Winning the Nobel Peace Prize was a “wonderful thing” Al Gore deserved for doing “a great thing,” veteran Washington journalist Margaret Carlson declared on Bloomberg Television's Political Capital show, as she contended “he rose above a great injustice” in what occurred in Florida's 2000 election count. Appearing with Bob Novak on the show, hosted by Al Hunt, which airs several times each weekend, Carlson told Novak: “You'd still be holding your breath and kicking your feet if what had happened to Al Gore in Florida had happened to you. He rose above, he rose above a great injustice. And by the way, you know, late in life you can find your gifts, which is Al Gore found what he should be doing and it is a great thing that he's done.” When Novak asserted Gore merely “became a demagogue on the global warming issue,” Carlson, the former Deputy Washington Bureau Chief for Time magazine who now posts columns on the Bloomberg News Web site, championed Gore's cause as she hailed how “he became a prophet on an issue that is crucially important to the world.”
The relevant exchange on the Political Capital taped Friday and aired Saturday, October 13, on Bloomberg Television:
MARGARET CARLSON: It's a wonderful thing for him and the draft Gore movement has puttered along and he hasn't responded in any way and I don't think he will do it [run for President] because he wouldn't want, you know, to take away from this huge honor. And, you know Bob, you'd still be holding your breath and kicking your feet if what had happened to Al Gore in Florida had happened to you. He rose above, he rose above a great injustice. And by the way, you know, late in life you can find your gifts, which is Al Gore found what he should be doing and it is a great thing that he's done.BOB NOVAK: The Nobel Peace Prize, I don't know what stopping people from driving the cars they want to drive has to do with peace. But the Nobel Peace Prize is a compensation for not getting elected President, is that what you're saying?
CARLSON: No.
NOVAK: I think that's what you said.
CARLSON: What I'm saying is what Al Gore went on to do with his life was a wonderful thing. He wasn't bitter, he wasn't resentful.
NOVAK: What did he do with his life? He became a demagogue on the global warming issue.
CARLSON: He became a prophet on an issue that is crucially important to the world.
—Brent Baker is Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center
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CARLSON: What I'm saying is
October 14, 2007 - 02:22 ET by ChriswelLCARLSON: What I'm saying is what Al Gore went on to do with his life
was a wonderful thing. He wasn't bitter, he wasn't resentful
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Oh that's rich.
Mousy Margaret opens her yap again and mierda de toro flies.
Good times good times.
-cs™
Right, and He rose above,
October 14, 2007 - 08:20 ET by motherbeltRight, and He rose above, he rose above a great injustice. (emphasis added)
Will liberals EVER get over 2000????? No, excuse me, will they ever face the TRUTH about 2000? In spite of even the NYT admitting Gore would have lost under all the recount scenarios, they insist he won.
Move on, already!
Pope Gore!!!
October 14, 2007 - 02:49 ET by Clearly CalifornianIs AGW a recognized religion yet? Pope Gore!! Pope Gore!!
Life's a garden, dig it. - Joe Dirt
That's next week!
October 14, 2007 - 02:58 ET by Gary P JacksonThat's next week!
A Prophet?
October 14, 2007 - 03:10 ET by Army BratBwahahahahaha! Yeah...like the homeless crazy guy on the corner downtown with the signboard that reads, "The End is Near!"
Happy Trails...
He became a prophet on an
October 14, 2007 - 03:16 ET by fitzfongHe became a prophet on an issue that is crucially important to the world.
Oh yeah, that's right, Marcie (sorry...Margaret)...he discovered ManBearPig. Now I know why he deserved the Nobel Peace Prize.
Marcie, Marcie,
October 14, 2007 - 07:01 ET by USA4freedomMarcie, Marcie, Marcie..
“You'd
still be holding your breath and kicking your feet if what had happened to Al
Gore in Florida had happened to you. He rose above, he rose above a great
injustice.”
Lets talk about injustice, how about the fact the Democratic
party did not want to count the votes of the very people that put their very
lives on the line to guarantee WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE.. Our service
people. The people, that people in
your party spit on when they finally come home!!!!
