Fox News And Right-Wing Bloggers Attack Gore’s Nobel Prize
Fox News And Right-Wing Bloggers Attack Gore’s Nobel Prize
On Fox and Friends this morning, co-host Steve Doocy wasted no time in attacking the announcement that Al Gore has been named a co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. “Here’s something extraordinary,” Doocy sarcastically said. “What do Al Gore, Yasser Arafat, and that crazy Jimmy Carter have in common?” Co-host Gretchen Carlson responded, “They all won the Nobel Peace Prize?”
Fox then displayed a chyron of the last few winners of the Nobel Peace Prize, causing another co-host Brian Kilmeade, to complain: “There’s the last five winners — see Mohamed El Baradei. What do they have in common? I don’t know about the 2006 winner, but I will say 2005 and 2007 both anti-Bush.”
The Fox panel then turned its attack on An Inconvenient Truth, noting a recent court ruling by a British judge that Gore’s film should be accompanied by “guidance notes” when shown in schools. That ruling is now being challenged by schools and teachers. After reporting on the British controversy over Gore’s film, Doocy said:
You know, I’m not a scientist. I don’t know if any of that stuff is true. I don’t think any of it’s true. I just know that my daughter watched the movie last week. … [She said Gore] took three shots at George Bush. And my daughter, who’s just 18, was turned off by how it was political. So there you go.
Watch it:
Right-wing bloggers are echoing the same themes in their attack on Gore:
“Look on the bright side: after Arafat, Carter, and Iranian marionette Mohammed ElBaradei, the award couldn’t possibly be more degraded.” - Hot Air’s Allahpundit
“Keeping to the trend of politicized awards, the Nobel Peace Prize has been given jointly to Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.” - National Review’s Jay Richards
“The Nobel Prize committee has basically surrendered to hysterics, mass exaggerators, and liars, most of who are not even climatologists or even any type of scientist.” - William Teach at Pirate’s Cove
“I wasn’t even aware that they had a Nobel Prize for deceptive rhetoric.” - Confederate Yankee
“This continues the trend of the Peace Prize being awarded, not for achievements in spreading peace, but to highlight the Committee’s political agenda.” - James Joyner at Outside The Beltway.
If the right-wing is truly concerned about the “political” nature of the global warming debate, they should blame President Bush for that. He has taken very little action to fight climate change and even refuses to admit that it is manmade. He broke his promise to cap carbon emissions and insists that global warming can be fought through individual “voluntary” programs.
The reason why Gore has won so many accolades is because he is revealing the far right’s vast disinformation campaign against global warming science. And he is succeeding.
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So Duecy’s daughter’s as big an idiot as he is.
October 12th, 2007 at 11:13 amNo news there.
“Fox News And Right-Wing Bloggers Attack Gore’s Nobel Prize”
Well of course they do… Was there any doubt?
October 12th, 2007 at 11:13 amwould u expect anything less from those reptiles?
October 12th, 2007 at 11:14 amWow — that didn’t take long!
October 12th, 2007 at 11:14 amWhat do you expect from the Fascist Repukian Propaganda Slim Machine?
RUN AL RUN!!!
Beat you to it Jake D. Fake
Buck Fush
October 12th, 2007 at 11:15 amHaters!
October 12th, 2007 at 11:17 amThey’ve spewed lies and vitriol about Gore for years. Nothing new here.
October 12th, 2007 at 11:19 amWell since Al attacked the shrub the planet must be cooling. Morons everywhere! Run!
October 12th, 2007 at 11:20 amGore is a good man. But let’s face it: Henry Kissinger is a Nobel Peace Prize winner.
October 12th, 2007 at 11:22 amIt’s so much fun watching the right-wing loonies grasping at whatever straws they have left as they circle the bowl. They’re well on their way to complete and utter irrelevance.
I’m gonna miss those morons! :)
October 12th, 2007 at 11:23 amYou know, I’m not a scientist. I don’t know if any of that stuff is true. I don’t think any of it’s true.
We understand your ignorance in this issue. Thank you.
October 12th, 2007 at 11:24 amI’m done with television.
October 12th, 2007 at 11:26 amI certainly believe that Gore’s film was well done and performed a valuable function in making people around the world more aware of global warming. But at the risk of appearing obtuse, it would appear that the category of his award was misplaced. What does the subject of global warming have to do with peace and the subtext of war? Perhaps a special category could have been set up to honor Gore for his well deserved work in dealing with the environment.
October 12th, 2007 at 11:26 amYou know, I’m not a scientist. I don’t know if any of that stuff is true. I don’t think any of it’s true.
Thank you for stating the obvious. Any time the Faux Logo appears in the lower left hand screen, we know whatever is being spewed has no relevence and no tie to reality.
Kinda like the opposite of the Goodhousekeeping seal.
October 12th, 2007 at 11:27 ami’m not sure how this “peace prize” could NOT be political…
one political side wants PEACE… the other wants war…
HURRAY FOR OUR SIDE!
October 12th, 2007 at 11:27 am.
Luckily, the Nobel Peace Prize didn’t come down to a few votes for Gore, otherwise someone might have come along and stolen that from him as well.
October 12th, 2007 at 11:27 amI guess the right has tired of trashing Graeme Frost and his family — now they are trashing the Nobel Peace Prize.
You can bet that if one of their own had gotten it, they would be lauding the award like it was the Holy Grail. Unfortunately, they don’t give out the award for bullying, for abuse of power, for eroding human rights, for instigating war, etc. etc., so I don’t think they have much to wait for. It’s been 34 years since one of their own got the award, and that was Henry Kissinger in 1973.
October 12th, 2007 at 11:27 amMan! Faux news and the reichwing blogs are losing their minds over this today.
pretty funny
October 12th, 2007 at 11:27 amSo predictable. You would think as a people we’d be proud that one of our own has been recognized for his work with others to make a difference in the future of the lives of the world’s children. Even those who don’t completely buy the science must surely recognize that some things just make common sense, and by extension lend credence to global warming arguments.
October 12th, 2007 at 11:27 amI’m gonna miss those morons! :)
Comment by toasterhead — October 12, 2007 @ 11:23 am
i’m not…
but no way will they go away…
their mission is to make life miserable for anyone
who disagrees with them…
they’re not going away… they won’t allow this country to heal…
October 12th, 2007 at 11:29 am…
fox news: what else do you expect from a pig but a grunt.
October 12th, 2007 at 11:30 amYou would think as a people we’d be proud that one of our own has been recognized for his work with others to make a difference in the future of the lives of the world’s children. Even those who don’t completely buy the science must surely recognize that some things just make common sense, and by extension lend credence to global warming arguments.
