Masseuse who wants $1 million for more on Gore is leaving way too much money on the table

The Portland masseuse who has accused Al Gore of groping her in 2006 is offering to tell more for $1 million. In my judgment, she's leaving too much money on the table.

The problem is that she apparently sees this as a two-party transaction. One party is Al Gore, who stands to endure more embarrassment than he already has. The other is the masseuse, who stands to pocket $1 million in exchange for her story.

In fact, however, there are other deep-pocketed parties that stand to lose, or gain, much more depending on whether this story has legs or soon recedes into the noisy background of American life.

There is General Electric, which has invested heavily in green technology and propaganda in the belief that the future would be green. That assumption already is in question, given the exposure of the fraudulent science that has powered global warming theory.

Now, Gore, perhaps the best-known public face of the global warming movement, appears to be on the cusp of prolonged embarrassment. At some point, even self-sacrificial Democrats will start jumping off this sinking ship.

General Electric and a lot of other rent-seeking coporate enlistees in the green movement have a lot to lose. They might be willing to make a bid to short-circuit the current embarrassing Gore story.

So, too, might Gore.

In these circumstances, soiled slacks that may contain Gore's DNA ought to be worth more than $1 million.