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Al Gore's Inconvenient Toxic Waste Dump
NewsMax.com ^ | May 27, 2006 | Carl Limbacher

Posted on 05/27/2006 6:46:15 AM PDT by Carl/NewsMax

Former Vice President Al Gore's new global warming movie, "An Inconvenient Truth," warns in emphatic terms that the world is facing a "planetary emergency" unless America curbs its penchant for fossil fuel pollution.

Despite widespread coverage of Gore's cinematic debut, however, the press has declined to mention a few inconvenient truths about the ex-veep's own environmental record.

One of the most glaring tidbits, for instance, is the pollution Gore and his family caused by maintaining their own toxic waste dump on their farm in Carthage, Tennessee.

During the 1992 presidential campaign, Nashville's CBS network affiliate WTVF broadcast video of the Gore dump after the then-vice presidential candidate denied the story was true.

The film featured aerial shots of the debris, and included close-ups of dripping oil filters, toxic aerosol spray cans, unrecycled aluminum pesticide containers, used tires and all manner of environmentally unfriendly refuse.

"It wasn't a pristine environmental haven, it was an ugly, dangerous dump -- and it could have leached into the [nearby] Caney Fork River," one Gore critic complained at the time.

During Gore's 2000 presidential bid, the Fox News Channel unearthed and re-aired the dump clip, but the mainstream press otherwise ignored the startling news that the nation's leading environmentalist was himself a Class A polluter.

According to EPA regulations cited by the Washington Times, the pesticide dumping alone could have netted Gore over $25,000 in fines.

Despite the smoking gun video of Gore's environmental violations, there's no record he was ever penalized for his pollution.


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1 posted on 05/27/2006 6:46:17 AM PDT by Carl/NewsMax
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To: Carl/NewsMax

I don't suppose Albert bothered to mention the executive order issued by slick Willie that allows the burning of unknown toxins in open pits at Groom lake.


2 posted on 05/27/2006 6:50:14 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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To: Carl/NewsMax
Is this dump associated with the zinc strip mine on algore's land ?
3 posted on 05/27/2006 6:54:25 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: Carl/NewsMax
Algore and Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser even Jimmy himself, John Murtha and the ever vocal Bill Clinton all with the help of a liberal Media continue bashing the Bush administration when their administration was the most corrupt and useless administration in history.

This administration in spite of the detractors, is getting things done that should have been done decades ago. National Security is one of those things.....................

4 posted on 05/27/2006 6:55:34 AM PDT by yoe
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To: MurryMom
...unless America curbs its penchant for fossil fuel pollution.

How come Altoast2000 never brags about the fuel consumption of his pals, the Chicoms?

5 posted on 05/27/2006 6:56:11 AM PDT by Libloather (They can't privatize Social Security but they can find a way to give it to illegal aliens...)
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To: Libloather

Al also doesn't seem to have much to say about his own oil money and ties.


6 posted on 05/27/2006 6:57:33 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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To: Carl/NewsMax
You only got half the story....its the tailings from an open cast talk mine in his back yard.

The resulting "lake" is where Gore Sr taught little Al to swim and fish.

In other news the toilet in his rental unit is clogged up again.....get to work Al.

Al Gore is the beneficiary of a sweetheart deal from Occidental (arranged by his father) to get monthly royalty checks from the mine.

7 posted on 05/27/2006 7:01:08 AM PDT by spokeshave (I'd rather go hunting with Dick Cheney than drive over a bridge with Ted Kennedy)
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To: spokeshave

sorry...its a Zinc mine....even worse


8 posted on 05/27/2006 7:02:08 AM PDT by spokeshave (I'd rather go hunting with Dick Cheney than drive over a bridge with Ted Kennedy)
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To: cripplecreek

Hey... you gotta' make the superheavy 115 somehow.


