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Al Gore’s Fatuous Awards? By James Hirsen December 28, 2007 Yes, Al Gore’s got an Oscar, a Grammy and a Nobel Peace Prize. But will the former veep be allowed to continue to wallow in his triple award-winning status? Maybe not. The New Zealand Centre for Political Research, a regional think tank, wants Gore to give back the Oscar he was given for his movie, “An Inconvenient Truth.” The call for the return of the award is based on an adjudication by a British judge, who ruled that the film inconveniently contained nine untruths. Because the British government was going to use Gore’s movie to provide instruction to children about global warming, Stewart Dimmock, a school official, filed a lawsuit characterizing the Oscar winner’s work as “brainwashing.” The U.K. High Court determined that “Truth” was “alarmist and exaggerated” and must have a disclaimer to point out flaws, which included the following:
The New Zealand think tank summed it up this way: “Given that the Oscar award was presented in the documentary category and not the drama category, the only appropriate action now is for the Academy to rescind the award as it was clearly inappropriately classed as a documentary.” Wonder if the members of the Nobel Committee are listening. |
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