In re Noel Sheppard’s scoop on NewsBusters, a blogging reader writes in to remind us of the Goracle’s use, in An Inconvenient Truth, of a modified version of the old Upton Sinclair quote:

“It is hard to get a man to understand something, if his salary depends on his not understanding.”Gore’s point was that the skeptics are funded by Big Oil. Now we find out that Gore just could have easily been talking about himself.