9 posted on 05/27/2006 7:03:08 AM PDT by FreedomNeocon (Better to take what they can throw at us now,rather than take what they promise to throw at us later)
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To: Gondring

bump


10 posted on 05/27/2006 7:05:31 AM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: Carl/NewsMax

I predict a respone movie "Inconvenient Facts: exposing the envronmental insanity of Al Gore"

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EXCLESIOR!
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11 posted on 05/27/2006 7:06:08 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: spokeshave
Gore and Big Oil

Former Vice President, Al Gore has a long-time relationship with Occidental Petroleum that has been enormously beneficial to the company. Occidental's late chairman, the controversial Armand Hammer, liked to say that he had Gore's father, Senator Albert Gore, Senior, "in my back pocket." When the elder Gore left the Senate in 1970, Hammer hired him for $500,000 a year. Personally and professionally the vice president has profited from Occidental largess. To this day he still draws $20,000 a year from a land deal in Tennessee brokered between his father and Hammer. The total amount is more than $300,000. The personal relationship between young Gore and Hammer was very close throughout the 1980's, including trips on Hammer's private jet and constant campaign contributions.

For most of the 20th century, oil companies have tried unsuccessfully to obtain control of two oil fields owned and operated by the federal government: the Teapot Dome field in Casper, Wyoming, and the Elk Hills field in Bakersfield, California. Despite his public reputation as a staunch environmentalist, Gore recommended that the president approve giving oil companies access to this publicly owned land. It is land that the U.S. Navy has held as emergency reserves since 1912. In October, 1997, the Energy Department announced that the government would sell 47,000 acres of the Elk Hills reserve to Occidental.

It was the largest privatization of federal property in U.S. history, one that tripled Occidental's U.S. oil reserves overnight. Although the Energy Department was required to assess the likely environmental consequences of the proposed sale, it didn't. Instead it hired a private company, ICF Kaiser International, Incorporated, to complete the assessment. The general chairman of Gore's presidential campaign, Tony Coelho, sat on the board of directors.

The very same day the Elk Hills sale was announced, Gore delivered a speech to the White House Conference on Climate Change on the "terrifying prospect" of global warming, a problem he blamed on the unchecked use of fossil fuels such as oil. He said, quoting, "If we ignore the scientific warnings and continue stubbornly on our current course, we better begin to prepare what we would like to say to our children and grandchildren. They might fairly ask, if you knew all that, why didn't you do something about it?"

Gore and Tobacco

At the Democratic national convention in 1996, Gore gave a moving speech about his only sister's painful death from lung cancer. And since then he has pushed the administration's aggressive anti-smoking campaign.

What Gore didn't mention is that he grew up on a tobacco farm, worked on it, and continued to accept checks from that farm for years after his sister died. In 1988, while running for president, he defended tobacco farmers while campaigning in Southern tobacco states (and made the quote up above: 'I've raised tobacco ... I've shredded it, spiked it,... and sold it.') He accepted contributions from tobacco companies as late as 1990.

Gore claimed that "emotional numbness" led him to defend and profit from the tobacco industry. "Sometimes, you never fully face up to things that you ought to face up to."

Gore himself smoked during college.

Gore and Environmentalism

The Pigeon River is in North Carolina and east Tennessee. The Champion International paper mill has pumped tons of chemicals and byproducts into it for years, turning it the color of coffee and adding a sulfurish smell. Gore campaigned against this pollution and lobbied the EPA to crack down. But in 1987, as Gore started running for president the first time, he was pressured by 2 politicians whose support he craved for the North Carolina Super Tuesday primary. Terry Sanford (then a Senator) and Jamie Clarke (North Carolina congressmen) lobbied him hard to ease up on Champion. Gore did, writing to the EPA, again and again, asking for a more permissive water pollution standard. Sanford and Clarke endorsed him, and Gore won the state handily.

Another example is a Gore family property that has been mined for zinc and germanium for decades. The Vice-President and his dad, the late Senator Albert Gore, Sr., obtained the land in a very favorable deal with the late Armand Hammer of Occidental Petroleum. Gore, Sr. was heavily supported by Hammer financially, and carried his water in the U.S. Senate.

Back in 1972, when zinc was discovered across the river from the Gore family land in Carthage, TN, Hammer sent engineers out and offered $20,000 per year for a mineral rights lease on some property owned by a church that had been willed the land. Instead, they wanted to sell and Hammer won a bidding war to buy the land for $160,000. He then sold it to Gore Jr. and Sr. for the same amount, and immediately started leasing the land back from him for the same $20,000. Lynwood Burkhalter, who in the 70s was president of the company that assumed this lease from Occidental Petroleum, called the payments "extraordinarily large."

