Al Bores Movie Bombs at Box Office

[CockySOB]

Al's movie is the fifth highest (at the moment, it'll probably end up at about number 3 or 4) doco of all time. I reiterate, what is your definition of a bomb. Take your time...

Now I know you're talking out your ass. Al Gore's movie is barely in the top five documentaries (by gross receipts) currently in theaters.

Space Station 3-D by iMAX has taken in just under US$65 million
Galapagos by iMAX has taken in just under US$16.5 million
Inconvenient Truth by Paramount has taken in just under US$13.5 million
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3-D by iMAX brought in just under US$13 million
Deep Sea 3-D by Disney for iMAX has taken in just under US$13 million

(source: http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/boxoffice/weekend/bycgross/)

Put in perspective, all of the above listed documentaries were shown in fewer than 100 theaters, while Al Gore's flick has already been shown in close to 600 theaters.

Per theater, Gore's movie is a flop compared to these other CURRENT documentaries. And I'll add, these other documentaries are documentaries in truth, and not some propoganda piece put forth by the librull politicos to try to make their platforms more palatable to the public. The term for crockumentaries such as those from Moore and Gore is "infomercial."

 

[Abbey Normal]

Now I know you're talking out your ass. Al Gore's movie is barely in the top five documentaries (by gross receipts) currently in theaters.

Space Station 3-D by iMAX has taken in just under US$65 million
Galapagos by iMAX has taken in just under US$16.5 million
Inconvenient Truth by Paramount has taken in just under US$13.5 million
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3-D by iMAX brought in just under US$13 million
Deep Sea 3-D by Disney for iMAX has taken in just under US$13 million

(source: http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/boxoffice/weekend/bycgross/)

Put in perspective, all of the above listed documentaries were shown in fewer than 100 theaters, while Al Gore's flick has already been shown in close to 600 theaters.

Per theater, Gore's movie is a flop compared to these other CURRENT documentaries. And I'll add, these other documentaries are documentaries in truth, and not some propoganda piece put forth by the librull politicos to try to make their platforms more palatable to the public. The term for crockumentaries such as those from Moore and Gore is "infomercial."

Excellent points.

Btw, we saw Magnificent Desolation in 3D at the Kennedy Space Center this past spring. It was an incredible experience.

 

[red states rule]

Now I know you're talking out your ass. Al Gore's movie is barely in the top five documentaries (by gross receipts) currently in theaters.

Space Station 3-D by iMAX has taken in just under US$65 million
Galapagos by iMAX has taken in just under US$16.5 million
Inconvenient Truth by Paramount has taken in just under US$13.5 million
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3-D by iMAX brought in just under US$13 million
Deep Sea 3-D by Disney for iMAX has taken in just under US$13 million

(source: http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/boxoffice/weekend/bycgross/)

Put in perspective, all of the above listed documentaries were shown in fewer than 100 theaters, while Al Gore's flick has already been shown in close to 600 theaters.

Per theater, Gore's movie is a flop compared to these other CURRENT documentaries. And I'll add, these other documentaries are documentaries in truth, and not some propoganda piece put forth by the librull politicos to try to make their platforms more palatable to the public. The term for crockumentaries such as those from Moore and Gore is "infomercial."

Nice catch of the liberal lies

Desperate people do desperate things

and libs are a very desperate bunch these days

 

[Dr Grump]

Prove what? The Al Gore and Michael Moore make infomercials for the librull loonbats in American politics? That Al Gore and Michael Moore both exploit half-truths to try to sell an ideology which is basically "if the conservatives like it, it's the work of the devil?" And they both do so under the genre of "documentary.

Yep and yep.

Why don't you try proving Al Gore and Michael Moore are nothing alike?

You're the one making the ass-sumption...it's yours to prove....

No shit? Documentaries rarely make it to blockbuster status? You need to go talk to Mr. Conley and let him know it then. And while you're at it, why don't you give us your own explanation of his fantastic equation which doesn't mean jack or shit in the real world? Please, try tackling that one.

It seems you have already let Mr Conoly know.

