Posted on 12/18/2009 9:12:44 AM PST by big black dog
In an interview to be aired on the CBS "Early Show" Wednesday, Nobel Laureate Al Gore read his global warming poem to Harry Smith.
Even worse, the 23-year CBS veteran journalist, almost like a teenybopper swooning as she approaches a rock star for an autograph, actually asked the former Vice President to read it to him.
When the Global Warmingist-in-Chief was done, Smith said breathlessly, "Wow. I'm so glad you read that...I'm happy to hear it in your voice."
Readers are cautioned to stow liquids and flammables at a safe distance before proceeding
HARRY SMITH, HOST: You've written plenty of words before, but to the best of my knowledge, I'm not sure I've ever seen you write a poem before. Is that true?
AL GORE: That's true. Yeah.
SMITH: So, just for us, if you don't mind, would you, would you read the poem?
GORE: Sure. You want me to tell you what it's about?
SMITH: Please.
GORE: The impacts of the climate crisis really do not make up the focus of "Our Choice." "Our Choice" is about the solutions to the climate crisis. But in a brief summary of the impacts and what their implications are, rather than go into them in detail, I just, kind of did some brushstrokes, and don't claim to be a poet. It's just how it came out.
One thin September soon
A floating continent disappears
In midnight sun
Vapors rise as
Fever settles on an acid sea
Neptune's bones dissolve
Snow glides from the mountain
Ice fathers floods for a season
A hard rain comes quickly
Then dirt is parched
Kindling is placed in the forest
For the lightning's celebration
Unknown creatures
Take their leave, unmourned
Horsemen ready their stirrups
Passion seeks heroes and friends
The bell of the city
On the hill is rung
The shepherd cries
The hour of choosing has arrived
Here are your tools
SMITH: Wow. I'm so glad you read that. I was, really, I'm very happy...
GORE: Thanks for asking me.
SMITH: I'm happy to hear it in your voice.
GORE: Well, thank you.
Readers are advised that Gore is WAY too busy to discuss climate change with John Stossel, and is WAY too busy to answer questions about ClimateGate.
However, he's NEVER too busy to read poetry to journalists.
Hey -- a Nobel Laureate has to have priorities, right?
And the Vogans lose their place in poetic history!
Oh freddled gruntbuggly,
Thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits
On a lurgid bee
That mordiously hath bitled out
Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes
And hooptiously drangle me
With crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or else I shall rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon
See if I don’t.
It was hard not to puke. Harry has gone Donahue.
“The hour of choosing has arrived”
I think Gore’s looking for a Yeats-ian “Second Coming” sort of effect.
“And what rough beast, its hour come round at last”
I saw part of it and thought it was satire, like Shatner and Palin reading each other’s books!
Enchanted with a worthless man of lies.
It was pretty funny in a sick twisted kind of way. Gore is the most BORING person on the planet.
I’ve also lost any small amount of respect I had for Smith. Very pathetic. Perhaps he had a tingle going up his leg.
Two grown men!!! I don’t think I have ever seen a more pathetic sight.
Well, there went my breakfast!
“Get a room, guys.”
I think it is about time that realize that something is seriously wrong with Al Gore’s mental health.
“strokes ... rise ... hard ... tools”
SMITHHEAD: Wow. I’m so glad you read that. I was, really,
I’m very happy... heh heh heh, heh heh heh heh heh heh
Roses are Red, Violets are Blue, Al Gore’s a nut job and full of doo doo.
Oh for crimeny sakes, I have said since the mid nineties harry smith should do that show in a skirt.........what wanna be den mother.
As A proud Tennessean, I hereby apologize for our great state releasing this idiot upon our nation and the world...He has shamed all who call the Volunteer state home....
What are the odds he wrote it himself, anyway? Maybe he stole it from Maya Angelou.
I saw this on TV and my husband & I just looked at each other in dis-belief. I truly think that Gore has lost his mind. I have no assessment for Harry Smith. Looney Tunes.
i agree. i think algore is no longer sane.
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