Al Gore's, "An Inconvenient Truth" is nonfiction?

No suprise that Hollywood gave the Al Gore film, "An Inconvenient Truth," an Oscar tonight. The strange thing is that it won the Oscar for "Best Documentary". Apparently the academy has a very low standard for what defines a documentary since this film is filled with quite a bit of junk science and falsehoods.

I was struck by how this AP story by David Germain described it:


The nonfiction hit "An Inconvenient Truth," a chronicle of Al Gore's campaign to warn the world about global warming, was picked as best documentary.

"People all over the world, we need to solve the climate crisis. It's not a political issue. It's a moral issue," Gore said, joining the film's director, Davis Guggenheim, on stage.


The inconvenient truth here is that this film is closer to fiction.

Imam prays to stop ‘oppression and occupation’ at DNC meeting. Not a news story?

The Democratic National Committee during it's winter meeting had a imam speak and read this prayer for the assembled Democrats:

• "We thank you god, to bless us among your creations. We thank you, god, to make us a great nation. We thank you, god toss send us your messages through our father Abraham, and Jesus and Mohammed, through you, god, we unite, so guide us to the right spot we wish for peace, equality and help us to stop the war and violence, and oppression and occupation."

• Have you read about this in your local newspaper? Have you heard about it on NBC News? Probably not.

• But had a Republican meeting featured a prayer from someone saying something like, "help us stop abortion and the homosexual agenda" that probably would have roused the media to some extent.

• It is remarkable that during a time of war that a major American political party in power would tolerate this kind of comment towards our nation and our troops. The silence of both the media and Democrats is disturbing.

• Here's a link to more info on this story: Video: Imam prays to stop ‘oppression and occupation’ at DNC meeting Update: Imam ID’d Update: More info on Imam

CBS and Katie Couric just don't get it

During last night's broadcast of the Super Bowl, CBS ran promos for Katie Couric's newscast which started off with Couric saying, "We often hear what's wrong with America..."

And who is responsible for that, Katie? It is people like you in the media who always assume the worst about the United States and ignore or downplay positive information about our economy, Iraq or anything about our nation in general.

And the bigwigs at CBS still can't figure out why Katie Couric has the lowest ratings in network news.