Heed the Goracle

Charles Johnsonfollow me on twitter
Thu Feb 22, 2007 at 8:50 am PST • Views: 637

Al Gore gave a talk on Manbearpig global warming last night in Toronto, and the moonbats turned out in force to worship the “Goracle.”

Yes, that’s really what they’re calling him now.

Eco-pilgrims gather to ‘heed the Goracle’. (Hat tip: WriterMom.)

Last night, before Mr. Gore gave his slideshow, it looked more like a sideshow outside, as hopefuls looked for tickets, scalpers told reporters they were not scalpers, and bona fide ticket holders ran a gauntlet of activists handing out leaflets for various causes.

There were vegans seeking new recruits, people calling for the closing of Ontario’s coal-fired power plants, a Greenpeace mascot dressed as a polar bear — even the UFO believers showed up.

“I know you won’t believe this,” one of them, a man named Victor Viggiani, said with a practised tongue, “but the extraterrestrial technology involved in this … it’s free energy, man. Absolute free energy, and it’ll be the end of fossil fuels.”

Mr. Viggiani, a retired school principal, tried to get an information package to Mr. Gore when he arrived at a side door, but “the Secret Service were there; they saw my backpack and they pushed me away.”

Across the driveway in front of the hall, a large banner exhorted the crowd to “Heed the Goracle.” Belonging to a fledgling group called ecoSanity, it was still there hours later, as Mr. Gore enjoyed a reception at the adjacent Simcoe Hall and the dispersing crowd voiced its praise.

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