away. Clearly the right is more worried about Gore than the planet. But in defense of Gore there are other points to be made and some of them are summarized here.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-roberts/talking-points-on-the-gor_b_42335.html
After having reviewed Cramers post my response is, good for Gore. Showing Americans how to profit and save the planet makes good capitalistic sense. What are they a bunch of commies?
You're correct; they're making ad hominum attacks. The global warming denyers are akin to tobacco companies, which for years kept saying the link between smoking and cancer was not proven. Study the problem to death, delay, delay, delay, and distract from the real issue by debating the merits of the opponent.
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