Goracle cancels fundraiser for Boxer after being called “overseas” on urgent global warming business; Update: Fundraiser back on?
posted at 12:31 pm on October 11, 2007 by Allahpundit
Coincidentally, the Nobel Peace Prize is being awarded tomorrow in Oslo.
This is happening, people. Scientific errors be damned.
Sen. Barbara Boxer’s office just contacted us to say former Vice President Al Gore has been called “overseas” for a trip related to his work on global warming and has canceled his scheduled appearance Thursday in San Francisco at a fundraiser for Boxer’s re-election effort. So the Boxer fundraiser — which was to include Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne — is off until Nov. 9.
Here’s a note Boxer sent supporters about the change:
I just got a call from Vice President Al Gore. He told me that he needs to travel abroad tomorrow for an exciting and urgent mission that could result in a major breakthrough in the fight against global warming…
As I write this, the Goracle is a very, very, very distant but surprising second to Hillary on InTrade, which says more about Obama than about Gore himself, I imagine. Exit question: Is America going to get a second chance?
Update: “He’s killing the planet through hypocrisy and blame. If you disagree with him, you’re a heretic and if you agree with him, you’re doomed.”
Update: Chris Cillizza at WaPo says it’s not what you think.
Gore spokeswoman Kalee Kreider threw cold water on the rampant speculation, however, in an email exchange with The Fix earlier today.
“The events in California were postponed because of a request to participate in senior level meetings on the climate crisis in Asia,” Kreider said. “However, early Thursday morning these meetings were postponed.” As a result, Gore will resume his planned trip in California today and tomorrow will be a “normal long business day” according to Kreider. On Saturday, Gore is set to return to his home in Nashville.
Come to think of it, why would Gore need to be in Oslo for the announcement of the award? The award ceremony itself isn’t for months yet.
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Meh. It’s a Peace Prize. I’ll wait until they give the global warming Nobels to the chemists and physicists myself.
Big S on October 11, 2007 at 12:33 PM
Oh, and just because…*link*
money quote starts at 8:30
Big S on October 11, 2007 at 12:36 PM
So that’s an Emmy, an Oscar and now a Peace Prize…all we need now is for “An Inconvenient Truth” to become a Broadway musical and it’s TONY TIME!
Slublog on October 11, 2007 at 12:37 PM
Of course the Goracle has to be in Sweden in person…..
Shtetl G on October 11, 2007 at 12:38 PM
Wow, I’m surprised he was able to get a plane ticket on such short notice.
World B. Free on October 11, 2007 at 12:38 PM
Didn’t Yasser Arafat win one, too? Yeah…
amerpundit on October 11, 2007 at 12:39 PM
sounds like he’s getting out of town before they “come for him”?
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pk on October 11, 2007 at 12:40 PM
My big question is if winning this Nobel Peace prize will literally turn Gore into a deity. I know he is in name, but I’m talking about being given the power to breath fire and shoot lightning bolts at people (conservatives) whom dare question the Word of the Goracle!
(Disclaimer: If you happen to live in the U.K. Goracle is all powerful and all knowing, except for 11 teensy weensy exceptions…)
Weebork on October 11, 2007 at 12:41 PM
Risen – Like bread dough.
ronsfi on October 11, 2007 at 12:41 PM
The Pease prize is a meaningless gesture given to the worst people that they can find. So Gore is a Hsu-in.
bbz123 on October 11, 2007 at 12:41 PM
I’m surprised he was able to get a private plane on such short notice. People like Gore think “carbon footprints” don’t apply to them.
highhopes on October 11, 2007 at 12:42 PM
As I’ve said before about Al Gore – Carbon Crusader:
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Al Father, who art in transit,
Phony be thy game.
Thy Lear-Jet hums.
Those lies you’ve spun,
About Earth, and your huge mansion.
Give us a break, your daily dread.
And forgive us with bus passes,
As we curse those flying first-class above us.
And lead us not into stagflation,
But humor us more, Sir Carbon-Knievel.
Amen!
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bucktowndusty on October 11, 2007 at 12:48 PM
You shouldn’t be surprised by how quickly Gore gets a charter plane. Deities are not bothered by the nuisances of mortal men. This is especially true when said deity has lots of money.
Weebork on October 11, 2007 at 12:48 PM
This wasn’t a tough call. Even I figured this out a week or so ago.
But my, is the coverage of this ever going to be nauseating.
JammieWearingFool on October 11, 2007 at 12:49 PM
I didn’t think they brought the laureates to Stockholm until the awards were presented.
Doris Lessing just won for literature and she gave an interview sitting on her steps in London. Why does the Goracle have to go overseas to be named the winner?
