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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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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"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.

I equate the global warming hype with coverage of Britney Spears not wearing underwear. Not very exciting, over hyped, and pretty cheap.

21 posted on 05/25/2007 7:56:16 PM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Gore knows triviality and nonsense. He sees it in the mirror each morning and hears it every time he opens his stupid mouth.
22 posted on 05/25/2007 7:56:30 PM PDT by F.J. Mitchell (Will 20 million legalized illegals voting Dem, allow the dead to finally RIP on election day?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hilarious from a man who has achieved infamy from “nonsense”.


23 posted on 05/25/2007 7:57:53 PM PDT by Let's Roll (As usual, following a shooting spree, libs want to take guns away from those who DIDN'T do it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think Britney Spears shaving her head is more important than an Albore speech.


24 posted on 05/25/2007 7:59:33 PM PDT by razorback-bert (Posted by Time's Man of the Year)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"collective decision-making process"

This is Al's problem -- it's always stupid.

25 posted on 05/25/2007 8:00:36 PM PDT by TimSkalaBim
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Added keyword chutzpah.
26 posted on 05/25/2007 8:03:01 PM PDT by dighton
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To: kinoxi

“The Assault On Reason”

Now that’s got to be THE perfect title for any book written by Algore.


27 posted on 05/25/2007 8:06:39 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Gore’s an idiot, but I agree with everything he says. The fact is with 24 hour news, cable needs material to fill air time, so they use trailer trash stories. And the sheeple lap it up. This is why Fox has national breaking news stories of a car accident in Georgia. But we’re in a freemarket economy. If cable sells and the people buy, what can one do?


28 posted on 05/25/2007 8:12:24 PM PDT by Rennes Templar ("The future ain't what it used to be".........Yogi Berra)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Speaking of “trivial”


29 posted on 05/25/2007 8:16:18 PM PDT by goodnesswins (We need to cure Academentia)
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To: doc1019
Thank you Jesus that this idiot didn’t become president.

Yet.....anyway.
30 posted on 05/25/2007 8:18:00 PM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We may only listen to Al & the celebrities promoting his
hoax.


31 posted on 05/25/2007 8:22:27 PM PDT by honolulugal
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To: kinoxi

Gore’s right about media obsessing on nonsense and trivia, they use a lot ink covering him.


32 posted on 05/25/2007 8:26:04 PM PDT by mimaw
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To: Rennes Templar
Gore’s an idiot, but I agree with everything he says.

He is right about the vacuous obsession with celebrity. But it seems it has been going on since the early days of Hollywood. I can't think of one H'wood celeb that I would walk across the street to meet. In the grocery check-out line, most people on the covers of tabloid mags I have never heard of.

33 posted on 05/25/2007 8:30:14 PM PDT by LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot ("If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir"-Sherman)
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To: joshhiggins

Excellent point!


34 posted on 05/25/2007 8:38:26 PM PDT by TN4Liberty (Conservatives want to destroy terrorism. Liberals want to destroy conservatives.)
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To: LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot
Interesting about the grocery checkout lane. Why are all those tabloids sold there? How would it change peoples consciousness if there were magazines of religion, philosophy, etc there? Millions of people stop and wait at checkout lanes everyday and look at the same trash every time.
35 posted on 05/25/2007 8:39:56 PM PDT by Rennes Templar ("The future ain't what it used to be".........Yogi Berra)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

al gore is an an ass


36 posted on 05/25/2007 8:41:36 PM PDT by shadowcat
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

al gore is an as...........


37 posted on 05/25/2007 8:45:42 PM PDT by shadowcat
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To: kinoxi

“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.

Because, you simple-minded lard-azz, as screwed up and off the beam as Britney Smears and Penis Hilton are, they are a universe more credible than YOU ARE!


38 posted on 05/25/2007 8:53:46 PM PDT by rockrr (09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I caught an interview with him today on the radio...he is a pompus, arrogant POS....in a nutshell he thinks all of America, except for him and his minions, are stupid...


39 posted on 05/25/2007 8:59:44 PM PDT by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

40 posted on 05/25/2007 9:56:12 PM PDT by 50mm (la prensa dos en traducir mi línea de etiqueta al inglés)
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