But here I thought Gore and Moore were nothing alike, yet you say they both produce documentaries. At least that what I understood "docos" to mean. Perhaps in your under-educated mind it means something else.

Yeah, YOU thought they were nothing alike. Where did I say such a thing? Maybe in your overeducated (sic) mind you been making too many ass-sumptions...How unusual...for a neocon...:wank:

Gump, if you're going to make this interesting you need to put some thought into your posts. As it stands, your post was little more than trolling, and by "little more" I do mean "only marginally more."

Crocky, I know me handing your ass to you on a plate is annoying, but you calling me a troll is like John Wayne Gacy accusing Mother Theresa of having an anger problem...get over yourself..I put more thought into my first post on this subject than you've put in any post you've made since joining the board...

Hell, I figured I was being nice by lumping Gore and Moore together. Then again, Moore's crockumentaries made money while Gore's can't even compete with other documentaries which are on the market currently.

As I said, his doco is already third in the all-time highest in the list I provided and hasn't even finished his run yet...

 

[Dr Grump]

Now I know you're talking out your ass. Al Gore's movie is barely in the top five documentaries (by gross receipts) currently in theaters.

Space Station 3-D by iMAX has taken in just under US$65 million
Galapagos by iMAX has taken in just under US$16.5 million
Inconvenient Truth by Paramount has taken in just under US$13.5 million
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3-D by iMAX brought in just under US$13 million
Deep Sea 3-D by Disney for iMAX has taken in just under US$13 million

(source: http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/boxoffice/weekend/bycgross/)

Put in perspective, all of the above listed documentaries were shown in fewer than 100 theaters, while Al Gore's flick has already been shown in close to 600 theaters.

Per theater, Gore's movie is a flop compared to these other CURRENT documentaries. And I'll add, these other documentaries are documentaries in truth, and not some propoganda piece put forth by the librull politicos to try to make their platforms more palatable to the public. The term for crockumentaries such as those from Moore and Gore is "infomercial."

:rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: too funny! This made me laugh out loud. The doco BARELY makes the top five! It's er, number three at the moment and looks like it'll be number two by the end of its run. And you accuse me of trolling...lol. Oh dear. Pssssttt....re Space Station 3D. A couple of things. It has been in release for over four years, it has actors in it, and it is only 46mins long so is considered a short, not a movie per se. Come back to me when you have some facts....instead of trolling...

 

[red states rule]

:rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: too funny! This made me laugh out loud. The doco BARELY makes the top five! It's er, number three at the moment and looks like it'll be number two by the end of its run. And you accuse me of trolling...lol. Oh dear. Pssssttt....re Space Station 3D. A couple of things. It has been in release for over four years, it has actors in it, and it is only 46mins long so is considered a short, not a movie per se. Come back to me when you have some facts....instead of trolling...

I do hope libs will back Bore in 2008 as they are now over this box office bomb. Al Bore will help continue the downfall of the Dems and I will sit back and enjoy the show

 

[Dr Grump]

I do hope libs will back Bore in 2008 as they are now over this box office bomb. Al Bore will help continue the downfall of the Dems and I will sit back and enjoy the show

He has already made it clear he will not be running in 2008...

 

[no1tovote4]

To be honest you cannot call his documentary a "bomb" at the box-office. It is the 10th highest grossing documentary in history and still going...

Comparing it to the blockbuster flicks is a bit unfair for a 45 minute documentary.

Now, let's get real here, the 10th highest grossing documentary? That is still pretty sad for Al... Not really all that big of an audience.

 

[CockySOB]

As I said, his doco is already third in the all-time highest in the list I provided and hasn't even finished his run yet...

And there we have it people! In his cherry-picked list of crockumentaries, Dr. Dumbshit can properly claim that Al Gore's movie titled "An Inconvenient Truth" the the third-highest grossing documentary of all-time - provided you only look as his little list of THREE [ahem] documentaries...."

Go home little boy, and think for yourself for a change. Who knows, you might decide to vote Republican if you do....

