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TV has made nation complacent, Gore says
KnoxNews.com (Via Drudge) ^
| 11/12/03
| AMBER MCDOWELL
Posted on 11/12/2003 4:52:46 AM PST by Prov1322
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To: rintense
"Someone please tell Gore to come back to reality!!!!Al Gore has never been involved with reality.
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posted on
11/12/2003 5:24:26 AM PST
by
NicknamedBob
(I wouldn't be judgmental, if people weren't so STUPID!)
To: Prov1322
Students at 200 college campuses across the country also watched Gore's speech via satellite, and asked the former vice president questions by calling a toll-free number.Hmmm, why didn't they 'read all about' it in the next days newspaper and then pen letters to Gore as was done in the old days that Gore is proposing that we return to???? You mean they actually watched the Gore speech against television on satellite television? Hypocrits......
To: Diogenesis
Loved your picture of Al Gore. I am committing it to memory...
Notice that in the background, there's a dial telephone. Talk about living in the past!!
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posted on
11/12/2003 5:31:11 AM PST
by
NicknamedBob
(I wouldn't be judgmental, if people weren't so STUPID!)
To: Prov1322
I actually find myself in agreement with Algore on these points. Too bad for Algore, this "lowest common denominator" of dumbed-down TV viewers make up his core constituency.
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posted on
11/12/2003 5:31:43 AM PST
by
SamAdams76
(198.8 (-101.2))
To: Prov1322
to the eventual evolution of media as it's known today and it's role in a free society. Funny grammar blunder in a piece about communication!
To: Prov1322
Gore, speaking on "Media and Democracy" at Middle Tennessee State University, told attendees the decline of newspapers as the country's dominant method of communication leaves average Americans without an outlet for scholarly debate. So now there is a delcine of Newspapers???
Let me guess .. Gore's gonna start one of them too huh?
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posted on
11/12/2003 5:34:18 AM PST
by
Mo1
To: Prov1322
Gore said. "Instead it pushes toward a lowest common denominator." Funny he should mind since this is EXACTLY what the Democratic Party sets out to do.
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posted on
11/12/2003 5:35:22 AM PST
by
BunnySlippers
(Help Bring Colly-fornia Back!)
To: Prov1322
"Television! Teacher, Mother, Secret Lover"
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posted on
11/12/2003 5:38:28 AM PST
by
Oztrich Boy
(You realize, of course, this means war?" B Bunny)
To: Prov1322
Gee, I've pndered this burp of an insight from Mr. Deadwood, there. That is, Mr. Deadwood for brains, the man who once squatted in Dick Cheney's House ...
Gave it all of the fifteen seconds needed, if that, for extra heavy pondering used (given the material).
Al is more that two cards short, and more than two days late here, ain't he? An apt comment twenty years ago.
Simply not true anymore, AL. WE have moved on. WE are no longer massive TV watchers -- the ratings show that! WE aren't hypnotized into inaction by TV. When AL says we are not invloved, that democracy suffers ... where is all get out has HE been?
WE are the hyper-connected, internetting, cell-poneing, IMimg nation now. We have become VERY active in democracy. It's INTERACTIVE, BROADBAND, AL.
AL, go ask Jesse Ventura, Howard Dean, Kate Harris, ANYONE, any genuine practical politician, Al. They'll tell you -- not that you'd listen. Hard to speak to you, Mr. Deadwood.
Your worldview is totally mesmerized by your defeat, by what you expected to happen without any realtime basis for having it happen. Al, you are talking to an audience of only one. Yourself. About yourself.
Al Gore is the one frozen by unreal images of what never was.
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posted on
11/12/2003 5:47:44 AM PST
by
bvw
To: Prov1322
Poor To The Manner Born Gore. A perpetual Preppie without Portfolio
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posted on
11/12/2003 5:48:02 AM PST
by
Helms
(If Researchers Use Rat and Monkey Brains, Why Not Encourage A Liberal To Donate)
To: Diogenesis
It's "Al", as in Al Bundy! Where's Peg?
To: Prov1322
TV has made nation complacent, Gore says Of course, HE never had the guts to watch Rush Limbaugh's fine, entertaining and politically educational TV program ...
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posted on
11/12/2003 5:58:36 AM PST
by
_Jim
( <--- Rush speaks on gutless 'Liberalism' (RealAudio files))
To: Prov1322
Isn't Gore the one that criticized Quayle for similar allegations back in '92?
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posted on
11/12/2003 6:01:16 AM PST
by
al_c
To: Howlin; Ed_NYC; MonroeDNA; widgysoft; Springman; Timesink; dubyaismypresident; Grani; coug97; ...
...And don't tell me -
his television network is the solution, right?
Feh...
Just damn.
If you want on the new list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...
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posted on
11/12/2003 6:02:31 AM PST
by
mhking
To: Prov1322
Seems like TV helped Al in his 2000 campaign. Ingrate!
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posted on
11/12/2003 6:04:50 AM PST
by
Republican Red
(Karmic hugs welcomed!)
To: kittymyrib
Just in time for Thanksgiving, this bloated turkey shows up again...even if he has to settle for a gig at Middle Tennessee State University. Note that the media covers his prattling, though. Shut up and go away, Al. LOL
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posted on
11/12/2003 6:05:18 AM PST
by
friendly
(Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.)
To: Prov1322
What the heck's Gore doing in TN ?
To: Prov1322
>>...told attendees the decline of newspapers as the country's dominant method of communication leaves average Americans without an outlet for scholarly debate. <<
But Al, what about your great invention, the internet?
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posted on
11/12/2003 6:09:52 AM PST
by
SerpentDove
(www.neatophotos.com)
To: Prov1322
"it pushes toward a lowest common denominator"
He has that one right. Since most of the media is owned by liberals it does its best to keep watching that box for hours a day to keep people thinking for themselves. Dems don't want people to think. They just want funds for their social "projects" including cradle to grave care from the system.
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posted on
11/12/2003 6:17:31 AM PST
by
freeangel
(freeangel)
To: Prov1322
bfl
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posted on
11/12/2003 6:17:35 AM PST
by
oyez
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