Mining is, of course, a very messy business environmentally. The mine itself hasn't been that bad. Republicans have claimed that it's polluting the local drinking water, but according to the Wall Street Journal those problems "are actually very minor." However, the Journal notes that the plant in Clarksville TN, which processes the Gore minerals, is a federal Superfund site contaminated with cadmium and mercury, posing "a threat to the human food chain."

There's also a damning quote about cutting down Yew trees to make a promising cancer treatment that we used to include in our Gore quotes section. Except that the really embarrassing part -- which we got from an editorial in the Austin, Texas American Statesman -- turns out to be distorted and out of context. The full quote, which is still a little odd, is:

"The Pacific Yew can be cut down and processed to produce a potent chemical, taxol, which offers some promise of curing certain forms of lung, breast and ovarian cancer in patients who would otherwise quickly die. It seems an easy choice -- sacrifice the tree for a human life -- until one learns that three trees must be destroyed for each patient treated, that only specimens more than a hundred years old contain the potent chemical in their bark, and that there are very few of these yews remaining on earth." - Gore, in "Earth in the Balance", p. 119
12 posted on 05/27/2006 7:12:47 AM PDT by Beckwith (The liberal media has picked sides and they've sided with the Jihadists.)
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To: Carl/NewsMax
How come no one ever calls this guy 'junior'? He's Al Gore Jr.

GWB, however, is not a junior, yet he's often called it.

13 posted on 05/27/2006 7:17:25 AM PDT by polymuser (Losing, like flooding, brings rats to the surface.)
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To: Carl/NewsMax

And let's not forget last year at the Sierra Club's summit in San Francisco. After his stirring global warming speech, he left the building and got back into his Cadillac Escalade, the most powerful SUV on the planet. Not an entire entourage --- just he and his chauffeur.


14 posted on 05/27/2006 7:21:00 AM PDT by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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To: spokeshave

15 posted on 05/27/2006 7:23:37 AM PDT by Tinian
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To: Carl/NewsMax

A classic case of "Do as I say, not as I do".


16 posted on 05/27/2006 7:35:53 AM PDT by SouthTexas (Viva la Migra!)
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To: Carl/NewsMax

Is it still there?


17 posted on 05/27/2006 7:51:41 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Too soon to remember??? How about TOO SOON TO FORGET!" from Mr. Silverback)
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To: Carl/NewsMax
Now for the really important question:

Did he employee any illegal immigrants on the farm?

18 posted on 05/27/2006 8:06:38 AM PDT by Tinian
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From The Wall Street Journal, 11/1/2000:

"The zinc mining on [Gore's] land causes groundwater pollution...The plant that processes the zinc 100 miles away in Clarksville is a high-pollution Superfund site, and a previously unpublicized Environmental Protection Agency study cites it for dangerous contamination...Tax records show Mr. Gore gets about $227 in royalties per acre...

The lease [became] a political problem for Mr. Gore; the Republican National Committee [ran ads in 2000] accusing him of hypocrisy on his environmental record. "Gore has allowed mining companies to mine zinc from his property," the ad states. "They have been cited for polluting the source of local drinking water, all while Gore has made a half a million dollars in mining royalties."

But a 1995 study for the EPA makes a more serious claim about the plant in Clarksville, Tenn., where Mr. Gore's zinc is processed, and which is run by the same company that pays royalties to Mr. Gore, Pasminco Inc. The area around the plant is contaminated with toxic substances such as cadmium and mercury, posing "a threat to the human food chain," the report says. The plant has been designated a Superfund site."



19 posted on 05/27/2006 4:24:03 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (Ain't FReedom grand!)
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To: Carl/NewsMax
How do you suppose I add that information to this page?

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It's not just that particular politicians are stupid, crazy, sneaky, overtly crooked or um, shall we say, ah, "less than honest." I submit that MANY politicians are are stupid, crazy, sneaky, overtly crooked or "less than honest." That's why we were supposed to have a limited government in the first place: so such people neither had any favors to sell nor any other damage to do. "Give a good person great powers, and jerks grab his job."* 

"You've got to be able to count on a man's word, and if you can't, forget it. ... I've had experience with the other kind as well, and that's the worst thing there is. A liar in public life is a lot more dangerous than a full, paid up Communist, and I don't care who he is." -- Harry S. Truman 