CARLSON: “What I'm saying is what Al Gore went
on to do with his life was a wonderful thing. He wasn't bitter, he wasn't
resentful.”
Mr Gore says: "If you have a renegade band of rightwing extremists who get hold of
power, the whole thing goes to the right."
Speaking at a conference in Saudi Arabia, former Vice
President Al Gore
said, "Arabs in the United States have been indiscriminately rounded up,
often on minor charges of overstaying a visa or not having a green card in
proper order, and held in conditions that were just unforgivable."
Nope, that does not sound bitter.
Just remember AlGore:
"I stand by all the misstatements that I've made."
Vice
President Al Gore to Sam Donaldson, 8/17/93
http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/peanuts/meet_the_gang/meet_marcie.html
These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc.
Ronald Reagan- 40th Anniversary of D-Day
I though he still was
October 14, 2007 - 07:48 ET by danboI though he still was rolling on the floor kicking, screaming and pouting. All because the adults stepped in and didn't let him steal florida.
"There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition."
- Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT
You hit the nail on the
October 14, 2007 - 07:03 ET by GatorgradYou hit the nail on the head! Especially the Marcie reference. She also looks like Edna Mode from "The Incredibles"
Maybee Margaret should read the British Court ruling about the false claims in Al's movie. Or the temprature data from NASA that was manipulated or the improperly maintained temprature stations used for the data. Or how about geologic history pre "historical data". Nope can't do that... Lil' Al is on crusade in his Gulfstream. Not to mention we need to vindicate Al for what happend in 2000. Pooooooor Al.
Carlson told Novak:
October 14, 2007 - 07:29 ET by ToddonCapeCodCarlson told Novak: “You'd still be holding your breath and kicking your feet if what had happened to Al Gore in Florida had happened to you."
No, Margaret. Al Gore held his breath, and kicked his feet, when he called a second time, to George Bush and took back his concession, and then went to an obviously Democrat Supreme Court in Florida, and got them to keep changing the rules for over a month, every time he didn't get the outcome of ballot counting that he wanted! That's a TRUE childish temper tantrum!
Selective Recall
October 14, 2007 - 07:53 ET by BourbeauIt's amazing how the likes of Margaret Carlson can continue the nonsense about the 2000 eleciton, selectively bemoaning only those points that perpetrate the fallacy. Gore lost in 2000; he lost in Tennessee; he lost in Florida whose votes have been audited by everyone but God; he lost with the military, despite trying to prevent their votes from being counted; and he lost the electoral college, which by way of the Constitution, supercedes the damn popular vote. Get over it Margaret, he lost!!!!
the truth be known
October 14, 2007 - 09:59 ET by lunaticcringeradiothey actually did keep the military votes from being counted and he still lost.
it's funny how they cry about this popular vote thing because it's my understanding that billy boy never won the popular vote so billy should never have been elected then.
lunaticcringeradio
Please , please get him
October 14, 2007 - 07:54 ET by danboPlease , please get him to run again. His ego is big enough. The term swift boated will be replaced with the term scienced..
He can hide and pretend all scientist agree with him. But if he runs he won't be able to hide.
Can you picture the TV ad, Gore saying the science is settled. And scientist after scientist giving his name and credentials saying the science isn't settled. All saying you're wrong Mr Gore.
"There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition."
- Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT
NOW we know why Al G. got the Nobel Prize
October 14, 2007 - 08:27 ET by JayTeeI'm wondering WHY, and suddenly NB provides the Answer...AL Gore is everywhere on the MSM....the Nobel Prize puts a Huge Carbon Footprint for Al Gore all over the News...and it will be ongoing.....he has to fly to accept it, he has to give an Acceptance Speech... They're trying to make him Famous.
Algae is being dug up from the side of the Road, and put back in a gas guzzling Limosine.....Just think of his Diminishing Carbon Footprint BEFORE this Prize, and now AFTER this prize, just his Flight to Switzerland is a CARBON guzzling addition, not to mention the huge increase in Speeches as he flys around the Planet.
