Video: Question: Why do conservatives dislike Al Gore so much?
posted at 8:00 pm on March 23, 2007 by Ian
Transcript (emphasis Noel’s):
JOE SCARBOROUGH, HOST OF MSNBC’S “SCARBOROUGH COUNTRY”: Terry Holt, why do conservatives dislike Al Gore so much?
TERRY HOLT, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST: Well, what makes the criticism so effective about Al Gore is that Al Gore himself is—generates the problem. It‘s not that he‘s just a hypocrite, and he is, but he‘s a braggart. I mean, he‘s claimed to have invented the Internet, among many other things. He claimed to have discovered the environmental problems that exist today, when in fact, he himself uses more energy in one month at his house in Tennessee than most people use in an entire year at their house. The pristine grounds of Al Gore‘s house in Tennessee backed up on the other side of a mountain by a zinc mine that his family has leased for some 30 years to a mining company.
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His is actually “Q” the backwards “G”.
His is Omnipotent.
Kini on March 23, 2007 at 8:06 PM
Answer:
Because he’s a turd burglar.
omnipotent on March 23, 2007 at 8:07 PM
Hey wait, I’m omnipotent, not Goracle….weird timing though, Iquestion it!
omnipotent on March 23, 2007 at 8:08 PM
…and an alarmist, a hysteric, a glutton, a bloviate,……
Tru2my2 on March 23, 2007 at 8:12 PM
There are many in the “Q” Continuum!
Dennis Kucinich comes to mind.
Kini on March 23, 2007 at 8:15 PM
I was wondering why I disliked him.
The only thing worse than someone you dislike is not knowing the why of the dislike.
frankj on March 23, 2007 at 8:16 PM
Exit Question: Why do conservatives watch Joe Scarborough?
billy on March 23, 2007 at 8:18 PM
Keep an eye on the enemy within?
steveegg on March 23, 2007 at 8:22 PM
…and a modern day witch doctor, a tenured professor of Bad Science.
Zorro on March 23, 2007 at 8:22 PM
I hate his guts because he showed me in 2000 that he is more important then then country. That is it. I could puke about all his other stuff, but hate….nope my hate comes from the fact that he is a self serving traitor.
Limerick on March 23, 2007 at 8:24 PM
Gore and Edwards personify the “two Americas” diatribe. There are the rich people, Gore and Edwards, who buy “green energy” and offset credits for their consumption and then there are the rest of us.
When I saw him refuse to take the lifestyle pledge and back his refusal with the explanation that he buys green energy and offset credits I thought of all the families in the country that can hardly eek out the bills for “brown energy” during the heating season…
It is the height of condescension to claim that you can burn all the fossil fuel you want because you offset your extravagant use with cold, hard cash.
Babs on March 23, 2007 at 8:25 PM
A couple hundred million reasons why:
The Goracle’s Morality and Profits
That and he’s a pedantic, overbearing, hypocritical blowhard.
JammieWearingFool on March 23, 2007 at 8:31 PM
Because his wife made it difficult for me to listen to 2 Live Crew without my parents’ permission.
SailorDave on March 23, 2007 at 8:51 PM
What’s not to hate?
Perchant on March 23, 2007 at 8:55 PM
Dee Snider owned him at the PMRC hearings. Maybe we should get Dee Snider to head up some kind of anti-global debate….
liquidflorian on March 23, 2007 at 9:06 PM
I can’t dispute the usefulness of the indignation Gore produces in people. As for the practical problems involved in Gore’s scheme to buy his way out of the restrictions he wants to place on others, one problem is that all the economic activity that produces the wealth with which he expects to buy his indulgences isn’t ecologically sound, according to his own lights. One could chop down a forest, sell the firewood, and give the proceeds to Gore as a speaker’s fee. Or he himself could chop down a forest to make the paper on which his books are printed. On his self-indulgent plan, he can live it up on the money people give him, as long as he spends a portion to “offset” his own super-sized consumption. That leads us to the other problem. He expects to consume large amounts of resources, such as energy, then consume even more resources attempting to offset just one of the effects of his consumption.
