'Early Show' Offers Love Piece on Al Gore

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After grilling White House spokesman Tony Snow, the March 22 edition of CBS’s "The Early Show," followed with a fawning story on former Vice President Al Gore and his testimony on Capitol Hill. Anchor Russ Mitchell kicked it off calling Gore "a big celebrity with a message about global warming."

Correspondent Gloria Borger exclaimed the former vice president "looked like a winner." CBS then played a sound bite of Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) offering praise to Mr. Gore calling him "a role model for us all." After briefly playing a clip of Congressman Joe Barton (R-TX) grilling Al Gore, Borger called him a "professor" and reminding the audience that "he could still run for president." The transcript is below.

RUSS MITCHELL: The one man still not in the race for the White House, former Vice President Al Gore. Returning to Capitol Hill as a big celebrity with a message about global warming. CBS News political correspondent Gloria Borger reports.

GLORIA BORGER: It was mostly a day of handshakes and welcome backs for former Vice President Al Gore. The environmental evangelist had friends if not converts, on both sides of the Capitol, as he preached global warming.

FORMER VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE: When CO2 goes up, temperature goes up. That is why 20 of the 21 hottest years ever measured in the human record have been in the last 25 years.

BORGER: The last time Gore was on Capitol Hill, he was a bit thinner and in the awkward position of certifying his own loss to George Bush. Now a little heavier and sportier, he looked like a winner. His environmental movie having grabbed an Oscar, Democrats couldn't be friendlier if they tried.

SENATOR BARBARA BOXER (D-CA): Let me just say you did good, Mr. Vice President. You really are, in so many ways, a role model for us all.

GORE: You don't give out any kind of statue or anything?

BOXER: I'm going to give you --

BORGER: But there were non-believers like Republican Joe Barton who questioned Gore's science.

GORE: The idea that that CO2.

REPRESENTATIVE JOE BARTON (R-TX): I hope there's an answer in here somewhere.

GORE: May I --

BARTON: I'd like to have an answer to the straight question.

GORE: I'm, I'm, well, you asked quite a few of them.

BORGER: And then there was Al Gore, the professor --

GORE: I believe it's enzymatic hydrolysis, some people call it cellulosic ethanol, ligno cellulosic, which is a bio diesel form --

BORGER: Gore gave as good as he got from Republicans and one Democrat, Hillary Clinton, didn't exactly gush all over him because he could still run for president. Gloria Borger, CBS News, Washington.

—Justin McCarthy is a news analyst at Media Research Center.


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AGW VS Terrorism

Well it's official.  THe liberals have forgotten about the horrendous attacks that occured on our soil on September 11th.  I am SO SICK AND @#^% TIRED OF HEARING ABOUT GLOBAL %#^# &^%# WARMING!!  SICK OF IT!!!!!   Stupid Nanny Staters.  Always trying to find SOMETHING to save us from that never exists in the first place.  These people are ILL and should be locked away.   Hey AL FREAKIN GORE,  ITS CALLED THE  SOLAR %##^ SYSTEM FOR A %$ REASON!!  IDIOT!!!!

I take it you don't agree w

I take it you don't agree with his hotness, hey spiff?

"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...

Nuff said Spiff, Nuff said.

Nuff said Spiff, Nuff said.

LOL!Yep....I think he spelled

LOL!

Yep....I think he spelled it out loud and clear!

SSS...There's no way I can to

SSS...

There's no way I can top that, so I won't even try.

The liberal MSM has become an enemy of the USA.

"Role Model" No cha

"Role Model"

No challenge from the liberal MSM on the disconnect between albore's recommendations for us plebians reducing energy and his 4 houses. Or a comparison between W's energy efficient ranch and mr. bore's energy use at his TN home.

The best part of this is the naked bias. The worst part is too many don't see the bias. 

Sss,"Always trying to fi

Sss,

"Always trying to find SOMETHING to save us from that never exists in the first place. "

Yes i agree, HOWEVER , The TAX they will charge us will be REAL.  GURRR.

