Lauer Implores Gore: 'You Could Be In A Position To Save The Planet!' [Video]

Today Show/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

In all my years of Today-watching, I'm not sure I've ever seen anything quite like the display Matt Lauer put on this morning. In beseeching Al Gore to run for president, Lauer literally portrayed him as the planet's potential savior.

"If you were to run for president, you could take this issue to the next level, even if just during a campaign. And if you were fortunate enough to win the presidency, you would sit in the most powerful office in the free world with a real chance to make . . . " Matt stopped himself at the enormity of the prospect before exclaiming "you could be in a position to save the planet!"

View video here.

So stunning was Lauer's sycophancy that it induced an embarrassed chuckle from Gore himself. Al collected himself and let Matt know that he "appreciate[d] the impulse behind the question," but also stated that he is not planning to run. Matt wouldn't take no for an answer: "but as someone who feels as passionately about the subject as you do, and your documentary is evidence of that, why pass up the opportunity to have that world stage again? Because although you're a former vice-president being a sitting president would give you a much higher and more powerful platform."

Al again thanked Matt for his endorsement: "I appreciate that very much."

Matt gave it one last try at interview's end: "What are the chances that someone reaches out to you, makes a phone call, and gets you to up-end this race?"

Matt Lauer, folks - keeping hope alive.

Contact Mark at mark@gunhill.net

[sodpoodle]

"I want Algore in the race just for the fireworks!"

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This is probably a comment made in all the MSM editorial meetings....they just want fireworks... before endorsing/promoting/supporting/throat cramming, a Hillary Rodham/Barack Hussein Obama ticket.

[Doc Savage]

Matt, you may now remove your head from Al's ass.

[leilani]

LOL! What a brown-noser!

It's like the more Matt's hairline recedes, the more baldly partisan he becomes.

[Condor51]

Save the planet my patoot.

He still hasn't cleaned up (to my knowledge) that toxic waste dump on his Tennessee land.

[WesternPacific]

I worked in the mental health field in the past and it was understood that we should never encourage the delusions of a mentally ill person.

[sodpoodle]

It's patently obvious that Al Gore eats more than his planetary portion of food.

;)

[econjack]

The egomaniacs with any realistic shot in the major parties sure don't need any convincing.

...which is precisely why I'd love to see the nut-case run...he'd get his butt kicked.

[RegulatorCountry]

"She called him Noah."

Sort of an inverse ark, aborting humans two by two, to "save" the planet.

[Brad from Tennessee]

Here's a link that pours cold water on Gore's "Science":

http://www.worldclimatereport.com/

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

The Tree in the race is a ratings bonanza, plus it's guaranteed that he'll go after Hitlery without giving a hoot about the consequences. They hate each other, and he's crazy anyway, so look for both of them to dig up skeletons from the X42 years that neither of them want revealed...

[E Rocc]

One should remember that Lauer's role on Today was always to make Katie Couric look smart-by-comparison.

-Eric

[alarm rider]

And just as I had arrived at the conclusion that the descriptive phrase, "Metro-sexual" was reserved for Shep Smith, Matt gets five points....

[KeyLargo]

[JimRed]

"you could be in a position to save the planet!"

..."from the evils of capitalism!"

There, I finished his sentence for him.

[thulldud]

Now THERE was an image I could have done without today. (And I was about to slurp a Pepsi at the time, too. Disaster averted.)

[Cecily]

Noah? So is algore telling us all that God's wrath is about to fall because of man's sin and wickedness?

Algore isn't Noah; he's Chicken Little. Oprah is an idiot made rich by other idiots.

[AlexW]

"Who is Matt Lauer and what is the Today Show?"

I have no idea, but I do remember a "Today" morning show.
I think I last saw it in the early 70s.

The question should be, "Who is Al Gore?".

Being from Tennessee for about 60 years, I knew of the Gore political family....typical corrupt Democraps.
There was some Al Gore that ran for president, but us good folks of Tennessee declined to vote for him.

Now there is Al Gore the climatologist.. The Al Gore that I know of flunked out of divinity school. Is that where they teach climatology?

I really wonder if this fool can tell hot from cold...
Oh, wait..I remember a Gore saying that he invented the internet...Wow, it is a wonder that I can be using it now.

[Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit]

OH! One "n" too many. I am pretty sure I meant "double-dog-dare you"

A slip of the finger can be a dangerous thing . . . um well . . you know what I mean.

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[MainFrame65]

I didn't see it, but I hope he was wearing dark pants so the wet spot wouldn't show.