Drew on October 11, 2007 at 12:52 PM
At least he’s just vapid, and not overtly toxic like many past winners.
Tanya on October 11, 2007 at 12:52 PM
How can he get a Peace Prize?! He hasn’t killed anyone like Yassir “That’s my Baby” Arafat. He doesn’t hate the Zionists like Jimmah. He’s not even helping Iran with their nuke program like Al-Baradei!! He is totally unqualified, IMHO.
HerrMorgenholz on October 11, 2007 at 12:55 PM
Wouldn’t it have been more Gaia-friendly for them to mail the prize to him as opposed to him going there to receive it in person? Or would his ego not allow the ceremony to occur without his saintly presence?
Yes, giving the Goracle yet another meaningless accolade is the most critically important event that can happen in the all-important fight against global warming.
Do these idiots not even hear how incredibly dumb they sound when they say these things?
wiserbud on October 11, 2007 at 12:56 PM
Just one more charter jet trip on the carbon footprint for the prince of hypocrisy
Hening on October 11, 2007 at 12:59 PM
Clever! Think I’ll steal it.
JiangxiDad on October 11, 2007 at 12:59 PM
Maybe that breakthrough would be a moratorium on Al Gore and his friends flying all around the world in fuel guzzling private jets in between staying in their energy guzzling mansions?
Nah.
Oh I know, it will be a new and larger denomination of Carbon Credit Currency that Al Gore’s company is getting ready to issue.
Maybe that’s it.
MB4 on October 11, 2007 at 1:00 PM
Thank God for those confused old ladies in Broward county who voted for Pat Buchanan by mistake.
Otherwise this mindless idiot would have been POTUS.
Always Right on October 11, 2007 at 1:01 PM
I’m so excited, I think I’m gonna wet myself!
lorien1973 on October 11, 2007 at 1:01 PM
Someday, the lunacy will pass. And you won’t be able to find anyone who will admit to ever having believed this crap, or even being a “liberal.”
The problem is, this failed and false ideology has so infected our cherished institutions (Universities, scientific institutions like NASA, think tanks, Nobel prize)that the institutions themselves won’t survive.
Gore and Carter and Arafat winning a Nobel prize is enough to destroy it.
Will we be able to replace these institutions that have taken generations to create, or are we watching our own destruction right before our eyes?
JiangxiDad on October 11, 2007 at 1:04 PM
Shameless attention whoring, I assume, plus the Goracle never passes up a chance to pollute. I just didn’t know they had a Nobel Prize for Flagrant Lying & Hypocrisy.
Most people who have acquired that many awards have actually done something to earn them, or at least had some talent. That bloated gasbag has done neither, and no amount of unearned awards is going to change the fact that he lost the big one fair and square in 2000.
ReubenJCogburn on October 11, 2007 at 1:05 PM
Should have included Congress in the list of failed institutions.
JiangxiDad on October 11, 2007 at 1:05 PM
Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, and Yassir Arafat- Nobel Peace Laureates all……..
Somehow, I can’t get too excited over what has clearly become a sham award, sorta like a Grammy for leftists.
highhopes on October 11, 2007 at 1:07 PM
Hallelujah !!!
MB4 on October 11, 2007 at 1:08 PM
Top propagandist award of the year. It used to be if you lied, you were scorned. Now you get the Nobel peace prize for lying. I guess the Bush bashing prize was already given to that stellar basement occupying President Carter.
I predict, in the end the sun will win.
tarpon on October 11, 2007 at 1:09 PM
I’m still ROOTING for RUSH
Kini on October 11, 2007 at 1:10 PM
Don’t all the nominees have to show up in formal wear, the way they do at the Oscars, even if they don’t win?
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on October 11, 2007 at 1:12 PM
Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on how you look at it, it is probably some other “important global warming” business, since the prizes aren’t presented until December 10th of each year.
It would actually be nice if the award was given to someone who actually contributed to peace, instead of the leftist poster boy of the year. But I suspect that would be asking way too much.
Canadian Imperialist Running Dog on October 11, 2007 at 1:14 PM
Rush is not on the radio today either…
Ropera on October 11, 2007 at 1:15 PM
If Gore wins, he will run for 2008
Ropera on October 11, 2007 at 1:16 PM
Stockholm (AP)
Caretakers at the Norra begravningsplatsen (Northern Cemetery) in Stockholm report that a high-pitched sound has been heard coming from the grave of Alfred Nobel, the famous Swedish inventor who established the Nobel Prizes.
One caretaker, speaking on condition of anonymity, said he has heard this sound before, on the occasion of the award of the Peace Prizes to Yasser Arafat and Jimmy Carter.
He stated that he suspects this may indicate that Al Gore has been awarded the Peace Prize for 2007.