Comment by Candyce — October 12, 2007 @ 11:27 am
The mistake you made is claiming Gore is one of “their own”. The Repugs put Party over country, planet, morality, honesty, et. al. Nothing new here,
October 12th, 2007 at 11:30 amthey attacked a 12 year old boy… (probably because they couldn’t get in his pants) so why should anyone be surprised that they would attack PRESIDENT Gore?
October 12th, 2007 at 11:31 amit’s only political because Republicants have chosen not to believe in global warming… Gore of course has to identify those who are blocking progress against the phenomenon…
October 12th, 2007 at 11:31 amthose righties are a jealous and vidictive bunch, ain’t they?
i think they’re funny, in a manson family kind of way.
October 12th, 2007 at 11:33 amIf SO many neocons think it’s wrong for the Dems to use the true-life stories of children affected by S-CHIP to defend it’s usefuleness, then why is that tremendous load Doocy hiding his chickensh!t ass behind his 18-year old daughter to attack An Inconvenient Truth? IOKIYAR/FNPD? (It’s OK If You’re A Republican/Fox News Pez Dispenser?)
October 12th, 2007 at 11:33 am“You know I’m not a scientist and I don’t know if any of that stuff is true.” …… They are and it is.
October 12th, 2007 at 11:33 amWhat does the subject of global warming have to do with peace and the subtext of war? Perhaps a special category could have been set up to honor Gore for his well deserved work in dealing with the environment.
Comment by Erroll — October 12, 2007 @ 11:26 am
The award is given for furthering the cause of a peaceful humanity and fraternity between nations. It’s pretty evident why a failing environment and scarcity of resources would upset peace and fraternity.
October 12th, 2007 at 11:37 amYou know, I’m not a scientist. I don’t know if any of that stuff is true. I don’t think any of it’s true.
“Ladies and gentlemen of the jury… I’m just a simple caveman…”
Unfrozen Caveman Panelist.
October 12th, 2007 at 11:38 amFOX is State Television. Just like Putin’s.
October 12th, 2007 at 11:38 amErroll, here’s the answer:
By awarding the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 to the IPCC and Al Gore, the Norwegian Nobel Committee is seeking to contribute to a sharper focus on the processes and decisions that appear to be necessary to protect the world’s future climate, and thereby to reduce the threat to the security of mankind. Action is necessary now, before climate change moves beyond man’s control.
It’s from the official announcement.
October 12th, 2007 at 11:38 amSo where are all the trolls today? You’d think this is just their kind of thread.
October 12th, 2007 at 11:39 am“”the award couldn’t possibly be more degraded.†- Hot Air’s Allahpundit”
It could if GWB or Rush won it.
(by the way, I tried to go to Hot Air to leave a comment, but registration to leave comments is closed. I suppose they have all the opinions they want.)
October 12th, 2007 at 11:39 amHeh heh. SUCK IT, FREEPERS !!!
October 12th, 2007 at 11:39 am#24: You said what I was going to post, though you put it better than I would have.
October 12th, 2007 at 11:40 amany fool knows that “global warming” is the direct result of that extra month of daylight savings time most of us now enjoy. it’s simple! more daylight = more warming.
duh!
;)
the repugnantcan lemmings continue to march lockstep right to the edge of their flat earth. don’t stand in their way. morons!
October 12th, 2007 at 11:40 amAnd Fixed News earns KO’s nomenclature once more.
As I posted on an earlier thread, how about a congratulatory phone call from the WH to an American winning the Nobel Peace Prize? They do it for goddamn sports teams. Instead the WH mouthpiece response is sour grapes & let’s insinuate that the Nobel Committee has a liberal bias. Christ…
October 12th, 2007 at 11:41 amI don’t understand how the British judge can ascertain these 9 “untruths” that these idiots are jumping all over…Does he have a background in science? This makes no sense to me at all…
October 12th, 2007 at 11:41 am#28:
//knock on wood
Don’t jinx it! It’s nice here without their blathering and whining for attention.
October 12th, 2007 at 11:41 amWhat does the subject of global warming have to do with peace and the subtext of war?
Comment by Erroll — October 12, 2007 @ 11:26 am
Quite a bit, actually. Most wars are fought over land and natural resources. The population shifts that will inevitably result from drying aquifers, desertification, sea-level rise, and other effects of climate change could provoke more and bloodier wars than ever before. It’s already happening in parts of Africa as pastoral tribes in the Sahel region migrate to agricultural lands owned by other tribes.
So yes, the Peace Prize is absolutely appropriate.
October 12th, 2007 at 11:42 amInstead the WH mouthpiece response is sour grapes & let’s insinuate that the Nobel Committee has a liberal bias. Christ…
Comment by And Yet… — October 12, 2007 @ 11:41 am
It is only liberal in that it makes decisions based on truth, relevancy and reality; all traits not found in the Repug genetic structure.
October 12th, 2007 at 11:44 am>What does the subject of global warming have to do
>with peace and the subtext of war?
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/ international/ story/ 0,6903,1153513,00.html
Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us
· Secret report warns of rioting and nuclear war
October 12th, 2007 at 11:45 am· Britain will be ‘Siberian’ in less than 20 years
· Threat to the world is greater than terrorism
Wow I’m still trying to figure out if you guys think President Bush is an idiot or evil incarnate, I don’t beleive you can have both.
Wasn’t the Gorical pushing his slide show for almost 20 years? And hasn’t he been saying we only have 10 years to get the world in order? I guess he keeps pushing back the the goal post for is own “convienence”. I would too if I managed to get a G-5 jet and front row seats out of it.
100 years of industry has destroyed Billions of years of evolution? Man made?
October 12th, 2007 at 11:47 amI swear a room full of fourth graders could have a more intellectually honest and engaging discussion than the chimps at Fox and Friends could on their best day.
October 12th, 2007 at 11:48 am[She said Gore] took three shots at George Bush. And my daughter, who’s just 18, was turned off by how it was political. So there you go.
October 12th, 2007 at 11:48 am—
Doocy, has your daugther ever seen your TV show? If she was turned off by “how political” an Inconvenient Truth is, then she surely must be disgusted and sickened by how right wing and politicized “Fox and Friends” is.
What a Hypocritical ass.
“I just know that my daughter watched the movie last week. … [She said Gore] took three shots at George Bush. And my daughter, who’s just 18, was turned off by how it was political. So there you go.”
So there you go - stupidity really is genetic.
October 12th, 2007 at 11:48 amNow the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us
· Secret report warns of rioting and nuclear war
· Britain will be ‘Siberian’ in less than 20 years
· Threat to the world is greater than terrorism
Comment by Chocolate Jesus — October 12, 2007 @ 11:45 am
So, since BushCo denies the human impact on GW and continues to protect the some of the major sources of CO2, are we to extrapolate that they are terrorist sympathizers?
