Posted on 11/15/2002 6:58:23 AM PST by alisasny
Excerpt from Barbara Walters interview with Al Gore and family, which airs tonight on 20/20 at 10:00 p.m. ET/9:00 p.m. CT (check your local listings).
The following exchanges, while sure to interest Note readers and historians, actually won't be part of tonight's 20/20 broadcast, so you can read them only here and now:
WALTERS: I'm not sure that people realize that while you were in the residence of the Vice President [during the Florida recount] there were crowds of people outside screaming at you. What was that all about?
AL GORE: Well, this was the Republican response to what was happening during that 36-day period, and they organized busloads of people that came and stood outside the house all day and all night screaming at the top of their lungs.
WALTERS: What, "Get out!"?
TIPPER GORE: Things like that, yes, and, and sometimes … things that we don't want to say on your program, and, some people saw that they were buses from "churches," but it was organized. The one thing that, that they did mainly was reach the bedrooms of our children, and Albert was still in school locally, and trying to study, so we rearranged, you know, they … kids moved to a different part of the house, and I was trying to think of a way that we could kind of laugh about this since obviously it was out of our control, there wasn't anything anybody could do so I got all the boom boxes in the house and … I remember sort of what the government did with Noriega … I thought we'd try that, and I aimed them at, toward, you know, where the crowd …
WALTERS: The crowd?
TIPPER GORE: … And I put nature sounds on and turned it all the way up. And at least the kids laughed.
AL GORE: There were a few, more than a few who supported us and were offended by the organized chanting round the clock who came out on the other street corner during the day to express their support with signs, and … You know, emotions were running high throughout the country and it was just an unprecedented time.
KARENNA GORE: Well, when we were in the Vice President's house during the recount, it was it was very intense. And one of the things I remember is that there was a … an organized effort by, I don't know whether it was the RNC or it was … it was right-wing groups, it was definitely Bush-campaign-oriented effort to bus in people to have a sort of siege at the Vice President's house, and, so, they were all lining there, screaming, and it was kind of an assortment of groups. I mean, some of them were anti, um, were anti-abortion groups, and some of them were pro-gun groups, and some of them … they all had their different signs. But they were all screaming, "Get out of Cheney's house," the whole time. And I just remember being there next to my dad, because I went for a run, and I ran back through them, and I was very upset when I came into the house. And my whole attitude was, like, "We've got to fight back harder. And where are our crowds?" And my dad, I'll never forget his response. He said, "We have to do what's best for the country, and it is not good for the country to have this kind of divisiveness. And he was on the phone, really calling off the dogs. There were people who wanted to fan the … the flames of the racial issue and have real unrest. And he was on the phone asking them not to, because of what was best for the country not because of what was best for him politically. And that's really who he is.
WALTERS: Do you remember the crowds outside screaming?
KRISTEN GORE: The crowds that were screaming outside our house, you know, "Get out of Cheney's house." And other things … of that nature, were really upsetting. It was difficult … It was just very … upsetting that someone would … yell those things at us. It felt … we felt sort of like … trapped in this … you know, little house with all these people yelling mean things. It's no fun. You know, whether you're a child of the person who they're directed at, or anyone else. It … it wasn't a good situation.
WALTERS: Were you scared?
KRISTEN GORE: I was scared that the truth was not going to come out. That's what I was.
After 20/20 and a break for your local news, you can catch Gore on Letterman.
The one who thought that it was better to remain quiet and accept a loss (that may not have been a loss) rather than divide the nation in 1960.
Albert Gore Junior's puke is making me barf.
SO the Gores DID notice our FREEP THE CREEP protest outside of the VP mansion!!!!! Sean Hannity keeps talking about Freepers today. GOOD!
Then here in Los Angeles, at the Davis/Simon debate at LA Times bldg. the Davis union thugs all came dressed alike, matching signs professionally printed, and they were so loud and rude and mean, that Green party candidate couldn't even be interviewed outside the bldg. These thugs are scary! They get paid to show up and bully us!
Bill Clinton obviously had outrage for Rush Limbaugh. Bill Clinton can also be seen (in rarely shown news clips) venting his frustration at reporters who press him for answers on topics he doesn't want to touch. He doesn't say, "No comment" or "I've answered that before"; he gets vicious and attacks the journalists personally; he bans them and has them hassled.
Some day the truths about that administration will be revealed but not until the Kennedy Clan reveals their notes on the JFK White House (which won't be until many of the persons accounted are deceased).
We don't need to have the details revealed to know who Clinton-Clinton-Gore were. It's would just be good to see them publicly exposed.
No, they know it isn't true. That normally wouldn't stop them, but they expected they would be lambasted in the editorial press for the next two weeks about letting Gore make such a statement unchallenged.
WALTERS: Were you scared?
KRISTEN GORE: I was scared that the truth was not going to come out. That's what I was.
And it did. And Gore is no more!
Great post alisasny!!
Great job Kristinn, Angelwood and the D.C. FReepers!!
That's sounds like a muscial question to me.
The 2000 election would make a great musical.
And he lied about it to his children.
I know Democrats lie to the media, each other, and always to us. But with as few illusions as I have, I believed they told the truth to their children. How could they not?
One more illusion bites the dust. Still, the Gore's are many cuts above the Clintons. Maybe it was an innocent mistake? This bites.
THIS IS GREAT! Why didn't the tree mention FR? He knows who did it and he knows the FReepers weren't bussed in.
And he lied about it to his children.
I know Democrats lie to the media, each other, and always to us. But with as few illusions as I have, I always believed they told the truth to their children. How could they not?
One more illusion bites the dust. Still, the Gore's are many cuts above the Clintons. Maybe it was an innocent mistake? This bites.
THIS IS GREAT! Why didn't the tree mention FR? He knows who did it and he knows the FReepers weren't bussed in.
Yeah, sure, Tipper. Riiiiight. The DC FReepers screaming "things we don't want to say on TV"..... LIAR!!! If there are ANY FReepers with a stricter set of rules for clean FReeping behavior, I'd like to hear about them.
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