What I Loved About Al Gore's Appearance On The Today Show This Morning

[Me.]

Aside from just plain seeing and hearing him speak, I loved the way he called the host, Meredith Viera, on that equivocation thing all these media types do. It's the 'on the other hand' or 'some people say' scenario. In this case, after Al said his piece, she challenged him by saying a scientist who worked with the group that won the Nobel said he was all wrong.

In response Al first told her that the scientist in question was no longer with the group and had become an outlier, he discredited the man completely. Then he said the media had to stop presenting both sides of an argument as if they had equal merit. He said that some people still believe the earth is flat and yet the media, as things have come to be, present that belief as if it was equal to that of those who know the earth is round.

This is an important point, for it has been done so often in the last 7 years. It, presenting truth and untruth as having equal merit, is part of what has created the mess we're in. People really need to push this point home. Just because someone someone has a counter argument or belief doesn't mean that's it's either credible or true. And, untruth IS Not the same as the truth.

George Bush believes a lot of things and most of them are untrue. Cheney says a lot of things and very rarely are they true.