At a UN conference in Bali, Al Gore blamed the U.S. for “obstructing progress” on global warming, an attack on his own nation which led CNN's Jack Cafferty, who usually slams Republicans and Democrats from the left, to castigate Gore as “a pompous jerk.” But Thursday's ABC and CBS evening newscasts favorably passed along Gore's agreement with European criticism of the U.S. With Gore's words on screen, ABC's Charles Gibson reported that “European nations threaten to boycott a U.S.-led climate summit because the Bush administration is opposing specific cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. Al Gore joined the criticism saying: 'My own country, the United States, is principally responsible for obstructing progress here.'”
On CBS, fill-in anchor Harry Smith highlighted how “at a world conference in Bali, European nations threatened today to boycott upcoming U.S.-sponsored climate talks unless the Bush administration commits to deep cuts in greenhouse gases. Former Vice President Al Gore agreed action is needed now.”
The MRC's Brad Wilmouth caught Cafferty's chastising of Gore during the 6pm EST hour of the December 13 The Situation Room:
WOLF BLITZER: I want all of you to listen to the former Vice President, Al Gore. He was speaking at an international conference at Bali in Indonesia earlier today. The whole world, representatives of a lot of the countries around the world were there, and he, and he pinned the blame, most of the blame, on the global warming, on the United States. Listen to this.AL GORE: My own country, the United States, is principally responsible for obstructing progress here in Bali. We all know that.
BLITZER: All right, now, that may or may not be true, but there's a sense that, you know, they used to say politics stopped at the water's edge, Jack. Was it appropriate or inappropriate for Gore to make that comment?
JACK CAFFERTY: What a pompous jerk. Does he, I mean, it's time for Al Gore to get over himself. Does he think there's anybody at that conference in Bali that's unaware of the U.S. opposition to the Kyoto protocols? I mean, ever since he won the Oscar, he thinks he's some movie star, so I'm tired of Al Gore, and I think he's out of line doing that.
The short item on ABC's World News:
CHARLES GIBSON: Overseas, in Indonesia, an international conference on climate change is ending on a contentious note. European nations threaten to boycott a U.S.-led climate summit because the Bush administration is opposing specific cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. Al Gore joined the criticism saying, "My own country, the United States, is principally responsible for obstructing progress here."
The CBS Evening News report:
HARRY SMITH: A showdown is coming over climate change. At a world conference in Bali, European nations threatened today to boycott upcoming U.S.-sponsored climate talks unless the Bush administration commits to deep cuts in greenhouse gases. Former Vice President Al Gore agreed action is needed now.
AL GORE, IN BALI: My own country, the United States, is principally responsible for obstructing progress here in Bali. We all know that. We all know that.
SMITH: Gore predicted the next U.S. President will be more likely to support an agreement on greenhouse gases.
—Brent Baker is Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center
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Holy Cow! I agree with
December 14, 2007 - 07:17 ET by motherbeltHoly Cow! I agree with Jack Cafferty!!
As for this:
My own country, the United States, is principally responsible for
obstructing progress here in Bali. We all know that. We all know that.
Oh please. We are the honest ones who say no, we can't do that, we won't do that, it would be too harmful to our economy. Better, I guess that we should be like China and other countries; sign on to the restrictions and reduction goals, and then ignore them.
Because you know, with Liberals, especially hyper-Liberals like Gore, it's all about "intentions." Look how hard someone "tries." They "mean well. That's what counts.
Al Gore
December 14, 2007 - 07:17 ET by djm159Gore has proven once again that he should leave the United States and live abroad. Only a pompous ass democrat would have the audacity and arrogance to try and control mother nature. Gore is an embarrassment to the United States and to life. What a perfectly good waste of blubber and tissue. Perhaps if he would shut his mouth for an hour the greenhouse gas emissions would be well on the way to recovery, assuming you believe the inventor of the internet and liar. You lost the nomination moron, deal with it. We are so lucky not to have had Al Gore as president, just what we need, one more anti-American left-wing liberal running the country. He makes the phrase Do as I say, not as I do a reality.
Global Warming Politics
December 14, 2007 - 07:27 ET by Parker1227Excerpt from Al Gore's yet to be released memoir (from an unverified source of dubious origin).
"We new that we couldn't depend on the Iraq war to drive the bastards out of power. What if, god forbid, Iraq started going well and the Dems were caught flat footed waving the white flag while the marines and Iraqi citizens chased the last of the terrorists out of Iraq? The public would see the Dems as a bunch of craven power mongers betting on America's defeat.
We had to create something even worse than Iraq and scarier than Islamist terrorism. That's where global warming came in. Once we established that warming didn't just cause warmness, but was the cause of all storms, drought, tornadoes and floods - then we had a wild card in our deck.
All we had to do was add a prayer for bad weather to our other favorite prayers - a crashing economy and true civil war in Iraq, and with luck, everything would go to hell in a handbag. Anyway, Americans deserved to suffer a for not electing me president."
That would be both hilarious
December 14, 2007 - 07:29 ET by motherbeltThat would be both hilarious and cruel, if it weren't so damn plausible.
If you look at the
December 14, 2007 - 08:21 ET by MidAmericaIf you look at the statements made by former democrat presidential candidates about their own country you realize how lucky we have been that they did lose. Consider the actions and comments and just plain trashing of this country by the likes of McGovern, Carter, Kerry and Gore. Compare those bitter men with Ford, Bush I, and Bob Dole, men who also lost but remain gentlemen and patriots.
Amen, MidAmerica! As I was
December 14, 2007 - 09:15 ET by motherbeltAmen, MidAmerica! As I was reading that post, it occurred to me that we now have 2 ex-presidents and an ex-veep going around badmouthing their country. Nice.