 

[Dr Grump]

And there we have it people! In his cherry-picked list of crockumentaries, Dr. Dumbshit can properly claim that Al Gore's movie titled "An Inconvenient Truth" the the third-highest grossing documentary of all-time - provided you only look as his little list of THREE [ahem] documentaries...."

Go home little boy, and think for yourself for a change. Who knows, you might decide to vote Republican if you do....

Not my list Brains....

 

[red states rule]

He has already made it clear he will not be running in 2008...

Do you REALLY believe anything Bill, Hillary, or Al says?

 

[Dr Grump]

To be honest you cannot call his documentary a "bomb" at the box-office. It is the 10th highest grossing documentary in history and still going...

Comparing it to the blockbuster flicks is a bit unfair for a 45 minute documentary.

Now, let's get real here, the 10th highest grossing documentary? That is still pretty sad for Al... Not really all that big of an audience.

?

 

[Dr Grump]

Do you REALLY believe anything Bill, Hillary, or Al says?

Bill? No. Hillary...hhhmmmm. Al? Yes. Call Al boring, meandering, whatever. I do think he is honest though (well, as honest as politicians can get)...

 

[red states rule]

Bill? No. Hillary...hhhmmmm. Al? Yes. Call Al boring, meandering, whatever. I do think he is honest though (well, as honest as politicians can get)...

Lets see, according to Al he invented the internet, discovered Love Canel, he and Tipper were the inspiration for Love Story, and he had the ice tea problem when funny money contributions were discussed in Bill's Oval office

Yes, he is a typical honest liberal

 

[Dr Grump]

Lets see, according to Al he invented the internet, discovered Love Canel, he and Tipper were the inspiration for Love Story, and he had the ice tea problem when funny money contributions were discussed in Bill's Oval office

Yes, he is a typical honest liberal

He never said he invented the internet and he never said he and Tipper were the inspiration for Love Story. Have no idea about Love Canel or the funny money contributions. I'd say most politicos have funny money problems. As I said though, he's OK for a politician. I'd trust him more than Bush or any of the other cabal of the current admin.

 

[red states rule]

He never said he invented the internet and he never said he and Tipper were the inspiration for Love Story. Have no idea about Love Canel or the funny money contributions. I'd say most politicos have funny money problems. As I said though, he's OK for a politician. I'd trust him more than Bush or any of the other cabal of the current admin.

Of course he did. Al Bore is such a blowhard. I love it when he opens his blow hole. You never know what he is going to take credit for next

 

[Dr Grump]

Of course he did. Al Bore is such a blowhard. I love it when he opens his blow hole. You never know what he is going to take credit for next

Show me the quotes....

 

[red states rule]

Show me the quotes....

http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6315/gore.html

GORE THE UNCONTROLLABLE LIAR
Al Gore has more Whoppers than Burger King

"I'm going to lay it on the line...the next President of the United States has to be someone the American people can believe will stay with his convictions." --Al Gore, 1988 Democrat Presidential Debate 2/18/88

Gore Invented the Internet

"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet." (Al Gore, CNN’s "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer," 3/9/99)

"I helped to negotiate an agreement with the Internet service providers to put a parent protection page up and give parents the ability to click on all of the web sites that their children have visited lately. That’ll put a lot of bargaining leverage in the hands of parents."(Al Gore, ABC’s "Nightline" Democratic Debate, 12/16/99)

Gore Had Nothing to Do with Internet Protection for Children. "The [Internet] industry had been working for a year with bipartisan members of Congress on putting a link to on-line child-safety resources on the front page of Internet portals - with no participation from the Vice President."(editorial, The Wall Street Journal, 5/6/99) Bartlett Cleland, a board member of the nonprofit Internet Education Foundation, said: "There was no Gore involvement. They hijacked this issue. He makes it sound like he led the project. I can’t imagine what he will invent tomorrow."(The Washington Times, 5/6/99)