Kralizec on March 23, 2007 at 9:13 PM
Answer: Because the guy has reinvented himself more times than David Bowie.
spmat on March 23, 2007 at 9:32 PM
I personally, PERSONALLY, hate him because he put my 12 year old daughter (at the time) at risk, because his F’N “carbon free “airplane was on the tarmac for two + hours and hers could not take off. She missed her connection, of course, and I will NEVER forget or forgive. She was fine in the long run, but I had to bust my ass calling the airline, etc., because her connection was Dallas, and y’all know what a nightmare that is. Putz. In 1994 he wasn’t so damn environmentally “friendly.” DOUBLE-Putz.
thebookkeeper on March 23, 2007 at 9:50 PM
Because he’s responsible for encouraging division, hate, and chaos in America.
Connie on March 23, 2007 at 9:50 PM
Such loose talk of Comrade Gore….. the Bureau of Correct Thinking will be informed !
Maxx on March 23, 2007 at 9:52 PM
LOL… He still isn’t if you think about it!
But, when Bowie dose it it’s freakin’ awesome! Big difference.
I hate Gore, also, because he thought of this whole carbon offest ponzi-scheme before I could….
liquidflorian on March 23, 2007 at 9:57 PM
Hey ! Leave David Bowie out of this! :-)
Maxx on March 23, 2007 at 10:04 PM
I can’t stand elitist special privileged character hypocrites. I believe if you go and preach something in public, you should live the example you preach. I am not talking about me talking to my friends and I do something else that I say, I can be a hypocrite, but when you go on the World Stage, you better act it or you are nothing but a big phony low life elitist.
StuLongIsland on March 23, 2007 at 10:06 PM
This is a man who has to work three times harder than the average person to maintain some sort of relevance. How utterly useless must someone be to lose an election to a man heralded by his own hard-core supporters as the dumbest US president ever (not counting the stolen election conspiracy)?
I almost feel sorry for his pathetic arse… almost.
SailorDave on March 23, 2007 at 10:19 PM
My personal favorite Goraism is when he claimed the film “Love Story” was based on his relationship with Tipper. The author had never even met Gore.
Gore is the greatest…you just sit in wonder at his yarns, and the people who follow him.
You can see why the libs are laughed at, look who they hold in high esteem…a storyteller.
right2bright on March 23, 2007 at 10:29 PM
I’m actually starting to think Gore might be some kind of political genius. If, (and granted, this is a big “if”) he manages to parlay all this GW into a successful presidential run, it will be one of the biggest successes of “outside the box” thinking ever. Think about it: He will have
1) Used a made up issue to fearmonger for political gain, while simultaneously accusing the President of fearmongering for political gain over a REAL issue.
2) Gotten the entire Hollywood establishment to assist with his campaign, possibly unknowingly.
3) Run a campaign completely (to this point, anyway) outside the traditional campaigning framework.
It could work, and if it does it will be unprecidented.
Farmer_Joe on March 23, 2007 at 10:42 PM
Because he’s trying to take away our cars. He is trying to turn off our lights and disconnect our electricity and tax us for the very air we breath. He is trying to override our Constitution with global environmental law and leave us as slaves with our only purpose in life being to work so he and his globalist-elitist friends can gorge on the fruits of our labor.
And he knows everything he is advocating about global warming is a lie and that if he gets his way it will destroy America and leave us all impoverished, but he’s willing to sell us all out anyway because of greed and his lust for power. And he does it all while being so smug and condescending. And this is the short answer, why conservatives “dislike” Al Gore.
Maxx on March 23, 2007 at 10:48 PM
Why hasn’t anyone ever noticed he sounds like “Forest Gump”?
I mean really!
I want you all whenever you hear him talk or give a speech at the end of his sentences add “JENN-AH” just like in the movie and you’ll see see what I mean.
It makes a great party game (or maybe a drinking game. lemme know! I wouldn’t know as I don’t drink…)
Problem is I like Forest. Gore? ….Not so much.
-Wasteland Man.
P.S. Don’t RUUUN Gore!!! Don’t RUUUN!!!!
WastelandMan on March 23, 2007 at 10:57 PM
Not quite so unprecedented. Take a look back at at 1910′s Russia or 1930′s Germany for prototypes.
SailorDave on March 23, 2007 at 11:00 PM
Now that I think about it that is a really good question.
