I am gobsmacked by this story. The Belgian cabinet bickered with itself for 3 hours over this photo: According to the Brussels newspaper Le Soir, the discussion about the Al Gore photo lasted for three hours during a restricted meeting of top ministers, known as the "core cabinet". In the end, Prime Minister Verhofstadt reprimanded Vice Prime Minister Reynders because he had shown up for the meeting with Gore without being formally invited.
(Presumably he got to stay when Gore responded, suffer the little ministers to come unto me and do not hinder them.) Mark 10:37-41: "Grant us to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your glory....And when the ten heard it, they became indignant...."
Sheesh. Curtsy: Tim Blair
