Gore on winning the Nobel Prize.
Gore on winning the Nobel Prize.
This afternoon, Al Gore held a press conference on receiving this year’s Nobel Peace Prize with the IPCC. From his remarks:
We’re going to donate 100 percent of the proceeds of this award to the Alliance for Climate Protection. That amount is very small compared to the enormous challenge that lies ahead and the Alliance for Climate Protection headed by Cathy Zoi is organizing a massive grassroots movement and a mass advertising campaign all focused together on trying to change the way people think in our country and all around the world about the urgency of the climate crisis.
It is the most dangerous challenge we’ve ever faced, but it’s also the greatest opportunity that we have ever had to make changes that we should be making for other reasons anyway. This is a change to elevate global consciousness about the challenges that we face now.
Watch it:
The Corner’s Iain Murray today suggested that Gore should share the Nobel Prize with “well known peace campaigner Osama Bin Laden, who implicitly endorsed Gore’s stance – and that of the Nobel committee – in his September rant from the cave.”
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Congrats to Al Gore for his nomination, and winning of the Nobel Peace Prize. I wish him good luck and god speed in the future.
October 12th, 2007 at 3:03 pmAny kind of nobility is like holy water to republicans…it burns…IT BUURRRRNNNS!
October 12th, 2007 at 3:05 pmObviously, Gore went green to make the green, eh? Suck it, Repubs.
October 12th, 2007 at 3:08 pmPerhaps The Corner’s Iain Murray is a wee bit jealous that nobody respectable is commending him for his “work” :)
October 12th, 2007 at 3:09 pmIain Murray is hereby cordially invited to eat sh*t and die.
October 12th, 2007 at 3:09 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 3:10 pm“Conservative Nobel Prizes We’d Like to See.”
“well known peace campaigner Osama Bin Laden”
Yes in GW666 speak – Terrorism is Peace
“I really don’t think that much about him.”
RUN AL RUN!!!!
Buck Fush
October 12th, 2007 at 3:11 pmOsama Bin Laden, who implicitly endorsed Gore’s stance – and that of the Nobel committee – in his September rant from the cave.â€
Because cave’s have natural energy savings? Being underground helps heat in the winter and cool in the summer?
October 12th, 2007 at 3:12 pm“Iain Murray is hereby cordially invited to eat sh*t and die.
Comment by Leftside Annie — October 12, 2007 @ 3:09 pm”
Screw the cordial invitation; just let him eat Sh*t and Die
October 12th, 2007 at 3:12 pmMr. Murray is making the tacit assumption that the person on that video was the real Osama bin Laden, even though the remarks that person made were nothing like any bin Laden had made before (and lacked many of the ones bin Laden always used to make.)
October 12th, 2007 at 3:14 pm11 – Rebel – I was just trying to be nice. ;o)
But you’re correct. “Nice” is wasted on that asshat.
October 12th, 2007 at 3:17 pmWow tying Al Gore and Osama Bin Laden together. I guess the rightwingers have no shame. Or perhaps it is when you insult their god Bush.
October 12th, 2007 at 3:20 pmthe right is going bat shit crazy over gore and the nobel prize… watch out, they get violent when they’re like this.
October 12th, 2007 at 3:24 pmof course, at the end of the day, al gore will still have a nobel prize, while iain murray will be spending his time trying to stave off an aneurysm caused by the fact that al gore has a nobel prize. who’s the better man?
October 12th, 2007 at 3:28 pmThe Corner’s Iain Murray today suggested that Gore should share the Nobel Prize with “well known peace campaigner Osama Bin Laden, who implicitly endorsed Gore’s stance – and that of the Nobel committee – in his September rant from the cave.â€
Just when you think the Right Wing Loons have said the stupidest thing in the world, they have to go and prove you wrong.
October 12th, 2007 at 3:29 pmMethinks the neocon fascista are scared shitless of Gore.
October 12th, 2007 at 3:29 pmI expected the right wing nuts would have their knickers in a twist over Gore’s Nobel Prize, but the levels to which they stoop never cease to give me pause. This is another example of one of those idiotic remarks made by a rabid idiot to feed the other idiotic asses.
