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.
The crowd at 1pm, on Saturday, November 25, 2000
^^^^^^
This was Thanksgiving Weekend. Al Gore was inside his residence calling John Sweeney of the AFL-CIO to get union people bussed in. Sweeney couldn’t comply! That was one of the sweetest results of the whole experience. We were there on our own dime, and the usual suspects on union wages were not available!
:-)
They had to have had some people running intel for them on these freeps at the Veep’s. If they did, they would know that it was just us FReepers and a whole lot of other patriotic Americans who came on their own.
That puny crowd of Gorons was good enough for the Washington Post to put on the front page above the fold the next day. Our thousand-plus were relegated to the inside page.
And one more "inside the crowd" shot, of our folks stretched down the block...
That is the BIGGEST CROCK !!!! I never saw any buses, and spent several days there during that period. Maybe the alleged busloads came on other days.
On the Sunday Katherine Harris was to announce (can’t even remember what, but it was VERY important!), the unions brought in some thugs who meandered through our crowd, one right in my face, with the obscenities one might expect. They weren’t able to muster more than a dozen goons. The Bush side lined the street several deep practically down to Rock Creek Park. It may be the first and last time Republicans and conservatives were organized.
At any rate, it was all worth it, especially since it so badly wounded the Gores. Guess they’re scarred for life. Come to think of it, it’s a good think Gore didn’t win ... there are protests across from the White House every day of every year and with far more rowdy crowds ... imagine the damage THAT would do to these delicate flowers.
Thanks for standing with us. I’m sure Gore was called all sorts of barnyard (animals) those days.
Yes, I’ve got loads os stuff ...on bad hard drives, probably bad OS. Someone told me I could recover most of it by loading the old drive as a ‘slave.’
The NY Times reporter, and Ms Gore would have readers believe that we were yelling outside their front door, and that the Gore children were elementary school age.
Was this the one without the clothes? One of the Dims had a daughter who ran around in a see through evening dress.
At the time, I had a TT Convertible — what a gas pulling up to this spontaneous FREEP with hundreds (maybe 1,000) of fellow Freepers!
I still want to know who pays for the travel vouchers for all us so called bussed in protesters. :>
Those 3 1/2 hour one way drives to Tallahassee were on MY dime...the only bussed in people were Democrats whose union paid their day’s wages.
Thanks for remembering those of us in Florida that stood in the rain with signs during those recounts in Dade, Broward and especially West Palm Beach. Looking back, it was fun.
I am impressed again.
Election 2000 was before I purchased my first computer. I had never heard of a FReeper.
I do remember the protesters on the news. My thought was that was one clever chant!
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