After picking up his check, he immediately flew out again, avoiding any contact with the media. Even the event organisers thought that was a little wierd:
"His lecture was meant to be a private address to delegates at the congress" the media was told by members of the organising committee. But they themselves found it incongrous that "a man interested in creating global awareness on climate change and other environmental issues should have himself restricted the reach of his message."
Not so surprising when you hear the content of his speech. Al clearly struggled for common ground, and, dare I say it, relevancy when catering to cardiologists and cardio-thoracic surgeons, so went with comparing the human heart with the Earth's hydrological cycle. Clearly because he knows so much about both. I believe the word he was looking for instead was "plumbing". (Sorry, little doctor joke there.)
Also touched upon was the challenges faced by a rising global population, perhaps somewhat impolitic of him considering he was in one of the world's most populous nations.
Now, I've been to India, and I find it seriously hard to believe that the most entertaining thing anyone could come up with was Al Gore? Even the German's do a better line in weird conferecne entertainment. I once had described to me in great detail a German pharmaceutical conference where the entertainment consisted of a middle aged German guy jumping out of a large cake and attaching two toilet plungers to his chest, complete with song. And I probably saw wierder things in India just catching a suburban train through down-town Mumbai.
I certainly hope those doctors were on an all expenses paid junket, because if it was me and I was picking up the tab, I would vote for the Bahamas and Lady Ga Ga next time.
It is becoming beyond sick that these frauds like Gore are still extracting money from the uninformed. It is the media itself that needs to be put in the spot light for the complete failure of reporting the truth.
ReplyDeleteSome educators. government ministers and public servants, have much to answer for. Many would suggest that tar and feathering of these duplicious individuals does not go far enough, I would differ in than total nakedness and very hot tar before the application of feathers would give a very strong message of dissatisfaction. The days of yore had some very simple but effective means of address by the populace in dealing with carpetbaggers.