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Gore movie puts heat on Bush (barf)
NY Daily news ^ | 4/17/06

Posted on 04/18/2006 6:28:32 AM PDT by finnman69

Boring Al Gore has made a movie. It is on the most boring of all subjects - global warming. It is more than 80 minutes long and the first two or three go by slowly enough so that you can notice that Gore has gained weight and that his speech still seems out of sync. But a moment later, you will be captivated, then riveted and then scared out of your wits. Our Earth is going to hell in a handbasket.

You will see the Arctic and Antarctic icecaps melting. You will see Greenland oozing into the sea. You will see the atmosphere polluted with greenhouse gases that block heat from escaping. You will see .photos from space of what the icecaps looked like once and what they look like now, and, in animation, you will see how high the oceans might rise. Shanghai and Calcutta swamped. Much of Florida, too. The water takes a hunk of New York. The fuss about what to do with Ground Zero will turn to naught. It will be under water.

"An Inconvenient Truth" is a cinematic version of the lecture that Gore has given for years warning of the dangers of global warming. The case Gore makes is worthy of sleepless nights: Our Earth is in extremis. It's not just that polar bears are drowning because they cannot reach receding ice floes or that "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" will exist someday only as a Hemingway short story. It's rather that Hurricane Katrina is not past, but prologue. Katrina produced several hundred thousand evacuees. The flooding of Calcutta would produce many millions.

You cannot see this film and not think of George W. Bush, the man who beat Gore in 2000. Bush has been studiously anti-science, a man of applied ignorance who has undernourished his mind with the empty calories of comfy dogma. For instance, his insistence on abstinence as the preferred method of birth control would be laughable were it not so reckless. It is similar to Bush's initial approach to global warming. It may be that Gore will do more good for his country and the world with this movie than Bush ever did by winning in 2000.

Gore insists his presidential aspirations are behind him. "I think there are other ways to serve," he told me. No doubt. But on paper, he is the near-perfect Democratic candidate for 2008. He won the popular vote in 2000. He opposed going to war in Iraq, but he supported the previous Gulf War - right both times. He is much more a person of the 21st century than most of the other potential candidates. Gore could be a great President. First, he has to be a good candidate.

In the meantime, he is a man on a mission. Wherever he goes, he finds time and an audience to deliver his (free) lecture on global warming. It and the film leave no doubt of the peril we face and neither do they leave any doubt that Gore, at last, is a man at home in his role. He is master teacher, pedagogue, know-it-all, smarter than most of us, better informed and, having tried for and failed to gain the presidency, has raised his sights to save the world. We simply cannot afford for Al Gore to lose again.


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: algore; aninconvenienttruth; globalwarming; gore
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To: finnman69

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1611870/posts
Kyoto is pointless, say 60 leading scientists

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1611101/posts
Scientists blame sun for global warming (February 13, 1998)


21 posted on 04/18/2006 6:52:52 AM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestu s globus, inflammare animos)
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To: finnman69
What liberal organizations and individuals bankrolled this project.

No way do they expect to get their money back.

I sure hope none of my tax-dollars were used!

22 posted on 04/18/2006 6:53:09 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: dighton

Richard Cohen wrote this drivel? That explains a lot. He never met a leftwingnut idea he didn't like.


23 posted on 04/18/2006 6:54:14 AM PDT by ABG(anybody but Gore) ("By the time I'm finished with you, you're gonna wish you felt this good again" - Jack Bauer)
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To: liberty2004

We need someone to put together a website that debunks all the false claims made in this propaganda piece.

Something like happened with Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11. Whenever one of my lefty friends would say "Did you see in the movie where ..", I could just respond "But that segment was really from ..." which eventually turned them around to realise it was just a hit piece made up of deceits.


24 posted on 04/18/2006 6:54:58 AM PDT by JustDoItAlways
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To: Mo1
He is much more a person of the 21st century than most of the other potential candidates. Gore could be a great President. First, he has to be a good candidate.

