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1 posted on
05/31/2007 12:35:19 PM PDT by
GMMAC
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2 posted on
05/31/2007 12:36:50 PM PDT by
GMMAC
(Discover Canada governed by Conservatives: www.CanadianAlly.com)
To: GMMAC
Just to take these quotes apart piece by piece...
but the re-establishment of a genuine democratic discourse in which individuals can participate in a meaningful way - a conversation of democracy in which meritorious ideas and opinions from individuals do, in fact, evoke a meaningful response
I would like to know about any time in our history when we had more or even close to the freedom of democratic discourse as we do now. This implies we've lost discourse. The fact that we are here discussing Algore's book shows that discourse is alive and well.. What this should translate is that Gore wants his side to control discourse...
3 posted on
05/31/2007 12:37:19 PM PDT by
mnehring
(Fred Thompson\Zell Miller '08 - Give the Dems and Terrorists Hell !!!!!!!!!!)
To: GMMAC
In Gore's view, TV immobilizes the reasoning centers in the brain and stimulates the primitive, instinctive parts. TV creates a "visceral vividness" that is not "modulated by logic, reason and reflective thought."Obviously, AlGore has been watching too much TV.
4 posted on
05/31/2007 12:39:14 PM PDT by
bcsco
To: GMMAC
"Algore, You defy logic! "
To: GMMAC
Please, PLEASE don’t make me read it. (sob)
6 posted on
05/31/2007 12:39:45 PM PDT by
Ditter
To: GMMAC
I find nothing logical about Gore at all.
Rather a condescending hypocritical pompous ass is what I find him to be.
Among other things.
Fear mongerer
Elitist
Self serving
Emotional blow hard... “He Betrayed us, he played on our fears!!!!”
Far from cold logic.
To: GMMAC
"The remedy for what ails our democracy is not simply better education (as important as that is) or civic education (as important as that can be), but the re-establishment of a genuine democratic discourse in which individuals can participate in a meaningful way - a conversation of democracy in which meritorious ideas and opinions from individuals do, in fact, evoke a meaningful response." And I can just hear his droning voice saying this...I am getting sleepy, very sleepy....
I am trying to imagine the mental state of anyone who could read that book with any enjoyment, or who could read that book without screaming and throwing it across the room. Such prose could be used to torture terrorists and force them to reveal their secrets.
8 posted on
05/31/2007 12:40:48 PM PDT by
3AngelaD
(They've screwed up their own countries so bad they had to leave, now they're here screwing up ours.)
To: GMMAC
9 posted on
05/31/2007 12:42:29 PM PDT by
Spruce
To: GMMAC
algore’s more like Gollum than Spock, anyway.
Spock could be likeable, in his own way.
The same’s just not true for algore.
10 posted on
05/31/2007 12:46:16 PM PDT by
FormerLib
(Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
To: GMMAC
The first response to this argument is, Has Al Gore ever actually looked at the Internet?
Of course he has, he invented it.
</sarc>
11 posted on
05/31/2007 12:47:30 PM PDT by
MAexile
(Bats left, votes right)
To: GMMAC
algore writes like the comedian Professor Irwin Corey sounds and Corey’s review could be said about Gore.
http://www.irwincorey.org/bio.html
In the words of internationally known theatre critic Kenneth Tynan, Corey is “a cultural clown, a parody of literacy, a travesty of all that our civilization holds dear and one of the funniest grotesques in America. He is Chaplin’s clown with a college education.”
14 posted on
05/31/2007 12:50:16 PM PDT by
batmast
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Olbermann)
To: GMMAC
“re-establishment of a genuine democratic discourse”
albore’s saying “vote RAT!”
16 posted on
05/31/2007 12:52:40 PM PDT by
lilylangtree
(Veni, Vidi, Vici)
To: GMMAC
“The remedy for what ails our democracy....”
Al.... ours is a REPUBLIC. Try to keep up. It might be easier if you kept your mouth shut.
17 posted on
05/31/2007 12:52:49 PM PDT by
mad puppy
(I'd rather live a day on my feet than a year on my knees)
To: GMMAC
"The remedy for what ails our democracy is not simply better education (as important as that is) or civic education (as important as that can be), but the re-establishment of a genuine democratic discourse in which individuals can participate in a meaningful way - a conversation of democracy in which meritorious ideas and opinions from individuals do, in fact, evoke a meaningful response." But at the same time he is fighting for the "Fairness Doctrine" with the intention of killing democratic discourse on talk radio. The Dems say they want equal time, but in reality they want zero time by making political talk too difficult for the broadcasters to deal with, so they'll just have sports, gardening, home repair and relationship shows instead of people like Boortz, Limbaugh, Hannity and Savage.
I guess radio talk isn't "meritorious" enough because it criticizes the Dems too often. How long would it take for him to demand a Hillary style "internet gatekeeper" to ensure that all discussion is properly meritorious.
18 posted on
05/31/2007 12:54:07 PM PDT by
KarlInOhio
(Parker v. DC: the best court decision of the year.)
To: GMMAC
...but the re-establishment of a genuine democratic discourse in which individuals can participate in a meaningful way - a conversation of democracy in which meritorious ideas and opinions from individuals do, in fact, evoke a meaningful response."And I thought this dweeb invented the internet......
19 posted on
05/31/2007 12:55:52 PM PDT by
Rummyfan
(Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
To: GMMAC
Utterly at a loss when asked to talk about virtue and justice, they try to shift attention to technology and methods of communication.A good description of today's Democratic Party.....
22 posted on
05/31/2007 12:59:16 PM PDT by
Rummyfan
(Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
To: GMMAC
"The eighteenth century witnessed more and more ordinary citizens able to use knowledge as a source of power to mediate between wealth and privilege.""...mediate between wealth and privilege"?
I didn't know that wealth and privilege were in conflict in the 18th century. In fact I thought they were synonymous in the 18th century. Why would there be a need to mediate between them?
To: GMMAC
"Burn, burn, burn...a ball of fire, ball of fire..."
All I think of is that song they play on Rush Limbaugh when I hear or read about this joke of a politician.
26 posted on
05/31/2007 1:09:17 PM PDT by
Caipirabob
(Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
To: GMMAC
Algore would love Vulcan. Talk about your global warming!
28 posted on
05/31/2007 1:20:07 PM PDT by
golas1964
(I must be a Fredneck!)
To: GMMAC
i>As Gore writes in his best graduate school manner, "The eighteenth century witnessed more and more ordinary citizens able to use knowledge as a source of power to mediate between wealth and privilege."
I thought my run-on sentences were bad...
Can anyone fix that sentence? I gave up. Sometimes I have to wonder if Gore didn't have a nervous breakdown after the 2000 election.
29 posted on
05/31/2007 1:21:37 PM PDT by
TheSpottedOwl
(Head Caterer for the FIRM)
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