October 12th, 2007 at 11:48 am100 years of industry has destroyed Billions of years of evolution? Man made?
Comment by Joneser — October 12, 2007 @ 11:47 am
No, it hasn’t destroyed billions of years of evolution. Just the troposphere.
October 12th, 2007 at 11:49 am33
how about a congratulatory phone call from the WH to an American winning the Nobel Peace Prize? They do it for goddamn sports teams. Instead the WH mouthpiece response is sour grapes & let’s insinuate that the Nobel Committee has a liberal bias. Christ…
Why would the WH congradulate the Gorical after what he has said about Bush? Good one.
October 12th, 2007 at 11:50 am“global warming†is the direct result of that extra month of daylight savings time most of us now enjoy. it’s simple! more daylight = more warming.
duh!
;)
Comment by LividLib — October 12, 2007 @ 11:40 am
That reminds me of a story. In the early 70s I worked, for one semester, as an intern to Sen. Symington of Missouri. One of my jobs was to sort constiuent mail by subject and give them to the appropriate assistant. One of the subjects being debated was making Day Light Savings time permanent and nationwide. We used to crack up at the anti-DST letters. “The extra sunlight will destroy my crops.” “That extra hour will cause my farm’s milk production to drop because it will throw off the bio-rythms of the cow, because they’ll lose sleep.”
I wish I had kept copies of some of them.
October 12th, 2007 at 11:51 amWhy would the WH congradulate the Gorical after what he has said about Bush? Good one.
Comment by Joneser — October 12, 2007 @ 11:50 am
Gee, just because Al G speaks what 75% of the world knows to be true, why should Dubya have an issue with it?
October 12th, 2007 at 11:52 amWhy would the WH congradulate the Gorical after what he has said about Bush? Good one.
Comment by Joneser — October 12, 2007 @ 11:50 am
Because he’s the President? You know, above all that. For goodness sake, an American won the Peace Prize!
October 12th, 2007 at 11:52 amstormy: Alot of them probably voted for Bush. Twice.
October 12th, 2007 at 11:52 amWhat does the subject of global warming have to do with peace and the subtext of war?
Comment by Erroll — October 12, 2007 @ 11:26 am
According to the Nobel Committee, Al Gore and the UN IPCC won for:
“for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change”
October 12th, 2007 at 11:53 amWhy would the WH congradulate the Gorical after what he has said about Bush? Good one.
Comment by Joneser — October 12, 2007 @ 11:50 am
Ha, from now on Presidents should only call World Series winning teams if the team supports the party in charge. You & your Pres forget that the President represents the entire country, not just those that vote for him or continue to support him. In fact, GWB works for Al Gore, much like he works for you. You could say that Gore is GWB’s boss. So Gore’s opinion of Bush is irrelevant. Good one indeed.
October 12th, 2007 at 11:53 amNow we can all just wait and see who Gore, the new kingmaker, will make president. Will it be Think Progress’ boss Hillary Clinton or will it me someone else?
October 12th, 2007 at 11:54 amstormy: Alot of them probably voted for Bush. Twice.
Comment by Frosty Cupcake — October 12, 2007 @ 11:52 am
That’s gotta suck, to wake up every morning knowing you were that stupid and helped cause this Clusterf@ck we have in the WH now.
Then having to go out to your pickup with the “Bush/Cheney ‘04″ bumper sticker on it, right next to your Roid-rage Wrestling one and have people point at you and laugh.
October 12th, 2007 at 11:56 am“the President represents the entire country”
I know what you mean and I agree with you, but let’s face it, Bush/Cheney/Rove’s “strategery” is to get support of 51% and run with it. To them, 51% of a stolen election (Ohio ‘04) is a “mandate”.
October 12th, 2007 at 11:56 amThese idiots are less relevant with each passing day.
October 12th, 2007 at 11:56 am“54: Thank the Maker!
October 12th, 2007 at 11:57 amThese idiots are less relevant with each passing day.
Comment by VerbalKint — October 12, 2007 @ 11:56 am
(And yet we keep talking about them)
October 12th, 2007 at 11:59 amWow I’m still trying to figure out if you guys think President Bush is an idiot or evil incarnate, I don’t beleive you can have both.
Wasn’t the Gorical pushing his slide show for almost 20 years? And hasn’t he been saying we only have 10 years to get the world in order? I guess he keeps pushing back the the goal post for is own “convienenceâ€. I would too if I managed to get a G-5 jet and front row seats out of it.
100 years of industry has destroyed Billions of years of evolution? Man made?
Comment by Joneser — October 12, 2007 @ 11:47 am
Bush is an evil idiot. You can have both. He’s proof.
Gore has been pushing global warming for a long time and has been saying that time is running short. Show me a link from 20 years ago where he said the world would end in 10 years. Does it matter even if he did? Does that somehow refute the fact that the earth is warming? You act like this is purely an intellectual discussion and if you can disprove Gore’s theories the planet will become cooler.
100 years of industry has changed the balance in the earth’s environment. If I put a big pot of water on the stove & boil it for a week and have the temperature & dripping water replenishing it right at the point where it’s in balance… not overflowing, not stopping the boil… and then I turn up the burner a tiny notch, and again, and again and keep turning it up a tiny bit for 10 minutes odds are it will boil over. How can that be? It was in balance all week, how could tiny incremental increases in temperature throw it out of whack? Would it help if I just stopped increasing the temp? Duh.
October 12th, 2007 at 12:00 pm53
so basically We shouldn’t have followed Clinton, I mean after all he never had the popular vote right?
October 12th, 2007 at 12:01 pmso basically We shouldn’t have followed Clinton, I mean after all he never had the popular vote right?
Comment by Joneser — October 12, 2007 @ 12:01 pm
Ding, ding, ding! We have today’s winner.
October 12th, 2007 at 12:04 pmI’ll ignore the dishonesty in editing down Doocy’s quote in text, because at least you left it in the video, but I can’t let slide your blatant lie here:
Hey liars, he said “I don’t think ANY OF US DO“. Man you people are pathetic. Quick, say something about Bush lying about WMDs!
October 12th, 2007 at 12:05 pmToasterhead: “(And yet we keep talking about them)”
Ha! Very true. Perhaps because we (Progressives) have been maligned for so long, yet we’ve had to put up with with this BS year after frustrating year? It’s kind of nice that the rest of the country is *finally* coming out of its stupor.
//crosses fingers
October 12th, 2007 at 12:05 pm(And yet we keep talking about them)
Comment by toasterhead — October 12, 2007 @ 11:59 am
They may be stupid, but the motherfu(kers keep voting for the wrong person.