ROTFLMAO!

Turns out this thread has given me the bigger laugh!

25 posted on 04/18/2006 6:55:17 AM PDT by onyx (It's easier to indict a ham sandwich or Tom DeLay than it is to indict a Democrat.)
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To: finnman69

If Gore would only shut up (and Dean and Hillary and Teddy and others of their ilk), there would be very little or no global warming.


26 posted on 04/18/2006 6:55:52 AM PDT by NRA1995 (Let's all leave the US and return as undocumented trespassers....uh, immigrants)
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To: ABG(anybody but Gore)

YES!
Richard Cohen. I checked to make certain, too.
ROTFLMAO!
I almost want to bookmark this column.


27 posted on 04/18/2006 6:58:18 AM PDT by onyx (It's easier to indict a ham sandwich or Tom DeLay than it is to indict a Democrat.)
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To: finnman69

As a scientist, Doctor Alvin Gore knew that if he were ever to break wind in the Greenspeace echo chamber, he would never hear the end of it.


28 posted on 04/18/2006 6:58:33 AM PDT by tumblindice (A modest little person, with much to be modest about)
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To: Ron in Acreage
Maybe those from the north would quit moving here and screwing everything up, if their states weren't such frozen hell holes.

What state did you move from?

29 posted on 04/18/2006 6:59:37 AM PDT by w1andsodidwe (Jimmy Carter allowed radical Islam to get a foothold in Iran.)
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To: onyx

And who said that libs weren't funny ... LOLOLOL


30 posted on 04/18/2006 7:00:03 AM PDT by Mo1 ("Stupidity is also a gift from God, but it should not be abused." Pope John Paul II)
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To: jerod

"Keep your stick on the ice."

:^)


31 posted on 04/18/2006 7:09:07 AM PDT by Disambiguator (Unfettered gun ownership is the highest expression of civil rights.)
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To: janis

I know what a disaster is. It's the world created by politicians like Gore, and reported on by gullible idiots like this columnist.


32 posted on 04/18/2006 7:10:08 AM PDT by driftless ( For life-long happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: finnman69

It's a liberal mantra - and a critique - that Bush uses "fear" to get people to go along with his anti-terror policies, but isn't it "fear" that libs are using to scare people into buying into their global-warming political agenda? As usual, if libs accuse someone of something, you can bet that it is the libs who are most guilty of that very thing.


33 posted on 04/18/2006 7:12:53 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: finnman69

Very interesting charts and graphs.


34 posted on 04/18/2006 7:13:23 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Always Right
"It is amazing that just 20,000 years ago, a sneeze in comparion to the earth's 4 billion years in existance, that much of the midwest was glacier covered."

Global-warming cultists never talk about our fate if we faced a serious global cooling trend.
35 posted on 04/18/2006 7:17:21 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: finnman69
He is master teacher, pedagogue, know-it-all, smarter than most of us, better informed and, having tried for and failed to gain the presidency, has raised his sights to save the world. We simply cannot afford for Al Gore to lose again.

Is this person having a psychotic episode?

36 posted on 04/18/2006 7:20:51 AM PDT by floozy22
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To: finnman69
You will see the Arctic and Antarctic icecaps melting. You will see Greenland oozing into the sea

Too bad this movie's title was already used:


37 posted on 04/18/2006 7:23:00 AM PDT by Michael.SF. ("Cynicism, is an unpleasant way of telling the truth" -- Lillian Hellman)
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To: finnman69


38 posted on 04/18/2006 7:27:58 AM PDT by pabianice
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To: finnman69

Excellent post. Please repeat as often as you can on the Global Warning threads.


39 posted on 04/18/2006 7:34:35 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Why did Allah create free will and then demand submission? Wouldn't robots have been easier?)
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To: finnman69

A better title for the movie is "An Inconvenient Scenario -- possible but not probable."


40 posted on 04/18/2006 7:39:24 AM PDT by olezip
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