This behavior is completely unacceptable. Access by reporters should be as unfettered as possible. This de facto form of censorship needs to stop.
It seems that Mr. Gore is applying a double standard. Note the placard advising members of the press placed outside his own global warming presentation:
Flashback: Gore to press: Stay Out! | Watts Up With That?
Credit: Robert Vamosi / CNET Networks
First you have to wonder what global warming has to do with a computer security conference (RSA) in the first place, but then the real surprise comes when you find that Al Gore did not allow any members of the press to attend.
Flashback: Gore Bans Press (Again) From CTIA Speech | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
In a highly ironic move, Al Gore has barred the press from even attending his speech at the upcoming CTIA Wireless 2009 conference, the nation’s largest gathering of the wireless communications industry.
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A double standard by Al? Say it ain’t so!
Another left-wing nut job who thinks he can set the standard on what is acceptable behavior and what is not. Are they all like this?
Who cares? nobody takes the goracle seriously anymore.
It’s no surprise to me at all that Mr. Gore doesn’t allow press to his events. A majority of the commenters here would be able to ask him questions that he could in no way answer, he sure doesn’t want anyone with a camera and microphone asking him anything but puff questions.
It’s all about controlling the message.
It seems that Mr. Gore is applying a double standard.
Al Gore certainly is inconsistent.
“Gore Refuses to Hear Skeptical Global Warming Views”
Al Gore has barred the press from even attending his speech
Here’s some of what is said behind those closed doors:
John Q Public says:
June 14, 2010 at 6:04 pm
A double standard by Al? Say it ain’t so!
Another left-wing nut job who thinks he can set the standard on what is acceptable behavior and what is not. Are they all like this?
Yes. This is the definition of left-wing nut job.
People often wonder how we got saddled with George W. Bush for eight years. Simple: Al Gore and John Kerry.
“Are they all like this?”
Yes. And they see no hypocracy.
I am beginning to think something is not quite right with Al. Is it possible that he has some underlying mental health issue that might explain this? Could it be one of the reasons for the recent separation? I have a pretty good nose for this kind of stuff and when the hair on the back of my neck stands up, I have usually been right.
Blogs like WUWT are the 21st Century equivalent of the dissemination of handbills during the buildup to the US Revolutionary War by the Sons of Liberty and others!
Thanks, Anthony and Mods, long may the Internet be free and uncensored!
@ur momisugly John Q Public says:
June 14, 2010 at 6:04 pm
…………………………. Are they all like this?
Short answer? Yes. Some are more subtle (devious ) than others however.
Who needs permission to transit extra-territorial airspace, the U.S’s or anyone else’s? If Commandante Zero can’t stand the PR heat, he/she/it should go back to the kitchen.
Given Al’s behaviour in general, it isn’t all that bizarre. This is someone who thinks it is OK to lie and scare the pants off of people in order to get one’s point across, and that the Earth’s core is millions of degrees.
In this instance, Al is either oblivious to his own behaviour, or thinks people are too dumb to work out that he has double standards; either way it is an insult to the rest of the world.
Does he think his behavior has somehow been acceptable??
Gore was instrumental in getting security guidelines passed that allow for such things as “lawful intercept” in data networks. He also spoke at VoiceCon 2008 and many other computer security gatherings. Network security, or better, legislating ways to ensure government has access to all forms of communications, has been a Gore specialty over the years. His working group anticipated, for example, the movement of voice communications to data networks and put legislation in place to ensure government had the authority to monitor such communications and the equipment vendors incorporated mechanisms to facilitate it in their gear.
Double standards? Goes with forked tongued, two-faced, double-think (George Orwell must have been on Al’s reading list), etc.
As to the separation – its gotta be fueled by the cost of living with a zealot. And those damned lighbulbs. Ha ha ha!
Actually, the hardest problem with flying over the Deep Horizon oil spill area is the ADIZ. Aircraft flying over that area will cross the ADIZ.
Our aircraft have been mapping that area daily, and air traffic control was a “challenge” until they got used to our requirements. They are used to airliners flying specified and straight courses as they cross the ADIZ.
An air defense identification zone (ADIZ) is an area of airspace defined by a nation within which “the ready identification, the location, and the control of aircraft are required in the interest of national security”[1]. Typically, an aircraft entering an ADIZ is required to radio its planned course, destination, and any additional details about its trip through the ADIZ to a higher authority, typically an air traffic controller.
All true progressive suffer from a common condition that so far has no known treatment. It’s called the Double Standard.
Al Gore is as dumb as a rock regarding things scientific. Those who spoon-fed the ‘thoughts’ and images to him for “Inconvenient Truth” failed to impart any of the so-called science to him and he is petrified at the thought of being questioned. His manufactured image would be shattered. What must it be like to be constantly afraid of exposure?
Amino Acids in Meteorites:
That second guy in the first video could well be mistaken for Captain Barbossa:
‘The code is more what you’d call “guidelines” than actual rules’
That the chair can use “discretion” over deadlines for written testimony makes a mockery of the whole process.
No surprise. He jets around the world lecturing people on reducing their CO2 output.
The only bizarre thing is that toooo many people still take this greasy used planet salesman seriously.
Even Tipper apparently reached the tipping point.
Here’s hoping that that bull gets appropriately gored in due time.
Pamela Gray says:
June 14, 2010 at 6:50 pm
I am beginning to think something is not quite right with Al.
Welcome aboard Pamela. I’ve been thinking that for a while now. He does seem to have some sort of emotional disturbance, or neurosis. At times I think he’s mad.
I heard Dennis Miller say he has Mariana Trench dad issues; that even though his dad is dead he is still trying to please a mental phantom of his dad.
I have read that Mr Gore receives $300,000-500,ooo for his slide show presentation along with him as the speaker…is this true, and if so, is it still happening? If it is, I’m impressed.