As most of you will read this first thing in the morning, I not only suggest you not have a coffee cup near your computer, but also highly recommend that you remove all fragile objects from the room.Posted on 06/30/2006 6:18:04 AM PDT by upchuck
As most of you will read this first thing in the morning, I not only suggest you not have a coffee cup near your computer, but also highly recommend that you remove all fragile objects from the room.
Yes, this is that hysterical, for Wednesday evening, comedian and faux-scientist Al Gore was Jon Stewart’s guest on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show.” In reality, this was the perfect venue for Dr. Gore to discuss his absurd ideas if you think about it, for as the subject was Gore’s new romantic comedy, “An Inconvenient Truth,” the yucks were aplenty.
As this was a long segment, I will highlight only a few of the finer moments, and then encourage you to watch the video (courtesy of Expose the Left) for the full effect, as this one doesn’t disappoint.
The first guffaw came quite early on when Stewart asked Dr. Gore when he first started doing this slide show about global warming. Now, bear in mind that in the movie, Gore claims that America has only ten years to avert a major environmental crisis. Yet, obviously having forgotten this, Gore first answered, “Oh, eight years…a long time.” Then, much like he did on the campaign trail, he changed his position: “Actually, since before I became vice president.”
Okay. So, assuming the second answer is the right one, that means that he’s been doing this presentation for at least fourteen years…which means the end of the world happened four years ago, and we all missed it!
Maybe even more beautiful, much later in the discussion, Dr. Gore changed his position once again claiming “I’ve been trying to tell this story for 30 years.” This is kind of like that recent Associated Press report that first claimed the earth is currently the hottest it’s been in 400 years, then changed it to 1,000 years, and changed it again to 2,000 years.
Ain’t junk science wonderful?
Later, Dr. Gore made the bold assertion that global warming “is the only crisis we've ever faced that has the capacity to completely end human civilization.” Stewart correctly pointed out: “Nuclear's got a shot. The bomb's got a shot.”
Dr. Gore fired back (better put down your coffee cups!): “Well, when we had the prospect of an all-out nuclear exchange, yes, but even that would not have necessarily caused the kind of radical transformation of the whole planet's environment in a way that was unstoppable.”
Don’t believe me? Well, watch the video, show it to your children, and thank your lucky stars for the Supreme Court.
(Encore of Video Link for those who are laughing so hard they can't find it in the text.)
AMEN!
Gore warming the Globe with noxious gases
"Everyone is super stoked on me... even if they don't know it yet." - Al Gore from South Park.
"In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. That is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year.
Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old Oolitic Silurian Period, just a million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upwards of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-rod.
And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long, and Cairo and New Orleans will have joined their streets together, and be plodding comfortably along under a single mayor and a mutual board of aldermen.
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact."
-Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
I find Stewart usually entertaining, in spite of his liberal bias. I was annoyed by this one. Stewart had his kneepads on for this one. At one point "Dr. Gore" proclaimed: "The debate about global warming is over". Stewart never flinched. No challenge, no follow up. Stewart just gazed at old crazy Al in a love struck way and let him ramble.
I changed the channel.
Maybe even more beautiful, much later in the discussion, Dr. Gore changed his position once again claiming “I’ve been trying to tell this story for 30 years.”
Gore's like the nut with the "World Ends Tomorrow" sign - who keeps showing up every day in the same place...
Al Gore said...he thought he carried Florida (in 2000)
Gore said the Vitrol in ideology is mainly coming from the Right.
"Al Gore said...he thought he carried Florida (in 2000)"
Old Al was always an odd duck. But I think that really unhinged him. He can't move on, can't get past it, and is deeply disturbed by the event.
The man needs a shrink.
Gore's a bore, and Stewart's show has lost all the talent it once had.
Plus Stewart's magic is over for me.
Al Gore probably has a staff of Shrinks, and is on anti-depressants... which have caused his weight gain.
Al Gore said...he thought he carried Florida (in 2000)I actually watched the algore movie (dragged there by lib friends) and one of the highlights was when the algore showed computer-modelled satellite-photo video of the entire southern half of Florida disappearing under the rising seas. I got the distinct impression that he would have loved to show this scene over and over again but was restrained from doing so by slightly more sober hands (Laurie David, Davis Guggenheim?).
Do you think these people are taking that message to Bush and Cheney? Some of them are. But Bush is insulated -- his staff smiles a lot and only gives him the news that he wants to hear. Unfortunately, they still have this delusion that they create their own reality. As George Orwell wrote, we human beings are capable of convincing ourselves of something that's not true long after the accumulated evidence would convince any reasonable person that it's wrong. And when leaders persist in that error, sooner or later they have a collision with reality, often on a battlefield. That, in essence, is exactly what happened in Iraq. But we have to keep that from happening with the climate crisis. Because by the time the worst consequences begin to unfold, it would be too late. Al Gore
You know, as much as I knew Gore was such a moron, back at the end of the 2000 election I almost (remember I said ALMOST) felt a we bit sorry for the guy at the end of the protest and the ensuing Supreme Court ruling that ended it....but I SO regret I even remotely felt that way now....he seemed at the time like a guy that you could probably sit out on the patio with, not discuss politics, and he would be an ok guy to be around aside from that....BUT that whole 2000 election thing transformed this guy in a bigtime way....he is almost like one of those comic book guys that was beaten down, left for a while, and now has come back crazy as a freakin loon....I mean this guy has deep, deep suppressed issues in my opinion that are to the point of dangerous...I mean seriously, he was always a leftist jerk but he has walked straight over the edge
That is what Jon Stewart asked Gore..about the scene ..with the state of Florida being flooded over with water in his movie...Jon told Gore... Don't you have this strange urge to say "GOTCHA"!
Albert Gore Junior is obviously in the terminal stages of the disease known as "can'tremembershititis".
Al, it's always hot as hell this time of the year in the northern hemisphere.
And yet....some think he is going to make a comeback in 2008 Election. And I understand the compassion thing for Al Gore, Sometimes...Al Gore's pics look like he is about to have a major Stroke.
They love Al Gore over at Huffingtonpost.com. Wouldn't it be great to see old Al run again, and this time he'd base his entire campaign on global warming... Come to NH in February Al, and tell us all about it....
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