Gore loves tobacco
"When I was a child, my family was attacked by an invisible force that was then considered harmless. My sister Nancy was older than me. There were only the two of us, and I loved her more than life itself. She started smoking when she was 13 years old. The connection between smoking and lung cancer had not yet been established. But years later, the cigarettes had taken their toll. It hurt very badly to watch her savaged by that terrible disease. Her husband Frank and all of us who loved her so much tried to get her to stop smoking. . . . Tomorrow morning, another 13-year-old girl will start smoking. I love her too. Three thousand young people in America will start smoking tomorrow. One thousand of them will die a death not unlike my sister’s. And that is why until I draw my last breath, I will pour my heart and soul into the cause of protecting our children from the dangers of smoking." (Al Gore, The Democratic National Convention, 8/28/96)
"Throughout most of my life, I raised tobacco. I want you to know that with my own hands, all of my life, I put it in the plant beds and transferred it. I've hoed it. I've dug in it. I've sprayed it, I've chopped it, I've shredded it, spiked it, put it in the barn and stripped it and sold it.

Audio
(Source: [New York] Newsday, 2/26/88 – note that this was 4 years after his sister’s death)

Gore claimed his sister was "the very first volunteer" for the Peace Corps. In fact, she was a paid mid-level bureaucrat.

At the 1992 Democrat Convention, Al Gore similarly exploited his son for political gain by relating emotional and personal details about his son’s accident.

E plu...what?

"We can build a collective civic space large enough for all our separate identities, that we can be e pluribus unum -- out of one, many."
E Pluribus Unum is the motto on the Great Seal of the United States of America, and is Latin for "out of many, one," not "out of one, many."
(Source: January 1994. From a Milwaukee speech to the Institute of World Affairs as quoted in Investor's Business Daily, October 25, 1996.)

"I was the author of that proposal. I wrote that....That is something for which I have been the principal proponent for a long time."
Al Gore in a Time Interview, on the EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT (EITC). Now, this is interesting, since the EITC became law in 1975, a year BEFORE Gore was elected to Congress.
(Source: Time Magazine November 1, 1999 Vol. 154 No. 18)

Gore Co-Sponsored McCain/Feingold Campaign Finance Reform?
"Gore noted that he had backed a sweeping campaign finance bill sponsored by Senators John McCain, Republican of Arizona, and Russell D. Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin. ‘Unlike Senator Bradley, I was a co-sponsor of it,’ Gore said, ‘and I feel that it’s very important to get the influence of special interest money out of our politics.’" (The New York Times, 11/24/99)

"Gore not only did not, but could not have cosponsored McCain-Feingold. Russ Feingold was not elected until 1992. Al Gore quit the Senate in 1992 to become Vice President. Feingold and Gore never served together." (Bill Bradley for President Press Release, 12/7/99)

When Gore ran for the Senate in 1984, one TV ad proclaimed, ''He wrote the bipartisan plan on arms control that US negotiators will take to the Russians.''

''That is a vast overstatement. He had nothing to do with what we proposed to the Soviets,'' Kenneth Adelman, who was the director of the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, said in an interview. Adelman's view is supported by the two biographies, and by contemporaneous news accounts.

In two campaign ads in 1988, Gore awarded himself credit for the landmark 1980 Superfund legislation, saying he was the ''author of a tough Superfund law to protect the environment and crack down on toxic polluters.'' But someone else was the author.

Mary and Joseph were homeless??

"Speaking from my own religious tradition in this Christmas season, 2,000 years ago a homeless woman gave birth to a homeless child in a manger because the inn was full."
Hello! Mary and Joseph were not homeless!
(Sources: Press Conference at HUD, 12/22/97; George Will column, Sunday May 17 1998)

ABORTION
Several times during the debate (1999 in NH with Bradley), and again yesterday, Gore insisted that he has always supported both a woman's right to choose an abortion and Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that ensured that right.

In the debate's aftermath, Gore found himself closely questioned on his abortion position on a morning call-in show on New Hampshire Public Radio. The first caller, a woman who said she watched the debate, declared, ''I understand if you've changed your position during your career. I'm just having a hard ... I don't know how I can support your candidacy if you're dishonest about such an important subject, and especially on national television.''

Gore reassured the woman, saying he had always supported Roe v. Wade, though he noted that ''sometimes early in my career I voted to restrict federal funding of abortions.'' Nonetheless, he said, ''I've always supported Roe v. Wade. I've always supported keeping abortions legal....''

