Al Gore
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Don’t shoot the messengers
All social movements are susceptible to the "cult of personality." This is always dangerous. Not only are individuals invariably fallible, and never live up to the "purity standards" often imposed on them, but it is their message that is most important, not the messengers.
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Can Al Gore’s message be tailored for kids?
Can Al Gore’s message be tailored for kids? Lisa Shimizu thinks so. Over the past few months, Shimizu has been developing a version of the Inconvenient Truth slideshow that would be easily understood by and engaging for children. After testing it out on captive audiences ranging from her 8-year-old daughter Aya to a classroom full […]
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The gray lady gets it woefully, laughably wrong
Yesterday, Drudge breathlessly reported a coming “hit on Gore” from The New York Times. Today that hit has come, in the form of a state-of-the-art piece of slime from Bill Broad. This may be the worst, sloppiest, most dishonest piece of reporting I’ve ever seen in the NYT. It’s got all the hallmarks of a […]
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Share with friends and family
I just talked with a reporter from CNS News — a right-wing media site — about the Al Gore pseudo-scandal. Who knows how my comments will end up being represented in the piece. Probably something like, "Al Gore … does it … with … hogs." But just to keep a public record, here are the […]
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Really, can you get enough?
Just can't get enough of Al-mania? For your consideration, two Gore-centric anecdotes from the Oscar backstage press room, courtesy of Entertainment Weekly:
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Surprisingly hip
Because the world demands it, here is Al Gore’s (surprisingly hip) iTunes playlist (via Ecorazzi): Track One: I Need To Wake Up, by Melissa Etheridge (From An Inconvenient Truth) "There are many of Melissa Etheridge’s songs I could choose to be a part of my list but this one is more meaningful to me than […]
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The system changes or we’re all screwed
Having finally gotten the memo that the debate on climate change science is over, conservatives now need a new attack on green advocates. It appears they’re reverting to an old standby: hypocrisy. Watch (via Hugg) as FOX News’ Sean Hannity lays out the charge against Al Gore: The hypocrisy attack on environmentalists is extremely common, […]
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Gore to announce climate-change concerts around the world
This July 7, the world will rock out in the name of stopping climate change. And at the head of it, global warming’s resident rock star: Al Gore. We mentioned this waaaay back in December, but news is hitting the rest of the dinosaurs mainstream media just today. Much like the worldwide party that rocked […]
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Former vice president. Newly minted rock star.
By now, everyone's heard the news. Al Gore isn't the guy he was in 2000. He's the New Gore -- relaxed, charming, self-effacing, funny. Really funny. Who'd have thunk it?
