Ridley to Goracle: How about skipping the concert and staying home with your kid?
posted at 3:29 pm on July 6, 2007 by Allahpundit
It’s John Ridley, writer turned director turned, inexplicably, panelist on Joe “Work The Pole” Scarborough’s mornin’ yakfest on MSNBC. You’ll remember him from his recent sneering at basement-dwelling bloggers. He wants to know why a poor father who skips out on a suffering child to go to a ballgame would be an object of scorn while Manbearpig will be showered with media bouquets tomorrow at Gore-apalooza with his own son at home in crisis. Four reasons off the top of my head: (a) there’s at least a colorable claim of public interest to what Gore’s doing, (b) he’s got upwards of a billion people expecting him, (c) no doubt his kid is being well taken care of notwithstanding his absence, and (d) he’s going for some sort of carbon-emission world record tomorrow. He deserves to be there to see it happen.
Thanks as always to Greg H. of BeyondTheNews.com for the clip.
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What timing! Just totally torched the sails on Gore’s pollution producing press blitz.
Maybe AGIII is a secret right wing sabatuer.
Al Gore for a Dad, he must have been a blast to be around in January 2000… lucky AGIII didn’t climb a tower with a sniper rifle… poor kid.
Al Gore s current thought process:
Gotta go to the show
Gotta announce my intention to win the presidency
My son doesn’t need a hug, he needs a pardon.
christophercube on July 6, 2007 at 11:49 PM
Too much “nuance” for small minded, Rush/Malkin/Hannity/Levin/Ingrim/Savage/(I was gonna put Bush in that slot, but he left, literally, my party), bots like me to comprehend.
On a totally off topic question, what happened to Real Verse?
This inquiring mind wants to know….
MalkinFan on July 7, 2007 at 12:03 AM
naliaka, slow down.
I was pointing out the insinuation that Nonfactor/Fragility was makimg. I’m on your side. Those guys are like clones, they make the same mindless stupid statements. You should be laughing at them and having fun, don’t let them get to you. Tweak them humorously. You will ruin their day.
peacenprosperity on July 7, 2007 at 12:26 AM
Thanks. I read your comment with a different lens and see it now. Sorry.
I yank their chains just to watch them howl, but truly there are serious issues that they blow off, that I want them to go back and consider with more thoughtfulness. I lived in countries that were under dictatorships, (one of them Sani Abacha of Nigeria) so it’s very real to me. What I would love to see tho’ is those posters open their brains up and learn, and be better, and stop being empty headed parrots. One can hope.
naliaka on July 7, 2007 at 1:15 AM
That goes double right back at you :)
Nonfactor on July 7, 2007 at 2:05 AM
I wonder if those apologists feel stupid after watching the segment from home?
No, probably not.
But, what if it were President Bush and his daughters instead of the Goracle? Oh yeah, they would light him up. It would also be the subject of Michael Moore’s next film.
But, Gore is “nuanced” because he’s a leftist.
Black Adam on July 7, 2007 at 4:25 AM
I agree. I would also like to say that no matter how old they are, they are always “your children.” I am an unconditional love kind of person, which means I am THERE for my kids no matter what and no matter how old all of us are. I agree with Ridley.
Glynn on July 7, 2007 at 7:23 AM
Welcome….to Al Bore’s ego fest! How special that the employees at MSNBC have all the answers. Now, the question is…will all the boneheads actually going to any of these “concerts” be carpooling and driving Hybrids? Do Al Bore and Skipper have a house full of mercury-filled light bulbs? And when will Al Bore III finally go into foster care due to his parent’s neglect? These are the burning questions Americans want the answers to…now!
lynnv on July 7, 2007 at 8:18 AM
um, the prius comment was a joke
Metro on July 7, 2007 at 10:02 AM
where is mommie blowhard of the decade, tipper? unfortunately the son must have been having problems for a while, because i don’t recall him used as a prop during gores run.
anti-incrementalism on July 7, 2007 at 11:31 AM
Nonfactor the money you spend on drugs will likely go to a criminal or terrorist organisation. The IRA, the Taliban whoever. That’s why it isn’t a victimless crime.
aengus on July 7, 2007 at 1:18 PM
This was sooooo good to see a black man making sense and the whiteys making fools out of themselves.
The lines that will be etched in my brain were that, hey, it’s ok to drive 100 mph with a collection of designer drugs and pot in Al’s boy’s car–as long as it was a Prius.
And, ain’t Mika just the bestest little mom you would ever want to meet? Yes, she takes her status so seriously that she tittered when Joe calls her “a mother”. Bucket time!
It’s folks like these that have hastened the end of the ‘Land of the Free’, (not the free ride), ‘and the Home of the Brave’, (not foolhardy, ignorant and drug-addicted).
Christine on July 7, 2007 at 2:11 PM
Just wait and see, this whole “Live Earth” fiasco was just a marketing stunt. Next week the self-professed inventor of “the Internets” will roll out his new programs:
Neglecting your kids? NO PROBLEM: PARENTING OFFSETS Leave a wake garbage in your path? RECYCLING OFFSETS
Need rehab, don’t feel like it? REHAB OFFSETS
ILLEGAL FUND-RAISING? oh, wait, we already have an offset- McCain-Feingold
ALSO AVAILABLE SOON: PREVARICATION OFFSETS, INFIDELITY OFFSETS, PERSPIRATION OFFSETS (unfortunately was not available in time for AlGorePig’s “Sweating-like-Nixon” impersonation)
Good one, ritemama! LMAO!! The off-the-lot Prius can’t get out of its own way. This souped up version was a result of the Gore boys tinkering. On the outside it’s a Prius; under the hood there’s a gas guzzling supercharged 500 cubic inch hemi with pollution spewing open headers… The media didn’t mention it but Baby
HueyGore needed a parachute to slow him down to 100 mph!NightmareOnKStreet on July 8, 2007 at 12:17 PM
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