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Actual Reuters Headline: 'Gore in Movie Campaign to Protect Earth'
Reuters/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

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!


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: algore; aninconvenienttruth; cei; earthcharter; globalwarming; greenhousegases; reuters; universalvictim
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Here's a link to the Reuters 'news' story:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060518/film_nm/environment_gore_dc;_ylt=AjaJJLKIdWsokQbc5mx5iBas0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3ODdxdHBhBHNlYwM5NjQ-

1 posted on 05/19/2006 8:58:53 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; netmilsmom; Diogenesis; YaYa123; MEG33; ...

Reuters/NewsBusters Gore-in-the-Balance ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 05/19/2006 8:59:41 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show Since 2002 So You Don't Have To.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Fake science, fake crisis, fake movie, fake person..........


3 posted on 05/19/2006 9:00:39 AM PDT by Red Badger (Liberals ignore criminal behavior, reward sloth and revere incompetence...........)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

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.


4 posted on 05/19/2006 9:01:26 AM PDT by mnehring (Those who advocate, and act to promote, victory by Democrats are not conservatives!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
How can Gore protect the earth when he's always out of the room taking a pee after all that iced-tea????
5 posted on 05/19/2006 9:01:54 AM PDT by beyond the sea ("If you see strange men lurking about in groups of three - especially in North Carolina, RUN!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Still living in la la land. Hey Al, it's the sun stupid!


6 posted on 05/19/2006 9:03:34 AM PDT by Ron in Acreage (Liberal Democrats-Party before country, surrender before victory, generous with other peoples money.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I hear the computer-generated Manbearpig in the movie is absolutely serial.


7 posted on 05/19/2006 9:03:47 AM PDT by AngryJawa ({NRA}{IDPA})
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
"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."

Yes we are...too many freakin' liberals!

8 posted on 05/19/2006 9:05:09 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (Everyone should have a subject they are ignorant about. I choose professional corporate sports.)
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To: Red Badger
Fake science, fake crisis, fake movie, fake person..........
LOL!
9 posted on 05/19/2006 9:06:54 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Look up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's Superma....Ahh it's only Algor.

Excelsior!!
10 posted on 05/19/2006 9:08:14 AM PDT by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The Protector of the Earth fears no living being!!

11 posted on 05/19/2006 9:09:12 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Never question Bruce Dickinson!)
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To: AngryJawa
"Everyone is super stoked on me, even if they don't know it."

- Al Gore

12 posted on 05/19/2006 9:10:06 AM PDT by Volunteer (Just so you know, I am ashamed the Dixie Chicks make records in Nashville.)
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To: Red Badger
Fake science, fake crisis, fake movie, fake person..........

... real BS.

13 posted on 05/19/2006 9:11:16 AM PDT by ItsForTheChildren
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To: ItsForTheChildren

Fake, but accurate?........


14 posted on 05/19/2006 9:13:23 AM PDT by Red Badger (Liberals ignore criminal behavior, reward sloth and revere incompetence...........)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest


More like "An Incontinent Truth"


15 posted on 05/19/2006 9:14:07 AM PDT by Malsua
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To: Malsua

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.


16 posted on 05/19/2006 9:17:23 AM PDT by cdga5for4
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To: ClearCase_guy

Al Gore and Godzilla, separated at birth.


17 posted on 05/19/2006 9:17:40 AM PDT by BadAndy ("Loud mouth internet Rambo")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

C'mon folks, he's serial here!


18 posted on 05/19/2006 9:18:57 AM PDT by trubluolyguy (You want my vote? I want border security and no criminals rewarded for criminal behavior)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Ultimate Victim...Planet Earth...

The other planets are laughing...

19 posted on 05/19/2006 9:19:41 AM PDT by FDNYRHEROES (Always bring a liberal to a gunfight)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

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..


20 posted on 05/19/2006 9:25:24 AM PDT by Beth528
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