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Home Front: Politix
Gore Asks for (free) Ad Time to Fight Global Warming
2006-03-03
Former Vice President Al Gore launched his keynote address at the Four As media conference in Orlando Thursday morning by promising not to do a commercial for his new cable network, Current TV. which is as moribund as Air America's new subscriber list

And he didnÂ’t.

Instead, he urged the media industry to contribute air time to an upcoming public service campaign alerting consumers to the dangers of global warming. Gore spent most of his twenty minute presentation detailing the heavy toll that global warming is taking on the earthÂ’s ecosystem.
20 minutes of greenhouse gases he sould've spared the planet
He said that a new coalition, to be announced soon, comprised of environmental, labor, religious and other groups would be raising money to make “major ad buys over the next three years” to address global warming.

Gore than asked the media industry to step up with a “dollar for dollar” matching contribution for that campaign. Gore said he was contributing the proceeds from a book and a documentary on the subject (both to be released later this year) to the coalition.
that's called a quid pro quo for his reelection in '08 plans enviro-hysterical action plan, basically a 50% freebee on ads. But hey! no controlling legal authority, huh?

“The climate crisis is the most serious challenge our civilization has ever faced,” he said.
Bullshit. The real science is still out except for the true believers and those getting agenda-based-study grants. Even if warming due to human causes (not proven), the rise is soooo miniscule, all but hysterics would never notice it this century. Read Michael Chrichton.
Posted by:Frank G

#14  POTUS GORE is going to SAVE THE SUN BY FORCING THE ENTIRE EARTH TO REGRESS/GO BACK TO THE FUTURE IN THE MIDDLE AGES OR EARLIER. Rather than building the Starship(s) Enterprise or Battlestar(s) Galactica, Gore and the enviro nuts want to make sure every human being and pet dog gets to be toasted by the Sun safe here in good ole doomed Earth, where OWG and American-specific Holocaust/Genocide is good for the earth and everyone, even for future mostly dead Americans, ERGO VOTE FOR THE DEMS IN 2008.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2006-03-03 23:56  

#13  LOL - Rodger rules
Posted by: Frank G   2006-03-03 18:30  

#12  I've always like this Terpsboy image of Gore, too.
Posted by: .com   2006-03-03 17:21  

#11  It isn't the WP 'Mensa Invitational'. It's the 'Style Invitational'. I had an honorable mention once back in 1994 for my entry in a 'Give someone an appropriate nickname' contest:

Bill Buckner Clinton.


Unfair to Bill Buckner, I know, but what are you going to do?
Posted by: Eric Jablow   2006-03-03 16:15  

#10  And his fellow travelers post garbage like this:
claiming bush is the anti-christ
Posted by: 3dc   2006-03-03 15:29  

#9  A classic example of Gore using # 14:

The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.
The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.

Here are the 2005 winners

1. Cashtration (n): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.

2. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.

3. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

4. Bozone (n): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.

5. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.

6. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

7. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.

8. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

9. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.

10. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)

11. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is, like, sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's, like, a serious bummer.

12. Decafalon (n): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.

13. Glibido: All talk and no action.

14. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

15. Arachnoleptic fit (n): The frantic dance you perform just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.

16. Beelzebug (n): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

17. Caterpallor (n): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.

And the pick of the literature:

18. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.

And the pick of the literature:

18. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.
Posted by: Visitor   2006-03-03 14:33  

#8  Thanks for the plug!
(just kidding, that's not me. But we spell it the same way)
Posted by: eLarson   2006-03-03 14:14  

#7  SE,

Don't know if you've read "Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson, but he has some great descriptions of what a winter in Chicago was like with all the coal smoke.
Posted by: Dreadnought   2006-03-03 13:39  

#6  djohn66

Actually, the air and water is cleaner than anytime since before the 70s. However, when your standards are something like non-existance of mankind, its a little more demanding. Too bad these people didn't live a hundred years ago when most heating and energy creation at home was by coal. Fouled the air, few if any 'white' christmas with soot all over the urban areas. Rank dumping of waste into nearly all waterways. With transportation by horse, where do you think most of the 'organic' material they dropped went to? Summer was a season of flies and other wonder vectors for disease. I believe people like these should be sentenced to three years in a real third world country without all these 'harmful' modern techologies. Can't wait to see when the first crop failure strikes their 'organic' farms.
Posted by: Snomoting Ebbomong1497   2006-03-03 12:27  

#5  Dear Mr. Gore.

Shut the fuck up, you moron.

Thank you,

People of the United States of America
Posted by: mmurray821   2006-03-03 11:24  

#4  Gore has his OWN NETWORK spewing weird propaganda 24/7. That channel is "Current". On DirecTV it is channel 366.
So having a complete network of his own to spout BS what the hell does he deserve free air time from the other networks for?
Make his own network interesting enough that some fool would watch his crap!
Posted by: 3dc   2006-03-03 10:29  

#3  Gore said he was contributing the proceeds from a book and a documentary on the subject (both to be released later this year) to the coalition.

Wow! A book and a movie by Al Gore coming out? That could bring in, like, hundreds and hundreds of dollars!!
Posted by: tu3031   2006-03-03 10:21  

#2  I keep wondering, all this things in the water and air keep killing us supposedly, but we are living longer hmmmmmm.
Posted by: djohn66   2006-03-03 09:50  

#1  "It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."

-- Vice President Al Gore

Posted by: Visitor   2006-03-03 09:32  

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