Ordinary normal Americans recite the Pledge of Allegiance for love of country. Former Vice President Al Gore recites Pledge of the Climate Crisis with the same zeal. The only difference is Americans tend to get the Pledge of Allegiance right every time.
For the last year leading up to the much-hyped “Live Earth” event, Gore has been making the rounds to various media outlets reciting the same message – global warming bad, government regulation good. However, on the July 5 “Larry King Live” show, Gore committed a global warming slip up.
Gore told CNN’s Larry King he was urging viewers to pressure their governments “to sign and join an international treaty within two years that cuts global warming pollution by 90 percent in the developing countries and by more than half worldwide in time for the next generation to inherit a healthy earth.”
But that’s not what the Gore seven-point pledge actually asked for and that’s where he screwed up. Developing nations wouldn’t have to reduce global warming pollution by 90 percent. Developed countries would – like the United States.
Otherwise, his string of media appearances was vintage apocalyptical Gore. “A huge area of snow near the South Pole, an area the size of California, has been melting. The scientists are practically screaming from the rooftops on this,” Gore said on the July 6 CBS “The Early Show.”
Gore also gave a last-minute surprise by waiting until the day before his “Live Earth” concerts to announce he would indeed be hosting an event on The Mall, specifically the National Museum of the American Indian, in Washington, D.C. GOP Senators had blocked efforts for him to host one of the concerts on the Capitol Lawn in March. “This new location at the Indian museum does not require congressional approval and thus Gore could have done at any time,” said one GOP staffer on Gore’s last minute ploy.”
—Dan Gainor is director of the Business and Media Institute.
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Al Gore
July 6, 2007 - 18:42 ET by Captain RepusThe more I see and hear AlGore the more excited I get that he might actually jump into the '08 race. Nothing could be more entertaining than to watch a re-run of this moron in a debate with (almost) any of the Republican candidates. After watching him self-destruct against a man who couldn't put more than two words together coherently in the debates (other than "it's hard work" in '04 debates), I seriously doubt that he has suddenly become anything more than an oversized mound of sound. This guy is a sad joke to any rational thinking adult who doesn't make a living acting or entertaining.
Poor Al....still wouldn't kno
July 6, 2007 - 18:42 ET by bigtimerPoor Al....still wouldn't know the truth if it hit him in the face...let alone tell it.
Man I am sick of Algore and GW....especially while I am sitting here drenched...be glad when this ends...if it ever does.
Gore didn't slip up. He knows
July 6, 2007 - 18:48 ET by GalvanicGore didn't slip up. He knows that one of the big stumbling blocks to American acceptance of Kyoto is the fact that developing nations --- including GHG giants China and India --- are exempt from the Kyoto provisions. So, the solution is to mention that developing nations are making a heavy contribution, which then begs the question "Why can't the US do it's share?" Gore has always been disingenuous (at best) and a liar (at worst).
But, like I stated on another post, it appears to me that Gore is losing momentum. Even the MSM is now raising questions about his loose grasp of facts.
Right arm, Galv. Al knows e
July 6, 2007 - 22:02 ET by Scout FinchRight arm, Galv. Al knows exactly what he's saying. He's purposely misquoting his own little climate crisis pledge, assured that the MSM will never expose nor correct him publicly or otherwise. Goebbels would be proud. I'm ashamed. Of Al.
As has been noted many times
July 6, 2007 - 20:06 ET by Mike BrattonAs has been noted many times recently, Mr. Gore, your family requires your undivided attention right now.
Staring into Larry King's camera as though you were giving the State of the Planet address, or bloviating on Donny Deutsch's set as the deifying phrase "The Passion Of Al Gore" hovered beneath you, or polluting the delicate atmosphere as you privately jet and motor from TV appearance to TV appearance--these things do nothing to address what should be your top priority right now.
Forgive my skepticism, but would your response to your family be different if a TV camera crew could follow you home? Not that I have the slightest desire to see an Al Gore reality show, but I can't help but wonder why you display more "passion" for something that raises your profile than you evidently do about the needs of your family.
