We Guarantee Al Gore Will Be Attacked Next Week, We Absolutely Guarantee It

[NYCGirl]

Why? Because of his new book:

http://www.amazon.com/Assault-Reason-Al-Gore/dp/1594201226

This article by Dave Johnson and James Boyce talks about what will happen and what to do:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-johnson-and-james-boyce/we-guarantee-al-gore-will_b_48513.html

Because he is standing up, telling the truth and because he simply is a Democrat and progressive leader, Al Gore will be smeared mercilessly by the right-wing smear machine. He will be ridiculed, made fun of and mocked. They will tease and make fun of him.

-snipped-

But what they will not do:

TALK ABOUT WHAT'S IN THE BOOK.


-snipped-

In this book, Al Gore is going to go straight up against the Right Wing smear and noise machine - the one that we have been writing about at Smoking Politics. And we know what that means.

[malaise]

1. K & R

Run Al Run!!

[blm]

2. No doubt about it.

The establishment has their targets and Gore is one of them.

[fooj]

3. Truth.

Truth will set u.s. free.

[corkhead]

4. I'll have to track him down at a book signing

Yes, and autographed book from the next president

[NYCGirl]

5. I wonder if there's a schedule of book signings? NT

[AX10]

6. Yes he will. The attacks will come from right wing hate radio...

and drudge and will be repeated by their servants at CNNMSNBCFAUXCBSNBCABCNYTIMESWASHPOST, etc......

[redacted]

7. Is that Al and Tipper in the photo?

[Catherine Vincent]

9. Yes, that is the two of them.

Aren't they precious? :)

[NYCGirl]

10. Yep. Beautiful, aren't they? NT

[postulater]

28. Looks like Tom Cruise to me.

[Uncle Joe]

8. They have to attack him personally, because

in the realm of ideas and solutions to our most fundamental problems, Al would beat the living crap out of them and they know it.

Thanks for the thread NYCGirl

[Mabus]

11. I had tears in my eyes reading that article & Hell yeah! I have the will to act

Oh man. Yes, I will join them and help fight the Fear and $mear campaign against all Democrats and especially Al Gore. I have the will to act to save our country and our planet. The RW lies have lead us down a path to our own destruction. From the environment to our food, they have sold us out.

We need to stand with those who stand up for us. I will stand up for Gore.

[annabanana]

24. And in the comments. .

the trolls came out and proved his point. . Ya gotta love it!

[Mabus]

25. Now we know what Gonzales does

:rofl: He trolls the internet and spews RW talking points instead of running his department. Those NSA feeds are great!

[IndyOp]

12. I pre-ordered my copy!! I am SOOO excited! (n/t)

[The Count]

13. So, what do WE do? As we know THEIR actions, shouldn't we plan ours?

Organize?

[Cha]

14. Thank you for writing this

book, Al Gore! And so aptly named.."Assault On Reason"!

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"A visionary analysis of how the politics of fear, secrecy, cronyism, and blind faith has combined with the degradation of the public sphere to create an environment dangerously hostile to reason

... We live in an age when the thirty-second television spot is the most powerful force shaping the electorate's thinking, and America is in the hands of an administration less interested than any previous administration in sharing the truth with the citizenry. Related to this and of even greater concern is this administration's disinterest in the process by which the truth is ascertained, the tenets of fact-based reasoning-first among them an embrace of open inquiry in which unexpected and even inconvenient facts can lead to unexpected conclusions.

How did we get here? How much damage has been done to the functioning of our democracy and its role as steward of our security? Never has there been a worse time for us to lose the capacity to face the reality of our long-term challenges, from national security to the economy, from issues of health and social welfare to the environment. As The Assault on Reason shows us, we have precious little time to waste."

"But what they will not do:

TALK ABOUT WHAT'S IN THE BOOK.

Why are we so sure?

Because this is the core of the Right Wing tobacco-driven strategy. You distract. You create doubt. You sell fear and mock those that are not cool."