Albert Gore is:
- pro-life
- pro-defense
- anti-gun control
- staunchly in favor of what we now call Christian values
What’s not to dislike?
Maybe… Oh I don’t know…the fact that he only held these views in order to get the presidential nod in 1984 but has run like heck from these views ever since?
billy on March 23, 2007 at 11:11 PM
kinda reminds me of a story I read about Ghandi. “One day a woman came up to Ghandi and asked him to tell her child to stop eating Suger. Ghandi told her to come back with her child in one week. A week later the woman and child appear before Ghandi. He looks at the child and says “Child, stop eating suger”. The oman looks at Ghandi and asks him why he didn’t just say that to the child last week. Ghandi looks at her and ays “I could not madam, you see, last week I was eating Suger”.
One should always strive to reach the goals he ascribes to others.
Wyrd on March 24, 2007 at 12:05 AM
I don’t care for the jackass because his thug lawyers worked overtime in Florida to purposefully throw out the absentee ballots of many military personnel, including those recovering the USS Cole.
B@st@rd!
91Veteran on March 24, 2007 at 12:25 AM
The Goracle isn’t that smart. He’s been a tree-hugging lunatic for many years.
Remember his book? Earth in the Lurch? He believes the internal combustion engine should be banned.
If he planned to run again, he would have to significantly reduce his butt-print first.
91Veteran on March 24, 2007 at 12:32 AM
He is arrogant and hypocritical, but then so are many politicians. And I won’t even get into all his deeds as vice-president (for the moment, at least).
Al’s worst deed, the one that did the most harm to the country, was his petulant tantrum after the 2000 election. This earns him a special place in the political hall of infamy.
The sore loserman opened the floodgates to suing your way to victory in an election. Once Al broke down the wall of dignified restraint and concession, the Dems have been increasingly rabid in their push to what they see as their entitlement to power.
The 2000 election was the final touch to the war room mentality of politics established by the Clintons.
Al Gore’s actions also put off the transition for the Bush administration for about six weeks. This left the newcomers playing catch up in 2001, which turned out to be a very significant year.
So Al, before you’d ever be able to enter the White House, I’d imagine there’d be quite a few of the Founders who’d want to come back and bar your way.
INC on March 24, 2007 at 12:32 AM
Lockbox.
Teddy on March 24, 2007 at 1:46 AM
Let’s not overcomplicate this. We dislike him ’cause he’s a dork.
Mojave Mark on March 24, 2007 at 2:25 AM
Isn’t the better question “Why would anyone LIKE Al Gore at all?” ?
LegendHasIt on March 24, 2007 at 2:54 AM
Amen, Legend, that was the first thing that came to my mind.
‘Splain to me, liberals, why you LIKE Al Gore.
Because he’s a pedantic, overbearing, hypocritical blowhard…someone you can really relate to.
I can understand a lot of liberal “values,” mind you: but I still don’t see why Al Gore flops your mop. How did he let Hillary outrank him as Co-President for 8 years?
saint kansas on March 24, 2007 at 3:17 AM
Furthermore, may I suggest that Al Gore is so far ahead of his time that he be cryogenically frozen until mankind is fully able to appreciate his genius?
Or at least until I’m dead. Either one works for me.
saint kansas on March 24, 2007 at 8:28 AM
He is the mother of all hypocrites
Main Entry: hyp·o·crite
Pronunciation: ‘hi-p&-”krit
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English ypocrite, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin hypocrita, from Greek hypokritEs actor, hypocrite, from hypokrinesthai
1 : a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue or religion (or pending planatary doom where only he has the solution)
2 : a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings (such as consuming more home energy than a Walmart)
- hypocrite adjective
from Merriam-Webster On-line
Hening on March 24, 2007 at 8:58 AM
My guess is that it’s because the majority voted for Gore in 2000 and given that choice again, W would carry about 4 or 5 states. It has to be galling when your guy (W)has about half the approval rating than the guy he beat. Talk about buyer’s remorse. Yikes.
Oh and BTW, Gore did not “invent” the Internet. He was a huge proponent and early mover on seeing what was initially a DOD initiative in terms of commerce and communication. On the other hand, understand he way sucks at clearing brush.
honora on March 24, 2007 at 9:04 AM
He strikes me of someone who is sure he is right. In my experience in business, such people make poor leaders.
shaken on March 24, 2007 at 9:30 AM
He stated that conservatives have Down Syndrome.