Certainly we can’t ignore them. When a certain portion of the population is willing to say Climate Change is not “the end of the world” but is willing to gladly accept that gay marriage IS the end of the world, then we have a serious problem.
October 12th, 2007 at 12:06 pmExcept for a few air balls from Joneser, this thread is remarkably troll free, especially considering they already should have their talking points issued to them.
October 12th, 2007 at 12:06 pmJoneser,
To answer your previous question, I think Cheney is evil incarnate and Bush is the idiot puppet. Bush has just enough of the black evil in him though to go along with Cheney.
Story I heard (here’s a grain of salt) was George got stewed one night when the coke wore off and Jack Daniels took over. Cheney pretended to be Jesus and whispered in George’s ear and told him that God wanted Georgie to invade Iraq.
Poor little puppet woke up with a hangover and his marching orders from God. Cheney is still cackling over the little joke.
Cheney also had his way with George that night, but George blames his sore butt on Jesus too.
Might not be a true story though, that disclaimer is to be fair and balanced.
October 12th, 2007 at 12:07 pmJoneser,
Putting aside politics for a moment, give us YOUR PERSONAL view on GW.
October 12th, 2007 at 12:09 pmDoocy said:
You know, I’m not a scientist. I don’t know if any of that stuff is true. I don’t think any of it’s true. I just know that my daughter watched the movie last week. … [She said Gore] took three shots at George Bush. And my daughter, who’s just 18, was turned off by how it was political. So there you go.
So “there you go”. If Doocy says it, then it must be true. Talk about arrogance. I am quite sure that Doocy’s daughter has been indoctrinated in his right wing philosophies since birth, so what else would you expect from her.
It is going to be fun watching the Right Wing blow blood vessels in their brain because the world recognizes that global warming is a problem and rewards someone who is doing something about it.
October 12th, 2007 at 12:09 pm“And my daughter, who’s just 18, was turned off by how it was political. So there you go”
I guess this means that it’s ‘fair game’ to post where she goes to school, how much money her parents make, etc etc?
Note to the Right: this is *irony*- I personally think attacking children - or adults through their kids - is disgusting, but it’s become clear that you think it’s fine, even encouraged, so I provide this disclaimer in case you take me seriously.
October 12th, 2007 at 12:09 pmHey liars, he said “I don’t think ANY OF US DO“. Man you people are pathetic. Quick, say something about Bush lying about WMDs!
Comment by RightWinged — October 12, 2007 @ 12:05 pm
Thank you for the correction. I didn’t think it was possible to make Steve Doocy sound like more of an idiot, but you just did. Congratulations and thank you again! :)
October 12th, 2007 at 12:10 pmShow me a link from 20 years ago where he said the world would end in 10 years.
Comment by Dave C — October 12, 2007 @ 12:00 pm
Sorry, my Atari didn’t have internet access.
(just joking)
October 12th, 2007 at 12:11 pmHe does indeed say “I don’t think any of us do.” TP should correct the transcript. But this statement is just as idiotic as the posted version.
October 12th, 2007 at 12:12 pmRepublicans never think science is true! Poor flat earthers!
October 12th, 2007 at 12:12 pmCertainly we can’t ignore them. When a certain portion of the population is willing to say Climate Change is not “the end of the world†but is willing to gladly accept that gay marriage IS the end of the world, then we have a serious problem.
Comment by dim wit — October 12, 2007 @ 12:06 pm
At a certain point, we have to - maybe not ignore them, but keep them on the fringes.
A certain portion of the population probably believes that the Earth is a flat disc and rides on the back of four giant elephants who are standing on the shell of a giant tortoise. While these people should not be making policy and we should be fighting to keep them from positions of power, we should also not be devoting all of our energies to convincing them that the Earth is, in fact, round. There is a certain portion of the population that will never believe the science of climate change no matter how much consensus exists in the real world, and at a certain point we need to turn our attention from convincing the permaskeptics to fixing the root problems of climate change.
That being said, it is certainly fun to pwn them with knowledge each and every time they come rolling in here with their drivel.
October 12th, 2007 at 12:16 pmGore is a good man. But let’s face it: Henry Kissinger is a Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Comment by Long Tooth
And this means what? Try making a valid point or at least make sense.
October 12th, 2007 at 12:17 pmThis will, finally, be the end of Fox News as a viable news program. Yesterday, they went after a 12 year old; today they’re attempting to besmerch a Nobel Peace Prize Recipient - what next? They’re a bunch of liars, misanthropes, and frauds.
October 12th, 2007 at 12:19 pmWhat does the subject of global warming have to do with peace and the subtext of war? Perhaps a special category could have been set up to honor Gore for his well deserved work in dealing with the environment.
Comment by Erroll
Well, let’s see there. We ignore the threat of global warming and what Gore and scientists predict happens. There will be much less food to go around and water will be scarce. What do you think will happen then? It’s quite likely that wars will start to fight over the remaining resources on earth. Global Warming holds the greatest threat to this world today. It is a much greater threat than “terrorism” since it will threaten the entire planet.
October 12th, 2007 at 12:20 pmAnd to any ignorant naysayers who still want to put their head in the sand and dispute the science of global warming, I say: Why not conserve? What does it hurt? It only hurts the pocketbooks of the environmental rapists and corporate polluters.
October 12th, 2007 at 12:20 pmIt really makes things clear to me. Bush is the WAR president. Gore is a Nobel PEACE prize winner. Not liking all the death and bloodshed that goes along with war, I really wish Gore would’ve won in 2000.
October 12th, 2007 at 12:20 pmErroll: Try the large picture this time, if you are capable.
October 12th, 2007 at 12:22 pmI’ll make it easy for you to connect the dots…..global warming = world problem. In order to fix it, world problem = world cooperation = living within the golden rule, aka “peace”. Are you so myopic that you can’t see the forest for the trees? If so, stick to the reichwing blogs.
Gore & Bush - Two men on the Same Mission Once Upon A Time
Gore now: World Uniter
Bush now: World Divider
Need anyone say any more??
October 12th, 2007 at 12:22 pmAnd for the record, I used to come on this site and blast all of the global warming deniers. What’s interesting is that we’d go around on the scientific issue. They’d usually end up admitting that warming is in fact real. I’d often even get them to admit it’s a result of man’s activities. But then they’d go ballistic whining about a potential carbon tax or other economic action to actually resolve this issue. It was very clear to me, to them this was all about the pocketbook.
And they absolutely could not take the fact that Al Gore was a decent man who is trying to do something good for the planet. That kind of altruism is something that they can’t understand at all.
