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Gore's Daughter Claims Family Under Siege During "Get Out of Cheney's House!" Protests
Sunday, June 24, 2007 | Kristinn

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.


TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cheney2008; cheneyshouse; dcchapter; freepers; soreloserman
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To: kristinn

Happy memories. Good work FReepers!


21 posted on 06/24/2007 4:22:45 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: kristinn

Wonder why her dad lost his home state of TN?


22 posted on 06/24/2007 4:23:31 PM PDT by Sybeck1 (Amnesty GOP members are betting on a Clinton nomination, to get their support back!)
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To: kristinn

>>I felt pretty useless as a comedy writer.<<

Everyone else feels you’re pretty useless as well.


23 posted on 06/24/2007 4:23:41 PM PDT by 1L
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To: kristinn

I think if the courts order Cheney to hand over documents, the administration should hand over some from the Gore years.


24 posted on 06/24/2007 4:23:42 PM PDT by Perdogg (congratulations - you have just won an ipod nano)
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To: kristinn

she’s loopy like all the others..........


25 posted on 06/24/2007 4:25:18 PM PDT by Sub-Driver (Proud member of the Republican wing of the Republican Party)
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To: kristinn

26 posted on 06/24/2007 4:25:22 PM PDT by Bratch (“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”)
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To: ReleaseTheHounds

Amen!!


27 posted on 06/24/2007 4:26:04 PM PDT by Perdogg (congratulations - you have just won an ipod nano)
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To: kristinn
There is fear in this interview. What she remembers is the disgrace of losing, the agony of uncertainty and lastly, denial.

The rest of her life will be spent with the memories of the great DC chapter, the few memorialized as a massive mob. Conviction and righteousness were a force multiplier.

28 posted on 06/24/2007 4:27:25 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Happiness is a down sleeping bag)
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To: kristinn
There is fear in this interview. What she remembers is the disgrace of losing, the agony of uncertainty and lastly, denial.

The rest of her life will be spent with the memories of the great DC chapter, the few memorialized as a massive mob. Conviction and righteousness were a force multiplier.

29 posted on 06/24/2007 4:27:27 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Happiness is a down sleeping bag)
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To: kristinn
I didn't make that one, but was with a bunch of you when we all went to the White House the evening of Jan 19, 2001 and gave the Clinton's a bad time.

The chant was great, something like this: "Bill Clinton, we have you surrounded. Pull your pants up and come out!"

Ah, them was the days...LOL

30 posted on 06/24/2007 4:28:17 PM PDT by Syncro
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To: kristinn

Well what would you expect from a family of mental nutjobs.


32 posted on 06/24/2007 4:29:18 PM PDT by fkabuckeyesrule (Soon it will be football season!!!!)
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To: Perdogg

Also ran into Laura Ingraham on one of those days (we attended 2 days, bringing our kids to add to the noise). It really was a great spontaneous outpouring... and pitifully few Demos (in solid Demo DC) to counter our protest. Gore knew he was toast.


33 posted on 06/24/2007 4:29:43 PM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds ("You ask, 'What is our aim?' I can answer in one word: VICTORY - victory - at all costs...")
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To: kristinn

where’s the “ah geeze” guy when you need him ?


34 posted on 06/24/2007 4:30:11 PM PDT by stylin19a (Since bad golf shots come in groups of 3, a 4th bad shot is the start of the next group of 3)
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To: All
All they were doing was demonstrating with "cries of 'Get Out of Cheney's House'".

According to Karenna Gore as quoted in David Frums Diary, NOV. 19, 2002: GORE SPEAKS, Al Gore himself stopped the Dem plan to stir up riots -- presumably the damands would be for Bush to yield to the "will of the people."

Riots equal destruction and deaths. There was a willingness among some Dems to accept, nay, cause the sound of cries of people dying.

35 posted on 06/24/2007 4:30:13 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: kristinn
This is a Foreshadow to come should the Dems win the Whitehouse Bookmark this thread....

Cheney 2008

36 posted on 06/24/2007 4:30:45 PM PDT by restornu (Whatever time we have is being paid for with our life!)
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To: Kristin Gore

Get out of our country!

37 posted on 06/24/2007 4:30:49 PM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: dennisw

Is that the one that flashed everyone at the film festival?


38 posted on 06/24/2007 4:30:55 PM PDT by SittinYonder (Ic þæt gehate, þæt ic heonon nelle fleon fotes trym, ac wille furðor gan)
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To: kristinn
****She was making jokes about Noriega****

Was Tipper also playing music records backwards looking for secret messages?

39 posted on 06/24/2007 4:31:06 PM PDT by fkabuckeyesrule (Soon it will be football season!!!!)
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To: dennisw

Another Democrat daughter who has to sneak up on a mirror...Oh what did I say...Momma’s going to climb out of her grave and slap me silly for saying something ugly....


40 posted on 06/24/2007 4:31:19 PM PDT by RVN Airplane Driver ("To be born into freedom is an accident; to die in freedom is an obligation..)
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