He stated that Republicans on the internet are brownshirts.
He lisped: “There is no controlling legal authority” as a defense for his crimes.
Perchant on March 24, 2007 at 10:17 AM
honora, I will admit that the left has run a successful hate campaign since the court decided that Gore lost. Progressive Propaganda is just so very classy and refreshing. It is scary that half of America is ignorant and juvenile enough to have fallen for it. The Dems have even been quite successful at convincing other countries that their irrational hatred of America is justified. Gore and his cronies should be proud.
Connie on March 24, 2007 at 10:22 AM
That is indeed a better question. Personally I can’t see anything to like about Gore, and even less to respect. Beyond the obvious blatant hypocrisy, he’s a serial liar (he is, indeed, “totally serial”, and not just about ManBearPig) and self-aggrandizer. Like many people, I’ll never forgive him, or the Democratic Party, for trying to disenfranchize military voters in the 2000 election. (Hint: If, as a party, you’re so unpalatable to the defenders of this nation that they overwhelmingly vote for your opponents, then you’re doing something wrong.)
I also hate Gore because he lost the 2000 election, conceded, and then unconceded. How does anyone have the gall to do that? A smarter man wouldn’t have conceded so fast; an honorable man wouldn’t go back on his concession once he made it. But Al Gore is neither smart nor honorable, and chose to divide the nation–a division we’ve never recovered from–in order to throw a temper tantrum over not getting his way. That episode really showed what both Gore and Democrats were made of, and it wasn’t flattering. Even when the Supreme Court ruled that Florida election law actually meant what the words on paper said it did–naturally the liberal justices dissented, because the idea of laws meaning what they say they mean goes against everything that liberals stand for–he and his supporters continued to act like 2-year-olds over it. And still do today. Gore lost, under the rules of the election. Grow up and get over it. Adults don’t get to call “do-overs”. The fact that he won the popular vote changes exactly nothing, because the Constitution says that the Electoral College determines the winner. If you don’t like it, amend the Constitution, but for God’s sake, quit your infernal crying. Maybe if Al’s crooked politician father had let him play organized sports growing up, he would have learned some basic life lessons the way normal people do, including how to win and lose graciously.
ReubenJCogburn on March 24, 2007 at 10:23 AM
Dislike? Too strong-I think he’s a pragmatist who doesn’t believe that there are absolutes, so his ‘opinions’ are reality (to him). There’s way too much of that in our culture (of course, that’s just my opinion).
I don’t hate anyone, but if I did, it would be a stain on me, not them.
Doug on March 24, 2007 at 11:00 AM
honora, as often, your contribution is sorely lacking in any relevance, voracity, interest or welcome.
That pesky Electoral College just irks you, doesn’t it?
tickleddragon on March 24, 2007 at 12:59 PM
I don’t hate him. I just don’t like him very much. The fact that he has turned into a puffy evil-looking diablo doesn’t help much either.
Glynn on March 24, 2007 at 1:15 PM
Goracle? No.
Gorifice? That’s more accurate.
Coyote D. on March 24, 2007 at 2:30 PM
“Gorifice”? That. Is. Brilliant.
ReubenJCogburn on March 24, 2007 at 2:54 PM
Sigh. It never ends. Electoral college…blah blah blah…get.over.it.
Buck Turgidson on March 24, 2007 at 3:06 PM
honora must have decided to forget about GW winning again in 2004. I must have buyers remorse, I won’t be voting for Bush in 2008.
Buzzy on March 24, 2007 at 3:20 PM
That is a very important point. That temper tantrum led us not only to the partisan tension we are experiencing, it is also responsible for this:
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/03/24/video-portland-protesters-serenade-troop-effigy-with-death-chants/
From the temper tantrum of one to the tantrum of a growing number of anarchists? Is the left really so clueless about their effect on the numbers of teens and young adults who have grown up thinking self-esteem is an entitlement? Who have grown up without stable, traditional families? The anti-war crowd conviently forgets that society has deteriorated (because of 40 years of liberalism). This is not the days of Vietnam protests. Back then people were still fairly civilized. But not anymore. It will get much worse.