Doesn't anyone Realize how much Carbon is going to be put in the AIR becasue of this Nobel Prize ?
PUT AL GORE ON A CARBON DIET !!! TURN DOWN THE PRIZE !!
What good is a Free Press, if it is a False Press ? David Foote GoE
al gore won just like all the others, they are anti conservative
October 14, 2007 - 10:17 ET by lunaticcringeradiolook at all the comments and ideology of all the nobel prize winners in recent decades 99% of them are anti conservative socialists. whether it be for writing, peace, mathmatics, picking your nose, clipping your toenails, those are really about the worth of a nobel prize at this point, because you can do anything to win one so long as you spew socialist anti capitolist anti conservative agenda.
it should be called the nobel prize for socialist propoganda in math science, literature, etc. rush was nominated to perpetuate a mask of objectivity, but when you look at the list of actual winners to the one or two conservative nominees, the list reads like a whos who of socialist activists.
lunaticcringeradio
Lunatica#$(*&...I didn't know NB allowed such long names
October 14, 2007 - 10:26 ET by JayTeeAs you say, the NOBEL prize has morphed into Propoganda in math Sciend, literature, etc....I would add that "Global Warming" is in the Etc..becasue Nobel didn't think that far ahead.
It would be interesting to put a seismonitor on Nobel's grave, to detect if he is rotating beyond 33 1/3 RPMS with this Al Gore award, and others in the Past.
Member of the Nobel committee........who are these guys ? European and Un-invaded since any WAR was going on around them........Switzerland Un-plugged from the REAL world.
What good is a Free Press, if it is a False Press ? David Foote GoE
NB does it again with the
October 14, 2007 - 08:13 ET by Roger the ShrubberNB does it again with the great caption shot. Looking good, Zira!
Oh, you are BAD, Roger!
October 14, 2007 - 08:23 ET by motherbeltOh, you are BAD, Roger! LOL
I had to go back and look again; you are SOOOO bad!!!
MB RtS
October 14, 2007 - 10:26 ET bysure that's not John Denver in a wig?
"Television is where you watch people in your living room that you would not want near your house." Groucho
Or
October 14, 2007 - 12:08 ET by dervishHarry Potter's long-lost twin sister?
Inconvenient Monks
October 14, 2007 - 09:15 ET by ThisnThatHere's a great article giving reason for the Buddhist monks of Burma to win the Nobel Prize, and pointing out, again, how Gore's attendance at a 1996 fundraising event at the Buddhist Hsi Lai Temple in California got him in trouble. And how he lied.
Gore, 1996: "My attendance was wrong, but I didn't know the event was a fundraiser".
U.S. National Science Teachers Association, 2006: Declined an offer of 50,000 free copies of Mr. Gore's film.
A British Judge, October 10, 2007: "Some assertions in Gore's documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth' were not supported by scientific evidence".
And yet, Gore wins the Nobel prize? Facts be damned; liars be praised -- and this isn't political at all. Nawwwwwww...
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Somebody ...
October 14, 2007 - 10:02 ET by drillanwrPLEASE!!! U.P.S. me whatever Carlson, Colmes, Rich, et al are smoking, popping, injecting, snorting ...
I TOO need to check out of reality ... </sarc>
Yes it's true
October 15, 2007 - 10:55 ET by celator:+}..very good.
Carlson is well planted in the liberal revolution of the '60's, as are so many other "journalists". They had their hay day 40 years ago, and they haven't had an original thought since then. The time frame is interesting: for us to pay any attention to these characters would be like people of the 60's taking their political cues from the politics of the 1920's.
Run Gore, Run !
October 14, 2007 - 10:05 ET by DanoI frankly, would love to see our Savior, Al, throw his hat into the Democratic primaries. It would put the other candidates into chaos........Hillary, Obama Hussien, Edwards, etc. It would be a blast to watch!
