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.
Bussed in protestors? I took Metro, actually...all by my lonesome.
When a father is raised in a hotel room its highly likely that his offspring would be scared at the drop of hats.
RE: Gore's spoiled spawn
They just kept yelling, 'Get out of [Dick] Cheney's house.' That was really painful and rude."
RUDE? Like refusing to accept the vote of the people? THAT rude?
PAINFUL? Your dad shouldn't have inflicted that pain on you OR on the Nation.
Cry me a liver.
Another Eleanor Roosevelt look alike!
Yes..The lichee nut doesn’t fall far from the big old dumb boring tree.
“There’s more crowds and noise around my hose some nights than a damned CD player would mask. But am I in the papers?”
You would be as far as i’m concerned,having all that noise around your hose.
BTW...are we talking pantyhose or garden hose? LOL
I recall is that they said that they could not even find Sweeney that day. He had gone to West Virginia without a pager or cellphone.
His younger sister pulled at Mom and said, "Brother's crying."
Getting to her son, Mom yelled out, "Who did this!" and not ONE,NOT ONE GORE SUPPORTER said a word. Goes to show you what a waste of skin those Gore supporters are.
Had that been someone on our side that did that to anyone's kid, they would have been sucking concrete waiting for a policeman to come and arrest them.
Oh, boo hoo hoo, poor Karinna! Does she still support abortion on demand? You betcha!
And looking for prozac.
Jeepers Freepers - Al Gore says he was terrorized by "busloads of people"Yeah, I "bussed" myself in after throwing my drink in disgust at the television while watching the media join in Al's Florida con-job.
Reminds me of the true story of what happened back in those dark days of December, 2000:
An Evening in December, 2000, A Bar Somewhere Near 34th & Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, D.C.Lol! Man, I hadn't thought about all this in a while. Thanks for posting this thread, Kristinn!
Thanks for the explanation.
LOL ... thanks. Hard to keep these Democratic Daughters apart.
I thought keeping someone under seige meant you wouldn’t let them out.
In this case, DC Freepers were telling them to get out!
What a whining moron this woman. Typical liberal “Lookit-Meism”.
PS: I only have black widows around my hose, since the neighbor’s dog killed my chickens.
That braying donkey could eat an apple through a picket fence with those teeth.
I'm sure she was useless as a comedy writer both before and after the incident in question. Gee, I wonder how she landed such a sweet gig?
Just hosed.
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