Posted on 05/19/2006 8:58:50 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
May 19, 2006
News story, or Gore 2008 press release?
At first glance it was hard to tell, but . . . wait! Yup, there it is - (Reuters). So yes, this is cold, hard reporting of just-the-facts, ma'am.
Then again, consider the opening paragraphs:
Al Gore brushes aside talk of another run for the U.S. presidency and wages a new campaign to protect the Earth that he says must be won.
The former Democratic vice president sounds the alarm as a citizen activist armed with his old slide show turned into a Hollywood movie about the threat of global warming.
"We face a planetary emergency," Gore told Reuters in advance of next week's opening in U.S. theaters of his critically acclaimed [emphasis added] documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth."
Reuters informs us that "scientists" say that greenhouse gases are contributing to global warming. On the other side? No scientists. Just "critics" who are members of "conservative advocacy groups", like the American Enterprise Institute, "that reflects the Bush administration's free-market approach."
The Reuters reporter also helpfuly reminds us that:
The United States is the world's biggest emitter of carbon dioxide, but efforts to get Congress to put mandatory caps on emissions have failed repeatedly.
As vice president, Gore helped negotiate the Kyoto treaty on climate change that he noted 132 nations ratified.
Darn, if only he had been elected president . . . sigh.
The 'news story' closes on this note.
"[Some Hollywood producers] said they could take the message to many more people in a shorter period of time," Gore said. "This is a moral issue."
So two of the world's greatest forces for altruism have joined hands - Hollywood producers and Al Gore. Thank goodness Reuters was there to chronicle it for us!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060518/film_nm/environment_gore_dc;_ylt=AjaJJLKIdWsokQbc5mx5iBas0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3ODdxdHBhBHNlYwM5NjQ-
Reuters/NewsBusters Gore-in-the-Balance ping to Today show list.
Fake science, fake crisis, fake movie, fake person..........
Considering all the Gore in this movie, why is it rated PG? This seems to have more Gore than Hostel which barely qualified for an R rating (vs NC17 for Gore)...
Any movie with this much Gore should be highly restricted.
Still living in la la land. Hey Al, it's the sun stupid!
I hear the computer-generated Manbearpig in the movie is absolutely serial.
Yes we are...too many freakin' liberals!
Fake science, fake crisis, fake movie, fake person..........LOL!
The Protector of the Earth fears no living being!!
- Al Gore
... real BS.
Fake, but accurate?........
More like "An Incontinent Truth"
As someone who grew up in the Finger Lakes region of New York, I am certainly glad for global warming or else the region would be one big glacier. What a dope.
Al Gore and Godzilla, separated at birth.
C'mon folks, he's serial here!
The other planets are laughing...
Global warming started long before the "Industrial Revolution" and the invention of the internal combustion engine. Global warming began 18,000 years ago as the earth started warming its way out of the Pleistocene Ice Age-- a time when much of North America, Europe, and Asia lay buried beneath great sheets of glacial ice.
http://www.clearlight.com/~mhieb/WVFossils/ice_ages.html
Put a sock in it Al the only Global warming we have here is when you open your fat mouth and talk..
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