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Al Gore slams 'trivialities and nonsense' in news media
Breitbart ^ | May 25, 2007

Posted on 05/25/2007 7:32:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Former US vice president Al Gore on Friday criticized the "trivialities and nonsense" of celebrity gossip in the media and called on people to focus instead on issues like Iraq and climate change. Gore, who is promoting his new book "The Assault on Reason," made the comments at a book signing in New York, where he was treated to a rock star reception by more than 1,300 cheering and screaming fans.

"What is it about our collective decision-making process that has led us to this state of affairs where we spend much more time in the public forum talking about -- or receiving information about -- Britney Spears shaving her head or Paris Hilton going to jail?" Gore asked.

He lamented what he described as the "destruction of the boundary between news and entertainment" and said the United States was "vulnerable as a democracy to mass and continuing distraction."

His new book draws parallels between the US government's approaches to climate change and the war in Iraq.

"Just like the facts available before the invasion of Iraq, these facts about the climate crisis have been repeatedly brushed aside and ignored as inconvenient," he said. "In both cases the facts were ignored."

Since losing the US presidential election in 2000, Gore has become a full-time global warming campaigner -- a path he says he intends to continue treading despite speculation that he could run for the White House in 2008.

Gore was recently nominated for a Nobel Peace Price for his work in drawing attention to climate change, while the film he helped make of his best-selling global warming book "An Inconvenient Truth" earlier this year won an Oscar.


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“Even if we give first priority to the destruction of terrorist networks, and even if we succeed, there are still governments that could bring us great harm. And there is a clear case that one of these governments in particular represents a virulent threat in a class by itself: Iraq. As far as I am concerned, a final reckoning with that government should be on the table.” - Al Gore, before Council On Foreign Relations, Washington, D.C., Feb. 12, 2002.

"If you allow someone like Saddam Hussein to get nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, chemical weapons, biological weapons, how many people is he going to kill with such weapons? He's already demonstrated a willingness to use these weapons. He poison-gassed his own people. He used poison gas and other weapons of mass destruction against his neighbors. This man has no compunction about killing lots and lots of people." -- Al Gore, Dec. 16, 1998

1 posted on 05/25/2007 7:32:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Gore, who is promoting his new book "The Assault on Reason,"

I can't believe he was that honest with the title.
2 posted on 05/25/2007 7:34:42 PM PDT by kinoxi
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"What is it about our collective decision-making process that has led us to this state of affairs

A dumbed-down population demands dumbed-down news. It let's the individual feel informed without actually having to take the trouble to be informed. Run a newscast with nothing but 'hard news' and you will have few viewers.
3 posted on 05/25/2007 7:36:22 PM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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..."vulnerable as a democracy to mass and continuing distraction."

That's just too rich coming from the Distractor in Chief himself, the head global warming pseudoscientist who wants control over every aspect of your life and the loss of democracy.

4 posted on 05/25/2007 7:37:03 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"...we spend much more time in the public forum talking about -- or receiving information about -- Britney Spears shaving her head or Paris Hilton going to jail?" Gore asked.

So if Gore has such a problem with those topics being discussed, why is he discussing them? If he thinks celebrity news is bad, why does he even know about these incidents? Oh yeah, someone post that photo of him in his office, sitting in front of 3 computer monitors and a wide-screen TV...

Al, no one wants to discuss "global warming" 365/24/7.

5 posted on 05/25/2007 7:40:01 PM PDT by LibFreeOrDie (L'Chaim!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

algore has exaggerate his whole life. From Love Story to Love Canal to I created the Interent to Man Made Global Warming.

He is, without a shadow of a doubt,

an Anti-Christ.


6 posted on 05/25/2007 7:40:28 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Seems like Al and Jimmah Carter are in a race to see who can marginalize himself the quickest.


7 posted on 05/25/2007 7:40:40 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (Every time a toilet flushes,another liberal gets his brains.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Opps those quotes are a “inconvieniant truth” ha ha Al, you crack me up.

You would think he would be happy after inventing the internet, having a movie made about he and Tippers courtship, really being the V.P. and almost being the POUS.

What a guy!


8 posted on 05/25/2007 7:41:09 PM PDT by southernerwithanattitude ({new and improved redneck})
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First he slams "trivialities and nonsense", then he wants us to focus on climate change. Al, make up your mind!

You tell 'em, Al!

9 posted on 05/25/2007 7:41:19 PM PDT by SlowBoat407 (A living insult to islam since 1959.)
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gore’s use of the word “reason” in his new book flies against

the emotionalism of his previous two books.


10 posted on 05/25/2007 7:42:01 PM PDT by ken21 (tv: 1. sells products. 2. indoctrinates viewers into socialism.)
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where he was treated to a rock star reception by more than 1,300 cheering and screaming fans...recently nominated for a Nobel Peace Price for his work in drawing attention to climate change, while the film he helped make of his best-selling global warming book "An Inconvenient Truth" earlier this year won an Oscar.

Is this the kind of triviality he was referring to.

11 posted on 05/25/2007 7:42:16 PM PDT by joshhiggins (O you who believe! do not take the MUSLIMS for friends)
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To: kinoxi

Thank you Jesus that this idiot didn’t become president.


12 posted on 05/25/2007 7:43:56 PM PDT by doc1019 (Fred Thompson '08)
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To: doc1019

Amen to that.


13 posted on 05/25/2007 7:45:21 PM PDT by kinoxi
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To: joshhiggins

I thought he said the debate was over.


14 posted on 05/25/2007 7:46:09 PM PDT by ClaireSolt (Have you have gotten mixed up in a mish-masher?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Al Gore slams 'trivialities and nonsense' in news media

I agree, Al. Let's start with all that nonsense about global warming. Too bad they can't see past the Kool-Aid and gut that liefest for what it truly is.

15 posted on 05/25/2007 7:46:18 PM PDT by Tall_Texan (NBC News - the preferred network of assassins and terrorists.)
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"vulnerable as a democracy to mass and continuing distraction."

That is why we were created as a Representative Republic to buffer the potential harm of mob rule.

And we still are in spite of everything you have done, Vice-President, Mr. Gore, to change us to a Socialist Democracy at the mercy of the dumb masses.

16 posted on 05/25/2007 7:47:51 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: kinoxi
I can't believe he was that honest with the title.

Yes, apparently his newest tome is a "how-to" book.

17 posted on 05/25/2007 7:49:15 PM PDT by Nomorjer Kinov (If the opposite of "pro" is "con" , what is the opposite of progress?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hey Al, if it wasn’t for dumbed-down, trivia obsessed Americans, nobody would be paying attention to you.


18 posted on 05/25/2007 7:50:24 PM PDT by Nachoman (Sarcasm. Just one of many services I provide.)
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To: Nomorjer Kinov
ids got piktures. C? I learnt em from the NEA.
19 posted on 05/25/2007 7:51:44 PM PDT by kinoxi
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And, Mr. Gore, you hang around with the Hollywood crowd because they are so....deep??


20 posted on 05/25/2007 7:55:07 PM PDT by keepitreal
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