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.
Yeah, right Al. Do what's best for the country. Then why in the heck did you try to steal the freakin' election? Good grief, this crew will never stop trying to re-write history.
Al, if you really want to do something good for this country, why don't you retire to France?
Shocking. (/sarcasm)
An assortment of groups...and it didn't occur to her for a second that it was THE PEOPLE!
Therefore, you HAVE to be a hater.
There sure were...and they were told to "Get Out Of Cheney's House" LOL
"GORE: I was scared that the truth was not going to come out."
He still is.
LMAO.
How typical that ABC would keep this off the public airwaves.
Troubling. Could this be an admission from Karenna that she and her fellow Democrat campaigners wanted to incite civil unrest by playing the race card?
Is she admitting that they considered actual confrontation? Is she admitting that they do, in fact, repeatedly play the race card in order to "win?" It appears to me that by using the words "have real unrest," she's practically admitting that is what it would have taken for him to win.
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.
Am I reading THIS wrong, or is she saying that Al could/would have won if they had incited a riot and "real unrest" -- and that they, the Dems, actually considered that as an option? That was one of their choices?
They heard you and are still SORE about it ....gotta love it!
"All day and night," implied profanity in our cheers, says he played nature sounds at us, bussed-in protestors, etc.
From the man who invented the Internet and was the subject of Love Story.
Shouldn't that have been their first CLUE that the people weren't with them, when they realized they had to import crowds?
Is it possible that they really do NOT think like we do? I just had no idea they honestly THOUGHT like this -- "We may need unrest to win." Stunning.
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