 "HUH?" DEPARTMENT, EYE-ROLLING SECTION

ALGORISMS 

Speaking at the high school in Concord, New Hampshire, Gore boasted about his publicizing the dangers of toxic waste in Congress 20 years ago. "I looked around the country [for toxic waste-contaminated sites]. I found a little place in upstate New York called Love Canal," he said, referring to the Niagara homes evacuated in August 1978 because of chemical contamination. "I had the first hearing on that issue ... I was the one that started it all," he added. —(Washington Post, Dec. 1, 1999)   Gore`s claims about Love Canal — and his avoiding the fact that his hearings were held a couple of months after President Carter had already "found" the neighborhood and had already declared it a disaster area — were reminiscent of Gore's many other attempts to puff up the facts about his importance to, and impact on, events. Could these be signs of insincerity or insecurity? Of contempt for the truth or contempt for the public? Or all these things? (Also see this reference, this reference and this reference.) 

“[Bradley proposes] the expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit. I was the author of that proposal. I wrote that, so I say, welcome aboard. That is something for which I have been the principal proponent for a long time.” (Al Gore, Time, 11/1/99) Actually, Gore was not yet in congress when the EITC was originally passed in 1975. Gore did not become a member of Congress until 1977. Gore did not write the EITC Act of 1975. (Buffalo News, 12/13/99; U.S. News & World Report, 12/20/99) 

“And I was shot at. . . . I spent most of my time in the field.” (Al Gore, The Washington Post, 2/3/88) ... I carried an M-16 . . . I pulled my turn on the perimeter at night and walked through the elephant grass, and I was fired upon.” (Al Gore, Los Angeles Times, 10/15/99) Actually, Gore had bodyguards assigned to keep him out of harm’s way in Vietnam. “In Vietnam, Alan Leo, a photographer in the press brigade office where Gore worked as a reporter, said he was summoned by Brig. Gen. K.B. Cooper, the 20th Engineer Brigade’s Commander, who asked Leo, the most experienced member of the press unit, to make sure that nothing happened to Gore. ‘He requested that “Gore not get into situations that were dangerous,’” said Leo, who did what he could to carry out Cooper’s directive. He described his half-dozen or so trips into the field with Gore as situations where ‘I could have worn a tuxedo.’” (Newsweek, 12/6/99) 

On nationwide TV (CNN) on March 9, 1999, Albert Gore told Wolf Blitzer: "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the internet." (fact: the Defense Department commissioned the ARPANET in 1969 when Gore was 21 years old, 8 years before his first run for congress. See this 3/11/99 article in Wired.) 

In an attempt to improve his technological image, Vice-President Al Gore unveiled the world's fastest computer at a White House event On 10/28/98. However, during a campaign trip to a Pittsburgh valve factory, the Vice-President smiled and admitted that he has "trouble turning on a computer-let alone using one." (source: "Gore Touts Job-Training Programs at Pittsburgh Factory" Associated Press September 4, 1998

On March 19, 1998 Gore called The Washington Post's executive editor to tip him off about an ''error'' on the front page of his paper. ''I decided I just had to call because you've printed a picture of the Earth upside-down," Gore said. (See this reference

When asked on ABC's Nightline about President Clinton's withdrawal of Lani Guinier's nomination to the EEOC, Gore said, "The theories - the ideas she expressed about equality of results within legislative bodies and with - by outcome, by decisions made by legislative bodies, ideas related to proportional voting as a general remedy, not in particular cases where the circumstances make that a feasible idea... " 

"You can leave [my children] out of this..." said Gore during a televised debate at Harlem's Apollo Theater on February 21st, 2000.  He was responding to the charge that he sends his child to a private school, but he doesn't want parents of lesser means to be able to do the same. (See this reference

During a tour of the museum at Monticello, just before the 1992 inauguration, with news reporters present, Al Gore, pointing to the busts of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, asked, "Who are these people????" (New York Times, January 17, 1993

"A zebra does not change its spots." - Al Gore, attacking President George Bush in 1992.
— source: The 700 Stupidest Things Ever Said by Ross and Kathryn Petras. 

And three years later, at a press conference: "We all know the leopard can’t change his stripes." (The Toronto Sun, 11/19/95) 

"We can build a collective civic space large enough for all our separate identities, that we can be e pluribus unumout of one, many." — From a Milwaukee speech to the Institute of World Affairs, January 1994 ( "e pluribus unum" is Latin for "out of many, one"). 

