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.”
Well if the Goristas can’t rationally convince grownups the science is settled then naturally all that leaves are the kiddies to frighten-
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/kids-and-parents-clash-on-climate-change/story-fn3dxity-1226112055224
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/ipad/children-take-charge-of-green-agenda/story-fn6bqphm-1226112665355
You remember how it was baby boomers. The Russians are coming to get ya and in the event of a nuclear flash, curl up in the foetal position behind the monkey bars and kiss your asses goodbye. Mind you the Russians actually had some nukes as did our parents and if things got out of hand, then it really could be kaboom! Well liberal progressives can’t have a generation of kids growing up without a bogeyman so it’s Cold War be damned and welcome to their Warm War, retro bogeyman kiddies!
“The survey found natural disasters were having a particularly big impact on kids with 50 per cent listing natural disasters as their number one worry when it came to climate change.”
Surprise, surprise eh Big Al? But if the kiddies and parents are poles apart because of the bogeyman vs unsettling science then there’s one thing they can both agree on with the Oz Gummint banging away at the taxpayer lauded benefits of its shiny new carbon tax grab-
“One things kids and parents agreed on was who should pay for damage to the environment with 87 per cent of both parents and kids believing big polluters should pay for the damage.”
No surprises there as the kids parrot mum and dad’s view from home eh? Pick on anyone but us with your bogeyman Gummint!
Frank, do you believe the US Surgeon General is still believable today?
No. But that’s because it’s only become possible to easily get hold of the epidemiological studies in the last 10 years or so – i.e. in the internet era – and realise how weak the science actually was. It’s far, far weaker than any of the AGW climate science.
1. Why are people not affected by tobacco rhetoric on the Internet today , yet so easily convinced by the AGW denialist nonsense on the Internet?
I turn the question around, and ask why some people will readily question climate science, but will uncritically accept the far worse science underpinning the Surgeon General’s report of 50 years ago.
2. If the US surgeon general was accepted so unquestioningly 50 years ago, why do so many people still smoke today?
Because they enjoy smoking? Like they also enjoy having a few beers and eating pizza.
3. What does smoking have to do with climate change?
They’re structurally identical issues. Both entail manufacturing irrational fear of trace amounts of gases in the atmosphere.
4. Wasn’t it the US surgeon general who told Californians to be prepared for harmful radiation coming from Japan to the point that there was a run on iodine tablets?
I have no idea. Did he?
You need to have a psychiatrist analyze his remarks; they are basically incoherent and illogical. In the past psychologists had analyzed him as a borderline personality and fundamentally unstable. Its amazing and troubling that he could even have gotten as close as he did to the Presidency.
Climate alarmist BS aside, Gore’s influence on Hollywood airheads is almost mesmerising. A Fat Al Attraction?
This Al Gore chap reminds me of side show Bob of Simpson’s fame only with less intelligence. America barely escaped being run by an idiot. Unfortunately for us in Australia we elected an idiot, you only elected an incompetent.
i hate to say this but al gore knew it was streaming. Look at all the attention this has caused. I think al will have the last laugh on this one unfortunatly.
Al Gore….a scientist?
@Tucci,
Pelosi picks Clyburn, Becerra and Van Hollen for deficit ‘super committee’
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/pelosi_picks_clyburn_becerra_committee_XtRtmkX7JL2XygiyWhBuGN
Note: all 3 are in favor of cap and trade.
I can only tolerate listening to Gore for at most 5 minutes.
He is certainly an expert in the field of hot air.
You get the feeling that he will explode at any time because he is so full of himself.
Approaching critical mass for sure.
Actually, no. A malevolent incompetent. Whose party and backers got several 2000-page-plus omnibus bills passes, unexamined, with subversive horrors galore tucked away in them.
A carbon tax is a mere bagatelle compared to what has been foisted on America.
typo: “bills passed”.
Indeed Gore has run off at the mouth, once too often with this diatribe,
but did you know about the dirty, oiley, black, skeleton that still hides
in Gore’s closet. I am writing about his close, and largely forgotten,
relationship with Occidental Petroleum (OXY), and the Gore family
relationship with Armand Hammer and the former oppresive Soviet
regime of Lenin and beyond.
Gore sold off the US Navy reserves of crude oil, at a knock-down
price, in a no-bid contract to the company (Occidental Petroleum),
in which his family was a major shareholder. This 47,000 arce
plot, at Elk Hills, still forms the major backbone of that company. Al Gore
is still involved with Occidental, it is reported.
Al Gore, the green fraudster, see more at the website linked
to the name “Axel” above. Many more arcane and climate-related
videos and audio recordings at that site. Eclectic collection.
Thank you for reading thus far 🙂
Too bad there are so many other thing Gore also doesn’t know.