October 12th, 2007 at 12:23 pmWE have Al Gore, Nobel Peace Prize winner.
THEY have Larry Craig, Senator Wide Stance.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!
No wonder they’re all so pig jealous they can’t see straight. I hope all their tiny little pin heads explode.
October 12th, 2007 at 12:24 pmWhy should Bush call Gore to congratulate him after all that Gore has said about him?
Mm, to show he’s an adult?
October 12th, 2007 at 12:24 pmobviously Steve Doocy’s daughter is FAIR GAME.
he should have known that by bringing her into it, he’s made her a target.
October 12th, 2007 at 12:25 pm100 years of industry has destroyed Billions of years of evolution? Man made?
Comment by Joneser
It was only a matter of time for a Right Wing Loon to show up. This one appears to be new. Could it be a new incarnation of a previously banned identity? Most likely.
October 12th, 2007 at 12:25 pm63:
Yes, Verbal Kent a brilliantly cliched assessment; a classic example of the greenhouse effect here at TP. I mean i realize everything is just dreamy here at TP, but do wake up everyday with a CHIP (should I cliche that with CHIMPY?) on your shoulder? And after eating your fruit loops, do you cross that bridge to grandma’s house and find (cliche coming) trolls trying to lure you in to eat you? Only to find that when you arrive (cliche coming) BushCo has leveled her house for a new Haliburton parking lot. Or ultimitely was that just a nightmare and you are safe at home under your red sheets with your laptop logged on to TP? (yawn)
October 12th, 2007 at 12:26 pmOf course the last few Nobel Peace Prize winners have been anti-Bush. That’s because everything that is decent and good on this earth is the opposite of the slime, filth, and fecal material that currently infests the White House.
October 12th, 2007 at 12:27 pmSo which rightwingnuts should win the Nobel prize? Malkin? Coulter? Hannity? O’Reilly? Dobson? Robertson? WHO?
October 12th, 2007 at 12:28 pm#28
So where are all the trolls today? You’d think this is just their kind of thread.
Comment by missmolly — October 12, 2007 @ 11:39 am
They’re at Huffington Post having a meltdown.
October 12th, 2007 at 12:31 pmThey’re at Huffington Post having a meltdown.
Comment by wijg — October 12, 2007 @ 12:31 pm
1,680 and still going strong. What a response!
October 12th, 2007 at 12:33 pm85:
Paranoid flattery gets you nowhere, you should remove the Ring, Mr Baggins, before it is too late.
October 12th, 2007 at 12:34 pmBut if getting banned requires being on the right sinking to the “eloquent” language some of your fellow bloggers on the left, when someone differs, I haven’t haven’t reached that point.
#87: Bush should get it for bringing all that democracy to Iraq.
October 12th, 2007 at 12:37 pmBut if getting banned requires being on the right sinking to the “eloquent†language some of your fellow bloggers on the left, when someone differs, I haven’t haven’t reached that point.
Comment by Joneser
You will reach that point evidenced by the relevancy of your posts. TP has decided to ban trolls who come here strictly to throw their feces on the wall and jump up and down saying “look at me…look at me”. I suspect that you don’t like being called a Right Wing Loon, but you know…if the shoe fits.
October 12th, 2007 at 12:38 pmdont forget Hannitty once boasted about his guest’s nobel prize NOMINATION.
October 12th, 2007 at 12:39 pmThe real reason, I would imagine that the right wants to blast Gore, is he is a danger to all the presidential candidates, on both sides. If Gore went for the dem nominee he could get it, and would win the election in a landslide. If he ran as an independent, he most likely would still win.
October 12th, 2007 at 12:39 pmso basically We shouldn’t have followed Clinton, I mean after all he never had the popular vote right?
Comment by Joneser — October 12, 2007 @ 12:01 pm
oh yes & i am sure you “followed” Clinton.
October 12th, 2007 at 12:45 pm#80 Vinnie, you make an interesting observation. Many deniers have really been driven by policy issues. They deny that AGW exists because they believe that free markets are the solution to everything. Some of the last holdouts among legitimate scientists showed this same behavior. When John Christy, one of the last major deniers in the climate community, threw in the towel and admitted that GW is anthropogenic, he immediately segued into an editorial comment about how we shouldn’t overreact, and how we would be able to adapt without too many problems. It was ideology.
October 12th, 2007 at 12:46 pmBreaking News!!! The American Phychiatric Association has determined the term “Right Wing” refers to a now common Mental Disorder. This unusual disease only afficts a group of people know as “Repuglicans”
October 12th, 2007 at 12:46 pm53
so basically We shouldn’t have followed Clinton, I mean after all he never had the popular vote right?
Comment by Joneser — October 12, 2007 @ 12:01 pm
He had more than his rivals, something George couldn’t claim!
October 12th, 2007 at 12:47 pmIt didn’t take long for Joneser to start losing it. Rough week, eh buddy?
October 12th, 2007 at 12:48 pmBut if getting banned requires being on the right sinking to the “eloquent†language some of your fellow bloggers on the left, when someone differs, I haven’t haven’t reached that point.
Comment by Joneser — October 12, 2007 @ 12:34 pm
An intentional effort to derail can also get you banned, good luck loser!
October 12th, 2007 at 12:48 pmThese wingnuts are SO stupid.
There may not be room at Gitmo for all of them.
October 12th, 2007 at 12:49 pmBy the way, Joneser, Clinton legally won the Presidency. Twice. There is no way to refute this.
But you don’t much care for the rule of law, do you?
October 12th, 2007 at 12:49 pmClinton had the popular vote both times
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0781450.html
October 12th, 2007 at 12:50 pmIt didn’t take long for Joneser to start losing it. Rough week, eh buddy?
Comment by VerbalKint — October 12, 2007 @ 12:48 pm
Well in fairness, Gore did just win one of the most prestigious awards in the world, around global warming. That’s bound to fry the lunatic deniers of reality!
I think it’s funny to hear Fox, try to lecture about the inaccuracies of other! It’s like hearing Hitler whine about human rights!
October 12th, 2007 at 12:51 pmJealousy is an ugly business. The Righties have nothing to boast about, so what does a bully do when it’s down? WHINE
October 12th, 2007 at 12:54 pmWill Doocy refuse the Nobel Prize , if it was offered to him.?..of course not.
He will not be offered one anyway….!!
October 12th, 2007 at 12:56 pm101
October 12th, 2007 at 12:58 pmBy derailing the conversation, you mean by not walking in lock step with cliche’s, rants and insults from opposing bloggers and enjoying the first amendment? Maybe.
