Posted on 06/01/2007 1:58:34 PM PDT by GMMAC
Okay, I'm listening...
" -- and the rise of television,"
Yeah? Go on!
"a one-way medium"
Yeah? Yeah?
that is controlled by evil corporations in league with a Bush White House.
AAAAARGH! Dang! The dumba$$ ALMOST had something there...
He’s obviously hoping to get hired at Time Magazine.
"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.
“The lust for power is astonishingly successful in hiding itself from itself, and projecting its fondest desires on to others. Mr. Gore even warns against those who claim to have exclusive possession of the truth! But the fact is that Mr. Gore does not want a debate; he wants a chorus. He is a much bigger threat to freedom than George W. Bush ever was, or ever could ever be.”
Oh, that’s gonna leave a mark.
Watch out for Manbearpig!
Before the age of PC, people like Gore were locked up in padded cells.
I picture in my mind a Gore-Thompson debate in the last months of the 2008 campaign. Gore rants; Gore raves. Thompson stands there, watches and says after it’s over:
“You know, Al? A little Zoloft will fix that right up.”
I. I am the Lord thy Gore. Thou shalt have no other Gores before me.
II. Thou shalt have no other science before Global Warming
III. Thou shalt remember the name of my movie and keep it holy.
IV. Thou shalt keep holy the 22nd of April - Earth Day
V. Thou shalt honor thy Mother Earth
V. Thou shalt not murder (unless of course it is an unborn baby).
VI. Thou shalt not commit adultery (unless of course thy name is Clinton).
VII. Thou shalt not steal (unless of course thy name is Sandy Berger).
VIII. Thou shalt not steal (unless of course thy name is Sandy Berger).
IX. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife (see No. VI above)
X. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s PRIUS or solar panels.
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The Web and talk radio provide more opportunity for "two-way" communication than has ever existed in history.
And many on the left want to shut down both.
Yes, *sigh* - my Roman numeral ability and delete key seemed to suffer from missing that Friday afternoon mocha at Peet’s....
In defense of the disabled...
I wish people would not toss around the word “bipolar” in a casual, denigrating way. It is a real, specific and serious disease that causes great suffering to the small minority of people who have it. It’s almost completely misunderstood by the public because of the media’s misuse and incomplete explanations of the term.
Various neurological disorders (science now knows these are not ‘mental’ illnesses) seem to come into vogue for this pop-culture treatment; it used to be someone was called Schizo (schizophrenia), or paranoid, or psychotic. This is like using the word ‘crippled’ or ‘deformed’ or ‘handicapped’ as a put-down. It’s a lazy use of language when a more accurate and more carefully thought-out expression would do.
However, that being said, given Gore’s behaviour, it’s entirely possible he is afflicted with bipolar disorder, he does seem to exhibit irrational mania and also fall into desperate depressed type of states. Or perhaps it’s borderline or narcissisic personality disorder, or any other number of possibilities! But if so, a writer should carefully evaluate it and make the case, not just grab at popular expressions that denigrate a handicapped group of people.
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