I agree with Kieran at Crooked Timber that conservatives might be poised to make too big a deal about The Day After Tomorrow,, but there’s also more than a little disingenuousness in his swipe at Instapundit. After all, liberal groups and Al Gore are the ones who are definitely making too big a deal out of the movie already. Why is it okay for them to score political points by exploiting this apparently dumb movie but rebutting those points somehow worthy of scorn? His “it’s just a movie” criticism also fails to take account of the fact that global warming is no less of a political hot button than, say, the JFK assasination but everyone put their two cents in on Oliver Stone’s (presumably) equally idiotic movie.