$-)

One more thing.  Could somebody PLEASE explain to me what the shite "carbon credits" are?  The same thing goes for "Carbon Neutral"   Good grief.  Only a bunch of self loathing dullards would come up with this nonsense to "compensate" for their "dared" existence on this planet.   Friggin llon bags.  I want these people to start explaining to me why other planets are warming up.  But they never will because it will instantly discredit their eco-communism they have started with.  Speaking of communists.  John Edwards and his wife used the media.  Just goes to show you how important these "carbon neutral" fools think they are.   

One final note.  During that press conference that Edwards gave did anybody else catch his stark hypocrasy?  "We will not back down and hide in a corner.  We love this country we live in, AND WANT TO CHANGE IT"  How very very liberal of him

Other than that, I have no strang feeling for the matter  $-)

A Carbon Credit is a purchase

A Carbon Credit is a purchased indulgence from a higher power.  In this case it is money paid to allow the transgressor to feel good about himself in relationship to the desired infraction.

I am awaiting Bill Clinton asking for a "Mistress Credit" whereby he gets to pay money and feel good about the Lewinski case.

I am awaiting Ted Kennedy asking for a "Chapaquiddick Credit" whereby he gets to get off the hook regarding a drowned woman.

Any other purchased indulgences anyone can think of???

I'm on it BD! www.feelgoodc

I'm on it BD!

www.feelgoodcredits....

And I guarantee, any money used to purchase feel good credits will go to a VERY noble cause. Namely: ME!

"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...

MMI will defer to your obviou

MM

I will defer to your obvious mastery of the subject and look on with anticipation for the opportunity to "Pay my way to heaven" ASAP.

hehe, did I mention all sal

hehe, did I mention all sales are final?

Ok, Ok, I will do an in store exchange for the "heaven " credits if you don't make it! :-P

"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...

Credits

A "I support the troops" credit, where liberals can say any stupid, negative, anti-American thing they want without feeling guilty about encouraging the terrorists or demoralizing our military....oh, nevermind...they already do that without feeling any guilt.

RJ:I invite your attention to

sSS,If you operate a ski are

sSS,

If you operate a ski area in Colorado, and buy a windmill or 2 in California.  All that juice will flow to the motors in that ski area that run the chairlifts. That's it, feelings, not science. One can even ski when the wind is not blowing.

Algore

The pursuit of ManBearPig continues.

Gordo

Melmac

I'm telling you people but yo

I'm telling you people but you don't believe me: Gore and Boxer are doing it.

"Gore and Boxer are do

"Gore and Boxer are doing it"

Doing what? The only thing that came to my mind...well.. just say I didn't let it come to my mind so I am at a loss.

"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...

White paper, White paper, Whi

White paper, White paper, White paper..........

"There is no god but gai

"There is no god but gaia, and Algore is her prophet"

We are dealing with cultists, not scientists.  Gore was called a prophet by one of his followers in the senate.  These nuts worship Gaia...

There are Islamofascists, who'll blow up your office building, and there are Enviro-fascists who'll shut off power to your office building (but not theirs)...

There is little difference between the two.

BD that indulgences comment

BD that indulgences comment was great. I'd not thought of it that way. That seems to be a dead ringer and right on the money. Sorry sometimes I just can't resist a good (or bad) pun.

Global Warming and Intelligent Design: Two Peas in a Pod

I am so glad the GOP has cuddled up so closely to the religious-right in America. Know why? Simply because it was the religious-right that tried to break down "science" and the "scientific method" for so many years. They fought against evolution (a science) with the bible (a faith). Well, maybe they succeeded!! Just like conservatives want to ignore science when it comes to evolution so do the liberals when it comes to Global Warming. Nice, eh?

See how important science is??? Rather than a "myth"?

Maybe you will think twice next time to support the Bill Frist type of politician. What happened to him anyway? Oh yea...lol...

Clearly you know nothing ab

Clearly you know nothing about the true scientific method of refutation and falsification as set forth by Sir Karl Popper in 1934.