Connie on March 24, 2007 at 5:31 PM
…then tried to claim, “Let Every Vote Count!” (The unspoken part being “…for ME!”) to everyone who wasn’t going for it. What was worse was seeing just how many folks ignored the blatant and obvious efforts to manipulate the tally just because they wanted Gore to win. Unacceptable and unforgiveable! (For those who may not recall all the details, check out http://www.amazon.com/At-Any-Cost-Tried-Election/dp/0895261227/ref=sr_1_1/103-2300733-9887803?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1174772755&sr=1-1 )
SpartRan on March 24, 2007 at 5:50 PM
The guy’s a barking moonbat that has slam our country and it’s leadership with hateful lies. Now he is profiting on the fear of a non-existant threat.
What’s not to hate?
conservativecaveman on March 24, 2007 at 7:22 PM
TERRY HOLT, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST (Is a lier)
This is SAD and pathetic ONE sided clip that does not show the other commentators comments. GOP is in OIL and Big energies pocket. What is Mr. Holts ANTI-global warming cause. He gets his money for oil companies. Consider the source.
THEY HATE GORE BECAUSE:
-He is winning the Debate.
-Hollywood loves him.
-Attacking Gore is easier than debating facts and solutions when you don’t have any.
-He’s not running for anything and is truly passionate about the topic.
-He is not running for office or power; he is doing it for what he thinks is good. (does not compute to power hungry corrupt politicians)
-Many people WISH he won in 2000 and many think he DID; many more now wish he won after 6 years of the Decider, Bush.
-Displaced anger at Bush who really F-ed our nation and the GOP party.
-Gore’s popularity with the general public 75%
-Bush’s approval rating, 30% in the toilet.
Who cares what stick up their a$$ bought and paid for energy lobbyist / “republican STRATEGIST” says.
TERRY HOLT, IS A LIER. Gore NEVER said he invented the Internet, That was made up at the GOP convention in 1999. Gore did say he took the lead on the committee for public development of the internet. He never said he invented that or discovered global warming. Idiot.
Either WAY what does that have to do wit global warming. Gore is being attacked because he educating people on global warming and it scares the OIL companies, who the GOP answers to. Bush is an OIL man (a bad one). Kenneth “Kenny Boy” Lay, CEO of ENRON was Bush’s good buddy.
Yes Gore’s home uses more electricity than yours and mine. He has TWO offices in their and a large home. Fox noise Hannity was salivating at catching him use a private jet, so he asked for if anyone to send in a picture. He failed and settled on some second hand innuendo and comments Gores people made and went, THERE! Hypocrite!. WHO CARES. What about Mountain Kilimanjaro. 11,000 years of ice and now nothing in 20 years? Some thing is up.
IT DOES NOT CHANGE THE MESSAGE. The GOP is in Oil and big energies pocket. You will not get the honest answer on “hot air”. They are linking to Chevron oil sites!
Oil and energy companies are scared and are fighting back, with PROPAGANDA, Rhetoric and attacks on Gore thru idiots like Holt, who are foaming at the mouth.
They, oil companies and republicans that get their money, don’t give two craps about the planet. They don’t want government to cut into profits by mandating lower carbon emissions; Their profits by the way happened to reach obscene records last year. I am all for capitalism and making money, but I have no sympathy for oil companies.
Yes Gore talks too slow and says things like “Lock Box” and in the past was stiff, pompous or lecturing. He still is lecturing but he has a message. DEBATE FACTS NOT THE PERSON.
People love Gore, and they are listening and the GOP HATES it. They GOP works for OIL companies. Sadly if the Dems hold and increase their majority in both houses and worse get the Presidency in 2008, big oil money will go to them. Even more sad, they will take it and the debate will die. That is until malibu, manhattan and parts of florida are reclaimed by the sea. It may not happen in our life, so who cares right.
Don’t be hypocrites. Don’t kill babies, but its OK to kill the plant that supports all living things? Its more than just temps, pollution will kill us in other ways. The issue is the 3rd world countries that are growing, like China. They are not going to cut back. Global problem, global solution. Bush the “Great Uniter” and diplomat will do it. ha ha ha. I just wish he could run for a third term or just make Cheney President with out an election. We don’t need a constitution or votes. Look at Nov 2006 when people vote; they vote for the other guys. We can’t have that. We need to support the oil companies at all cost.
