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Al Gore Blasts Fox News Over Global Warming 'Bias'
AOL Politics Daily ^ | 12/17/2010 | Tom Diemer

Posted on 12/29/2010 12:20:22 PM PST by presidio9

Former Vice President Al Gore is picking a fight with Fox News over a year-old management memo that he says betrays a bias against global warming science.

"Fox News has consistently delivered false and misleading information to its viewers about the climate crisis," Gore wrote on his website. "The leaked e-mails now suggest that this bias comes directly form the executives responsible for their news coverage."

Gore was referring to a Dec. 8, 2009 memo attributed to Fox News' Washington Managing Editor Bill Sammon and posted by the liberal-leaning website Media Matters, according to The Hill newspaper. In the memo, Sammon wrote, "Given the controversy over the veracity of climate change data, we should refrain from asserting that the planet has warmed (or cooled) in any given period without IMMEDIATELY pointing out that such theories are based upon data that critics have called into question. It is not our place as journalists to assert such notions as facts."

Media Matters said the memo went out just after a Fox News correspondent reported that the United Nations World Meteorological Organization had said 2000 to 2009 was the warmest decade on record.

The prevailing view in the scientific community is that it's getting hotter -- and the warming is due to human activities such as energy production from coal-fired power plants. But there are dissenters, some of whom suggest that the warming is cyclical and not man-made.

"There's no legitimate debate," Gore insisted. "The planet is warming. Moreover, man-made global warming pollution is the principal cause."

Overall, the former vice president said, "the media's coverage of climate issues has been atrocious. However, Fox seems determined to set the bar even lower."

The Hill did not report any response from Fox News to Gore's remarks.


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To: presidio9

“To be fair, this story ran two weeks ago, but as no one posted it then, I posted it to demonstrate that algore’s timing remains as impeccable as ever.”

That’s the Gore Effect kicking in albeit with a slight delay. He speaks (less than a week after COP16) a bunch of hot air to the world and everything cools down!

“Warm globally, cool locally.” (a parody of the Leftist’s phrase “Think globally, act locally.”

Even when The Goracle isn’t present just getting the eco-freaks together to discuss it does the same exact thing! Look at the Mexican city of Cancun when it hosted the U.N. conference on man-made climate change (COP16) — amid record cold temperatures! See more info here about it.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/world-mainmenu-26/north-america-mainmenu-36/5480-record-cold-struck-cancun-climate-confab

So now we really do know that warming causes cooling! LOL!


21 posted on 12/29/2010 12:33:14 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: presidio9

AOL: “The prevailing view in the scientific community is that it’s getting hotter — and the warming is due to human activities such as energy production from coal-fired power plants.”

What a crock! AOL can go take a dump along with Comrade Goreski.


22 posted on 12/29/2010 12:33:19 PM PST by hauerf
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To: presidio9

First the Progressives declare that what they deem to be “Hate Speech” is declare to not be covered by the First Amendment. Now anything the Left declares to be “Blatent Lies” we be declared outside the Amendment’s protection. “You can’t yell Fire in a crowded theater” will be their argument.


23 posted on 12/29/2010 12:33:29 PM PST by JimSEA
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To: presidio9

Algore needs to be Algone. This guy is a mental case.

It is cruel that he is not receiving treatment that he so desperately needs.


24 posted on 12/29/2010 12:33:46 PM PST by exit82 (Democrats are the enemy of freedom. Sarah Palin is our Esther.)
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To: presidio9

‘There’s no debate’? Oh, really. Al Gore speaks! Now go play in the snow in NYC Al. Or visit Britain.


25 posted on 12/29/2010 12:35:54 PM PST by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it*s the new black. Mmm Mmm Mmm.)
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To: presidio9

Is he still around? This guy is as dumb as a post.


26 posted on 12/29/2010 12:36:36 PM PST by DefeatCorruption
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To: presidio9
Damn it Al... go back to your room and take your meds.

Our patience is wearing thin ol' buddy.

27 posted on 12/29/2010 12:36:54 PM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: presidio9
""Fox News has consistently delivered false and misleading information to its viewers about the climate crisis," Gore wrote on his website. "The leaked e-mails now suggest that this bias comes directly form the executives responsible for their news coverage."

Right our of the clinton crime machine playbook. Accuse the other side of exactly what you are doing. Misleading info? Leaked emails? Climategate anyone? I'm surprised he did not accuse the head of Fox of raping a woman. To top it of, dems are accusing the GOP of taking money from China. CHINA! As in chinagate and no controlling legal authority and Loral's missing guidance chip and the daughter of a Chinese general donating 500k and Global Crossing and CNN's Gretta Van Sustren selling her home for 3x the price to Chinas government.