If you did you might have a glimpse of understanding about how science actually makes progress and advances our knowledge of life, the universe and everything. Which you seem to think is by unquestioningly accepting what has gone before, or by what some "committee" says on a hand vote..

By the way. What happend to the diminutive Tom Daschle? Oh yea, lol.

The answer is socialism. But only if the question is:

"What's the fastest way to impoverish, enslave and destroy people?"

mrsimele...If you want scienc

mrsimele...

If you want science and proof, check out this video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XttV2C6B8pU

It's long but very informative!

The liberal MSM has become an enemy of the USA.

mrsimele, How exactly has t

mrsimele,

How exactly has the religious-right tried to break down "science" and the "scientific method"?

Not accepting evolutionary theory (or Big Bang, for that matter) isn't the same as trying to undermine how science goes about it's business.

Maybe you can elaborate for us?

Demolishing Al Goremless (e

Demolishing Al Goremless (even with his giant carbon buttprint) is all too easy.

Even so, the WSJ's Best of the Web today, publishes some hilarious letters pricking the pompous former Vice Presidential ballon...

More Cowbell!
Several readers had interesting comments about Al Gore's comment, which we noted yesterday: "The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don't say, 'well, I read a science fiction novel that tells me it's not a problem.'

Reader Martin Shimp notes:

Clearly Gore never cared for his children while they had a fever. Fevers can be a symptom of either a bacterial or viral issue. A doctor can attempt a solution to a bacterial issue, but not a viral one. A virus has to run its course while the body fights it--and a fever is a sign of the struggle to eliminate the virus. Let's see a scientific consensus that the Earth's fever is bacteria-related.

Reader Scott Jacobson questions Gore's premise:

Some great news for Daddy Gore: Little baby Earth does not have a fever. It's been awhile since Daddy Gore had a little bundle at home so maybe he has just forgotten that an infant is not considered to have a fever until her body temperature is at or above 100.4 degrees, or 1.8 degrees above normal. In the last century, little baby Earth's temperature has only gone up "almost one degree.

Overreacting is common among parents. I remember one morning when my first child was still an infant. Imagine my horror when I discovered that her temperature had risen to 99.5 degrees, almost a whole degree in just under 12 hours. Naturally, I immediately sat down and built a computer model, which clearly projected that by age 30, her temperature was going to be a staggering 19,710 degrees!

Thankfully, with the help of a patient wife and an impatient pediatrician, I came to realize that these fluctuations were normal, and that my baby daughter would not be going supernova by the time she reached her golden years.

And Kelly Murphy puts things in perspective nicely:

So let me see if I have this right. According to Al Gore, I would have to be an idiot to decide, after reading "a science-fiction novel" (he must be referring to "State of Fear") that it's OK to go about living my life in a normal fashion. Instead, I should see one science-fiction movie (his) and run screaming out of the theater prepared to change every aspect of my life to avoid certain destruction.

The answer is socialism. But only if the question is:

"What's the fastest way to impoverish, enslave and destroy people?"

Fevah!(Great letters.)

Fevah!

(Great letters.)

Jackson,When I saw the drudge

Jackson,

When I saw the drudge headline "the world has a fever", I thought the same thing: need more cowbell! The video is here if anyone is interested.

First of all, mrsimele, it is

First of all, mrsimele, it is rather agw believers who have completely turned their back on science, steadfastly refusing to account for or even acknowledge the very real evidence that continues to accrue against their theory.  Secondly, we "deniers" don't deny global warming.  We're saying, we see a lot of substantially conflicting evidence - we simply don't know the cause of this phenomenon yet.  And we're certainly not proposing to foist a draconian solution on an entire country (while exempting others) on the basis of a far from proven theory - a theory, please note, not a conclusion.

There is one good thing about Al's crusade.  It has Hillary gnashing her teeth about the spotlight being on Al.  Bring back that 1984 commercial!

It's real simple ... the rig

It's real simple ... the righteous contend with the corrupt, but the feebleminded praise them.

Proverbs 28:4

They that forsake the law [the Torah ... the Word of God] praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.