From Al Gore’s blog, a clear signal that he’s lost it. Like McKibben, he’s like a moth attracted to a flame, looking for it to jumpstart his own failed movement.
Thoughts on Occupy Wall Street October 12, 2011 : 5:07 PM
For the past several weeks I have watched and read news about the Occupy Wall Street protests with both interest and admiration. I thought The New York Times hit the nail on the head in an editorial Sunday:
“The message — and the solutions — should be obvious to anyone who has been paying attention since the economy went into a recession that continues to sock the middle class while the rich have recovered and prospered. The problem is that no one in Washington has been listening.”
“At this point, protest is the message: income inequality is grinding down that middle class, increasing the ranks of the poor, and threatening to create a permanent underclass of able, willing but jobless people. On one level, the protesters, most of them young, are giving voice to a generation of lost opportunity.”
From the economy to the climate crisis our leaders have pursued solutions that are not solving our problems, instead they propose policies that accomplish little. With democracy in crisis a true grassroots movement pointing out the flaws in our system is the first step in the right direction. Count me among those supporting and cheering on the Occupy Wall Street movement.
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Al can start by giving me several million of his own dollars to help narrow the gap between him and me.
Al Gore has three large flat screens? Guess that’ll leave a footprint.
poor things….they are so jealous of the TEA Party…they will grasp at anything they can call a grassroots movement
Perhaps he should turn up to show support. The weather would then get so bad that there will be no-one there. But Al may be getting used to that. /sarc
Whenever Al throws his hat in a ring, he has a knack lately of accidentally grabing the towel. Bravo to him for dooming this “movement”. I don’t know which group of people is more lost, the protestors who don’t know what they are protesting or the rich bandwagoners who are trying to jump on a train that directly opposes rich people…
I don’t think Occupy Wall Street will lead to another Nobel Prize. But I could be wrong.
There never was a Global Warming Movement per se. It was always about socialism and left wing political objectives. The left just lied about it so long as they could make the case in the popular press.. Now they have to change gears, and Al Gore, as well as David Suzuki etc, will turn into WWF Occupiers and ultimately forget about global warming.
Remember, to them, the objective is population control.
Perfectly consistent. Al is all about derivatives and speculation, and Occupy is designed to support those activities by making dissent from Wall Street look crazy.
Al has clearly not done his research as usual.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/9269-big-soros-money-
This is a link to best OWS backgrounding I’ve found so far. Take it with a grain of salt but if you go to the http://occupywallst.org/ site and click on the Donate@NYCGA tab it takes you to a page where the Alliance for Global Justice is accepting donations.
Alliance for Global Justice <– WUWT and what does it have to do with OWS?
The real Al Gore revealed himself most spectacularly when he was running for President, and to counter the argument that he was a ‘wooden’ and emotionless dummy he gave poor Tipper the world’s phoniest kiss on live TV.
He is a total charlatan who would do anything to ‘win.’
Well of course Al Gore is supporting mindless street protesters…it’s his constituency.
So, if this occupy movement spreads, how about Occupy NASA/GISS, Occupy NCAR, Occupy NSF, Occupy DOE, Occupy NCDC? We can demand they give back the money flowing from the people to useless and expensive climate science projects and products…
He looks upon that intellectual wasteland known as Occupy Wall Street with admiration? Figures.
Clarence Darrow once called William Jennings Bryan “the idol of all morondom.” Since neither Mr. Darrow nor Mr. Bryan are with us any longer, I would like to propose that we give to Mr. Gore that title.
Al Gore; The Idol of all Morondom
Well, Al and I agree on something. I am retired, with a portfolio of investments in the seven figures. Many of the companies I invest in are being looted by a club of executives and board members. The average S&P CEO does not need 11 million a year to do their job. There are plenty of companies, particularly those outside the US which are better run, show better growth than the average S&P company, without overpaid leeches at the helm.
It’s always fun to see some old, wealthy twit trying to stay “relevant” with the “young, hip” crowd.
I mocked Bono for doing it, and I mock Gore for it.
Earth to Bono, Gore, and other multi-multi-millionaires preaching a non-wealthy lifestyle: GET STUFFED.
Where was Vice President al-Gore when all of this was starting? For that matter, why wasn’t MY generation so stupid as to protest in the streets during the early 80s recession? Hmm…. Oh yeah… because we saw the boomers protesting in the streets during the 60s and early 70s and realized how pointless and retarded it is. Get a job, work your way up — the same formula that has always worked.
This privileged, selfish, ignorant generation thinks they’re extra entitled. And yes, I know many of them. So many of them are loath to start at the bottom even though they have no training, no skills, no experience, and no knowledge. Everyone wants to be the lead singer, nobody wants to play rhythm guitar… (yeah, that’s a rant)
All the usual Hollywierdo’s (and I include Gore in that bunch, as well as the Dems in the Senate and House, and the White House, and the media vermin) are busting their buns to get some face time over this. They all spout the “support ” line, but I haven’t heard of any of them hiring a single protester. Or doing anything useful for that matter. The bums occupying that football size park ought to be tossed out by the owners of the park. It is private property, so they would have a perfect right to close it down.
First Al Sharpton climbed on board and now Al Gore. This is a massive percentage increase in Al that needs to be funded for further research. Get your checkbooks and pre-funded wink wink grants together.
Watch out OWS people, the Gore effect will make you all go home soon.
Do you really intend to host a link for contributing to these protests?
wow. Gore’s assets dont even put him in the 1%. he’s mostly likely in the 0.5%. pot, meet kettle…
The insanity of Gore being involved with the Occupy Wall Street movement I get, but disdain of the movement in general I do NOT understand. I don’t think it has anything to do with being jealous of anyone. It is born of frustration with the reality of today’s society and how polarized it has become financially. I’d say that the editorial linked to hit the nail right on the head.
“The problem is that no one in Washington has been listening.”
When the Tea Party protested no one was “listening” about the disapproval of Obamacare, the stimulus, bailing out GM etc they were racists or worse. Now that the left is protesting it is OK and understood and supported.
These protests are protesting capitalism not the unfettered expansion of government or the enslavement of grandchildren via massive national debt.
This whole thing is now coming to a fork and that is are we going to be a free people under capitalism with smaller government or slaves of the state under a socialistis larger government.
I know where I stand and it not with the occupy protesters. Nuff said.
“..our leaders have pursued solutions that are not solving our problems, instead they propose policies that accomplish little.”
Doesn’t that include Obama who happens to the president over the last three years and the Democrats who had a super majority for two of those 3 years?
I am morbidly curious about how this “occupy” effort precipitates into one or more cohesive political thrusts so I can’t take my eyes off it… like a train wreck.
Several truths will manifest:
1) The Media will push it down our throats like they did AGW.
2) It will be difficult to argue with because rational thinking will be shouted down.
3) It will advocate wealth redistribution of some sort… again
4) It will be the rallying cry for Obama et al 2012, ergo the media push in 1).
5) The groups will look as unwashed and inarticulate as the greenies, since they are one in the same.
6) They will use the atrophied AGW channels into government to advance the next new cause.
7) new rights assertions will come:
a) right to a free house
b) right to free health care
c) right not to work
d) right to free drugs (heroin, marijuana,…)
e) right to free meals
f) right to free university
I wonder if Chinaesque population control will come of age in the USA now?
Gore is a prime user of Wall Street. Take a look at his portfolio. Not many companies related to Global Warming solutions…
http://stockpickr.com/pro/portfolio/al-gore-generation-investment-management/fundamentals/