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Climate activists in shock at Gore sequel bombing at box office: 'This was not supposed to happen' 'Al Gore Gets Ripped Off Again' 'He should have demanded a recount.' Gore fans reduced to blaming the distributor. 'A botched strategy by Paramount Pictures effectively sabotaged the nationwide release' of Gore's sequel. “Sadly, the box-office under-performance of An Inconvenient Sequel will be seized upon by climate-change deniers as ‘proof’ that Americans don’t really care about this issue,” Tucker wrote. According to Deadline Hollywood, Gore’s sequel “grossed $900K, averaging $5,000 (per screen). That brought its cume (cumulative) over seven figures, landing at $1,052,000....

by Mark Finkelstein July 12, 2006 Is university 'journalism' education anything more than training camp for liberal cadres preparing to join MSM ranks? Take, for example, this morning's op-ed in the Seattle Times by Floyd J. McKay, a journalism professor emeritus at Western Washington University. He spouts straight-from-the-Gore's-mouth alarmism about global warming, going so far as to propose that high school students be forced to view Al's movie. He also takes predictable swipes at the Bush administration, conservative talk show hosts, throwing in a particularly nasty swipe at Christian conservatives in the process. Excerpts below. * "Migrations [from farm to...

May 26, 2006 Los Angeles, California What an unbelievable week we had! After scoring tickets through one of Scooter's Hollywood pals, Thursday we joined the brightest stars in Tinsel Town at what had to be the most popular show of the year! Of course I'm talking about the Hollywood premier of Al Gore's film on global warming, "Inconvenient Truth." I had been looking forward to this event for weeks. I spent all day Thursday getting my hair done (green, symbolizing the earth, with an assortment of fresh flowers), and tie-dying a new outfit. I brought out my best sandals (Birkenstock...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Al Gore brushes aside talk of another run for the U.S. presidency and wages a new campaign to protect the Earth that he says must be won. The former Democratic vice president sounds the alarm as a citizen activist armed with his old slide show turned into a Hollywood movie about the threat of global warming. "We face a planetary emergency," Gore told Reuters in advance of next week's opening in U.S. theaters of his critically acclaimed documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth." It makes the case for the need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions linked to climate change....