As reported by the NYT. Oops. Now we know why we heard the real Gore speaking, not just the made for TV version of Al. And… due to this story going viral, we get the “Full Monty” at last.
From AspenJournalism.org
These remarks were recorded in the Doerr-Hosier Center, where the event took place, through the center’s sound board. The reporter who recorded them, Brent Gardner-Smith, had a press pass to the event and was recording what he understood to be remarks that were also being streamed on the Internet and were therefore public.
Here’s the essence of Gore’s “bullshit” remarks in high quality audio, plus other highlights we haven’t heard before.
Below is the audio of his entire talk, nearly 90 minutes.
…and the highlights, with notes below:
:03 on the lack of online business models that can support investigative reporting
:56 On Tahir Square being more literal and metaphorical, including emergence of new consciousness
4:44 does not buy that the Internet is inherently polarizing
6:36 On assumptions regarding free markets
7:23 on the workings of the brain and distraction
8:39 our culture is based on distraction
9:00 on dominance of money in campaigns
9:37 fools errand to try and change campaign finance laws, but Internet can help
10:19 need for public square
11:14 has to be a neutral place to share common information
12:23 on effort to pin 9/11 on Saddam Hussein
14:18 recent debt debate also influenced by propaganda
15:19 on creating a shared reality online
16:18 problem-solving requires “a single reality”
17:11 reason can triumph over wealth and power, but in the TV age, wealth and power triumph
18:37 on the importance of New York and DC to PR efforts
19:39 how the debt ceiling debate was influenced by TV ads
20:19 share reality helped make the U.S. great, now we’re making bad decisions without it
21:05 tobacco interests fighting back on TV in the ’60s
21:47 On “The Merchants of Doubt” and tobacco regulation
22:46 On the use of propaganda in the climate debate. (The “bullshit” cut).
23:36 No longer acceptable to even use the word “climate.”
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Al is getting more desperate as his “business” loses traction. Wait for even more bizarro behavior as the public leaves him behind.
LOL … this is TOO GOOD!!!!
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Does this guy think everyone, except for him are knuckle dragging morons? He’s been telling lies so long he actually believes them! Virtually everyone of his points is the exact opposite of reality.
None of the guys in his unit in Vietnam could stand this fraud.
Made the Fox Special Report this evening, though Brett Baier regrettably used the term ‘denier’ of the targets of the Goracle’s ire.
/Mr Lynn
I second Jim !
He is the goofy guy sitting on a park bench talking to himself………..why does anyone listen?
This “there is no warming thing”, it’s nonsense. Man-made CO2 traps heat. It’s not — ‘It may be Chinese aerosols.’ Bullshit! ‘It may be low level volcanic aerosols.’ Bullshit! ‘The heat is in the pipeline’ Bullshit! ‘It can’t be sun spots.’ Bullshit! ‘It’s still getting warmer.’ Bullshit!
Well, that’s a sensible explanation for Pottymouthgate.
90-minute rambling, ranting “lectures.” Sounds like a Cuban dictator I once knew…
We are not out of the woods yet. The democrats just names their member of the deficit committee.
Reid Will Name Sens Murray, Baucus, Kerry To Debt Panel -Source
http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?storyid=201108091752dowjonesdjonline000384&title=reid-will-name-sens-murraybaucuskerry-to-debt-panelsource
[snip]
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) will name Sens. Patty Murray (D., Wash.), Max Baucus (D., Mont.) and John Kerry (D., Mass.) to a panel of lawmakers created as part of last week’s deal to raise the debt ceiling, a Democratic official said.
Murray, a member of the Senate Democratic leadership team, will be named the co-chairman of the committee, the official said.
Note: Kerry and Murray supported CAP and TRADE.
flashback:
Kerry, Boxer: U.S. ‘Needs’ Cap-and-Trade on Carbon Emissions Even if Energy Costs Rise
http://www.cnsnews.com/node/45330
Democratic Sens. John Kerry and Barbara Boxer told CNSNews.com that the nation must adopt the Obama administration’s cap-and-trade proposal to reduce carbon emissions, even if it results in massive increases in gasoline and electricity prices.
When CNSNews.com asked the Massachusetts Democrat whether the country could afford cap-and-trade during the recession, Kerry responded, “Yes, yes, yes, and yes.” He added: “The cap and trade system is – in fact – going to help us kick our economy back into gear.
Here is what Murray said….
http://conservativeamericanvet.wordpress.com/2009/04/23/senator-patty-murray-response-to-my-carbon-taxing-letter/
Max doesn’t read his bills either….
http://www.sfexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/max-baucus-author-obamacare-admits-he-never-read-his-own-bill
Lets see who the republicans put on the committee………………
Paraphrasing Al Gore, all I can say is “a zebra never changes its spots”.
Peter J says:
August 9, 2011 at 9:09 pm
Paraphrasing Al Gore, all I can say is “a zebra never changes its spots”.
Nor does ManBearPig change his underwear.
I can’t thank you enough for posting this. Hearing his tantrum will give me a warm fuzzy feeling for the rest of the week.
[off topic ~mod]
Gore will be remembered forever as a liar, a fraud, and a traitor.
You’d think the guy would have released by now that it’s not a good idea to do or say things behind closed doors that he wouldn’t want the news media or public to learn about.
Al Gore’s comments reminded me of “On Bullshit,” in which Princeton professor Harry G. Frankfurt explored the term and defined it to be a declaration made by one who is indifferent to its veracity but intends that it influence the listener.
Hey Cap’n Trade – your ship of fools is sinking!
It musta hit an iceberg.
(hope he goes down with the ship)
And this stuttering, unconfident and frequently incoherent shambler was almost the leader of the first nation. I’m more than a tad shocked.
How come a nation of 200+ individuals got distilled into such an unrepresentative and incapable fraction?
I love democrasy but, sometimes, just have to say thanks to FLA
Imagine him as president, well imagine him watching Clinton be president, oops. Well we now have a president that does not mention Climate only Carbon tax. Maybe as in carbon tax our way back to the stone age.
OK- for clarification let me replace the words ‘200+ individuals’ with 200 Million+ talented individuals!
john says:
August 9, 2011 at 8:51 pm
Reid has chosen to turn it into a circus.
At 8:51 PM on 9 August, john goes a bit off-topic about the National Socialists (c’mon, there’s nothing “Democratic” about ’em any more) selected by Dingy Harry to serve on the wholly unconstitutional “deficit committee,” including two of the more persistently idiotic “Cap-and-Trade” advocates, Kerry (Taxachusetts) and Murray (Washington).
john finishes up by speculating:
Well, if they don’t select Rand Paul (Kentucky) from the Senate and Ron Paul (Texas) from the House, they’re “just jerking off.”
Yes Al, it is not warming. That ended in 1998.