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.
I was out there nearly every evening, and weekend days, and I never saw buses dropping people off. One day a bus full of tourists did convince their driver to make a stop (that was not on their travel itinerary) so that a whole bunch of them could protest with us.
As for the poor "little" Gore kids who are upset that people were saying so-called mean things... get over it, kiddies. We didn't use profanity. If they were old enough to travel with daddy and actively campaign for him, including making position speeches (and get massive speeding tickets), then they are big enough to listen to a dissenting opinion.
And what's this about Alpha Al calling off the dogs from his side? I can't recall whose book about the election (was it Bugliosi's?) mentioned this subject, but Al's misremembering (more likely outright lying) what his calls were about. He was making frantic calls to AFL-CIO bigwigs over Thanksgiving weekend, trying to round up warm bodies to counter our huge crowds.
No wonder this part of the story ends up on the cutting room floor. ABC had crews at Cheney's house, and they know that Al was "embellishing" his story to the point of lying like a dawg.
I'm glad to know that our presence at the Naval Observatory in November and December 2000 caught his attention.
Sore Loserman for sure!
Oh, BARF! What a crock. Who does she think she is kidding ? The protest were loud but the Gore family was never in any danger and they all know it. These people are warped and dangerous.
Yep...what a gutless pinhead Algore is...BWAHAHAHAHA!!
I say you give him the Flying Double-SuplexTreatment, my FRiend...MUD
STAY out of Cheney's house!
Hee Hee Hee
Sorry if any FReepers were pinged twice on this thread.
I will say still, that those days were both a privilege and a total delight for me. I met and spoke with so many wonderful people from all walks of life.
"We few, we band of brothers"....."and those gentlemen now in bed in England will curse their fate that they were not with us this day and hold their manhoods cheap whilst any speak of St. Crispins Day". - Henry V
I will remember those days for the rest of my life with the greatest affection.
Regards,
I see they didn't mention the young boy who was pushed down by 'their' people. Or all the cars and busses and trucks that went by with a toot-toot and a thumbs-up!
. . . they all had their different signs. But they were all screaming, "Get out of Cheney's house," the whole time.
No, KARENNA, there was also, "Hey, Hey! Ho, Ho! AL GORE HAS GOT TO GO! Hey, Hey! Ho, Ho! AL GORE HAS GOT TO GO!" I specifiically remember BIGG RED losing her voice right in the middle of a "Hey, Hey! Ho, Ho! AL GORE HAS GOT TO GO!"
I'm sure you, and that lying piece of human flesh that you call your father, remember that little ditty, don't you, KARENNA?
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