Posted May 31st, 2006 by Chip Bok
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Looking like Michael Moore was not enough for Al Gore. The Internet inventor has become a documentary film maker himself. "An Inconvenient Truth" opened at the Cannes Film Festival. It is a movie about a slide show about Global Warming.
The former Buddhist nun bag man had this to say in a CBS interview: "There is no more debate. We face a planetary emergency. And the phrase
sounds shrill but it is an accurate description of the climate crisis
that we have to confront and solve."
I agree. It sounds shrill.
While characterizing the Bush administration as, "a renegade band of rightwing extremists", Gore says he has no plans to run for president. "I am involved in a campaign, but it's not for a candidacy. It's for a cause." Things could get dicey here. Suppose he changes his mind and runs for president after all. Could "An Inconvenient Truth" become the first major motion picture hauled into court? McCain/Feingold issue advocacy rules would be the controlling legal authority.
That would be an inconvenient truth.
May 31st, 2006 at 11:36 am
Here Bok rolls out most of his favorite Republican porn words- Gore, Michael Moore, Cannes, Global Warming, CBS, etc…. more than enough here to get Auggie searching frantically for his nitro glycerin pills.
If I didn't know better, I'd swear Rupert Murdoch already bought
the Beacon Journal.
May 31st, 2006 at 1:25 pm
But they do it to themselves, relying on Hollywood dreamers and caricature-has beens who tend to foam at the mouth. If the democrats can't get it together they just might, incredibly, blow it again this fall.
May 31st, 2006 at 4:59 pm
"caricature-has beens who tend to foam at the mouth"
Larry, would you care to name some names?
June 1st, 2006 at 3:17 am
Al Gore for one. Your old friend Ted Kennedy, Howard Dean, etc., etc.
June 1st, 2006 at 4:08 am
Larry you need to tell me how the Democrats "blew it" in 2004.
Was it because they didn't have a guy like Ken Blackwell counting the votes in Ohio? Was it because they didn't have anyone as malicious as Karl Rove running their campaign ?
What should the Democrats message be in your opinion?
June 1st, 2006 at 9:14 am
I have no idea. But neither do they.
June 1st, 2006 at 3:55 pm
Take a stand Larry. It will be good for you.
June 2nd, 2006 at 6:35 am
Uh, Ken Blackwell doesn't count votes. In places like Summit and Cuyahoga Counties — Democrats do.
June 2nd, 2006 at 7:30 am
Hey I think that's right–Blackwell doesn't count votes, he's the guy who comes out with those snarky, worst-dressed lists in Hollywood every year. But that sure seems like a Dem thing to do, so maybe I'm confused.
June 2nd, 2006 at 8:17 am
So Kelso, when did Alex Arshinkoff and Jack Morrison become Democrats ?
Do yourself a favor and read RFK Jrs. footnoted piece in Rolling Stone today about the 2004 elections in Ohio.
June 2nd, 2006 at 12:45 pm
Footnoted or not, RFK Jr. and Rolling Stone are pretty much all I need to know.
June 2nd, 2006 at 2:26 pm
From a rats point of view that sounds like a Rep thing to do larry. By all means close your eyes and ears to any piece of information found in or written by a source YOU have judged as unworthy.
June 2nd, 2006 at 2:31 pm
Well I know Rolling Stone doesn't have the journalist credibility of
Investors Business Daily, but truly you would be doing yourself a favor if you read the RFK piece. Draw your own conclusions.
June 2nd, 2006 at 3:48 pm
I'll read it if I can find a copy. I'm going to visit the folks at the retirement home tonight, so maybe I can grab one there. Last time they only had Spin.
By the way, how did a bilge rat get to be so self righteous? It seems very contradictory.
June 2nd, 2006 at 5:18 pm
"Four legs good. Two legs bad".
George Orwell
June 2nd, 2006 at 10:12 pm
"All animals are equal.
But some animals are more equal than others."
George
June 3rd, 2006 at 3:29 am
"War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it".
Orwell, again.
June 4th, 2006 at 9:13 am
There was plenty of economic interest in war before Pearl Harbor. Sometimes attack will do. "The definition of a liberal is someone who won't defend himself." -Twain
June 4th, 2006 at 10:29 am
Al, was it Bubba Twain or Puffy Twain that said that, because Mark Twain, the author, never said that to the best of my knowledge. What's your source ?
The line might have been bastardized from "A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel" which was penned by Robert Frost.
You are correct about economic interest in the war before Pearl Harbor. In fact GW Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush did business with the Nazi's until the US government shut him down for supplying them with resources and weaponry.
June 4th, 2006 at 4:30 pm
“Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains." - Here's your quote, Mencken. (It's Churchill) And I would swear I've heard the Twain reference that Al slipped in, but I don't have time to look for it.
June 4th, 2006 at 5:44 pm
The sentiment of Churchill's statement was not the same as Al's quote my dear. Nice try though.
I DID spend the time looking for Twain's alleged quote
and couldn't find it. In fact I couldn't find it attributed to
anyone ( except Al ). If someone can confirm it, have at it.
BTW, the conservativism of Churchill's time is distinctly different than the current American definition.
June 5th, 2006 at 2:48 am
Weren't Churchill and Orwell roughly contemporaries? Are we to read the Orwell quotes as commentary on mid-20th Century leftism? I'm getting confused.
June 5th, 2006 at 5:25 am
The themes of great literature are timeless. Oppression is oppression, whether it's the Communists or the Pharoahs.
Does that help?
June 5th, 2006 at 8:43 am
"The themes of great literature are timeless"? Talk about oppression!
June 5th, 2006 at 9:31 am
Man you're going to have to help me out here. How did that qualify as oppression?
June 5th, 2006 at 1:53 pm
Well, for the last 30 years or so literary scholarship has, in general, attempted to mine literary themes that are often opposed to the universals found in the traditional canon of what they call the Dead White Males.
Of course many of the scholars are feminists, gays, leftists, or other minorities, etc., who might have an axe to grind. But they've got a point–literature helps shape our culture and even our thought.
To say a work isn't "great literature" because it doesn't deal with a "timeless" (but actually historically-formed, Western, patriarchal) theme is to deny other points of view and thus oppress.
I thought all liberals knew that.
June 5th, 2006 at 3:24 pm
Your answer confirms my long held feeling that not going to college was one of the best decisions I ever made.
What a load of obfuscatory bullsh*t.
June 6th, 2006 at 2:43 am
Well it's not Bartlett's Quotations but it was the best I could come up with.
June 6th, 2006 at 4:17 am
There are some folks who lurk about here who would be well served by keeping a copy of Bartlett's on their nightstand.