Al Gore: Britney and Paris Are Inconvenient Truths (Gore Accepts Oceana Award)

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Britney and Paris Are Inconvenient Truths for Al Gore

Al Gore thinks Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and O.J. Simpson are getting in the way of saving the earth.

The former vice president was honored on Friday night at the Oceana Partners Awards Gala in Los Angeles. After being presented with his award by Anjelica Huston, Gore complained that the media didn’t give enough coverage to the recent release of a study that warns the polar ice caps could melt in just a few years, a galagoer tells me.

“Gore said there should be a huge alarm going off all over, and it should be front-page news,” the galagoer reports. “But when he looked in the paper, all he saw was Britney Spears losing custody of her kids, O.J. in trouble with the law again and Paris Hilton on the Late Show. He said he didn’t know what else to do anymore to get this message across.”

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Gore Accepts Oceana Award
By Borys Kit

Oct 9, 2007

It was chilly Friday night, but no one on this Pacific Palisades hillside backyard felt it. Crickets chirped, but they were ignored. That is the kind of spell former Vice President Al Gore had on the audience gathered at the home of Jena and Michael King for the annual Oceana awards gala where he accepted the environmental organization’s Partner’s Award.

Gore talked about a meeting he had with scientists on the latest findings about the Arctic Ocean, which said the ice could melt on 20 years, maybe even as soon as six. This was on the same day the headlines blared about Britney Spears losing custody of her kids and Paris Hilton’s appearance on Letterman. Yet here was a study, whose impact Gore said was the equivalent of the discovery of the ozone hole, “and no one pays attention!”

Gore summed up today’s situation using an African proverb: “If you want to travel quickly, go alone. If you have to travel far, go together. We have to go far. Quickly.”

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[greenbriar]

1. so jump in the race Mr Gore and knock them off the news

and get yoru message across

[Cha]

3. Methinks the corporatemedia would

only talk about Gore in terms of Britney, oj, and Paris..they sure as hell don't like his message so they would try and "kill" the Messenger.

I think Gore knows this, too.

[malaise]

2. Run Al Run

please.

[liberalmuse]

4. Blame the media, not the celebutards.

I sure as hell don't want to hear about these severely fucked up people, but it seems this is all the media can put forth with any passion and perserverance these days. How sad.

[pitohui]

5. britney et al have no control over this, mr gore

do you really think britney is happy to get up in the morning and read that she lost her kids and is an unfit mother? do you think paris is happy she was thrown in jail for basically nothing and no one will ever let her forget it?

they are victims of the media just as much as you are

[Jim Sagle]

6. The news media are no longer in the news business.

Nor are they really in the entertainment business.

They're in the news SUPPRESSION business.

[Sukie1941]

7. I AM aware of all this

but what can I do when the powers that have the funds aren't even interested?

Humanity is going to be short-lived, and I am glad of that. Some day the terrible mess we have left Earth in will disappear under a new ice age or volcanos will erupt and destroy the scum we have created.

And God will say, "that is great!"

And I hope humankind will not be on His next list.

[Swamp Rat]

8. Geaux Ga-Ga Gore!!

:D

[Dora]

9. "he didn’t know what else to do anymore to get this message across"

I have an idea....


RUN!!!!