My response (thanks Reagan)
“There you go again”
October 12th, 2007 at 12:58 pmIn the case of Kissinger and Arafat, the Nobel Committe made the point that, even if the awardee is not the most saintly person, if they make a significant move towards peace, they felt it was important to have that step rewarded.
October 12th, 2007 at 1:00 pmSo… Think Progress, I take it you have no intention of correcting your BLATANT LIE in the quote you use above the video? (That I pointed out earlier)
October 12th, 2007 at 1:01 pm““There’s the last five winners — see Mohamed El Baradei. What do they have in common? I don’t know about the 2006 winner, but I will say 2005 and 2007 both anti-Bush.—
Hmmmm. ‘Peace’ prize winners … are ‘anti-Bush’. Could it be that Bush is anti-Peace?????????
duh.
It is sometimes astounding what drivel the big money Republicans will pay their shills to say.
October 12th, 2007 at 1:15 pm#109 ~ exactly. And Arafat didn’t win the award. It was given to Arafat, Peres, and Rabin together, for their efforts to work for peace in the Middle East.
October 12th, 2007 at 1:16 pmYou know I understand these right-wingers. It’s very easy to confuse being anti-idiot with being anti-Bush. The have very few differences.
October 12th, 2007 at 1:25 pmComment by RightWinged — October 12, 2007 @ 1:01 pm
We all know its misquoted, but the joy we get from your irritation is certainly worth the misquote.
October 12th, 2007 at 1:31 pmSo… Think Progress, I take it you have no intention of correcting your BLATANT LIE in the quote you use above the video? (That I pointed out earlier) Comment by RightWinged — October 12, 2007 @ 1:01 pm
It has the same meaning, no matter which way you state it. The meaning is that republicans don’t believe science, and your defense of that stance is typical of the flat earthers! You are a zealot extremist minority though, so please, get to the back of the bus, and let those that are skilled drive for a while? Ok, wingednut?
October 12th, 2007 at 1:33 pmWe all know its misquoted, but the joy we get from your irritation is certainly worth the misquote. Comment by dim wit — October 12, 2007 @ 1:31 pm
Yeah, and these are the same wingnednuts that misquote Al all the time! How ironic and fitting!
October 12th, 2007 at 1:33 pmMore notable winners of this “prize”:
2005
MOHAMED ELBARADEI (joint winner). He’s done such a nice job with Iran.
2004
WANGARI MAATHAI. The Kenyan ecologist peacefully teaches that the AIDS virus is a biological agent deliberately created by the Man.
2002
JIMMY CARTER JR., former President of the United States of America. A true cosmopolitan, he has undermined the foreign policy of his own country and vouched for the bona fides of tyrants and murderers all over the world.
2001
UNITED NATIONS, New York, NY, USA.
KOFI ANNAN, United Nations Secretary General. Among other things, they have respectively served as the vehicle for, and presided over, one of the biggest scams in history.
1994
YASSER ARAFAT (joint winner), Chairman of the Executive Committee of the PLO, President of the Palestinian National Authority. He was a cold-blooded murderer both before and after receiving the award.
1992
RIGOBERTA MENCHU TUM, Guatemala. She is the notorious Guatemalan faker and author, sort of, of I, Rigoberta Menchu.
1988
October 12th, 2007 at 1:33 pmTHE UNITED NATIONS PEACE-KEEPING FORCES New York, NY, U.S.A. Notwithstanding rapes and sex abuse committed by the team in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and the Congo, still doing fine work all over the world.
JT, about Rigoberta Menchu… when you watch your family burnt alive, you can speak bad about her.
October 12th, 2007 at 1:35 pmI agree that Jimmy Carter deserved the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to bring peace between Israel and Egypt, but Arafat, Mohammed ElBaradei and Al Gore do NOT.
Arafat maintained strife in Palestine to hold power. ElBaradei was given the Peace Prize, so that John Bolton wouldn’t get it, and Al Gore was given the Peace Prize, so that Rush Limbaugh would not.
It would just kill libs if a Nobel Peace Prize actually went to the conservatives who deserved it. The Prize can’t be taken seriously if conservatives are excluded.
October 12th, 2007 at 1:36 pmJuan C.:
Verifiable?… No? Did you do your own thinking on this, or do you follow the NY Times’ Jayson Blair camp of “tell the story first and verify later (if at all)”?…
October 12th, 2007 at 1:37 pmRemember, I live OUTSIDE your bubble. I get the news. You get propaganda.
October 12th, 2007 at 1:40 pmI have never read the NYT, just to clarify my last statement.
October 12th, 2007 at 1:41 pmCNN’s idea of “balance” (and they even had the balls to say ti was to present “balance”) was to put just one global-warming opponent on to falsely criticise Gore (for instance, while Gore correctly stated that if the Greenland cap melted, the oceans would rise 6 metres, he didn’t say it was going to happen in the next 100 years; the other complaints are similar). No one to point out this guy’s false claims. NO one to point out that scientists are pretty much in consensus about anthropogenic warming.
<*bleeeeccchhhhh*>
Cheers,
October 12th, 2007 at 1:45 pmYour thinking is clouded by a self-imposed agenda of implementing socialism/communism and denigrating and thwarting any scheme of individual achievement. The political policies you support are proven failures and rely SOLELY on propaganda to maintain any sense of credibility.
On the other hand, my views are independent, rational, and never full of the vitriolic crud that a few other TP’ers tend to post.
October 12th, 2007 at 1:45 pmJT, yeah…
October 12th, 2007 at 1:46 pmOn the other hand, my views are independent, rational, and never full of the vitriolic crud that a few other TP’ers tend to post. Comment by JT — October 12, 2007 @ 1:45 pm
Ah, the joys of delusional thinking as expressed by a lemming opining that their lemmingness is really independent!
October 12th, 2007 at 1:54 pmInstead of winning a Nobel Peace Prize Bush and Cheney are likely to be named international war criminals.
In fact, I’d lay money on it.
Comment by BARTLEBEE — October 12, 2007 @ 1:11 pm
You would? That sounds like a waste of money to me. I mean, if you want to throw money away, that’s your choice but I’d recommend doing it in Vegas instead. At least there you get free drinks…
October 12th, 2007 at 1:56 pmTHE UNITED NATIONS PEACE-KEEPING FORCES New York, NY, U.S.A. Notwithstanding rapes and sex abuse committed by the team in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and the Congo, still doing fine work all over the world. Comment by JT — October 12, 2007 @ 1:33 pm
So abuses by UN troops demonstrate they are failures, yet abuses by American troops means Petraeus should be nominated (what you wingnuts claimed yesterday). The UN is doing fine work all over the world, and unlike the US that prohibits independent assessment of their efforts, the UN doesn’t. For the Record, that’s WHY you know about those abuses by UN troops!
