I used to sometimes refer to Al Gore as "Little Lord Fauntleroy". It reflected his elitism and superiority over others, as well as a sense of peerage that Gore had as part of a political dynasty.
I think a better moniker is that of "Timothy Treadwell" the self- styled eco-warrior whose misplaced sense of "caring" was to continually engage in close-proximity contacts with one of the most dangerous animals on the planet -- grizzly bears -- all the while declaring how "right" his actions were, how he was helping the planet, and how he was the only one who truly cared. Of course, Treadwell's behavior was not only risky to himself but by continually making contact with Grizzly's, he habituated these animals to approaching humans and being in proximity to them, something that could eventually prove very dangerous to the unwitting and innocent. Of course, it did ultimately kill Treadwell who was eventually eaten by one of the Grizzly's. Gore, equally, lives in a fantasy land where imagined dangers to the planet are concocted in his mind and propagated unremittingly by him to the public. Like the Energizer Bunny, he goes on and on about global warming without any concern about truth or the impact his words will have on others. He has built a fantasy wall around himself in which he -- and he alone -- cares about the world and all others be damned. Gore's shenanigans, though, are much more dangerous than Treadwell's because he engangers millions upon millions of people's lives whereas Treadwell endangered, at best, hundreds. So, Little Lord Fauntleroy has become Timothy Treadwell and, like Treadwell did in his off-season when he came down to the Lower 48 and presented slide shows of his time in the bush, Gore shows imaginary high-tech slide shows with temperature charts and melting ice floes which dazzle and scare the proletariat. Treadwell then returned to the Bush to live in a pup-tent on Alaska's tundra; Gore escapes to his energy-consuming, carbon-footprinting, multiple-roomed mansion high in the hills above the rest of us.