What about getting off Mid East Oil so we can give them the middle finger. Energy saving is good, THERE IS NO DEBATE. My Mom taught me that when I was a KID. My mMm was smart. Reducing Carbon is GOOD. The scientist already are in agreement, people have an impact on the atmosphere and increase in our temperature.
gmcjetpilot on March 24, 2007 at 8:02 PM
Honora do you actually find facts before you type or do you like just pulling things out of your a$$?
A DOD initiative in terms of commerce and communications?
Commerce had nothing to do with it. The first attempts at creating the net, ARPANET, was done in the late 50′s into the late 60′s. Gore was still sucking his thumb at St. Albans when the groundwork was laid for today’s internet.
He never made it to Congress until 1976, so he had nothing to do with creation of the net. Typical of him though to take such credit from those whose shoes he is unfit to even tie.
91Veteran on March 24, 2007 at 9:15 PM
Uh, gmcjp, it’s spelled liar. One would think defending such, you would know how to spell it.
Gore, at some point in time DID say he had a hand in creating the internet, stated he and Tripper were the basis of Love Story, and claimed he discovered Love Canal.
Ooooooooh the eeeeevvviiiiillllll Big Ooooiiiiilll.
….and how heavily invested in Big Oil is Gore (Occidental) or Soros (Halliburton)? Who is hypocritical?
Gore is winning the debate? Perhaps only if winning the debate is defined as being the only view allowed in public.
I would stack the credentials of any number of world-renowed climatologists who disagree with Big Al’s preaching up against Big Al’s. Pretty sad debate when one side refuses to debate or threatens the livelihood of the opposing view.
Hollywood loves him? Geez you should have said something earlier. I’m sure if I would have known the scholars Britney Spears and Sean Penn loved him, I would have reconsidered.
Debating facts and solutions? Pretty hard when one side refuses to allow debate or threatens those with an opposing view as I said above.
He might be a passionate nitwit, but he is just as passionate about getting into our pockets to fund his foolishness.
Gore absolutely said he created the internet, and when catching deserved flak for it, he tried then claiming he “had a hand in” creating the internet when he served on some committee. Who’s the liar?
You have been whining about “Gore’s message”, and mention pollution in China, yet say nothing about China being exempt from Kyoto.
Do you wear tinfoil hats while here?
91Veteran on March 24, 2007 at 9:45 PM
I have a masters in engineering and I KNOW where and what the Internet came from and any one can Google it. YOU ARE WRONG.
In the mid 1970′s its use spread to researchers and Department of Energy (DoE). Where you using the Internet in 1976? I thought not. There was only 300,000 computers on the web in 1990. It was not till mid 80′s till the networks became more wide spread. The process of privately-financed augmentation for commercial uses was thrashed out starting in 1988, “The Commercialization and Privatization of the Internet”. It was not till mid 1990′s did the Internet reach its current commercialization and privatization.
Gore (Rep 1978, 1980, and 1982; VP 1992-2000): In 1984 began to craft the High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991 (commonly referred to as The Gore Bill) after hearing the 1988 report Toward a National Research Network submitted to Congress by a group chaired by UCLA professor of computer science, Leonard Kleinrock, one of the central creators of the ARPANET. As VP he continued to promote the Information Super Highway.
This is what Gore was involved in. What part of that don’t you understand? HE did not say he invented the WEB, but he was involved in the legislative aspects of the Internet. That is all…. Duaaaa. The hate goes so far and than its a waste.
Perhaps one of the most important results of the bill was the development of the Mosaic (web browser) in 1993; the World Wide Web browser, which was developed under High-Performance Computing and Communications Initiative, a program created by the High Performance Computing Act of 1991. Mosaic is generally credited by most scholars as beginning the Internet boom of the 1990s.
Gore “became the first U.S. vice president to hold a live interactive news conference on an international computer network”.
