The media whores are shitting on Gore again

[Stevendsmith]

I hear that Gore’s new film on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, is very good and very frightening. The release of this film and the speculation that he might run for president again has put him back in the news.

And the shameless media whores have picked up right where they left off during campaign 2000. They speak of Gore with that “Is this guy serious?” smirk on their faces, as if this extremely intelligent man who won the popular vote and who carries a dire warning for the suicidally idiotic human race is some sad lost clown from the fringes of the political wilderness. They role their eyes at his “far-left” “environmental extremism” and pepper their “analysis” of this good and wise man with chuckling condescension and recycled talking points about his “identity crisis.” And all the while, they drool over the fucking idiot criminal fraud and fall all over themselves to kiss his ill-gotten presidential ring.

I hate them with every molecule of my existence.

[Triana]

1. Orders from Gonzales, Rove, and Snow....

...besides look at the corprat trash that owns the media in this country...here we sit, sawing off the tree limb our very humanity is perched upon and all the sneering media can do is laugh maniacally while supporting a regime that only seems to want to exacerbate the problem by speeding up the process. For profit, of course.

The FIRST TWO things any Democrat needs to do if/when elected is:

1. FIX THE DAMNED ELECTION SYSTEM (probably a catch-22 because I doubt one will get elected whilst it's still broken)
2. FIX THE DAMNED CORPRAT-OWNED MEDIA. Break it up. Reinstate the Fairness Doctrine.


This race is collectively an idiotic one. What you see now is it destroying itself beneath its own greed, shortsighteness, and inability to evolve. I'm not sure there is any stopping it. (glass is empty. NOT half empty. EMPTY.)

Call me a pessimist...

[LSparkle]

10. CorpRAT owned media! LOL!

I'm going to start spelling it that way, too -- it's SO much more accurate!

[paparush]

37. Which is why Al Will Not Run in 2008..... IMHO.

He's through with having his life raked through the mud. He's tired of screaming at the top of his lungs to our STUPID NATION.

He's better off making movies, giving speaches, going to Cannes and being a cause celeb.

It makes my heart hurt.

I think Al Gore is a decent man, who acts with good intentions. I think he aches for America. I wish he would run, but I do not think he will put himself and his family through it. Politics in America is no longer humane. Its barely human.

[polemic_realism]

2. and Tweety carries the rally flag..

I saw them doing this on Hardball yesterday and I sat in total disgust. Why do they hate America?

[katty]

23. they're jealous, Gore's #'s are up-bush is in the crapper for good

[Triana]

31. I hadn't thought of that...

...but I LIKE it! Mwahahahaa!

:evilgrin:

[fooj]

3. Al's been through hell and back with these assholes.

He knows how to deal with scum like this. Believe me. He's ready for them this time.

[bryant69]

4. It's kind of a pity our party leaders

Aren't going to ever point out the Media script surrounding Gore.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[Gabi Hayes]

5. funny you should mention that: Joe Klein and Gore's "Anger Trap"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1250027

[Rosemary2205]

6. Doesn't matter what they say

Gore has already said he's done with running for office. Period. And IMHO Gore has developed an even thicker skin than he had previously. I doubt they can actually hurt him.

But yes, they are assholes.

[Sleepless In NY]

7. It's up to Gore to defend himself and he can do it

He was right about global warming and so many others things too, like Social Security. Gore was part of an administration that created 23 million new jobs and left with a 128 billion dollar surplus....compare that to the asshat and his mess for the past 5 years.

One thing that will always stick out in my mind...It was the Clinton/Gore administration that appointed anti terorism czar Richard Clarke...the one person all of bush's administration ignored.

"Last week, for example, Vice President Cheney attempted to defend the Administration's eavesdropping on American citizens by saying that if it had conducted this program prior to 9/11, they would have found out the names of some of the hijackers.

Tragically, he apparently still doesn't know that the Administration did in fact have the names of at least 2 of the hijackers well before 9/11 and had available to them information that could have easily led to the identification of most of the other hijackers. And yet, because of incompetence in the handling of this information, it was never used to protect the American people."

http://www.algore.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=325&Itemid=78

Let them have it Al!

[Javaman]

8. There will be those that live and those that die...

let the media assholes yak all they want, in the end when there is no more affordable oil and people will actually need skills, these talking heads will have nothing.

[RethugAssKicker]

9. I hate them too... Lets take names and remember who did what...

These bastard "journalists" should not be allowed to get away with their oomplicity with this murderous admin.

[Metta]

11. Anything for a rise to keep us distracted.

Today's Monday.

[MessiahRp]

12. Not all of them are...

The USA Today was quite kind to him:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-21-gore-comeback_x.htm

and WaPo's Sebastian Mallaby was pretty nice to him as well:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/21/AR2006052101183.html

Rp

[StellaBlue]

13. Don't worry.

I am a hardened cynic. But Gore has re-energized me.

He will run. And he will win.

Then they can smirk all they want.