A review of Gore's congressional voting record shows that, as a House member from Tennessee, Gore voted in 1977 for an amendment that said, in part, that abortion ''takes the life of an unborn child who is a living human being,'' and that no right to abortion ''is secured by the Constitution.''

In 1984, Gore also supported an amendment to a civil rights bill that would, in one clause, have redefined the term ''person'' to include ''unborn children from the moment of conception.'' The amendment failed, but the National Abortion Rights Action League at the time said its effect would have been to end federal funding for hospitals that perform abortions.

Gore Was Pro-Life as a Congressman. "It is my deep personal conviction that abortion is wrong. I hope that some day we will see the current outrageously large number of abortions drop sharply. . . . Let me assure you that I share your belief that innocent human life must be protected . . . In my opinion, it is wrong to spend federal funds for what is arguably the taking of a human life. . . ." (Letter from Rep. Al Gore to a Constituent, 7/18/84) Gore had a high rating from the antiabortion movement (an 84 rating), and a similar letter to a constituent in 1987, can be found in a 1999 biography, ''Gore: A Political Life,'' by former ABC News reporter Bob Zelnick.
HOMOSEXUALITY
Gore called Homosexuality "abnormal" and "wrong" and in the October 28, 1984, Tennessean he was quoted "I do not believe it is simply an acceptable alternative that society should affirm...." Now he embraces homosexuals.
LOVE CONNECTION

The inspiration for "Love Story"?

"Around midnight, after a three-city tour of Texas last month, the Vice President came wandering back to the press compartment of Air Force Two. Sliding in behind a table with the two reporters covering him that day, he picked slices of fruit from their plates and spent two hours swapping opinions about movies and telling stories about old chums like Erich Segal, who, Gore said, used Al and Tipper as models for the uptight preppy and his free-spirited girlfriend in Love Story; and Gore's Harvard roommate Tommy Lee Jones, who played the roommate of the Gore-like character in the movie version of Segal's book." (Time, 12/15/97)


"The author, Erich Segal, told The New York Times he was 'befuddled' by the comments in the first place. He said he called Gore, and the vice president said it was a misunderstanding."
(Sources: The Des Moines Register, 12/15/97; Gore concedes 'miscommunication' about 'Love Story' role)

"I found a little place in upstate New York called Love Canal. I had the first hearing on that issue and Toone, Tenn. But that was the one that started it all." (Al Gore, The New York Times, 12/10/99)
Jimmy Carter, the Federal Government and Local Residents All Found Love Canal Long Before Gore Did. Lois Gibbs, the Leader of the Love Canal Home Owners Association, Rebukes Gore. ‘"He did not begin Love Canal,’ Lois Gibbs, legendary leader of the Love Canal Home Owners Association, said Wednesday in an interview." ([New York] Newsday, 12/3/99)

Al Gore helped cover up radiation experiments on little children taking place in Oak Ridge, TN.

Special exception for Clinton.
"I seek this office to restore the rule of law and respect for common sense to the White House." ...

"Americans in every region and in both political parties have been shaken by the betrayal of public trust ... and the dishonesty of the public officials."...

"Any government official who ... lies to the United States Congress will be fired immediately."
(Source: Seattle Times, June 29, 1987)
Gore must be talking about the standards he'd apply to a Republican White House! After all, he referred to Clinton as "one of our greatest presidents" at the White House Post-Impeachment Pep Rally on December 19, 1998.

Last month, in a lengthy profile in the Washington Post, Gore acknowledged his memory had failed him when he once said that Hubert H. Humphrey used some of Gore's wording in his 1968 acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

Gore overstated his exposure to danger during his military service in Vietnam; erroneously claimed that his investigative reporting at the Tennessean in Nashville in the 1970s had sent people to jail; and falsely insisted that half of his staff members were women.

