Glenn Beck and PETA vs. Al Gore

An unlikely duo is calling out Al Gore for being a hypocrite on global warming

Glenn Beck and animal-rights group PETA are tag-teaming to denounce Al Gore for eating meat while promoting strong action on climate change. On Beck's show, PETA president Ingrid Newkirk says, “You can't be a meat-eating enviromentmentalist--so, [Gore] needs to go vegetarian.” (Watch the clip) Beck has pointed to statistics showing that the meat industry is a leading source of greenhouse gas emissions and challenged the former VP to "put down the cheeseburgers and pick up a veggie burger." Is Gore a hypocrite for not greening his diet as warns about the global warming threat?

This is about Beck and PETA, not Gore: “Beck’s strange leap onto PETA’s bandwagon” makes sense, says Lindsay Barnett in the Los Angeles Times, in that it lets Beck snipe at “one of his favorite targets,” Gore. And “the media-savvy animal-rights group seems, predictably, over the moon about having Beck as a strange bedfellow.” After all, Beck’s Gore attack made it all the way to ABC’s Good Morning America. (Watch Diane Sawyer spring the clip on Gore)

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