Dano
October 14, 2007 - 10:13 ET by BlondeYes, the true cacklefest would begin. I think Gore entering the race would make Hillary's head explode. Or at least her temper. Hopefully in a very public way.
David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive
And the best part. they
October 14, 2007 - 15:57 ET by danboAnd the best part. they would have to go after Gore's weak underbelly. AGW. They'll either have to point out his problems with science. Or risk losing to Gore in the primary.
Just maybe they'll find all those scientist that say the world isn't ending.
What a show this would be.
"There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition."
- Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT
Could a small donation to
October 14, 2007 - 15:59 ET by danboCould a small donation to the Al Gore for president campagne be considered an admission ticket rather than a political contribution.
"There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition."
- Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT
Gee, dan
October 14, 2007 - 16:03 ET by BlondePost of the day!
LOL.
And I sincerely mean it when I say sorry about yesterday's game....you know I picked LSU to be the SEC (National) champ this year. Hoping for a repeat for me was absurd.
David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive
Socialist, par excellence
October 14, 2007 - 10:41 ET by ThalpyThe environment just happens to be the horse Al Gore is riding to impose his socialist world dream on the rest of us. Al Gore is the living example of socialism at work--its socialism for all of us, and the life of opulence and indulgence for him. Socialist leadership life styles have always betrayed them--they don't give a damn about people; we are inconvenient, but necessary. Al Gore may be a prophet to the delusional Margaret Carlson, but to many of us he is a dedicated enemy of our liberty.
Margaret, you ignorant
October 14, 2007 - 14:18 ET by MikeBMargaret, you ignorant slut.
"He wasn't bitter, he wasn't resentful." Just what universe do you live in? Algore conceded defeat, then he withdrew the concession. His sycophants in the media did their dead level best to influence the election in his favor by declaring Florida for Gore before the polls closed in the panhandle. It has been estimated that Bush would have netted an extra 10 thousand votes if the media had not declared before the polls closed. You also overlook the fact that Gore did not carry his home state of Tennessee. If he had done so, the Florida mess would have been irrelevant. Non-bitter, unresentful Gore also tried to have votes recounted only in those counties that were heavily Democrat. In spite of all his maneuvers, in spite of all his attempts to cheat on the recount, he lost. Deal with it.
And, now, he is a "prophet"? A false prophet, perhaps. He knows the science is not in his favor, else he would gladly accept the opportunity to debate the issue with the experts. The fact that he has consistently refused to debate tells me volumes.
"A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx." Ronald Reagan
MikeB... I Second every
October 14, 2007 - 16:09 ET by bigtimerMikeB...
I Second every single word you posted.
Excellent.
Especailly the... deal with it!
Still whining about the 'stolen election'
October 15, 2007 - 07:19 ET by Six String SpiffYou know, it really screams for itself when these socialists piss and moan more about a 'stolen election' way back in 2000, but when we want to remember 9/11 it's 'old news'. I am disgusted.
The American Revolution Continued
Spiff, the left's latest gambit is to repeat "Al Gore got more
October 15, 2007 - 07:47 ET by RJvotes than George Bush", while ignoring his proven loss in Florida. I've heard that little bit of flummery several times recently, most recently on Morning Joe today.
It's true that Gore received more votes national, but as any conservative will immediately tell you, American Presidents aren't chosed by a "national vote."
By repetition of this sleight-of-hand, it seems there are two agendas at work. One is to continue, without actually saying so, the mindless belief that "Gore won in 2000."
The other, more importantly, is to continue their push for elimination of the Electoral College. Doing that would hugely benefit Democrats....as would adding Washington DC, Puerto Rico, Guam, Illegal Aliens, etc, ect, into the voting ranks.
We smirk at how transparent the left is, but remember they're not aiming at knowledgable voters. Their targets are the emotion-driven voters of the left.
Scooby Doo
October 15, 2007 - 18:30 ET by deerjerkydaveIs it me or does Margaret Carlson do her best to look like Velma from Scooby Doo?