28 posted on 12/29/2010 12:37:45 PM PST by icwhatudo ("laws requiring compulsory abortion could be ustained under the constitution"-Obama official)
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To: presidio9

Isn’t Al Gore with the bias and didn’t he have the financial motivation to promote his bias...nah...thats just horse hockey talk!


29 posted on 12/29/2010 12:39:25 PM PST by surfer (To err is human, to really foul things up takes a Democrat, don't expect the GOP to have the answer!)
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To: exit82

The crazed sex poodle sez what?


30 posted on 12/29/2010 12:39:34 PM PST by Mr. K ('Profiling' you is worse than grabbing your balls)
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To: presidio9

Hey Al...I got a bunch of other leaked e-mails I’d like for you to look into and talk about. I noticed you were mysteriously silent when THOSE e-mails were in the news.


31 posted on 12/29/2010 12:41:08 PM PST by pgkdan (Protect and Defend America! End the practice of islam on our shores before it's too late!)
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To: presidio9
AL:
Stick your finger in the air. (You know like you did when you were a politician to check the public mood) It's COLD not hot.
You can charge to Global Cooling but enough of global warming. It ain't gona FLY, not even in the South.
We are freezing here in central Florida. . . . .
32 posted on 12/29/2010 12:41:28 PM PST by DeaconRed (I could waltz across Texas with You. . . . . . . . .)
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To: WayneS

Fox could shatter the ratings by inviting Algore to debate climate change (aka global warming) with Meagan Kelly. If I were Fox it’s what I would do. That would turn into a story with long legs as Algore bobbed and weaved to avoid the debate.


33 posted on 12/29/2010 12:41:44 PM PST by dools0007world
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To: presidio9
Gore was referring to a Dec. 8, 2009 memo attributed to Fox News' Washington Managing Editor Bill Sammon and posted by the liberal-leaning website Media Matters, according to The Hill newspaper. In the memo, Sammon wrote, "Given the controversy over the veracity of climate change data, we should refrain from asserting that the planet has warmed (or cooled) in any given period without IMMEDIATELY pointing out that such theories are based upon data that critics have called into question. It is not our place as journalists to assert such notions as facts."

OMG!!! Bill Sammon was telling journolists to be objective! How could he??

34 posted on 12/29/2010 12:42:23 PM PST by pgkdan (Protect and Defend America! End the practice of islam on our shores before it's too late!)
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To: presidio9

Gore knows his fate is inextricably entwined with the greenhouse effect hoax, and he is clinging to it like Ahab to the cursed whale.


35 posted on 12/29/2010 12:42:28 PM PST by Spok (Free Range Republican)
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To: presidio9
"There's no legitimate debate," Gore insisted. "The planet is warming. Moreover, man-made global warming pollution is the principal cause."

.... Gore then went on to turn red, shake his fist, stamp his feet, and comment, "Global Warming IS real! It IS! I'm going to find a Sincere Pumpkin Patch to sit in, and YOU'LL SEE! You'll ALL see! If it comes...OOP! I meant "when"! I meant "when"! i'm doomed......."

Whatta maroon.

36 posted on 12/29/2010 12:42:28 PM PST by wbill
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To: icwhatudo

“Right our of the clinton crime machine playbook. Accuse the other side of exactly what you are doing.”

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Exactly. And they have not stopped. The twisted libs cannot stop lying and cheating. It is just who and what they are. And we watched this tactic being used by the Clinton mob for way too many years and the stupid Repubs just stood there and took it....argh! (All except for Henry Hyde, et al).


37 posted on 12/29/2010 12:42:34 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: DefeatCorruption

Nothing dumb about this con man. He has made a fortune out of this crap.


38 posted on 12/29/2010 12:43:03 PM PST by Rational Thought
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To: presidio9

If there were glaciers and ice sheets headed our way, Big Al would be explaining how it’s all part of global warming and you peasants just don’t get it!


39 posted on 12/29/2010 12:43:38 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body." CS Lewis)
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To: GSWarrior
A global warming conference in Aspen in February! I'm serial.

Good choice. Given their past record of freezing cold whereever they're held, his appearance should help the local ski resorts.

So Algore IS useful, after all....

40 posted on 12/29/2010 12:44:24 PM PST by wbill
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