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.
“’trivialities and nonsense’ in news media”
ie any article about Gore.
I don’t use words like that in conversation very often but more and more I realise that there are no other words that more accurately describe people like Gore, Kerry, Edwards, et al. than that a word.
Those people define that word.
Wow a movie star said that?? /s off
“”Just like the facts available before the invasion of Iraq,”
Al Gore > September 23, 2002
“We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country.”
Al Gore > December 16, 1998
“[I]f 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 has already demonstrated a willingness to use such weapons...”
Al Gore > September 23, 2002
“Iraq’s search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter, and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.”
Al Gore > February 13, 2002
“Al Gore said last night that the time had come for a “final reckoning” with Iraq, describing the country as a “virulent threat in a class by itself” and suggesting that the United States should consider ways to oust Saddam Hussein. (The New York Times)
Now Gore has the assininity to write a book titled “Assult on Reason”.
Al Bore makes his living BETTING ON the mass and continuing distraction of the American people. He's quite ridiculous, and this would be funny, but he's seriously hoodwinking so many gullible idiots it's alarming. Nothing new, though, unfortunately.
Or Al Gore spreading a hoax?
Tell me about it...Next time Britney shaves something by God I want to see it.
The collection so far...
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