--Mike
www.thebrattonreport.com
When you break it down to i
July 6, 2007 - 21:20 ET by FairlightWhen you break it down to its core, Soros, and more recently Gore with his Google-enhanced fame, are nothing but trolls with money.
If Gore attempted to do this non-stop propaganda on any average website he would have been banned long ago.
EvilCon555'AlGore is nothing
July 7, 2007 - 06:14 ET by EvilCon555EvilCon555'
AlGore is nothing more than a glorified guest on the political version of The Jerry Springer Show. Worse, we all watch him as if he is a horrific accident on the highway, curious to see what will happen and how it will effect us all.
Any sensible thinker knows that he is playing a scam with his carbon credits, yet nothing is said in the MSM. A sad statement. Just yesterday at work a co-worker argued that AlGore won the election.....pitiful. But these folks can't help it when the media keeps telling us this is so. And keeps his ever growing head in our view 24/7.
Because the citizens of the USA are generally a bunch of superficial, non-thinking, morally bankrupt sheep we get the AlGore's of the world holding onto some shred of power using slight of hand and shell game trickery. They don't allow for intelligent design. Yet they call upon the Sierra club to protect wildlife concerns - forgetting that their belief system allows for survival of the fittest. Hypocrites.
They don't want us to be "addicted to foreign oil" but won't allow exploration or development in North America. They want us to use alternative electric vehicles, but have turned a blind eye to what the battery manufacturers have done to the environment in Ontario Canada. They think that open mindedness means letting gay men marry...but won't consider allowing a group of Christian youth time to pray during school. They think an underage girl shouldn't have to notify her parents about getting an abortion, but they won't let a boy use his inhaler at school for his asthma - he might be a huffer, you know...
AlGore and his nanny state liberal weenie cohorts make me sick. This was the first 4th of July where I just didn't give a damn. WE are losing young men and women in a war that at one time was meaningful and important. Now it is a political ploy. As the media gleefully shows our weakness through the video footage of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid spewing warm, fuzzy meaniningless rhetoric about deauthorizing "this war", terrorists are biding their time until they can get us again. And all we can think about is Live Earth.
Shame, shame, shame on ALL of us. And God Bless our Military and the service they provide.
And one more thing - how in Heaven's name did Al Gore III get a Toyota Prius to go 100 MPH? I am thinking whatever he was driving, a lambo, McClaren AMG, or an R8 was rebadged as a hybrid....makes you wonder huh? Hypocriscy makes folks very creative, especially liberal folk.
See ya in rehab AG3...
Me, my solution is Duncan Hunter - anyone else with me?
"Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow" Chinese Proverb
I'm with you but I would reco
July 7, 2007 - 08:00 ET by winston smithI'm with you but I would reconsider the accusation --
"the citizens of the USA are generally a bunch of superficial, non-thinking, morally bankrupt sheep."
There has been plenty of criticism of global warming/climate change/ blah, blah, blah almost from the very moment that the Gore with the eager help from the MSM began recklessly ramming this hogwash down our throats. There are reputable scientists, legislators, scholars, authors, not to mention, FOX, talk-radio, websites, blogs, and great forums like this one that have been downright briliant in getting the word out and educating the public on the inconsistencies and fallicies of gw/cc theory despite the MSM's attempt to ignore or muzzle any counter arguments. The MSM has been dutifully and consistently parroting Gore's alarmist messages ever since the release of An Inconvenient Truth but the anti-alarmists have been quick to respond and quite effective ------- even without the advantage of big network media on our side. So take heart, not every American is a mind-numbed Gore-bot and the media, like it or not, is forced everyday to accept the fact that a majority of Americans after months and months of alarmist hooha still remain skeptical of gw theory.
WS - "So take heart, not
July 8, 2007 - 10:50 ET by Cape ConservativeWS - "So take heart, not every American is a mind-numbed Gore-bot and the media, like it or not, is forced everyday to accept the fact that a majority of Americans after months and months of alarmist hooha still remain skeptical of gw theory."
AMEN! I, too, believe the great "silent majority" is awakening...and will be heard!!!
WS - witness the past month o
July 8, 2007 - 10:51 ET by Cape ConservativeWS - witness the past month on the immigration bill ;~)