Wednesday, October 03, 2007

The Goracle Rues Britannia

Just when we thought the Brits were going wobbly on us, this just in from the Daily Mail:
Schools will have to issue a warning before they show pupils Al Gore's controversial film about global warming, a judge indicated yesterday.

The move follows a High Court action by a father who accused the Government of 'brainwashing' children with propaganda by showing it in the classroom.

Stewart Dimmock said the former U.S. Vice-President's documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, is unfit for schools because it is politically biased and contains serious scientific inaccuracies and 'sentimental mush'.

Sentimental mush, indeed. How utterly dee-lish. Why didn't HazZzMat think of that? Oh, yeah, right, we aren't Brits. Meanwhile, how about the judge in the case?

Mr Justice Burton is due to deliver a ruling on the case next week, but yesterday he said he would be saying that Gore's Oscar-winning film does promote 'partisan political views'.

This means that teachers will have to warn pupils that there are other opinions on global warming and they should not necessarily accept the views of the film.

Bet that torques off the "teachers," more and more of whom in the West have transformed themselves into shills for socialism.

The judge's common sense is pretty refreshing. Unfortunately, these days, it's also rare. So let's enjoy this round. And in the future, let's try harder to help our friends on the left to distinguish between hard science and "sentimental mush."

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