I'm sure "W" will be a gentleman when he's done, even if, heaven forbid, a Democrat takes over.
I'd like to see him trash the next one, but deep down inside I know that's not the right thing to do.....and he won't.
Pompous Jerk
December 14, 2007 - 08:48 ET by Uncle Don"European nations threatened today to boycott upcoming U.S.-sponsored
climate talks unless the Bush administration commits to deep cuts in
greenhouse gases."
Good, let them...as a matter of fact, let's not even have the climate talks. Why are we having them anyhow. haven't we "talked" enough about all this hooey? I think the Bali Conference generated enough Greenhouse Gasses for a long, long, time.
Global Carbon Tax
December 14, 2007 - 09:18 ET by Pete WilsonJust read in the Inhofe EPW Blog that the UN conference in Bali is really pushing a global carbon tax, which would, of course, have the United States paying the lion's share. To the UN! Home of the most ethically challenged beaurocrats in the world. This, of course, is wealth redistribution per UN mandate.
Follow the money, folks. That is what this is all about.
My two cents.
Pete
I just heard yesterday that
December 14, 2007 - 10:28 ET by Seabeach4348I just heard yesterday that the esteemed UN determined in the Bali climate summit love-in that "they" need $86-billion to assist poorer nations in combating global warming (or global climate change, whatever the correct term is this week...) and that $40-billion should come from the United States since we are the biggest threat to the climate.
Also, there were three independent studies conducted by three seperate universities (Atlanta, Rochester, and I can't remember the other) by their climatology people (with full peer review, not a group of limp-wristed weidos posing a consensus) that human effect on climate is infinitesmally small and could never cause the horrific changes that the UN, Algore, and the IPCC suggest.
Good. Let them boycott us. Who needs the IPCC and the UN anyway.
The only thing that comes to mind is.....
December 14, 2007 - 09:10 ET by OldSailor88Pot: Kettle, you're black.
Kettle: Look who's talking, dude. Looked in the mirror lately?
Please, please
December 14, 2007 - 09:20 ET by DaBirdPlease, please please....please boycott our U.S.-sponsored climate talks. Nothing could make me happier.
I've always wondered ...
December 14, 2007 - 09:23 ET by IgnatzJFahrquarwhat it would have been like to live during certain periods of History. Such as when Galileo or Copernicus or Pasteur were being mocked and persecuted for their beliefs and SCIENTIFIC findings. Or perhaps the Dark Ages when scientific fact was swept under the rug as heresy. Of course, as the educated, "head-not-in-the-sand" Right understand, all of the writings, experiments and theories were later proven correct and we sit in awe and wonder how could people be so ignorant???
Well, we are living in such a time. Look around at all the sheep with blinders following these buffoons like Algore.
The other day there was a program on the Discovery Channel about the Great Barier Reef and how it was created. A very informative show. That reef has been created and killed off numerous times due to the warming and cooling cycles of the planet, not because of the human population's "carbon footprint".
The show just emphasised the point how it is the NATURAL cycle of the planet that is the main cause for any climactic changes (okay, throw in a comet or volcano, too).
I just shake my head at their ignorance and stupidity.
"All generalizations are false, including this one.” Mark Twain
grrr....
December 14, 2007 - 09:39 ET by Sick-n-TiredHe is such an a*s!!! He is a caricature of himself. Is he kin to John Kerry? Because he was against the Kyoto Treaty before he was for it!
Yes trolls, remember, you beloved Cliton and Bore were the ones that voted it down and elected not to sign.
I just wish Williams & Co. on the evening news shows would have outed him for the hack liar, and the "pompous jerk" that he really is.
As Claire Huxtable (Cosby
December 14, 2007 - 10:10 ET by msh1973As Claire Huxtable (Cosby Show) would say, "I just want to smack'um!" Gore now believes that he is the savior of the world. I am surprised the can sleep at night, carrying that heavy burden.
We're all tired of AlGore
December 14, 2007 - 10:31 ET by inquiringmindCafferty is tired of AlGore!?! Jack, it's bone heads like you that have encouraged him all of these years! And now you are surprised at his actions?!?
Gore is the man the
December 14, 2007 - 13:01 ET by rbosqueGore is the man the liberals wanted to be president? He is a typical American-hating ass, along with the rest of the Hollywierd and media crowd.
And according to the Scotish Guardian, we are all "stupid" for not electing him. Well they and the rest of the marxists can take their arrogant ass and live in the worker's paradice of North Korea and stay there.
Cafferty has been waiting
December 14, 2007 - 14:34 ET by BeowulfDELETE
Cafferty has been waiting
December 14, 2007 - 14:33 ET by BeowulfCafferty has been waiting for years to call someone that. After all - that's what HE'S been called at least six times per day for what, the past decade?. I guess it's legitimate though. Who else but a pompous jerk definitively, absolutely knows another one???
The Closed Mind Erects Strong Barriers
The nefarious Mr. Gore
December 14, 2007 - 17:47 ET by pocomocoMy conspiratorial mind is once again at work.
Gore’s resentment of being rejected by his country for the presidency has brought him to where he is today - an extremely bitter man.
He feels he must now get back at the country by putting it down at every turn, and the best way to accomplish the task is by attacking the country’s monetary system – hence his love with global warming.
With his extreme ideas about what must be done to avoid global warming, he can envision a great up evil in the financial markets filtering all the way down to every ones pocketbook.
If he can make this happen, he will have accomplished what Al-Qaeda has been trying to do to the US for years - another 1929.
You know,
December 14, 2007 - 18:47 ET by dervishthat's even scarier than Michael Crichton's State of Fear.