October 12th, 2007 at 3:37 pmIt must be just too painful for them to realize that the world acknowledges what they deny.
It didn’t take long for the Washington Post to put up a digusting, cowardly hit piece on Al Gore. A hack pretending to be a journalist hiding behind the skirts of an ignorant rightwing British judge.
October 12th, 2007 at 3:37 pm#16: “the right is going bat shit crazy over gore and the nobel prize… watch out, they get violent when they’re like this.” – - Bring ‘em on. The Right should not make the mistake of equating all Progressives with pacifists. This one isn’t.
October 12th, 2007 at 3:38 pmDesperate men making desperate statements. The reichwing really must have their panties in a wad over this. Al Gore in a prince among men; George Bush, their god, is a fool.
October 12th, 2007 at 3:39 pmBring ‘em on, indeed! It’s time for the majority (35% Independents and 38% Democrats = 73% of this country) to unite and stand up to the hate-filled, disgusting right wingnuts. A butterfly can knock them over with a flutter at this point.
October 12th, 2007 at 3:40 pmI’m loving the fact that Al Gore will ride in on a tsunami of accolades this weekend and right onto all the weekend talking heads. It’s about damn time we get to focus on someone doing something for our good versus these monsters in our government screwing us left and right.
October 12th, 2007 at 3:41 pmWhat’s your point Beefeater?? Are you trying to say that Bush handing over a trillion dollar war profiteering contract to Haliburton is not “self referral”? Get your head out of the sand, sand flea.
October 12th, 2007 at 3:43 pmAnything Gore is doing vis-a-vis money is a pisshole in the snow when compared to what the Bush & Cheney Cabal are stashing in their offshore acounts.
October 12th, 2007 at 3:43 pmIain is so predictable. See my post #15 on this morning’s thread.
October 12th, 2007 at 3:44 pmButteater – Thought I would point out your misleading post.
Though Al Gore conceived it and will provide a big chunk of the initial funding, he won’t be a member. He doesn’t want it to be viewed as a political group. Several prominent Republicans are conspicuously involved for the same reason.
With a leadership team that includes Brent Scowcroft, national-security adviser to presidents George H.W. Bush and Gerald Ford; Carol Browner, head of the U.S. EPA under Bill Clinton
Buck Fush
October 12th, 2007 at 3:44 pmComment by Beefeater — October 12, 2007 @ 3:30 pm
He donated to the foundation, not himself. When you donate to the Red Cross, you’re not donating directly to the chairman. Shameful ignorance and a low blow.
October 12th, 2007 at 3:45 pmVerbalkint: We are judged by the company we keep and the detritus we spew. WaPo has gone down to the bottom of the barrel in terms of legitimate, wholesome, honest reporting and this will put the final nail into their already well-prepared coffin. They had zero credibility before this – now their rep is toast.
October 12th, 2007 at 3:45 pmGore for President + Hillary for Supreme Court = Exploding wingnut heads.
October 12th, 2007 at 3:46 pmI’ll buy the popcorn.
#13 Take your meds.
October 12th, 2007 at 3:46 pmPicklee: Amazingly high ignorance factor on this troll (Butteaterface).
October 12th, 2007 at 3:46 pmBring ‘em on. The Right should not make the mistake of equating all Progressives with pacifists. This one isn’t.
Comment by Badmoodman
Futhermore, who said pacifists wont defend themselves to death?
October 12th, 2007 at 3:46 pmAl Gore’s breathless hysterics over the so-called “climate crisis” affecting the planet brings demagoguery to a new level. This unhinged wannabe seeks merely to resuscitate a DOA political career. Spare me the bedwetter rhetoric about Gore’s faux “nobility;” stand back instead and watch the master opportunist in action. How disconnected from reality can one man be? A serious, sober individual might conclude that he was hopped up on drugs.
/limbaugh
October 12th, 2007 at 3:46 pm#35 Take your meds.
October 12th, 2007 at 3:46 pmLet’s keep plastering “Al Gore in 08″ ad nauseum and maybe we can drive away the psycho trolls?