October 12th, 2007 at 1:56 pmPredictably, the conservative chattering class and its amen corner in the right-wing blogosphere are apoplectic about the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Al Gore. But their rage and angst about the Nobel Committee’s “politicized awards” for “mass exaggerators” and “deceptive rhetoric” isn’t merely a function of the inconvenient truth of the success of Gore’s global warming campaign. No, the rugged individualists of the right are just hopping mad that they never win prizes designed to recognize contributions to, well, the rest of humanity.
To remedy this perpetual slight, then, here are:
October 12th, 2007 at 1:59 pm“Nobel Prizes for Conservatives We’d Like to See.”
I love, love, LOVE that the CONservatives are so jealous!
Living it and loving it!
CONGRATULATIONS PRESIDENT GORE!
October 12th, 2007 at 2:00 pm:-)
First a 12 year old boy now they’re trying to smear the NOBEL PEACE PRIZE! These wingnuts really have no shame.
October 12th, 2007 at 2:08 pmHey liars, he said “I don’t think ANY OF US DO“. Man you people are pathetic. Quick, say something about Bush lying about WMDs!
Comment by RightWinged — October 12, 2007 @ 12:05 pm
Sure Wingnut that’s so much better. He’s projecting his stupidity on the general public. How pathetic is the tool that supports Bushco and Faux News? You have definitely reached the bottom of the barrel.
October 12th, 2007 at 2:15 pm#78-Veritas
Your comment proves that those on the left can be just as foolish as those on the right. If you had actually read my comment at #12, you would have discovered, despite your inference, I was not denying that global warming exists. On the contrary, I was appreciative of the fact that Gore was bringing this issue to the forefront of one of the biggest problems that this planet faces. I was simply raising the question of whether Gore’s work on this issue merits winning the Nobel Peace Prize, a definition which, as I dared to write, seems to be very much different from nations waging wars against each other.
As for your asinine, if not juvenile, comment about my commenting at the “reichwing blogs”, it is highly doubtful if my advocating that the U.S. immediately withdraw from that abattoir in Iraq, as well as the impeachment of Bush and Cheney and urging that the funds for the occupation be cut off as soon as possible, would be met with great approval from the warmongers on the right side of the political spectrum.
This article pretty much mirrors my thinking on Gore receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.
October 12th, 2007 at 2:15 pmhttp://www.counterpunch.org/oberg10122007.html
Unlike George that ‘just wants to make money’ when he leaves office, what does Gore do with the Nobel money? Donate it to a climate change charity! That’s character!
My wife, Tipper, and I will donate 100 percent of the proceeds of the award to the Alliance for Climate Protection, a bipartisan non-profit organization that is devoted to changing public opinion in the U.S. and around the world about the urgency of solving the climate crisis.
October 12th, 2007 at 2:16 pmJealous of what? The Nobel “stick of dynamite” Peace Prize? The Nobel Peace prize is like the academy awards, everyone wants to tune in and watch train wreck and gather around and congradulate themselves on being in touch with the plight of the world in their over priced Armani and Versace clothes.
October 12th, 2007 at 2:16 pmYour comment proves that those on the left can be just as foolish as those on the right. Comment by Erroll — October 12, 2007 @ 2:15 pm
No one can be as foolish as you wingnuts that ‘pretend’ to be liberals! You always look so lame!
I was simply raising the question of whether Gore’s work on this issue merits winning the Nobel Peace Prize, a definition which, as I dared to write, seems to be very much different from nations waging wars against each other.Comment by Erroll — October 12, 2007 @ 2:15 pm
How many people knew what the IPCC (especially republicans) was before Gore’s film? What’s more at the basis of creating peace, then the realization that we have a bigger problem that faces us all with climate change? You really did miss the point!
October 12th, 2007 at 2:18 pmJealous of what? The Nobel “stick of dynamite†Peace Prize? The Nobel Peace prize is like the academy awards, everyone wants to tune in and watch train wreck and gather around and congradulate themselves on being in touch with the plight of the world in their over priced Armani and Versace clothes. Comment by Joneser — October 12, 2007 @ 2:16 pm
BHAHA, sure, that doesn’t sound like sour grapes! KEEP DIGGING, that HOLE ISN’T BIG ENOUGH YET!!!
October 12th, 2007 at 2:19 pmgather around and congradulate themselves on being in touch with the plight of the world in their over priced Armani and Versace clothes.
Comment by Joneser — October 12, 2007 @ 2:16 pm
Fred Thompson doesn’t wear Versace, he wears Gucci! Nice projection though, from the party of greedy selfish corporatists!!!! To project that ‘classism’ on others is a really funny thing to read!!! KEEP DIGGING!
October 12th, 2007 at 2:20 pmIsn’t this the same thing as grade school, when the dumb kids hate the smart kids just because they’re smart? Childish. Ridiculous. Dangerous. Gore must really be a threat to these people. Fear, perhaps, that he may run for president afterall? He may be low in his polling numbers right now, but that’s easily explained because at the moment, Gore is not a candidate. I suggest that if Gore were to announce his candidacy, the rest of the Dems would be forgotten, even Hillary.
October 12th, 2007 at 2:22 pmSo… Think Progress, I take it you have no intention of correcting your BLATANT LIE in the quote you use above the video? (That I pointed out earlier)
Comment by RightWinged — October 12, 2007 @ 1:01
Why aren’t you calling Fox News asking them to correct their mistakes? Many more people will see that crap than come here.
October 12th, 2007 at 2:25 pmWhy aren’t you calling Fox News asking them to correct their mistakes? Many more people will see that crap than come here.
Comment by Shayne — October 12, 2007 @ 2:25 pm
But RightWinged likes Fox News mistakes, it gives him comfort that he’s not the only one that believes the lies!!!
October 12th, 2007 at 2:28 pmJealous of what? The Nobel “stick of dynamite†Peace Prize? The Nobel Peace prize is like the academy awards, everyone wants to tune in and watch train wreck and gather around and congradulate themselves on being in touch with the plight of the world in their over priced Armani and Versace clothes.
Comment by Joneser — October 12, 2007 @ 2:16 pm
This is a put-on right. Nobody is as stupid as you sound.
October 12th, 2007 at 2:32 pm#135 Erroll:
This article pretty much mirrors my thinking on Gore receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.
http://www.counterpunch.org/oberg10122007.html
They gave the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 to Norman Borlaug for his work in developing maize and wheat strains. Big things are sometimes done in little (and usually unheralded) steps.
Cheers,
October 12th, 2007 at 2:43 pmJT - I showed some people in the office your posts, they are laughing their butts off at your expense. They are sending them around now, and they whole place thinks you are an IDIOT.