If hate mongers would celebrate Americans and America (regarless of party) instead of hating everyone that is not like you, than we would be a stronger nation. You heard of “United we stand”, “House Divided can not stand”. SO THERE. I give Bush credit when he strings two coherent sentences together. Gore has done some good things, but uber political games makes recognizing them impossible. I don’t like Gore, but I hate liars who lie and make personal attacks for political gain. That is what this is and it makes me sick. Men who engage in this have a total lack of character. It’s also against the teachings of the bible to make faults witness against others, but that is politics. That is why church and government don’t mix.
gmcjetpilot on March 24, 2007 at 10:04 PM
…and out of the back of which magazine did you order the diplomas from? You certainly skipped or slept through your English or grammar electives.
You should try get your money back since you learned little facts.
ViolaWWW was the first popular browser, eventually replaced by Mosaic, which I used when it became available.
I just cannot determine why, if you hate liars who lie for political gain, you would be such a Gore sycophant.
91Veteran on March 24, 2007 at 10:19 PM
Al Gore has become a caricature. He held that great speech, after the SCOTUS had to play parents to the mindless SC of Florida children.
After that he could have become a great statesman, and even run again. Instead his liver went into an overstimulated bile production and the rest is history.
He has become a very, very ugly person, inside and out and there is no going back. The Liberals know this too, no matter their protests to the contrary.
Gorefreude – the more I see/hear of him, the more I possess.
P.S. honora, I expect majority popular wins blathering from the uneducated in such matters, not from the likes of you.
Entelechy on March 24, 2007 at 11:54 PM
..because Al Gore has a huge carbon “butt-print”
(thanks Ann C. for that tidbit in the “The Coming Ass Age” collumn.)
jjjen on March 25, 2007 at 11:32 AM
Read this and then tell me al-gorifice has even a single drop of integrity. He’s a criminal.
He knowingly lied to congress. And then, when hard questions were being asked, babs boxer, posturing for nutroots like you, shook her mighty gavel at Inhofe and stifled the questioning. And THAT’s what made the news. The sycophancy and self-felation of the left is sickening.
It’s time for the evidence of the outright global fraud of ‘global warming’ to be vigorously exposed to the public, and those guilty of perpetrating it brought to justice.
In my opinion this farce is on par with saddam’s abuse of the oil for food program. Global extortionists need to be stopped.
As regards the gorafice’s (I like that one!), dubious claims about his part in ‘creating’ the internet, I’ve been online since before there were any browsers at all. Back in ’86 when the access was 300 baud and my phone bills to connect to Compuserve were running $300 per month. We’ve come a long long way. The internet was just one more parade that al-gore has attempted to jump in front of.
techno_barbarian on March 25, 2007 at 11:42 AM
gmcjetpilot… Al Gore didn’t invent anything.
Maxx on March 25, 2007 at 11:32 PM
Connie on March 26, 2007 at 2:57 AM
Al Gore has two motives for his current passion.
1. Attempting to remain/become relevant. In spite of Earth in the Balance being a financial and critical flop until public school systems bought thousands of copies, it seems to Al that the environment is his only area of “expertise”, so his only shot at holding onto the public’s awareness.
2. Since he chairs the corporation to whom he pays his carbon offsets, and to whom we would pay ours if he had his way, simple greed functioned through mass extortion = money for Al.
He doesn’t have “the message”, he has lies. All he’s ever had. He’s been a crook since before he became a Tennessee Congressman, and hasn’t changed for a moment since.
Freelancer on March 26, 2007 at 4:29 AM
Read. Of course this was the internet was a military thing. Gore and others saw the prospects for taking the technology to the civilian sector. As I clearly stated–but you clearly chose to ignore because it didn’t fit your narrative–is that Gore did not invent the internet. As you state, he entered Congress in 1976–well before the commercialization I referenced.
Take time to understand what the other person is saying before upchucking your views. It’s so much more productive that way.
honora on March 26, 2007 at 9:27 AM
So why is it you respond?
honora on March 26, 2007 at 9:31 AM
Right. The man wins two elections but we’re supposed to be upset because (according to you) if he ran for a third time he’d only win 4 or 5 states. Which states would he lose incidentally? As for respective approval ratings, Al Gore doesn’t have to make any difficult decisions he just swats around like a movie star. Gore made regime change in Iraq a part of his campaign. If he had won and invaded Iraq would you be chanting GORE LIED!!?
aengus on March 26, 2007 at 10:58 AM