Al Gore, the enviromentalist who won't quit eating meat even when he's said it is the #1 cause of global warming. He is also a blatant hypocrite. This is him saying that the Fairness Doctrine was champion of Democracy, I will post the entire segment so as to avoid being told I am taking things out of context.

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SMITH: You certainly — the news media comes under assault in your book because we seem to be so obsessed with a lot of things that tend not to matter. But one of the things that occurred to me was if, if, if part of the problem is there's not enough of a free flow of information back and forth, which you also argue about, wouldn't a public television show, like a Jim Lehrer, for instance, wouldn't they have 25 million viewers every night as opposed to the several million that they have, because they do what we don't do every day?

GORE: No, I don't think so. The, the essential — the element of television that I think has been troubling for democracy, now that it has become the most dominant medium by far, even with the rising importance of the internet, is that it's one way. And whether it's public television or commercial television or whatever —

SMITH: Right.

GORE: — Or community access television. When it's one way —

SMITH: Radio — radio is one way. If you look back —

GORE: It is —

SMITH: — Some of the greatest presidents of, of our democracy — or the republic happened during the age of radio. That was a one way.

GORE: The most popular radio format simulates two-way communication by having call-ins. But you're quite right, that radio preceded television as the first broadcast medium.

SMITH: Right.

GORE: And the first concerns among defenders of democracy arose with radio. And that's why the equal time provision and the Fairness Doctrine and the public interest standard were put in place here. Those protections were almost completely removed during President Reagan's term."

For those of you who don't know, The Fairness Doctrine, long piece-O'-bureaucratese-shit short, said that stations must give equal time to opposing veiw points. And penalized those who didn't by not letting them broadcast. Now here's a quote about him on Global Warming.

"Part of the challenge the news media has had in covering this story is the old habit of taking the on the on hand, on the other hand approach. There are still people who believe the Earth is flat, but when you're reporting on a story like the one you're reporting today, where you have people all around the world, you don't take-you don't search out someone who still believes the Earth is flat and give them equal time."

Tad hypocritical isn't it?