[Guaranteed]

15. That book is going to blow up the world of politics.

*I* guarantee *that*. :P

[NYCGirl]

17. I'm so looking forward to it! NT

[otohara]

16. Yep

They hate him!

I love him!

[AtomicKitten]

18. Gore's no shrinking violet.

They attack him because they fear him. And they should. He doesn't suffer fools lightly.

He has the gravitas as a candidate to wipe the floor with any one of theirs. Fingers crossed he takes that opportunity in 2008.

[Raksha]

19. I just made up for lost time and ordered THREE Al Gore books!

I'm embarrassed to say I've never even read Earth in the Balance. I also ordered An Inconvenient Truth and pre-ordered The Assault on Reason, using the link in the OP. I guess Amazon can consider these orders kind of an unofficial presidential poll. I have no doubt that they're keeping track of them, for that reason among others.

[NYCGirl]

20. Bravo!

:yourock:

[Mabus]

33. *

A shameless kick in the middle of an innocent thread. ;)

[sproutster]

21. Ooo I thought of something we could do

I'm going to buy three copies, and put 2 in different breakrooms at work with "Free to read, return here when you are done for someone else"

[Pacifist Patriot]

22. Aw rats! I was hoping it would be a download at audible.com

Oh well, maybe they don't advertise until after release.

[DemGa]

23. This is one huge reason Gore needs to be president

Real change can only come when the truth comes out.

[tom_paine]

26. Does a bear shit in the woods? Oh my yes, will Gore be attacked and attacked

By the same lying murderers who brought us 7 years of Saudi-Soviet-level lies and corruption.

RESIST, America, RESIST!

While there is still something left to save.

[Duppers]

27. CANCEL your scripts to THE NATION NOW!!

It's not just the right. This afternoon I fetched my most recent copy of THE NATION mag from my mailbox and began reading the many fine articles. Then I read Alexander Cockburn's "Who are the merchants of fear? - Beat the Devil"

To quote:

Al Gore, a shill for the nuclear and coal barons from the first day he stepped into Congress entrusted with the sacred duty to protect the budgetary and regulatory interests of the Tennessee Valley Authority.....

And on and on assaults:

man-made-global-warming theory is fed by pseduo-quantitative predictions from climate careerists...

When measured reality doesn't cooperate with the lurid model prediction, new compensating factors are "discovered"

Fuck yes, new factors are discovered! That's the fucking way science works, you fucking moron Cockburn. And what are his creds that enable him to contradict any science? And did he give ANY factual arguments to the contraire? Nada one. He had a ball stomping Gore and trashing the most important crisis facing the planet.


I'm calling to stop my subscription, asking for a refund, and am going to compose a LTE.

How vanden Heuvel let this one out is beyond me! How the fuck can she concur with this shit???

(The article is not yet published online and hopefully it won't be.)




Btw, I'll buy Al's new book.

[nam78_two]

29. K &R

:bounce:

[EVDebs]

30. If Edwards doesn't get the nomination ... Draft Al Gore. That's where I'm at

Gore acts like a new JFK, he's already written two books and he's a walking Profile In Courage as far as I'm concerned.

[Synnical]

31. Definitely will purchase n/t

[NYCGirl]

32. Kick

[FatDave]

34. How strongly will Gore come out against republicans?

Because frankly, I'm sick of democrats being pussies on the subject. They use words like "misled" and "mismanaged" instead of "lied" and "failed miserably".

I used to think there were good republicans, but any more I think the entire party is irredeemable. The public needs to be told in no uncertain terms that republicans are power-hungry criminals who are in politics to serve their own interests and not the public's. The public needs to be reminded that it was republicans who started an unecessary war that has now killed more than 3400 american soldiers. It was republicans who've thrown away your civil liberties. It is republicans who have created the huge separation of wealth. It is republicans who are allowing your jobs to be shipped overseas. The whole party deserves to be demonized for what they have done to our great country, and I don't hear any democrats doing that. The candidate who promises to hold them accountable is the one who will get my vote.

But I don't have any illusions that that will happen. My party is largely spineless pussies.

[NYCGirl]

35. Read this:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/01/16/gore_spying/index.html