Hypocrisy Thy Name is Al Gore the “Steakaholic”

Lindsay Barnett devoted a blog post in the Los Angeles Times this week to the rank hypocrisy of former Vice President and world wide environmental high priest Al Gore’s refusal to put down the steak knife and back away from the cheese burger in order to take all necessary steps to save the environment. Hypocrisy that he was called on by one Glenn Beck.

The Fox host explained last week that he’s “siding with PETA on this one — once again asking Al Gore: If you really want to save the planet, put down the cheeseburgers and pick up the veggie burgers. Time for soy milk and [Tofurky]. No more delicious chocolate cookies — how about a nice bean-thing. That is, if you want to save the planet.”

…..PETA has long held that Gore, whose work on behalf of the environment is well-known and who has apparently become the world’s first “carbon billionaire,” is remiss in failing to promote vegetarianism as an effective means of helping the environment.  (”Gore should have named his movie Sorta-Inconvenient Truths if he didn’t want to cover the environmental destruction that his meaty diet causes,” PETA blogger Shawna Flavell wrote earlier this year.)

…….”I’ve said before I disagree with PETA,” Beck continued, “but I respect them because they are not hypocrites: They say what they mean and mean what they say. I just disagree with what they say — except when it calls for Al Gore to eat tofu.”  To cement the point that he sides with PETA rather than Gore on this issue, Beck even invited PETA cofounder and president Ingrid Newkirk to appear on his program.  (Newkirk lost no time in asserting that “you can’t be a meat-eating environmentalist” before calling Gore a “baby” and “basically a steakaholic.”)

Here’s the post.