Over Father's Day weekend in 1998, Al Gore addressed a symposium in the nation's capital on 'fatherhood'. While addressing the group, Al Gore tried quoting an old proverb by saying, "It's a wise father who knows his child". Of course, the real proverb goes, 'It's a wise child who knows its father'. 

Find "Milosevic has barely begun to incur the damage he will feel." (Huh??? Neither has the American electorate, apparently.) and another quintessential AlGorism or two at THIS source

"He supported the Voting Rights Act in 1965 and lost his next re-election. But his conscience won and he taught me that was more important than any election." Albert Gore, Jr. trying to establish his father's commitment to the civil rights movement as a senator in a speech to the Progressive National Baptist Convention in August 1999. (Reality check: Sen. Albert Gore, Sr., lost his re-election in 1970 to Rep. Bill Brock, a Republican from Chattanooga who had voted for the Voting Rights Act in 1965 as a member of the House. The vice president doesn't mention this inconvenient fact because he would like us to think his father was some sort of civil rights martyr. In fact the elder Sen. Gore opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act -- a decision he continued to defend even after he left office.) 

"Incredibly, while these 18 to 20 year-olds cannot legally buy a beer, cannot purchase a bottle of wine and cannot order a drink in a bar, right now they can walk into any gun shop, any pawn shop, any gun show, anywhere in America and buy a handgun." Al Gore, in a speech before the U.S. Conference of Mayors in New Orleans, June 14, 1999. either haplessly ignorant of, or deliberately ignoring, the Gun Control Act of 1968, which made it illegal to sell a handgun to anyone under the age of 21, and several additional laws which make it illegal for anyone under 18 to even possess a handgun.  Also see Who is Al Gore Kidding?

"Tobacco addiction sinks its claws in deeply, it's just as powerful of [sic] an addiction as heroin or crack cocaine..." Al Gore, ex-tobacco farmer and ex-smoker(!), in West Seattle, WA, 12/16/97 West Seattle Herald, 12/24/97

Mr. Gore says he's committed to "eliminating the internal combustion engine" in Earth in the Balance. 

"The Pacific Yew can be cut down and processed to produce a potent chemical, taxol [Gore must absolutely love that name!], which offers some promise of curing certain forms of lung, breast and ovarian cancer in patients who would otherwise quickly die. It seems an easy choice -- sacrifice the tree for a human life until one learns that three trees must be destroyed for each patient treated." Gore, in Earth in the Balance 

"[DDT] can be environmentally dangerous in tiny amounts." Gore, in Earth in the Balance, with absolutely no scientific studies referenced. Fact: The use of DDT has resulted in the saving of millions of (human) lives from malaria. It must be all those dead mosquitoes Mr. Gore weeps for. The real facts are HERE. And see THIS indictment of the inhumanitarian cluelessness of the wealthy enviro-chic.
 

Gore, about the menace of global warming: "there is no longer any significant disagreement within the scientific community" (Oh, really? See: THIS, this (scroll down), this and this) ( If you have the stomach, you can take the Gore / Unabomber Quiz HERE. ) "...Vice President Al Gore, at his 51st birthday bash this year ... claimed that the planet, particularly his native-or-adopted Tennessee, had heated up [remarkably during his lifetime]." — Washington Times, 9-7-99 (Oh, yeah? 
See THIS chart!)
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Click the map to see the web video "Al Gore: An Inconvenient Story" focusing on Al Gore's Big, Fat Carbon Footprint 
"Mr. Environment," Al Gore, wasted 4 billion gallons of reservoir water because the Connecticut River was only 6 to 8 inches deep at the time, too shallow to float his canoe for a campaign photo-op.  So he had it pumped in at the rate of 180,000 gallons per second.  “To me, these [environmental concerns] are more than public policy issues, they are moral issues,” said Gore during the photo "opportunity" on July 22, '99.  Does he think declaring it a "moral" crusade gives him a blank check to advocate taking draconian, unconstitutional action?  Or was he just trying to boisterously divert attention from the extreme hypocrisy his campaign staff was displaying at that moment -- having the Secret Service do their dirty work and ask that 4 billion gallons of precious water be wasted during an exceptionally dry year?  Or both?  Obviously, a lot of effort was expended just to squeeze out a staged "news" photo good enough to hopefully warm the cockles of gullible voters' hearts. See the reference here.

