Curb Your Enthusiasm
“Every day we can wind up Rove . . .”
It’s only a matter of time before a food fight breaks out at the White House correspondents dinner. The affair has become increasingly nasty and has morphed from a jovial gathering into annual bloodsport.
Depending on who you talk to, Laurie David and Sheryl Crow approached Karl Rove at this year’s dinner to convert him from global warming skeptic to true believer - something David disingenuously says she “really believed” was possible.
The story gets a little fuzzier from there depending on who you talk to. David insists, “I went over to him and said, ‘I urge you to take a new look at global warming.’ He went zero to 100 with me. . . . I’ve never had anyone be so rude.”
Rove remembers it as, “She came over to insult me and she succeeded.”
David has a history of favoring a confrontational approach and has embraced the whole topic of climate change with a disturbing level of absolutism and fanaticism.
The topic of climate change is quite complex and does not readily lend itself to the type of messianic fervor that many of the hard-core proponents seem to embrace. This fervor inevitably leads to force as climate change advocates feel as if people need to be compelled to believe in the doctrine and comply with any and all proposed solutions.
Enthusiasm for a topic is commendable; blind devotion that brooks no disagreement and demands submission is an affront to any person who wishes to think for themselves.
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