meet the press: exclusive al gore interview......!!!!!!

[spanone]

Exclusive! Former Vice President and 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore goes one-on-one with Tom Brokaw. It will be Gore's first appearance on "Meet the Press" since his 2000 presidential campaign. Plus, a political roundtable with NBC's David Gregory & Chuck Todd.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032608/

[Ichingcarpenter]

1. Tom Brokaw vs Al Gore? No contest... I will watch that but not

the round table.

[Pastiche423]

2. Hope someone puts it on YouTube

[rosesaylavee]

3. Here is the link

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/25764672#25764672

Its the full program but Gore is at the front part of the program. Annoyed to hear Brokaw's intro saying that Gore lost to * in 2000. Tool.

[YvonneCa]

4. Gore's answer was ...

...great. Something like...I was elected but did not serve. :7

My LTTE sent to MTP today:

Thank you for your interview this morning with former Vice President, Al Gore. It was a good discussion, and an important topic for our country. While I have a lot of respect for both the Vice President and Tom Brokaw (whom I have watched for many years, and who did a good job representing the talking points for the other side on EVERY issue he raised), I completely agree with Al Gore’s position in this morning’s discussion.

I believe Al Gore to be a visionary leader. He looks at problems currently faced by our country and sees long-term, transformative solutions, and he sees the opportunity these problems also present to our nation.

On the issues of high gasoline/oil prices, our faltering economy, and our current shaky level of national security… he is able to see the connection between these events, and the solutions needed to address them simultaneously. He argues for big change…and he is right that now is the time to begin.

Our infrastructure (electricity grid, water systems, rail and freeway systems, many downtown areas, etc.) needs a major overhaul and modernization. We are threatened by the current system of energy in two ways…it may be manipulated or cut off (which affects both our economy and our national security, if we go to war to retain it), AND we are ruining our life sustaining planet. To use Al Gore’s words in “An Inconvenient Truth”… it’s our only home.

If we, as a country commit to the former Vice President’s plan, we will never again have to go to war for oil. Our national security will be enhanced. Our environment will also become more inhabitable for a longer period of time (and this is true, whatever you believe about global warming). Building the new infrastructure…transportation, energy grids, green buildings, new solar/wind industry, etc… will get our economy back on track because of the jobs it will create. It’s the kind of ‘stimulus package’ we really need to do the job.

But more important to our future than all that, I believe, we will once again have the chance to be seen as a leader for something positive in the world… and without that, our future looks pretty dim.

So I agree with everything Al Gore had to say this morning on Meet the Press. And, despite Mr. Brokaw’s best effort to sting him with questions about every right-wing talking point currently out there in the media and cyberspace, the former Vice President only made one mistake. It’s a statement with which I completely disagree. When asked about whether he was interested in a position in an Obama administration, or future position as President himself, Al Gore quipped that he had already been elected… but that he did not serve.

Mr. Vice President… I absolutely agree that you were elected. And what a loss for the country that you were not permitted to be in the White House. But I’ve been watching and listening to your many (mostly uncovered) speeches. You did serve after 2000… and, to this grateful American, you are continuing to serve today.

[johnaries]

6. Perfect!

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[YvonneCa]

8. The former VP...

...is an INSPIRATION! :)

[rosesaylavee]

7. Excellent!

And here's the quote from the transcript:

VICE PRES. GORE: General Sherman famously said, "If nominated I will not run, if elected I will not serve." I already ran--I, I, I'm not running for the--I didn't run for the nomination, and I've already been elected and didn't serve.

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I have to say, that unlike most other leaders I have known in my lifetime, Mr. Gore continues to command my respect and admiration. Visionary leader and patriotic American.

Wow. Just a wonderful and insightful interview despite Brokaw being such a RW tool.

[YvonneCa]

9. Thank you...

...for the exact words...and kind thoughts. :)

[Pastiche423]

5. Bless your heart!

Thank you.

It's good to see you again!

[rosesaylavee]

10. ...

:hi:

I can't help but listen intently EVERY time some one asks him about running ... even for VP. Hopeless optimist that I am. I am about 99.9% accepting the fact that he will not be part of this coming administration.