During an ABC-TV special on April 11, 1998, Gore told Peter Jennings that the reason he is obsessed with global warming is because he took a college course from Professor Roger Revelle, who, in Gore's words, "was the very first person in the world to start analyzing this problem." Actually, the geological and meteorological communities have long been aware that the problem was originally analyzed in the 19th century by Svante Arrhenius, whose famous calculations showed that the planet should warm 5 degrees centigrade if the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere doubled. (See this reference.)

On ABC News' Nightline program Feb. 24, 1994, Gore called global-warming skeptics Dr. Patrick Michaels and Dr. Fred Singer "anti-environmentalists" and urged host Ted Koppel to trash such opponents of his draconian environmental proposals, not on the basis of their careful, even cautious, research, but simply because they were able to secure funding from companies Gore's proposals might cripple. Of course, no one tried to trash Gore's environmentalist allies because they were funded by companies and government agencies the proposals might benefit or by other special interests or fanatical business-haters. (See this reference.) Gore's attitude help set an example for the more extreme environmentalists to emphasize ad-hominem, rather than scientific, arguments. 

"I’m happy to have them name it after me," said Gore about the "Gore Tax" which he had encouraged to be imposed on phone bills by dictatorial executive department fiat in a completely unconstitutional, congress-avoiding totalitarian-style maneuver. The quote was reported by the Associated Press, 7/11/99 

In a debate with Vice Presidential contender Jack Kemp on Oct. 9, 1996, Albert Gore said, "We are stronger and more secure today because of Bill Clinton's handling of foreign policy." (despite the massively accelerated provision of supercomputers, weaponry and sophisticated missile guidance systems to the Red Chinese, even though some of it began on a smaller scale under the preceding Bush Administration, and despite the secret Executive Orders in which Clinton placed the American armed forces under U.N. Command without Congressional approval.) -- Detroit News, Oct. 10, 1996. 

"What happened as a result does a great disservice to a man I believe will be regarded in the history books as one of our greatest presidents." Albert Gore on the South Lawn of the White House, 12/19/98, referring to Bill Clinton 

On nationwide TV (MSNBC) on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2000, Al Gore said, "It didn't happen," referring to the assault his campaign workers made on Purple Heart and Medal-of-Honor Winner Sen. Bob Kerrey (angrily throwing mud on him and calling him a 'cripple') in New Hampshire the previous weekend. (See this source)

 
Furtive Gore in Buddhist temple

Okay, so which way is it ???

New York Times headline, Sept. 5, 1997: "Nuns Say Temple Event With Gore Was Not a Fundraiser
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Washington Post headline, same day
"Nuns Tell of Panic About Fundraiser: Documents Destroyed or Altered to Conceal Temple's Role with DNC"
 

Al Gore, when asked about his illegal fundraising activities wherein he and John Huang helped take in more than $130,000 for the Democratic Party at the Hsi Lai Buddhist temple (where videotape footage shows he was greeted by dozens of Buddhist monks with shaved heads and orange sashes or robes) in Hacienda Heights in southern California on 4/29/96

"I didn't realize I was in a Buddhist temple."

Then, as details of the event started to come out in October, Gore claimed: "Number one, we have strictly abided by all of the campaign finance laws, strictly. There’ve been no violations." (Al Gore on NBC’s "Meet the Press," 10/13/96) 

Well, Janet Reno's Justice Department, concentrating on the smallest fry involved (just to show they really are "doing their job"), claims to have prosecuted 21 people and one corporation to date. And so far, as Bill Bradley pointed out, 70 people have taken the fifth, 17 people have fled the country and 13 people have been convicted. "No violations," indeed.

In response to accusations that the fundraising phone calls he made from the White House violated federal law, Mr. Gore said they were both "legal and appropriate." (Manchester Union-Leader 9-6-97) But then a few days later he promised "not to make such calls again." (Washington Post 9-9-97) Now, documents released at the beginning of December 1999 show the FBI had notes written by aide Davis Strauss in which contrary to his firm denials the vice president is recorded as having asked at a White House meeting, "Is it possible to do a reallocation for me to take more of the events and the calls?" And according to another note, "Count me in on the calls." this after the FBI questioned Gore and recorded his saying he "could not recall" details of that meeting 23 separate times. (New York Post, 2-15-2000)

"Amid a flurry of questions about fund-raising calls he made from the White House during the last presidential election, the vice president held a hastily arranged news conference [in 1997] at the White House. He insisted there was 'no controlling legal authority' preventing his actions." -- Glen Johnson, Associated Press, April 5, 2000. Apparently Mr. Gore doesn't know there IS a "controlling legal authority" for federal laws. It's called the "Department of Justice."