“Ya, you betcha, it’s old Nobel spinning like a fookin turbine in there, poor devil!”
drunyan8315 on October 11, 2007 at 1:22 PM
Should Al even be eligible to win this award? Didn’t he invent the Nobel Prize?
revolutionismyname on October 11, 2007 at 1:25 PM
More like another Clinton/Gore. That would give Gore more free time for his pet projects. This is getting scarier everyday.
captivated_dem on October 11, 2007 at 1:27 PM
“Ya, you betcha, it’s old Nobel spinning like a fookin turbine in there, poor devil!”
drunyan8315 on October 11, 2007 at 1:22 PM
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Priceless.
iurockhead on October 11, 2007 at 1:36 PM
Yeah. Good enough for Arafat, the murdering pederast, I reckon it’s good enough for Gore.
smellthecoffee on October 11, 2007 at 1:36 PM
Sorry, HM, he is completely qualified. The #1 criterion for the Peace Prize (for many years) has been opposition to American policies. When Jimmuh won, they lauded him for “your work with the poor and, of course, your opposition to American policies…”
I sure hope someone videos his entourage coming off their private jet – for whatever the reason he’s going off for his “major breakthrough”.
eeyore on October 11, 2007 at 1:37 PM
That and the internet.
Kini on October 11, 2007 at 1:37 PM
An official announcement of Gore getting the Nobel Peace Prize will herald the start of a new ice age.
Bank on it.
danking70 on October 11, 2007 at 1:38 PM
Here’s a note Boxer sent supporters about the change:
I just got a call from Vice President Al Gore. He told me that he needs to travel abroad tomorrow for an exciting and urgent mission that could result in a major breakthrough in the fight against
global warmingmanbearpig…Mojack420 on October 11, 2007 at 1:43 PM
“Lions and Tigers, and ManBearPigs, oh my”….
Romeo13 on October 11, 2007 at 1:48 PM
I know. I’m probally going to have to avoid watching FNC even.
Pulchritudinous Patriot on October 11, 2007 at 1:55 PM
Well I give Al the thumbs up! After all the View has confirmed that the Earth is flat. Gene Cernan never landed on the Moon, despite his bar brawls. Fire can’t melt steel.
The world is set right!
Limerick on October 11, 2007 at 1:57 PM
Look out everyone, after this one his head really will explode!
Maybe it’s a good thing he takes those private jets, wouldn’t want to put the public in danger.
4shoes on October 11, 2007 at 1:59 PM
Stop it Al Gore is really really super cereal
Excelsior
Mojack420 on October 11, 2007 at 2:01 PM
Well look at it this way, maybe all his rabid followers will take his advice (from the movie) literally, and reduce their carbon footprints to zero.
4shoes on October 11, 2007 at 2:03 PM
Jeeze, heh, I haven’t laughed that hard in a while! Thanks for that!
4shoes on October 11, 2007 at 2:10 PM
I’ve been wondering when the other Hsu is going to drop.
Mcguyver on October 11, 2007 at 2:11 PM
And just what is a “high level meeting” going to accomplish, whether in Asia or elsewhere?
bosteed on October 11, 2007 at 2:35 PM
[bosteed on October 11, 2007 at 2:35 PM]
I’m left wondering if it wasn’t canceled because Gore got word of it and invited himself.
Dusty on October 11, 2007 at 2:42 PM
“the climate crisis in Asia”?
Do climates come sub-divided now?
mojo on October 11, 2007 at 2:45 PM
glad ya enjoyed it .
Mojack420 on October 11, 2007 at 2:50 PM
I’ll take Bono anyday over Gore for the Peace Prize! Gosh, if Gore gets it, my tv stays off for days…just the thought of seeing his smug big face plastered everywhere makes me ill.
deedledee on October 11, 2007 at 3:23 PM
I think that Gore should get the “piece prize” because he *IS* a corrupt PIECE OF SH*T!
georgej on October 11, 2007 at 4:16 PM
“The events in California were postponed because of a request to participate in senior level meetings on the climate crisis in Asia…”
BS. Since when are “senior level meetings” scheduled on a last minute basis?
petefrt on October 11, 2007 at 5:09 PM
Gutfeld is awesome.
BadgerHawk on October 11, 2007 at 7:32 PM
Again, Gore proves global warming is a hoax. If he truly believed, he’d not travel overseas, leaving that massive carbon footprint… he’s appear via satellite or web came. I’ve said this hundreds of times, and each time it becomes more and more clear…. Coulter was right, at least Gore isn’t stupid, he’s just a liar, if his behavior is to be an indication.
RightWinged on October 11, 2007 at 7:42 PM