Does Al Gore truly have no shame?

Excerpts from an article by Canadian journalist Donna Laframboise.

According to the New York Times, in a speech in North Carolina in 1988, Mr. Gore declared:

Throughout most of my life, I’ve raised tobacco…I want you to know that with my own hands, all of my life, I put it in the plant beds and transferred it. I’ve hoed it. I’ve chopped it. I’ve shredded it, spiked it, put it in the barn and stripped it and sold it.

This same newspaper article observes that, despite Mr. Gore’s current characterization of tobacco as a great evil, even after his sister died of lung cancer it took several years for his family to walk away from the income they earned from tobacco. In other words, they knew firsthand that it killed people, but they continued to profit from it.

Mr. Gore knew, because he had knelt beside his sister’s bedside, that tobacco led to bad things. Yet six years later he was still accepting campaign donations from “tobacco industry political action committees.”

And this man has the audacity to attempt to link other people … with tobacco’s stench?

Gore recently told CBS news:

Some of the largest carbon polluters…try to convince people – as the tobacco industry did years ago on the link between smoking cigarettes and lung disease – that there really isn’t a link – between global warming-pollution and global warming. [bold added]