VIETNAM

"And I was shot at. . . . I spent most of my time in the field." (Al Gore, The Washington Post, 2/3/88) "I carried an M-16 . . . I pulled my turn on the perimeter at night and walked through the elephant grass, and I was fired upon." (Al Gore, Los Angeles Times, 10/15/99) Gore No Longer Mentions Combat Duty on the Campaign Trail. "On the campaign trail today, while he suggests no combat heroics, he nonetheless mentions his service in Vietnam proudly." Los Angeles Times, 10/15/99)
Gore Had Bodyguards Assigned to Keep Him Out of Harm’s Way in Vietnam. "In Vietnam, Alan Leo, a photographer in the press brigade office where Gore worked as a reporter, said he was summoned by Brig. Gen. K.B. Cooper, the 20th Engineer Brigade’s Commander, and told Leo that he, Cooper, ‘had a great amount of respect for the senator.’ He asked Leo, the most experienced member of the press unit, to make sure that nothing happened to Gore. ‘He requested that "Gore not get into situations that were dangerous,’" said Leo, who did what he could to carry out Cooper’s directive. He described his half-dozen or so trips into the field with Gore as situations where ‘I could have worn a tuxedo.’"(Newsweek, 12/6/99)

While in the Army, Al Gore wrote his parents that the U.S. Army was a "Fascist organization."

Gore got out of Vietnam after 4 1/2 months of a twelve month tour of duty and out of the Army early on the excuse he was going to go to Divinity School. In a couple months he flunked out but did not return to fulfill his Army obligations.

REPORTER
"In 1987, Gore’s eagerness to play up his image as an investigative reporter led to one of the worst gaffes of his short-lived campaign for the presidency. Gore told The Des Moines Register that his reporting ‘got a bunch of people indicted and sent to jail.’" (Columbia Journalism Review, 1/93)

"Presidential candidate Sen. Albert Gore Jr. says he made an honest mistake when he said a Metro councilman had gone to prison after Gore wrote stories as a Tennessean reporter." (The Tennessean, 10/4/87)
In two memos to Gore in late 1987 and early 1988, his press secretary, and then his communications director, warned Gore that he had developed a record for stretching the truth. ''Your main pitfall is exaggeration,'' Arlie Schardt, the campaign's communications director, warned Gore in March 1988. In September, 1987, Mike Kopp, the campaign's press secretary, told Gore in another memo that his image ''may continue to suffer if you continue to go out on a limb with remarks that may be impossible to back up.'' In this regard, Al Gore now claims he was a reporter for 7 years, although he used to claim only five. Records reflect the lower number.

Campaigning in Iowa, Gore overstated his farming background. He claimed that he slopped hogs, drove mules, built homes and cleared land by hand with a double bladed ax. "I learned how to plow a steep hillside with mules, hose out the hog waste and take up hay all day long in the hot sun." Of course this was in Washington, DC, in the 1960s.

Gore also claimed to have attended school in rural Tennessee as well in urban Washington, DC. In fact, he attended the private school St. Albins. He has claimed recently to have been a "great student" but in fact, was a poor 25th out of 51 in high school receiving predominately C's. He had average SAT scores. He was accepted into Harvard only because his father was a Senator. The political champion of the natural world received [a] D in Natural Sciences 6 (Man's Place in Nature) and then got a C-plus in Natural Sciences 118 in his senior year at Harvard. Al Gore actually flunked out of grad school at Vanderbilt University's College of Divinity. Gore biographer Bill Turque revealed: "Of the eight classes [Gore] took over three semesters, according to his Vanderbilt transcript, five ended in F's or incompletes that lapsed into F's. ..." Shortly thereafter, Gore bailed out of divinty school and enrolled in Vanderbilt's College of Law, where he also dropped out after earning only mediocre grades.

LODINE
In September 2000 Gore got into some difficulties when he claimed his mother-in-law and his dog both took a prescription medicine for arthritus Lodine, but that it cost his mother 3 times as much. It turned out that he had made the whole story up using numbers from discredited year-old leftist propaganda which cited false wholesale costs, not retail costs. After days the Gore staff couldn't tell if either the dog or mother-in-law were even taking Lodine and certainly had no idea of the costs. Country-wide Lodine costs slightly more for pets than for humans.

