Al Gore, star of an Academy Award-winning film, was in town for a double feature on Capitol Hill yesterday. But instead of giving another screening of "An Inconvenient Truth," the former vice president found himself playing the Clarence Darrow character in "Inherit the Wind."
....It was, in many ways, a 21st-century version of the Scopes trial. Only this time, Gore, like William Jennings Bryan a failed Democratic presidential nominee, was playing Darrow, champion of scientific thought. Inhofe was playing the Bryan character, defending his beliefs against the encroachments of foes such as the National Academy of Sciences, the United Nations and the Oscar-hoisting former vice president.
If Dana Milbank is going to wax both theatrical and historical by comparing Al Gore to " Darrow" and James Inhofe to "William Jennings Bryan" in Inherit the Wind then maybe he should check out this website that explains how loosely the play/movie is based on the famous Scopes trial.
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