Keep us laughing.
Buck Fush
October 12th, 2007 at 2:43 pmRUN AL RUN!!!
In true Jake D. Fake fashion.
Buck Fush
October 12th, 2007 at 2:46 pmOnce again the wingnuts don’t read the articles they debate on, the truck driver who filed the suit, Dimmock, is a school governor that does agree with global warming.
October 12th, 2007 at 3:00 pmI have never seen a group of people so proud in their ignorance, so narrow minded, so parochial and bigoted as conservatives and Republicans.
The case for global warming and humanity’s contribution to it is nothing short of overwhelming. However, proud conservatives and Republicans still want to contest its existence. It is not surprising that many of them also believe that the world is less than 6000 years old and that evolution never occurred. It makes us the laughing stock of the world. s that there was no evidence of WMD (a fact that our own government has proven.) However, the Republicans and conservatives seem to take pride in the fact that only mindless belief and blindly following Bush constitutes appropriate conduct.
Indeed, we never hear facts from these lunatics. They just disregard entire sections of the population: Environmentalist = Bad People, Liberal = Evil People, Democrat = evil, bad people who are partisan and hate the United States. Malkin who was invited to debate the issues surrounding SCHIP declined to do so. Note, she was more than willing to smear a twelve year old child and his family for failing to buy health insurance (indeed, she also noted that it was too expensive for her.)
It is probably time to rid the world of these creatures. I would not normally support eugenics or euthanasia, but the example of these poor creatures has changed my mind.
OH, that is personal. However, I now believe that these fascist, theocratic scum are a threat to the survival of mankind and deserve to be treated with the same contempt that they have shown to others.
October 12th, 2007 at 3:06 pmHow many people knew what the IPCC (especially republicans) was before Gore’s film?
Comment by republicans hate facts
Outside or inside the US?
October 12th, 2007 at 3:24 pmOutside or inside the US?
Comment by Juan C. — October 12, 2007 @ 3:24 pm
Does what goes on outside the US really matter? ;)
October 12th, 2007 at 3:26 pmDoes what goes on outside the US really matter? ;)
Comment by republicans hate facts
You got me there. :)
October 12th, 2007 at 3:30 pmThe right-wing reaction shows how far out of the mainstream they are. It would be very amusing if it wasn’t for all of the harm they do.
October 12th, 2007 at 3:34 pmI have never seen a group of people so proud in their ignorance, so narrow minded, so parochial and bigoted as conservatives and Republicans.
The case for global warming and humanity’s contribution to it is nothing short of overwhelming. However, proud conservatives and Republicans still want to contest its existence. It is not surprising that many of them also believe that the world is less than 6000 years old and that evolution never occurred. It makes us the laughing stock of the world. s that there was no evidence of WMD (a fact that our own government has proven.) However, the Republicans and conservatives seem to take pride in the fact that only mindless belief and blindly following Bush constitutes appropriate conduct.
Indeed, we never hear facts from these lunatics. They just disregard entire sections of the population: Environmentalist = Bad People, Liberal = Evil People, Democrat = evil, bad people who are partisan and hate the United States. Malkin who was invited to debate the issues surrounding SCHIP declined to do so. Note, she was more than willing to smear a twelve year old child and his family for failing to buy health insurance (indeed, she also noted that it was too expensive for her.)
It is probably time to rid the world of these creatures. I would not normally support eugenics or euthanasia, but the example of these poor creatures has changed my mind.
OH, that is personal. However, I now believe that these fascist, theocratic scum are a threat to the survival of mankind and deserve to be treated with the same contempt that they have shown to others.
Comment by JMOHR — October 12, 2007 @ 3:06 pm
That was worth repeating.
October 12th, 2007 at 3:34 pmAl Gore’s speaking fees just went up.
Now he’ll never run for the office of the President.
Nice racket you have going on there, Mr. Gore. Easy money.
October 12th, 2007 at 3:44 pmAl Gore’s speaking fees just went up. Now he’ll never run for the office of the President. Nice racket you have going on there, Mr. Gore. Easy money.
Comment by muckdog — October 12, 2007 @ 3:44 p.m
Racket? RACKET? What part of “My wife, Tipper, and I will donate 100 percent of the proceeds of the award to the Alliance for Climate Protection, a bipartisan non-profit organization that is devoted to changing public opinion in the U.S. and around the world about the urgency of solving the climate crisis” do you not get?
Unlike looters like Halliburton and Blackwater who’re stuffing their pockets on the blood of thousands, PRESIDENT Gore is working for humanity.
Why don’t you stop your whining and see facts for a change?
October 12th, 2007 at 3:57 pmAl Gore’s speaking fees just went up. Comment by muckdog — October 12, 2007 @ 3:44 pm
Jealous?
Now he’ll never run for the office of the President. Comment by muckdog — October 12, 2007 @ 3:44 pm
Why, because he’s making a difference? Good reason!
Nice racket you have going on there, Mr. Gore. Easy money.
Comment by muckdog — October 12, 2007 @ 3:44 pm
Ah, now that’s just jealousy, and projection, poor little thing! If Gore was just interested in the money, he wouldn’t have given this sizable financial award away to charity! You’ve confused Gore, with Bush, who’s the one that publicly stated he couldn’t wait until he left office to make loads of money!!!
Why is it that you adore your leaders for having these values, but project them falsely on others? You’re so dishonest and pathetic!
October 12th, 2007 at 4:06 pmWhy would the WH congradulate the Gorical after what he has said about Bush? Good one.
Comment by Joneser — October 12, 2007 @ 11:50 am
It’s congratulate.
Why would they call Gore? Ummmm…maybe to show that they can put aside their differences for a brief, shining moment? But I guess your simple, limited, tiny little mind couldn’t understand that.
You know, when the White House unveiled the official portraits of the Clintons, they were invited to the White House and Bush had very kind words to say about them. Same thing when Bush Jr. and Sr. spoke at the dedication ceremony for the Clinton library.
But, I guess calling Gore would be out of character for Bush since so many of his supporters have trashed Gore; plus, he wouldn’t want to look like a weenie in front of his 28 %ers.
October 12th, 2007 at 4:16 pmAl Gore’s speaking fees just went up. Now he’ll never run for the office of the President. Nice racket you have going on there, Mr. Gore. Easy money.
Comment by muckdog — October 12, 2007 @ 3:44 p.m
So did Tony Snow’s, no doubt. Bet he’d never get the kind of loot he will now, had he been on the speaking tour in his pre-White House days.
Your point?
October 12th, 2007 at 4:18 pmAl Gore’s speaking fees just went up. Comment by muckdog â€