can anyone tell me exactly what Al Gore is doing with the proceeds from

[ourbluenation]

the movie and book? Freeper associate wants to know. I know he's donating 100% of it, but to what exactly? Thx amigos.

[ourbluenation]

1. bumping for answers?????

[Midlodemocrat]

Even if he doesn't donate a penny, it's still more money

than any RW asshole ever donated.

[Mandate My Ass]

2. ask him why he cares

freepers are all about keeping their money and making sure not a dime goes to someone less fortunate. So what if Al Gore buys himself a tropical island and crowns himself king? It's his money! He earned it with the sweat of his own labor.

Why does everybody jump when a freeper starts frothing at the mouth?

[ourbluenation]

4. The freeper is a friend of mine...wow. He's interested in climate stuff

and wnated to know where Gore donated the money too. Geez.

[Mandate My Ass]

6. I suppose google would be a good place to start

Tell your friend to look it up for himself. geez. :shrug:

[progressivebydesign]

9. I googled that subject..

.and I got a strange film review by gospel.com... I found it so fascinating that this christian site was bashing Al Gore all over the place.. when he is one of the few political leaders that really attends church and lives as a christian.

Weird to see all of the freaking out over his film when you google that stuff... why are they so threatened?

There was an interview with Tipper, on ABC News.. and she talked about the donation of the profits and how it's being used. Also, I think Al Gore addressed that in his Rolling Stone interview.

[Mandate My Ass]

12. It never ceases to amaze me

how the christofascists are so threatened by any discussion of environmentalism. Shouldn't they be more concerned about taking care of God's creation than the rest of us? They must be the waiting-for-the-rapture crew.

[ourbluenation]

15. Not all...just sayin'

http://inconvenientchristians.org/

[JuniperLea]

20. The word "rapture" isn't in the bible

I just used an online concordance and it turned up no hits at all.

I heard somewhere that the whole deal is made up... hmmm... Dang it! Now I'm curious and I'll have to do some Googling!

[TygrBright]

24. It ISN'T in the Bible... it was made up in the 19th Century...

by John Nelson Darby, C.I. Scofield, Edward Irving, Henry Drummond, and a bunch of other proto-millenialists. Their creepy re-interpretations of Scripture were picked up by a motley collection of nutjobs, con artists, and power-grabbing opportunists who saw that the time was ripe (in the wake of the failed social revolutions of the 1840s) for hoisting the poorly-educated, economically- and socially-dispossessed, but devout folk left behind by the Industrial Revolution on to a juggernaut of a bandwagon that ran clear up through the 1930s and 40s in America.

The tent revivalists, the Elmer Gantries, etc., were the final flowering of that previous wave. We now have (again) a large population of poorly-educated, economically- and socially-dispossesed, devout folk who have been left behind by the digital revolution, ripe for a redux. That's why it all seems painfully familiar.

wearily,
Bright

[JuniperLea]

27. Thanks, Bright!

That is exactly the story I heard.

Can The American Inquisition be far behind?

[ladjf]

29. People who believe that events unfold at the wish of God rather

than following the laws of physics have no respect for science. Therefore, all this talk about the environment is simply nonsense to them. If God wants the Earth to warm up, he/she will cause it. Any idea that the climate could be altered by human behavior is simply outside of their scope of possibilities.

[JuniperLea]

17. You should have heard my RW Fundie Aunt blast me and my cousin for

talking politics on our family website. She asked my cousin, who happens to be the administrator of said site, to delete all the... and I quote... "GARBAGE"!

I'd like to know why they are so threatened too! I'm betting it has to do with something their pastors are telling them. And the fact that they actually believe GWB is a Christian. Bullfuckingshit! If he's a Christian (Christ-Like) then I'm freaking Mother Theresa!

[ourbluenation]

16. we both googled it and couldn't find it. Geez

:toast:

[Mandate My Ass]

18. maybe you could have mentioned that up front

geez. :-)

[ourbluenation]

22. If I didn't know I wouldn't have asked....GEEZ!

:)

okay - that's enough!!!! ;)

[Mandate My Ass]

23. not

geez.

[progressivebydesign]

3. They're donating it all to a foundation... I remember Tipper said that.

I'm sure the info is readily available. Tell your freeper associate that he should instead be worried about corporate welfare, and how it insures that the humble taxpayers will continue to shoulder the biggest burden of all.. then to piss and moan about Al Gore's money.

[mnhtnbb]

5. Gore will use profits to train 1000 people to do his slide show

http://www.slashfilm.com/article.php/20060612203631752

[acmavm]

7. Ask 'em what Coulter does with her book proceeds. Puts them

in a jar?

[Admiral Loinpresser]

10. She's going to get a surgical procedure,

to reduce her Adam's Apple.

[havocmom]

30. And what does Rush do with the $ he makes spouting hate & lies?

instead of inconvenient truths?

Oh, yeah, DRUGS and alimony :rofl:

Why are liberals subjected to questions about what they plan to do with money they make? How come bots and ditto-heads never asked Ken Lay?

[RevolutionStartsNow]

8. 100% donated to the Alliance for Climate Protection

This is 100% of the profits from the book and the movie. Paramount is also contributing 5% of its domestic gross.

[OhioChick]

11. You're right.......

"Mr Gore, who is donating his proceeds from the film towards a new environmental charity, said there were "some powerful polluting interests that have way too much influence in the American political system".


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4998856.stm

[ourbluenation]

13. Thank you very much.

:)

[Guaranteed]

31. And tell the freeper to shove it up his ass.

Gore saw that one coming a LOOOOOOONG way off....

[LSK]

14. He said on the Daily show that he was donating it

But I didnt catch to what because Jon interrupted him for a joke.

Maybe that clip is online at comedycentral.com

[Beelzebud]

19. I wonder what the producers of Farenhype 9/11 did with their money?

[NYCGirl]

26. What money? That movie LOST money. NT

[LSK]

28. doesnt someone have to watch a movie for it to make money?

:shrug:

[robinlynne]

21. 100% of the moeny is going right back into the film itself, its advertsing

free showings of the film (They have had several free showings here in LA form people who can't afford to apy), and putting the film out on dvd for free distribution to schools.

[sandnsea]

25. What does Scott Howell do with his money?

Oh yeah, he smears war veterans.

http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/7875.html

Ask your freeper friend what he thinks about that.