Al Gore in 08! Al Gore in 08!
October 12th, 2007 at 3:47 pmI find the “Gore Envy” to be amazingly high among highly illiterate, impotent men. How interesting.
October 12th, 2007 at 3:48 pmComment by Red Pill — October 12, 2007 @ 3:46 pm
Politics aside, what are your values towards the environment?
October 12th, 2007 at 3:49 pmAny man assured of his virility & intelligence sees the logic in what Gore stands for. Isn’t it amazing how these emasculated males come out in droves when faced with a virile, potent male?
October 12th, 2007 at 3:49 pmComment by Veritas — October 12, 2007 @ 3:49 pm
Ha, this is true.
October 12th, 2007 at 3:49 pmRed Pill: Would that be “hopped up on drugs” the likes of Rushy baby and Chimpy?
October 12th, 2007 at 3:50 pmSeems your know all about it. Your mother just called and said that you need to take your meds STAT!
October 12th, 2007 at 3:50 pmi heard on AP radio news earlier that the limpballs is
directing al gore to give his winning to an actual Peace institution…
who ARE these persons?…
October 12th, 2007 at 3:50 pm.
We know who the impotent trolls are because Al Gore seems to bring out the best in them. It’s called Gore Envy.
October 12th, 2007 at 3:51 pmThe Corner’s Iain Murray today suggested that Gore should share the Nobel Prize with “well known peace campaigner Osama Bin Laden”
Why would Gore want to share his Prize with a member of the Republican party?
October 12th, 2007 at 3:51 pmHas any Republican leader ever won the Nobel Peace Prize? I know the GOP doesn’t like the idea that Americas had a change to pick a true leader in 2000 election they saw two people George W. Bush a loser, Daddy paid his way and a drunk. Al Gore experience, educated and proven Leadership. Yes Americans were even allowed to vote thanks to the GOP. Bush stole the election while Americans said nothing and did nothing. Al showed the classy guy he is and continued to work for those same Americans and even the World. Bush began to steal from the US Treasury, illegally invade Iraq, pay of Journalist and Judges, developed more corruption in the White House since Richard Nixon, tortured kidnapped men/woman/children and yes lied and continues to lie.
We picked a loser and not a leader and we’re paying for that mistake. Many people are going to say this doesn’t mean much but I think if George H. or George W. had won these people will be singing a different tune. But they don’t give Idiot Awards so looks like the Bush Family is out of the award business.
All those so called smart reporters said during 2000 Bush was so smart while Al wasn’t ready for the top job. Americans brought in to the lies with the help of Karl Rove and GOP using God and saying to the faithful Christians God said Bush should be President.
October 12th, 2007 at 3:54 pmLooks like we know it was Satan talking and all the Christians followed just what Satan wanted them to do. Sounds alot like what happen when the Christians let Jesus be killed. Jesus said forgive them for they know not what they do, those words could be repeated today as Satan sits in the Oval Office.
Why isn;t Gore running for President? I really wish he was.
October 12th, 2007 at 3:54 pm“Planetary emergency.”
LMAO, Mr. Gore! Lets call in the Superfriends!
Al Gore speaks to school children about the “planetary emergency.”
October 12th, 2007 at 3:56 pmI’m surprised there aren’t more idiots like Red Pill and Beefeater on this and related threads. The GW deniers and Gore haters seem to have diminished to little more than a whimper.
October 12th, 2007 at 3:59 pmCorrection: more idiots like Red Pill and Beefeater and Muckdog, a well known liar at TP on the subject of AGW.
October 12th, 2007 at 4:00 pm“I’m surprised there aren’t more idiots like Red Pill and Beefeater on this and related threads.”
Ummmm, I believe Red Pill was being sarcastic, thus the “/limbaugh” tag at the end of his rant.
October 12th, 2007 at 4:10 pmWhy isn;t Gore running for President? I really wish he was.
Comment by chnouf — October 12, 2007 @ 3:54 pm
Some people seem to think it’s because he doesn’t want to run against hillary since she’s looking like a strong contender. He may run when her term is up.
