{"id":434,"date":"2007-03-01T22:44:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-02T03:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=434"},"modified":"2007-03-01T22:54:23","modified_gmt":"2007-03-02T03:54:23","slug":"gore-rejects-balance-as-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=434","title":{"rendered":"Gore rejects Balance as &#8220;Bias&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It must be very &#8220;inconvenient&#8221; for Al Gore that people insist on debating the merits of his claims. Isn&#8217;t this the guy that also claimed to have invented the Internet?<\/p>\n<p>From <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/best\/?id=110009730\">Best of the Web<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">Here we have a major American politician who is calling for policies that would impose huge costs on society but appears to be profiting handsomely himself; who is leading an extravagant lifestyle while demanding sacrifices from ordinary people; and who is calling on the media to suppress the views of those with whom he disagrees, while at the same time urging more government regulation in the name of &#8220;fairness&#8221; to his partisan and ideological allies.<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">Why is it left to think tanks and bloggers to investigate and expose all this? Why aren&#8217;t the mainstream media all over the story? Could it be . . . bias?<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/best\/?id=110009730\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It must be very &#8220;inconvenient&#8221; for Al Gore that people insist on debating the merits of his claims. Isn&#8217;t this the guy that also claimed to have invented the Internet? From Best of the Web Here we have a major American politician who is calling for policies that would impose huge costs on society but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,8,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}