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Gore's Global Warming Speech Gets Icy Rebuke
CNSNEWS.com ^ | 1/16/04 | Melanie Hunter

Posted on 01/16/2004 2:50:37 AM PST by kattracks

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To: kattracks
The coldest day of the decade hitting at just the right time could be more than just a coincidence. I'm starting to think maybe the Almighty is pi$$ed at Algore.

You can only attribute about so much to bad luck and if you look at what's been happening to Gore, he makes Homer Simpson look like "Mr. Lucky".

21 posted on 01/16/2004 4:51:30 AM PST by capt. norm (No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.)
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To: kattracks
Great article, but here's Gore's reply:

"FACTS??? We don't need no stinkin' FACTS!!!!!"

22 posted on 01/16/2004 5:22:41 AM PST by ReleaseTheHounds
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To: kattracks
Didn't he invent the internet?
23 posted on 01/16/2004 5:24:58 AM PST by samtheman
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To: kattracks
He accused the White House of gutting environmental laws and not doing anything to prevent global warming.

That damned Bush has utterly failed to do prevent tides, tornadoes, earthquakes and a whole panoply of natural processes, the unconscious twit!

24 posted on 01/16/2004 5:33:57 AM PST by Publius6961 (40% of Californians are as dumb as a sack of rocks.)
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Bush is being called a "moral coward" by a moral reprobate. It's too funny.
25 posted on 01/16/2004 5:35:17 AM PST by BadAndy
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To: kattracks
Gore is a hoot with impeccable timing as usual. He should try comedy as a career.
26 posted on 01/16/2004 5:37:08 AM PST by freeangel (freeangel)
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To: cardinal4
The Gore family was bought and paid for decades ago by Armand Hammer and Occidental Petroleum. At least as of the 2000 election he still owned a very large number of shares in the company and Gore Sr. (defender of segregation and opponent of the Civil Rights Act) was rewarded after leaving the Senate with a position on Occidental's board. Combine that with an EPA judgement against Gore for environmental damage caused by the zinc strip mine on his farm and you'll have a small inkling of how this POS and his family really operate.
27 posted on 01/16/2004 5:44:22 AM PST by katana
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To: kattracks
I think Algore should pray with his wealthy Buddhist priest friends to reverse global warming. That ought to ruin George Bush's day.
30 posted on 01/16/2004 6:09:04 AM PST by ValerieUSA
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To: kattracks
"But if Gore believes the science is settled, why didn't the Clinton-Gore Administration submit the Kyoto global warming treaty to the Senate for ratification? Gore condemns Bush for not supporting a treaty Bush believes is harmful and unnecessary -- yet Gore, holding the opposite view, didn't fight for it where it counted," Ridenour said.

He was too busy drinking ice tea?

31 posted on 01/16/2004 6:23:29 AM PST by Mo1 (Join the dollar a day crowd now!)
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To: cardinal4
Were you unaware of the Occidental Petroleum connection to Gore's father and to Gore himself?
32 posted on 01/16/2004 6:54:57 AM PST by OldFriend (Always understand, even if you remain among the few)
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To: cardinal4
While VP, Gore was verrrrrrrrry instrumental in helping Occidental buy the Elk Hills (Federal property and burial place for Kitanemuk Indian tribe) drilling rights. For more details on Gore's part in this~~http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=468
33 posted on 01/16/2004 7:08:44 AM PST by daybreakcoming (used to be a centrist but the left keeps pushing me right)
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To: kattracks
Gore made his speech to a crowd at New York's Beacon Theater on the coldest day in the city in decades

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Too funny for words.....!

34 posted on 01/16/2004 7:17:41 AM PST by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
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>>>>>>>>>>>In fact, the Clinton-Gore Administration DID NOT regulate mercury emissions from power plants, despite eight years in office. It just talked about doing so. Bush is actually doing it. Gore's actual complaint is that he would have written the rule differently. Why did he waste eight years?" Ridenour asked.

Which proves what I've believed about liberals on the environment all along. They want to discuss the environment. They want it to be an issue. When it comes to actually fixing any problems. No way. That takes the issue off the table and then they have nothing left to discuss anymore.
35 posted on 01/16/2004 7:21:05 AM PST by .cnI redruM (Dean, Clark, Deadwards, Kerry - If were an Iowan, I'd vote Opis in '04.)
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To: kattracks
NBC News - and probably the other two broadcast nets - took the opportunity to run big clips of Alghour's speech as a major story, and changed the focus of the speech and its contemporaneous irony from "global warming" (on the coldest day in NYC in 50 years) to Bush-bashing. They also showed clips from two people in environmental organizations who agreed with him. But they offer NO sound bites from the other side. In fact, the first 12 minutes of last nights cast were as concerted a Bush-bashing extravaganza as I've seen mounted in some time. Every story, no matter what it was about, was anti Bush.

To NBC's credit, they DID SHOW Alghour, and his physical appearance is becoming, well, ghoulish. He looked pallid, and with his hair slicked straight back showing a distinct widow's peak and lighted from above with a straw keylight, he looked like he was straight out of The Addams Family. And his style of speaking has become even more repulsive than it was in 2000.

It really was amazing that NBC could run this clip and, with a straight face, ignore the obvious gaffe of delivering a speech on global warming on the coldest day in 50 years. But they're pros.

Michael

36 posted on 01/16/2004 7:22:13 AM PST by Wright is right! (Never get excited about ANYTHING by the way it looks from behind.)
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To: Don Corleone
Yes, it WAS too funny for words. But the networks completely ignored the delicious irony and, with a straight face, proceeded to give the speech big chunks of air time. Shameless.

Michael

37 posted on 01/16/2004 7:26:51 AM PST by Wright is right! (Never get excited about ANYTHING by the way it looks from behind.)
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To: OldFriend
Yessir. Don't forget Island Creek Coal Co.
38 posted on 01/16/2004 7:33:47 AM PST by I got the rope
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To: kattracks; Grampa Dave
"the speech is full of demagoguery, misleading statements, formulations intended to deceive, unsupported allegations of wrongdoing and hypocrisy."

Of course it is! Typical Al Gore...

39 posted on 01/16/2004 7:40:56 AM PST by EdReform (Free Republic - Now more than ever! Thank you for your support!)
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To: cardinal4
See #38. Yes. Occidental also bought the Elk Hills Oil Reserve from the Navy in 95 or 96. Al Gore is a liar and a POS.
40 posted on 01/16/2004 7:42:10 AM PST by I got the rope
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