October 12th, 2007 at 4:10 pmLMAO, Mr. Gore! Lets call in the Superfriends!
Al Gore speaks to school children about the “planetary emergency.â€
Comment by muckdog — October 12, 2007 @ 3:56 pm
If there is even a small chance that this stuff is true it would mean the that a lot of people are going to die. How is that a laughing matter?
October 12th, 2007 at 4:12 pmUmmmm, I believe Red Pill was being sarcastic, thus the “/limbaugh†tag at the end of his rant.
Comment by LosingFaith — October 12, 2007 @ 4:10 pm
Oh. If that’s the case, never mind.
October 12th, 2007 at 4:14 pmI don’t normally post (I am more libertarian than liberal), but this is petty–comparing Al Gore to Osama Bin Laden?
What the Norwegian Nobel Committee and the scientific community did today was to stick their collective middle fingers at pseudo-skeptics who are more interested in political and religious ideology.
The earth is about 4.5 billion years old, is an oblate spheroid and revolves around the sun. Global warming is occuring. Live with it. Better yet, try and do something about it as Gore has done.
October 12th, 2007 at 4:15 pmGlobal warming is occuring. Live with it. Better yet, try and do something about it as Gore has done.
Comment by johnpaul — October 12, 2007 @ 4:15 pm
Agreed.
And, if you’re not going to help, then get the fu@k out of the way.
October 12th, 2007 at 4:20 pmCheck out the attached picture of Murray. He looks like the Kagan brothers! Also, Rove. In fact, they all kind of look alike….is there a secret program of cloning we don’t know about? (Not sure I’m completely joking here!)
http://www.cei.org/dyn/view_expert.cfm?expert=227
October 12th, 2007 at 4:28 pmI forgot where to address the “payloads.” Thanks for the heads up with the CEI as the all-the-time, all-eveil, “enterprise” makes for sufficient target practice.
October 12th, 2007 at 4:31 pmGore/Carter ‘08!!!
(Tipper/Rosalyn, that is…)
October 12th, 2007 at 4:44 pmI suspect Al doesn’t want to run for President because he’s just plain run out of tolerance for these mendacious banana slugs. Were Gore to run, I think that, in the debates, when Rudy says that Mars is warming one more time, he’l just stiff arm the idiot into the audience.
Which is, of course, one of the reasons I’d love to see him run.
October 12th, 2007 at 6:06 pmGore’s winning a Nobel Peace Prize while Bush’s ratings are among the lowest in history.
lol suck it W.
October 12th, 2007 at 7:33 pmDoes anyone outside of fellow bottomdwellers give a damn what “The Corner’s Iain Murray” says or doesn’t say?
October 12th, 2007 at 8:23 pmThe Corner’s Iain Murray = CUH! (Completely Useless Human?)
October 12th, 2007 at 8:35 pmhttp://www.draftgore.com
October 12th, 2007 at 9:23 pmGore’s not going to run. Winning the “peace” prize means he can raise his speaking fees! More money to pay for his high energy bills. LOL.
October 13th, 2007 at 1:26 amGore’s not going to run. Winning the “peace†prize means he can raise his speaking fees! More money to pay for his high energy bills. LOL.
Comment by muckdog — October 13, 2007 @ 1:26 am
Your envy is showing, suckdog.
October 13th, 2007 at 9:50 amCheck out this US Carbon Footprint Map, an interactive United States Carbon Footprint Map, illustrating Greenest States to Cities. This site has all sorts of stats on individual State & City energy consumptions, demographics and much more down to your local US City level…
http://www.eredux.com/states/
October 13th, 2007 at 1:30 pm>Just when you think the Right Wing Loons have said the stupidest thing in >the world, they have to go and prove you wrong.
Yes its amazing. That Ian moron probably refuses to acknowledge that Bin Laden also implicitly endorsed a right wing talking point when he said taxes in america were too high and suggested a low flat tax. I know no righttard who, even when confronted with the transcript of Laden’s speech, is willing to admit they agree with him about something.
October 13th, 2007 at 4:39 pm