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ABC Reporter Raves Over Gore Film, Compares Gore to Shakespeare and Dante
newsbusters.org ^
| 5/20/06
| Tim Graham
Posted on 05/20/2006 5:54:52 AM PDT by beyond the sea
In recent months, ABC reporter Bill Blakemore has been a passionate proponent for getting all that harmful objectivity and balance out of reporting on the impending disaster of global warming. So it shouldn't be surprising -- it should flow naturally, like a melting glacier -- that Blakemore is using ABC's World Newser blog to plug Al Gore's new documentary "An Inconvenient Truth." The filmmakers could use Blakemore's review here as a promotional blurb. He calls it "96 minutes well spent," says "Regardless of your politics, it's riveting and informative," not to mention "remarkably clear, concise, and informative."
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abcnews; algore; aninconvenientboob; billblakemore; flakemore; global; gore; junkscience; lol; looney; media; moonbats; partisanmedia; warming
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To: beyond the sea
sorry, I'm teasing. It lost 98-0 or 96-2 or something like that. Don't know where he stood at the time, but he can always claim he was taking a bathroom break.
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posted on
05/20/2006 6:08:46 AM PDT
by
gusopol3
To: beyond the sea
I once defended two popular feminist authors: Kingsolver and Isabel Allende on the grounds that YES, they wrote well. Content is predictable; but they write well.
No, I don't plan to see Gore's new movie: It'll be another "it writes well" but content zill. I've better use for my time and income.
Last I heard Al Gore is living in San Francisco. No doubts, the flick will hit the tops in the charts, there.
This whole "presents/reads well but content zill" puts me in mind of prostitution: Sure, she can deliver the job, but the content is meaningless: the buzz without the fulfillment.
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posted on
05/20/2006 6:11:44 AM PDT
by
Alia
To: beyond the sea
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posted on
05/20/2006 6:12:10 AM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
("Too soon to remember??? How about TOO SOON TO FORGET!" from Mr. Silverback)
To: beyond the sea
Words fail me. Shakespearian? (Gaggggggg)
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posted on
05/20/2006 6:13:19 AM PDT
by
MizSterious
(Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
To: beyond the sea
Oscar for AlGore. Wonderful. And why not? He'd be right at home in Hollyweird.
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posted on
05/20/2006 6:13:27 AM PDT
by
hershey
To: beyond the sea
Shakespeare?
Shakespeare?!?! The closest Al will to to Shakespeare is this.....
"Out, damned spot! out, I say!"
(Macbeth, Act V, Scene 1)
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posted on
05/20/2006 6:15:13 AM PDT
by
Condor51
(Better to fight for something than live for nothing - Gen. George S. Patton)
To: dighton
ABC Reporter Raves Over Gore Film, Compares Gore to Shakespeare and Dante
To: beyond the sea
Anyone know what this critic's review was for Brokeback Mountain?
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posted on
05/20/2006 6:20:14 AM PDT
by
babydoll22
(If you stop growing as a person you live in your own private hell.)
To: beyond the sea
I understand they're already planning the sequel - called "Community Outreach."
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posted on
05/20/2006 6:22:52 AM PDT
by
Ed_in_NJ
(Who killed Suzanne Coleman?)
To: beyond the sea
Manbearpig demands your taxdollars.
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posted on
05/20/2006 6:24:54 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: beyond the sea
It sounds like it's worth seeing. I'll certainly try.
Of course, it's a popularization. The science is not going to be decided by any film, or - unfortunately - by reason. On really big issues, where big money and fundamental behavior changes are involved, people do not listen to reason.
Either, climate will change radically in the next 20 to 50 years, killing tens or hundreds of millions. Or it won't.
It's clear humanity isn't going to support any actions which will lessen the amounts of greenhouse gases and other pollutants we're pouring into the atmosphere or take real steps to reduce population sizes.
To: beyond the sea
Halloween IX, The Search for Al Gore
To: beyond the sea
I can see the connection between Al Gore's film and the writings of Dante.
It's entirely appropriate, and possibly a service to the community, to display Dante's words from The Divine Comedy as a warning over the entrance of every theater desperate enough to screen An Inconvenient Truth.
Abandon hope, all ye who enter here."
To: beyond the sea
Dante? Goodness, maybe Gore will go to hell.
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posted on
05/20/2006 6:32:18 AM PDT
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(My ding-dong wasn't big enough, so I cut it off.)
To: martin_fierro
After reading his screed Mind Our of Balance, I've had enough environmental cliches to last a lifetime. I don't need the movie version.
Wonder how much oil he burned flying to his screenings?
Pray for W and Our Troops
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posted on
05/20/2006 6:32:26 AM PDT
by
bray
(The only thing lower than Bush' numbers are the press')
To: beyond the sea
Just watched the trailer. Sets up with Algore on stage telling a fawning audience "I was once the next president of the United States." Lots of
Day After Tomorrow stuff accompanied by the expected orchestral crescendo. My favorite was the footage of Katrina and the question "Did the planet betray us, or did we betray the planet?"
Inquiring minds want to know.
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posted on
05/20/2006 6:33:16 AM PDT
by
workerbee
(Democrats are a waste of tax money and good oxygen.)
To: DB
Someone should ask the genius Gore, and the reporter for that matter, where the glaciers that covered most of north American went...
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posted on
05/20/2006 6:35:21 AM PDT
by
facedown
(Armed in the Heartland)
To: beyond the sea
Between ABC and NYSlimes, it's hard to tell who is more despicable in their so called 'reporting'.
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posted on
05/20/2006 6:37:27 AM PDT
by
OldFriend
(I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag.....and My Heart to the Soldier Who Protects It.)
To: beyond the sea
Al Gore and Tipper can't...
Stop Global Widening
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posted on
05/20/2006 6:37:48 AM PDT
by
Doctor Raoul
(Liberals saying "We Support The Troops" is like OJ looking for the real killers.)
To: beyond the sea
Another problem with the left is that they too often heap high praise on the mediocre.
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posted on
05/20/2006 6:38:48 AM PDT
by
Boris99
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