Gore Smear II, by an oil guy!

This could be my favorite Gore smear (or should I say, attempted smear?!?), by an oil guy.

Sterling Burnett, a man who works for an organization which takes huge amounts of money from ExxonMobile, appeared on Fox News to try to smear Al Gore a little while back. (Sorry this is a bit of an old clip, but is still relevant to the global warming discussion, and I didn't hear about it right away, because I'd rather stare at a wall than watch Fox News.) Burnett is a shameful dick. He compared Gore and his film, An Inconvenient Truth, to the Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.

Notice how the segment ends just as Jeremy Symons tells the audience that Sterling is a paid, Big Oil shill.

Burnett: That’s the problem. If I thought Al Gore’s movie was as you like to say, fair and balanced, I’d say, everyone should go see it, but why go see propaganda? You don’t go see Joseph Goebbels films to see the truth about Nazi Germany. You don’t go see Al Gore films to see the truth about global warming…

Symons: Sterling is an odd one to be casting aspersions on what Al Gore’s motives are, after all the oil industry has been giving him hundreds of thousands of dollars to his organization, just like tobacco companies used to do to try undercut…

Host: That’s a whole other subject guys and we’re up against a hard break.

No, you're up against a hard, embarrassing fact, and it's disgraceful (but not surprising) that Fox would have on someone so clearly linked to Big Oil. What a transparent attempt to make a mockery out of the global warming debate. Instead, Fox simply makes a joke of its network by putting on such a circus. But, then again, we already knew Fox News was a joke. Any network that would sue Al Franken because it didn't like what the had to say about it doesn't understand free speech, America, freedom or democracy, but I digress.

Anyway, getting back to Burnett's not so sterling remarks. Nazi Germany is the most hackneyed, trite metaphor when you are out of facts (or don't have any) and you are so clearly losing any kind of debate or argument. People should stop comparing (insert topic here) to the Nazis and that horrific chapter in human history. Nothing compares - it stands alone, and using it as any kind of metaphor is childish and the mark of an amateur. Stick to what you know, Sterling, which is probably just about nothing, other than how big your paycheck is that you are getting from the oil industry to libel and slander anyone who dares stand up to it.