Al Gored by Son's Drug Arrest

The Goracle has had to take some time off from his Global Warming evangilization tour to deal with a family matter. His son was busted for drugs on Independence Day no less. Is this Freudian or what? Al-Reuters has a slightly ironic take on this:

The 24-year-old son of former Vice President Al Gore was arrested for drug possession on Wednesday after he was stopped for speeding in his hybrid Toyota Prius, a sheriff's official said.

Al Gore III -- whose father is a leading advocate of policies to fight global warming -- was driving his environmentally friendly car at about 100 miles per hour on a freeway south of Los Angeles when he was pulled over by an Orange County sheriff's deputy at about 2:15 a.m.

The deputy smelled marijuana and searched the car, said sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino. The search turned up a small amount of marijuana, along with prescription drugs including Valium, Xanax, Vicodin, Adderall and Soma. There were no prescriptions found, he said.

"Environmentally friendly car at about 110 miles per hour." You gotta love it. A Prius burning at that rate would certainly make a significant contribution toward global warming.

However, it's not really our purpose here to dump on III. Presidential and Vice presidential kids are not elected to office, and whether it's III, Chelsea Clinton, or the Bush twins, their lives are their own business. And such lives can get pretty constricted when the parental units are operating inside the box of national politics. We actually sympathize with these kids.

To the contrary, we need to examine the condescension of lefty elites like the Goracle who tend to treat the masses, including, no doubt, their own kids, like simpering idiots. Our own thoughts on III's dustup with the law are probably best expressed by mystery writer and intrepid blogger Roger Simon, who confesses:

I am trying to suppress my schadenfreude at the tragedy of the Gore family today, but I have to admit it's difficult. I have always found Al Gore to be one of the most fatuous individuals on the national and now international scene - a phony scientist, a phony filmmaker, a phony Internet inventor, I could go on and on - and the fact that his son was arrested today with a pharmacy's worth of painkillers in his car (plus a little grass) is no surprise. If the Gores were my parents, I'd want to medicate myself too. And make no mistake about it, young Gore was trying to medicate himself - not seeking enlightenment through drugs as many of us did in our time (not that we found much). You don't take Xanax and Valium for mind expansion.

In this case I have plenty of sympathy for the son and absolutely none for the father and mother. They both have been lecturing us for decades -first about nasty music lyrics and now about the environment. It's all the same really, because it does not come from a place of truth. It comes from a place of pomposity. And that's what makes a lousy parent. Someone who is holier than thou but a fake.

Read the rest here. No point in commenting further. Simon nails it quite brilliantly.