I found this part of the interview very interesting this morning:

MR. BROKAW: But there's no--there is no power like 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for setting the agenda, for drawing attention to it, for moving the country, and for moving Congress. Mr. Vice President, no one knows that better than you do.

VICE PRES. GORE: Well, that's correct, and I don't dispute that. I'm under no illusion that there's any position with as much influence as that of president, and, actually, I tried to get that position. But that didn't happen, and so I'm trying to serve in other ways. ] And, you know, I could be wrong about the decision that going back into government is not the, the right thing to do. I could be wrong. But this feels...

MR. BROKAW: Could you, could you be talked into going back into government?

VICE PRES. GORE: No. This feels like the right thing for, for me to be doing.

[Pastiche423]

11. It's been difficult for me as well

to accept that he will not run this election cycle. Every time I heard him speak, there was a tiny bubble of hope that he would change his mind.

But I have to believe that he knows what is best for him at this time in our history. He wants to direct his time and energy 100% to Climate Change and he would not be able to do that w/all of the other important issues that must be dealt w/as president. Plus, Climate Change is happening at a much faster rate than the scientists have predicted.

It was in 2004, that I realized that there most probably won't be a presidential candidate that I would be happy to vote for in my lifetime.

[dysfunctional press]

12. can be seen at 5pm central time on msnbc.

for those that missed out.

[YvonneCa]

13. 3 P.M. Pacific...

... :7

[YvonneCa]

14. Yikes!! That's in...

...an hour and a half. :)

[Uncle Joe]

15. I hope Bill Moyers does an interview with Al Gore

that would be some serious depth, Brokaw would drown in those waters.

One thing I like about Moyers, he discusses the issues at hand and treats his guests with some measure of respect in stead of taking two dollar cheap shots.

[rosesaylavee]

16. Yes - cheap shots like

MR. BROKAW: With all due respect, Mr. Vice President, I can already hear your critics--and I don't do Rush Limbaugh, so I will not attempt to. But I can hear him saying on the radio, "Well, there's Prince Albert. There he was, 25 years hanging out with lobbyists, raising big money. Then he lost, and now he's above the process."

So good to know Brokaw "doesn't do Limbaugh". :sarcasm:

[Uncle Joe]

21. Yes and that asinine question about why Al didn't call Bush

a moral coward while they were at the White House as the Nobel Peace Prize recipients were being honored, as is tradition.

Can you imagine Brokaw's reaction, not to mention the rest of the corporate media had Al Gore voiced his opinion of Bush's character at that time in those circumstances.

I can see the headlines now.

"Embittered Al Gore diminishes Nobel Peace Prize by verbally attacking gracious Bush as the President honored Nobel Peace Prize recipeints...oh that petty Al Gore!"

And Brokaw kept harping on it as if he thought Al should have, no doubt many in the corporate media were hoping Al Gore would act in such a manner and since Al rose above it, Brokaw tried the next best thing by trying to make Gore look disingenuous because he didn't sink to that level.

The only person that shrunk in stature during the MTP interview was Tom Brokaw, somebody needs to buy him a clue because I think he's broke.

[YvonneCa]

19. Wouldn't a Moyers interview be...

...a great forum? Besides not resorting to 'cheap shots', Bill Moyers asks really important questions...questions that expand the viewers' knowledge of the topic of discussion.

Expanding the knowledge base is important to do...JMHO. :)

[nam78_two]

17. Watching

Brokaw is throwing some rather inane questions at Gore, but Gore is doing a great job.

[rosesaylavee]

18. For a "venerated" news anchor

you would think by watching his performance with Gore, that the interview format was unfamiliar to him. His assertion that he (Brokaw) had been following the science of climate change for some time just didn't ring true with his seeming ignorance of what the majority of scientists (unpaid by the * administration) have been saying for at least the past 10 years.

I used to have respect for that man - but like the rest of the media, he apparently is alright with doing the bidding of the higher ups. I had at least hoped he would have been a neutral presence on MTP. That was certainly optimistic of me.

[sandyd921]

20. What a putz Brokaw was!

I heard some excerpts. Brokaw apparently based his questioning of Gore on right-wing talking points! What exactly are Brokaw's qualifications for calling himself a journalist! Of course Gore was marvelous in his responses to these idiotic lines of questioning.