Some brief references to Albert, Hillary, crooks and other scumbags may be found here.Lately Al Gore has come out in favor of so-called "campaign finance reform" (!)  This is like famous bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde or Willie Sutton coming out in favor of restricting bank deposits in order to show they "really, really are" concerned about bank safety:

"Gore noted that he had backed a sweeping campaign finance bill sponsored by Senators John McCain, Republican of Arizona, and Russell D. Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin. ‘Unlike Senator Bradley, I was a co-sponsor of it,’ Gore said, '" (The New York Times, 11/24/99)

"Gore not only did not, but could not have cosponsored McCain-Feingold. Russ Feingold was not elected until 1992. Al Gore quit the Senate in 1992 to become Vice President. Feingold and Gore never served together." (Bill Bradley for President Press Release, 12/7/99) 

Transcript of Deposition of Albert Gore Taken April 18, 2000 by the Department of Justice Campaign Financing Task Force:
Question: Did you have any understanding, or do you have any understanding, that there was a price tag associated with the [White House] coffees?
Gore: No, I do not and did not.
Question: With respect to raising the $108 million, did you have discussions with anybody concerning the role coffees would play in raising that type of money?
Gore: Well, let me define the term "raising," if I could,because if you mean by it, would they be events at which money was raised, the answer is no. But it is, it was then and has for a long time been common practice to have meetings with people who are interested in various subjects, spend time with them, cultivate the relationship, show them the respect that the time signifies, and then, on the basis of the relationship that is built up then and in other ways, ask them to support the DNC [Democratic National Committee]...
The above transcript section was read verbatim by Chris Matthews on his Hardball TV Program on 6-26-2000, and without skipping a beat, he added: "In other words, warm 'em up -- and hit 'em for money," as only Matthews could know so well after having served as Administrative Assistant to Democratic Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill, arguably the most powerful speaker of the last century (Washington's dirty little secret: the vast majority of all "first" campaign contributions from a particular source are initiated by the politicians, not by the donors). Thereupon his guest, Vanity Fair editor and The Nation columnist Christopher Hitchens said, "It's enough to make a cat laugh, isn't it?  Lanny Davis -- remember him? --  was asked after they discovered the videos of those coffee mornings, and where money is openly being solicited..." See THIS reference.
Columnist / Science Writer / Talk Show Host Lowell Ponte slams Gore along with other liberals HERE
For your further amusement, visit: "Goretopia! Envisioning a post-present future for the generations that will follow the children of our parent's generation" and other spoofs...

and check out EARTH AND THE UNBALANCED "Environmental Policy as if PEOPLE Mattered"

...and since there are so many real Al Gore quotes, why would anyone bother making up a bunch of fake ones? Well, it would be typical of the Clinton White House team to do it so that later on, they can try to discredit ALL the Al Gore quote collections as being part of an alleged "conspiracy," including the real ones. More than one casual reader has been fooled by such well-oiled White House "spin machine" maneuvers this way. So go ahead and check out the "THESE ARE NOT GORE QUOTES" page here -- and remember to SCROLL DOWN !

"He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense." — John McCarthy
"Under the higher law, under the great law of morality and righteousness, he is precisely as guilty if, instead of lying in a court, he lies in a newspaper or on the stump; and in all probability, the evil effects of his conduct are infinitely more widespread and more pernicious." -- Theodore Roosevelt 
"No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency." -- Theodore Roosevelt 
"The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic." — H. L. Mencken 
I don't know about you, but I'm sick and tired of "public servants" whose character is dubious at best. Once somebody is proven to be a habitual truth-stretcher, what position of "authority" would any sensible person ever trust him in? And what could he ever say that any sensible person would ever trust him about from then on? Take your time... Hint: everyone would wonder, "Is this another lie?" everysingle time he opens his mouth. HERE are a bunch of quick insights about moral character.
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20 posted on 05/27/2006 9:06:50 PM PDT by FreeKeys (I just bought ANOTHER 12-pack of TUBORG. Yummmm! Buy Danish! SUPPORT DENMARK!!!)
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