UNION LULLABY
Gore also ridiculously claimed that when a baby his mother sang him a lullaby jingle "Look for the union label" which was not written until Gore was 27. This suggests that Gore has a very serious brain disease if he thinks he was a baby when he was 27 years old. Perhaps mentally. For 3 days his staff claimed that Gore had mistaken it for a totally different 1901 union song but Gore finally decided to claim that it was a joke. Strange joke!




AL "UNABOMBER" GORE
WACKO ENVIRONMENTAL EXTREMIST
Al Gore wrote the book Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit, which is the wacko socialist manifesto to regulate everything based on junk science. He parroted the extremist EARTH FIRSTers terrorist party line with a straight face. It is probably the most ignorant book ever written about the environment. In it he wrote the scary totalitarian prescription "we must make the rescue of the environment the central organizing principle for civilization."

The following are highlights from a 1992 Democratic National Committee (DNC) memo by Jonathan Sallet to the Clinton-Gore campaign that highlighted Gore vulnerabilities from his extremist manifestoEarth in the Balance. The memo was obtained by the Wall Street Journal, which published it in August of 1992. Among the DNC's findings:

"Al is a radical environmentalist who wants to change the very fabric of America."
"He (Gore) criticizes America for being America -- a place where people enjoy the benefits of an advanced standard of living."
"He (Gore) has no sense of proportion: He equates the failure to recycle aluminum cans with the Holocaust."
"He (Gore) believes that our civilization, itself, is evil (because it is, in his words, 'addicted to the consumption of the earth.')"

Recently Gore was asked by Gannett News if his opinions have changed since writing Earth in the Balance. Gore said:

"There is not a single passage in that book that I disagree with or would change."

(Gannett News Service, 3/23/99)



Gore called the internal combustion engine the greatest enemy of mankind, see -

Al Gore vs. the Automobile
Gore wrote in EARTH IN THE BALANCE pp 325-326, "It ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine (by government fiat) over, say, a 25 year period." "I wrote in this book Earth in the Balance that we should set as a strategic goal the phasing out of the internal-combustion engine over a 25-year period. I accept now that was a mistake. Twenty-five years is far too long for a goal like that. I think we can do it quicker." (Ramesh Ponnuru, "The Attack Man," National Review, February 21, 2000)

 

[Dr Grump]

"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."

The inspiration for "Love Story"

"Around midnight, after a three-city tour of Texas last month, the Vice President came wandering back to the press compartment of Air Force Two. Sliding in behind a table with the two reporters covering him that day, he picked slices of fruit from their plates and spent two hours swapping opinions about movies and telling stories about old chums like Erich Segal, who, Gore said, used Al and Tipper as models for the uptight preppy and his free-spirited girlfriend in Love Story; and Gore's Harvard roommate Tommy Lee Jones, who played the roommate of the Gore-like character in the movie version of Segal's book." (Time, 12/15/97)

See, he never said he invented the internet. Helping create it and inventing it are two different things.

As for Love Story, that was brought about due to a misquote from either a Wash Times or Post reporter. That reporter misquoted Segal (and the reporter admits to such) who said in his report that Segal has based the characters on Tipper and Al. It was the reporter's article that Gore quoted. Segal did admit that one of the character's was based on either Tipper or Al (forget which one).

As for the rest of your quotes...so what? I could google every politician and get them to contradict themselves many times over. And?

 

[red states rule]

See, he never said he invented the internet. Helping create it and inventing it are two different things.

As for Love Story, that was brought about due to a misquote from either a Wash Times or Post reporter. That reporter misquoted Segal (and the reporter admits to such) who said in his report that Segal has based the characters on Tipper and Al. It was the reporter's article that Gore quoted. Segal did admit that one of the character's was based on either Tipper or Al (forget which one).

As for the rest of your quotes...so what? I could google every politician and get them to contradict themselves many times over. And?

Yes, poor little Al was the victim. How dare some media outlets to actually report what Honest Al said

Unlike Clinton, Al was unable to spin all the lies he sprewed on the campaign trail