Al Gore, the French speaking farmer Al Gore, the French speaking farmer

Apparently, Jonah Goldberg at the Corner is having a running war with the Center for American Progress and others over some recent statements by Al Gore. Apparently, when he was in Cannes recently, he stated that (according to Arianna Huffingpuff) that:

"This is my second visit to Cannes," he said. "The first was when I was fifteen years old and came here for the summer to study the existentialists — Sartre, Camus... We were not allowed to speak anything but French!" Which may explain his pitch-perfect French accent.

There apparently turn out to be a couple problems with this, notably that earlier we had been led to believe that he had spent that summer learning to be a farmer. Also, there is a question how he continued to get Cs in French even after this fateful summer.

In any case, the progression so far is: Waiting For Gore, There He Goes Again, Gore Fan Nerves, Gore & Farming, and Al & Me.

Gore is, of course, in Cannes to premiere his new environmental wacko movie. But, besides its falacies, there is the added question of whether or not he drove or walked the 500 yards from the hotel to the screening. In Al Gore Burns up the Atmosphere, but this was later corrected in Gore Says He Walked in Cannes. Apparently though, according to Reuters, it is common practice to drive to these events, so that you can be seen leaving your limo (or, in this case, five limo caravan), and Gore actually walked from another hotel somewhere. Of course, all of this is apparently "carbon neutral". I don't know what that means, but possibly that they had bought enough carbon emission reductions to compensate for driving those cars that 500 feet. But that may not be a viable option for all those who are struggling to pay for gas right now.

In any case, the reason that Gore is so popular right now, above and beyond the natural hype that goes with opening any new movie, is that he is seen as the Great White Hope for stopping Hillary. This is the guy, of course, who "invented" the Internet. I will admit that a Gore presidency would be interesting from a reality perspective. You will never quite know what happened last month, until you get the latest Gore reality brief. And we all thought that the past was set as history. Not if Al Gore is elected president.