Posted on 11/15/2002 6:58:23 AM PST by alisasny
Excerpt from Barbara Walters interview with Al Gore and family, which airs tonight on 20/20 at 10:00 p.m. ET/9:00 p.m. CT (check your local listings).
The following exchanges, while sure to interest Note readers and historians, actually won't be part of tonight's 20/20 broadcast, so you can read them only here and now:
WALTERS: I'm not sure that people realize that while you were in the residence of the Vice President [during the Florida recount] there were crowds of people outside screaming at you. What was that all about?
AL GORE: Well, this was the Republican response to what was happening during that 36-day period, and they organized busloads of people that came and stood outside the house all day and all night screaming at the top of their lungs.
WALTERS: What, "Get out!"?
TIPPER GORE: Things like that, yes, and, and sometimes … things that we don't want to say on your program, and, some people saw that they were buses from "churches," but it was organized. The one thing that, that they did mainly was reach the bedrooms of our children, and Albert was still in school locally, and trying to study, so we rearranged, you know, they … kids moved to a different part of the house, and I was trying to think of a way that we could kind of laugh about this since obviously it was out of our control, there wasn't anything anybody could do so I got all the boom boxes in the house and … I remember sort of what the government did with Noriega … I thought we'd try that, and I aimed them at, toward, you know, where the crowd …
WALTERS: The crowd?
TIPPER GORE: … And I put nature sounds on and turned it all the way up. And at least the kids laughed.
AL GORE: There were a few, more than a few who supported us and were offended by the organized chanting round the clock who came out on the other street corner during the day to express their support with signs, and … You know, emotions were running high throughout the country and it was just an unprecedented time.
KARENNA GORE: Well, when we were in the Vice President's house during the recount, it was it was very intense. And one of the things I remember is that there was a … an organized effort by, I don't know whether it was the RNC or it was … it was right-wing groups, it was definitely Bush-campaign-oriented effort to bus in people to have a sort of siege at the Vice President's house, and, so, they were all lining there, screaming, and it was kind of an assortment of groups. I mean, some of them were anti, um, were anti-abortion groups, and some of them were pro-gun groups, and some of them … they all had their different signs. But they were all screaming, "Get out of Cheney's house," the whole time. And I just remember being there next to my dad, because I went for a run, and I ran back through them, and I was very upset when I came into the house. And my whole attitude was, like, "We've got to fight back harder. And where are our crowds?" And my dad, I'll never forget his response. He said, "We have to do what's best for the country, and it is not good for the country to have this kind of divisiveness. And he was on the phone, really calling off the dogs. There were people who wanted to fan the … the flames of the racial issue and have real unrest. And he was on the phone asking them not to, because of what was best for the country not because of what was best for him politically. And that's really who he is.
WALTERS: Do you remember the crowds outside screaming?
KRISTEN GORE: The crowds that were screaming outside our house, you know, "Get out of Cheney's house." And other things … of that nature, were really upsetting. It was difficult … It was just very … upsetting that someone would … yell those things at us. It felt … we felt sort of like … trapped in this … you know, little house with all these people yelling mean things. It's no fun. You know, whether you're a child of the person who they're directed at, or anyone else. It … it wasn't a good situation.
WALTERS: Were you scared?
KRISTEN GORE: I was scared that the truth was not going to come out. That's what I was.
After 20/20 and a break for your local news, you can catch Gore on Letterman.
As I remember correctly. It was the Thanksgiving week-end. Mr. T and I were sitting in our home in New Jersey with our blood boiling and really upset at what was happeneing. My daughter and her family were there for Thanksgivng and we asked her if she mind if dad and I drove to DC to join the "Sore Loserman" Rally.
Within minuets, we were packed and on to DC. We called and reserved a room in a down town Hotel by the White House(Can't remember the name). I called home to let everyone know we got ther Ok and I found out Dog was looking for a ride. Oh WOW! We had just missed each other. We would have given Dog a ride, but we left so quickly, we missed each other.
Anyway, that's my memory of the "Sore Loserman" Rally. No one paid me, or busses me there. I saw it on FR and took myself to the Rally. Gore is re-writing history folks.
Sorry, Gorons. You lost. You tried to steal the election and you lost.
HRP
Oh, golly, gee. Isn't Gore wonderful? Here were these nasty right-wingers being oh, so mean to Gore and his widdle family, and Gore could have sunk to the same level, but he was bigger than that. Aren't we all so ashamed now? NOT. Gag me.
I hope every Freeper who actually participated in those protests sends an email pointing out Gore's blatant, vicious LIES. Just when I think this man has sunk as low as he can go, he tops himself.
Oh, deport....(she said in a sweet and persuasive voice), is there any way to find that thread? It would be so good to link it to this one!
Algore is not my president.
The unspoken premise of the film: We are getting a never-before-seen look behind the candidate’s facade. We are seeing the "real" Al Gore, body surfing with his family this minute and dressed for Halloween as Frankenstein’s monster the next. The potential leader of the free world shows us the bedroom he used when he was a teenager ("the bed’s still not made," Gore cracks), points out a revealing self-portrait Tipper painted while pregnant (prompting her to block the camera while objecting, "Al, you’re really showing him our house"), and makes funny faces for the benefit of his year-old grandson (and, more important, the camera). The film ends with Gore asking one of his daughters to turn out the lights and inquiring, "Now, do you want me to get up and cook breakfast for you?"
In November of 2000 you could still order the film from C-SPAN.
To our DC Freepers THANKYOU so very much.
You made more of a difference than I think you will ever realize by starting this protest back in 2000! My only regret is being family bound and unable to get to DC on a moments notice.
Good news is I am still fairly young and as soon as my kids get out into the real world I will be able to freep some more.
Thankyou also to ABC and the Peter Jennings network for having the NOTE so we were able to find this little tidbit which otherwise would have been withheld from us.
I hope you will try and call Hannity radio today. I can send him the link and maybe he will get it.
LOL..."want some ganja maaan"
Yeah, that's the ticket.
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