Posted on 06/24/2007 4:10:54 PM PDT by kristinn
In an interview published in today's New York Times Sunday Magazine, Kristin Gore, daughter of former Vice President Al Gore, claims the Gores were 'under siege' by 'bussed in' protesters outside the Vice President's residence in Washington, D.C. during the 2000 presidential election Florida recount as Gore fought to win the presidency from then Texas Governor George W. Bush.
Gore says the protesters' cries of "Get Out of Cheney's House" (a reference to Bush's vice presidential nominee, Dick Cheney, who would take residence there upon being inaugurated) drove her mother, Tipper, to play nature sounds on a CD player to distract the family from the sounds of the protesters.
Contrary to the claim by Kristin Gore that the protesters were bussed in, they came of their own volition and either drove or took public transportation there. The protests were initiated, organized and led by the D.C. Chapter of Free Republic.
Below is an excerpt from the Times interview with Gore:
Have you met President Bush and Laura?
No, I never met them during the 2000 campaign, and since then, the invitations have been lost in the mail, I’m afraid.
How often do you think back to the 2000 election and the legal fight over the counting of the ballots?
As little as possible. If I ever do dip into that, it doesn’t go anywhere good.
Were you living with your parents during that period?
Yes. I took a leave of absence from “Futurama,” and I was home for the 36 days because I felt pretty useless as a comedy writer. They bussed in people who stood outside screaming, “Get out of Cheney’s house.”
This was outside the official vice president’s residence, where your family lived for eight years?
Yes, it wasn’t really a great atmosphere, but my mom maintained a sense of humor about it. She was making jokes about Noriega and turning up the stereo to drown out the chants.
I trust she wasn’t playing rap music, in light of her crusade against profane lyrics. She would play all kinds of music and those nature sound CD’s, which were supposed to fool us into thinking we were in the rain forest instead of in a house under siege.
If that is all it takes to disfunctionalize and discombobulate the Gore Family, we are all lucky they are not the First Family.
The New York Times must be forced to correct the story.
Close, but not quite.
One of the best Freeps ever!
The crowd at 1pm, on Saturday, November 25, 2000
One of the "paid protester's" signs
Another "mass produced sign"
Oh, I only wish I knew about FR back then. Came close to just hopping in the car and heading down there on my own. Wish that I did. Didn’t know you folks in DC had a bus. :)
I was yelling "Get out of Cheney's House" to a bunch of flakes inside Gephardt's Office in St. Louis. Lots of Freepers there. I had just joined Free Republic in May 2000.
This is cool, you started this back then??
That’s right. The REAL reason he isn’t president is becuase of TN, NOT FL. If he had won his home state, spmething even Mondale was able to do, he would have been president.
The first time time I saw Jimmy Valentine's brother and Doctor Raoul, they were dressed in costumes and were holding these signs
What happened to Ironman?
We all know why she thinks you were bussed in. It's called projection. The dems have to bus people in (usually union members) so they think Republicans do as well.
I was at 4 protest on the corner in front of gores residence holding a sore-loserman sign and trucks, cars even some tractor trailers were honking there airhorns we made alot of noise and we took the train from crystal city not the bus. I really wish Free republic finds some pictures I’m in some of them.
WOW! Thanks for compiling this.
“There’s more crowds and noise around my hose some nights than a damned CD player would mask
Ya got beer coming out of that hose?”
That would explain the crowds around it.
And another, from the same location but looking farther down the street...
Another sign...
No, but she is ever so grateful that the DOD didn't let her future daddy carry a loaded rifle during his short tour in Nam.
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She's projecting. Anytime a democrat socialist sees more than a dozen people congregated in one place, they automatically assume they were bussed in. It's all they know.
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