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.
No but it a Dem wins you will see this big protest on TV etc etc LOL
Sam Cheney’62!
She really is a very good comedy writer...but she’s a liar like her Dad, apparently. Glad she remmebers it so vividly!
Well, to be fair, they made fun of her Dad a lot, too, including showing him as a head in a jar.
New tagline! Hope you don’t mind the paraphrase.
Rounding up skid-row crackheads and nursing home patients, bussing them in, and handing them already-made signs to hold for a protest is a DemonRat trademark, so it’s only natural that they’d accuse their opposition of doing that. Funny how you never hear about this tactic at DemonRat rallies, war protests, and the Million Mom March.
One thing you’ll notice about bullies and a$$#oles and villains generally if you’re around them much is that they specialize in accusing others of the very kinds of **** which they themselves habitually engage in and perpetrate. That is because they assume themselves to be a reasonable model for the general run of humanity and assume others would do the things they do.
Someone needs to post that pic of the sign “Welcome to Tennessee, home of Vice President Al Gore and 11 electoral college votes for George W. Bush”!!! LOL
So why didn't you?
I dragged my elementary-school age boys and my hubby along to the Saturday protest. We parked in a place that required us to walk through the Gore camp before crossing the street. I remember coming out of their small crowd holding our “Sore Loserman” signs (homemade), and being cheered from the other side of the road, even though noone knew us, as we crossed the street.
The boys are one in college and one almost, and they still remember that rainy day. (and I still have my posters!)
I wonder if this girl would object to Bush being under seige by people bused into Crawford?
Poor thing, she looks and thinks like her parents ;^)
That was a magical time, wasn’t it?
What if someone had left a flaming bag of dog poop on their doorstep? would they have fled to canada?
Let us hope it won’t take an 09 Hilery inauguration/coronation to wake up those who forget what a difference a handful of dedicated FReepers can do to change the course of history. By then it may be too late.
I would never do that to someone if I knew they were unstable and emotionally unprepared for such an experience.
My poppa caught me and some buds teasing the “crazy person” in the neighborhood when I was young and he taught me how wrong that was. My poppa was a smart man; I’d never do that to the Gore family.
Asking them to leave the VP’s house is a reasonable request, though.
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