[ladjf]

16. I believe you are correct and I am also a hardened cynic.

[StellaBlue]

19. I feel a massive draft.

:hi:

[ladjf]

22. Occasionally, one's intuition just tells you when the time is right.

My intuition is telling me that now about Gore's relationship with the American people. We are sick of money and power grabbing criminals. We long for honest and wise leadership. Gore can give us that and we know it.

[sweetheart]

20. Are you sure

In the news recently, i saw a statement from him, that
in so many years of national politics, that he was out.
Is he just saying that to wait to be drafted, to to
keep off the attack dogs until he runs? DUbous. I
feel he's cleared the way for no speculation, or
why do you think he'll run?

[StellaBlue]

25. Like I said, he's gonna run.

http://newyorkmetro.com/news/politics/17065/


I think he's waiting for his moment. Why give them extra time to swiftboat him? No way he will say anything remotely definite before the middterms.

I also think that he probably wants a grassroots fire - that we DEMAND that he run.

[BlooInBloo]

14. While republicans work to criminalize the press...

... the press keeps shilling for the republicans.

Best. Relationship. Ever.

For the republicans, that is.

[Iniquitous Bunny]

15. They own the media!

Haven't we established that yet? Are there those who don't realize this about the MSM? :eyes:

[ladjf]

17. It is as simple as that. So, stop agonizing over their apparent

unfairness. Note that in Venezuela, the rich corporatist also own the media which spews out anti Chavez propaganda 24 by 7. How was Chavez able to overcome that problem while here in the U.S. we haven't? Transparent elections. President Carter said that the 2004 U.S. elections did not come up to the most basic levels of legitimacy. (paraphrase) The Venezuelan elections are carefully monitored by several International agencies. Why don't we do that? If our elections are honest, what would we have to hide?

[Warren DeMontague]

18. Of course they do.

That's how you know he poses a genuine threat to their corporate overlords' shit.

[Cha]

21. Gore is so COOL that the

Shite just bounces off him and right back in their mediawhore shit holes.

Speaking of "mediawhores" ..I heard that term on the new Dick Wolf L&O "Conviction" the other night!

Yeah, it's mainstream all right! :toast:

[Rainscents]

24. Sounds just like Da Vinci code!!!

Lets trash Gore now... Movie will be success!!! Doesn't MSM idiots should know by now, more you trash movies, more people will go see the movie.

[Cha]

26. Check out this link from

the wapo I found on buzzflash..

"Al Gore's Unlikely Helpers"

By Sebastian Mallaby
Monday, May 22, 2006; Page A17


Snips~
"Ordinarily this film would never have been made, let alone scheduled for release in hundreds of theaters. But President Bush and the congressional Republicans have created a Ross Perot moment: a hunger for a leader with diagrams and charts, for a nerd who lays out basic facts ignored by blinkered government. By their contempt for expert opinion on everything from Iraqi reconstruction to the cost of their tax cuts, Republicans have turned Diagram Gore into a hero. By their serial dishonesty, Republicans have created a market for "An Inconvenient Truth" -- the title of Gore's movie.

Republican dishonesty reaches its extreme on the issue of global warming. Yes, climate science is complex, and nobody can forecast the earth's temperature with complete confidence. But the fact that scientists don't know everything isn't a license to ignore what they do know: that the earth is warming, glaciers are melting and sea levels are rising at an accelerating pace -- and that these changes are driven at least partly by fossil-fuel consumption. The U.S. National Academies have confirmed this; their foreign counterparts have confirmed this; and so has the world's top authority on the subject, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change . None of this is controversial."


Much more..
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/21/AR2006052101183.html

In the first sentence Mallaby says "Liberals famously love John McCain,.." which I don't agree with..Liberals are getting wise to mccain, but everything else seems to be wonderfully spot-on.

[Gabi Hayes]

28. thanks, zidzi! putting this in my Wash Journal climate thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1259678

[Cha]

29. You're Welcome,

Gabi!

[Ladyhawk]

27. The fuckers fooled me in 2000 because I was asleep at the wheel.

If Gore runs again, he will have my enthusiastic vote. I wish I could also offer a formal apology.

[IndyOp]

30. You just did, Ladyhawk. 'Nuff said.

We *all* wish we could turn back time. I wish I could get back to Nov. 2000 and see what was happening in Florida and get on a plane to counter-act those GOP idiots who stopped the count. We can't go back. We can, with determination to do better, go forward.

:hug:

[Pacifist Patriot]

33. I did!

In 2002 I wrote Gore a letter and apologized profusely for not voting for him. I would be more than happy to not only vote for him, but work my ass off for his campaign if he runs in 2008.

[jasmeel]

32. Times plans page one story on Clinton's marriage

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Times_plans_page_one_story_on_0522.html

They're shitting on any dem running for president. I'm no Hillary fan but page 1 of the NYTimes? Really? :puke: :wtf: :argh:

[Gabi Hayes]

35. Who's going to remind them to cover Rudy's excellent matrimonial

history when he tosses his toupee into the ring?

[Gabi Hayes]

36. OK....combover

OK, former combover

[Usrename]

34. They are useless.

Utterly useless gang of thugs and sycophants. Treasonous bastards should face war crime tribunals like the propagandists at Nuremberg. No mercy, ever.