A: Both shut down those who question them.
Tim Blair Oct 1st:
UPDATE II. And now I’m blocked:
Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access this server.
Oh well.
Al Gore the same month:
At a conference of environmental journalists, however, he briefly deigned to answer questions. The journalist who directed Not Evil, Just Wrong, a documentary that criticizes Gore’s alarmism, took advantage of the opportunity to ask Gore about the British judge who found that there were at least nine scientific errors in Gore’s film. The exchange is pretty entertaining; it ends with the journalist’s microphone being cut off:
When your opinions can stand up on their own, you aren’t obsessed with criticism. That would also explain this.


