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Gore's assault on reason (reviewer: "stunning .. frightening .. bipolar book")
Financial Post - Canada ^ | Friday, June 01, 2007 | Peter Foster

Posted on 06/01/2007 1:58:34 PM PDT by GMMAC

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To: FormerACLUmember

21 posted on 06/01/2007 2:31:29 PM PDT by etradervic (Any Conservative in 2008)
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To: GMMAC
"democracy has been subverted by the decline of the printed word -- which allegedly facilitated discourse"

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...

22 posted on 06/01/2007 2:37:51 PM PDT by Nervous Tick
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To: GMMAC

He’s obviously hoping to get hired at Time Magazine.


23 posted on 06/01/2007 2:38:28 PM PDT by marron
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To: GMMAC
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"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.

24 posted on 06/01/2007 2:39:27 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: GMMAC

“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!


25 posted on 06/01/2007 2:45:35 PM PDT by griswold3
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To: Tijeras_Slim
Gore is insane. I’ve thought that for a long time.

Before the age of PC, people like Gore were locked up in padded cells.

26 posted on 06/01/2007 2:46:59 PM PDT by vox humana
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To: griswold3
Self-imagined pronouncements from on high:

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27 posted on 06/01/2007 2:53:44 PM PDT by GMMAC (Discover Canada governed by Conservatives: www.CanadianAlly.com)
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To: GMMAC

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.”


28 posted on 06/01/2007 3:04:20 PM PDT by Right Cal Gal (Remember Billy Dale!!!)
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To: Right Cal Gal
Funny, although I hadn't said it out loud, of late I've been picturing a Thompson-Gore race too.

As for the image you've presented, here's the Gore version:

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29 posted on 06/01/2007 3:16:52 PM PDT by GMMAC (Discover Canada governed by Conservatives: www.CanadianAlly.com)
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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.


30 posted on 06/01/2007 4:04:47 PM PDT by Right Cal Gal (Remember Billy Dale!!!)
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To: GMMAC

bump


31 posted on 06/01/2007 4:11:10 PM PDT by lowbridge ("The mainstream media IS the Democratic Party." - Rush Limbaugh)
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To: GMMAC
His particular bugbear is that democracy has been subverted by the decline of the printed word -- which allegedly facilitated discourse -- and the rise of television, a "one-way" medium that is controlled by evil corporations in league with a Bush White House.

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.

32 posted on 06/01/2007 4:11:21 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (I didn't claw my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.)
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To: Right Cal Gal
Great list but your redundant #VIII (or #IX for Protestants - displaying my theological sensitivity) should be something along the lines of:

Thou shalt not bear false witness ... unless thy name be* Clinton.

* "is" should be deleted from all as too open to varied interpretation(s).
33 posted on 06/01/2007 4:22:33 PM PDT by GMMAC (Discover Canada governed by Conservatives: www.CanadianAlly.com)
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34 posted on 06/02/2007 6:41:03 AM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: GMMAC

Yes, *sigh* - my Roman numeral ability and delete key seemed to suffer from missing that Friday afternoon mocha at Peet’s....


35 posted on 06/03/2007 11:18:22 AM PDT by Right Cal Gal (Remember Billy Dale!!!)
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To: GMMAC

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.


36 posted on 06/03/2007 1:49:56 PM PDT by baa39 (Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us. Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us.)
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