Al Gore has been running the interview circuit this week, and it seems since his sale of CURRENT TV to Al Jazeerra he has gone from golden boy to goblin boy in the eyes of the media.
He’s pushing his usual set of tabloid climatology claims in the process, but all they want to know about is why he sold out to “big oil”.
Below are a few excerpts from headlines and some interviews. My favorite is from my radio commentator friend Lars Larson in Portland, who had so much fun with Gore yesterday.
h/t to Tom Nelson for may of these stories:
The Future, By Al Gore – Reviews – Books – The Independent
The discussion is framed in terms of a timescale far, far beyond any normal policy horizon. “Roughly a quarter of the 90 million tons of global warming pollution… each day will still linger there – still trapping heat – more than 10,000 years from now.”
=================================================================================Hypocrite Gore Targets Fox News But Is OK with Oily Al-Jazeera
After praising the integrity, independence and journalistic standards of foreign oil-backed anti-American Al Jazeera, the former Vice President took a swipe at Fox News Channel.
The video appears clandestine, because as we know Gore does not allow recording of some appearances.
Former Vice President Al Gore spoke with Charlie Rose on January 29th on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. After praising the integrity, independence and journalistic standards of foreign oil-backed anti-American Al Jazeera, the former Vice President took a swipe at Fox News Channel.
ROSE: Why do you think [Obama] was cautious in the first four years?
GORE: Because…
ROSE: … he is a cautious man?
GORE: I think it has been a pretty hostile environment for progressive ideas.
ROSE: And why is that? That you’re saying it’s a very hostile environment for progressive ideas because of the importance of money in corporations or…
GORE: And Fox News and the right-wing talk radio. And yeah I mean, it’s not that complicated. In Tennessee there’s an old saying if you see a turtle on a fence post you can be pretty sure it didn’t get there by itself. And the fact that we have 24/7 propaganda masquerading as news, it does have an impact.
Gore also praised liberal billionaire George Soros as a “wonderful guy” who should have “more influence” while discussing money in politics.
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Al Gore Compares Fox News To ’24/7 Propaganda Masquerading As News’ (VIDEO) – The Huffington Post
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Former US Vice President Al Gore says he is concerned the UK’s political leaders have lost their will to address climate change.
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Tough questions follow Al Gore book tour – Patrick Gavin – POLITICO.com
If you thought Al Gore was a media darling, you haven’t seen his latest book tour. Although Gore has been selective in which outlets he appears on to promote his new book, “The Future,” they haven’t treated the former vice president with kid gloves. From “Today” to “Morning Joe” to “Late Show with David Letterman” to “The Daily Show,” Gore has come under attack by his interviewers for his decision to sell Current TV to Al Jazeera.
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“It would be like taking money from Exxon-Mobile if Exxon-Mobile owned Al Jazeera,” Mitchell added.
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Jon Stewart grills Al Gore on Al Jazeera – POLITICO.comThe Comedy Central host then pressed Gore to explain his “cost-benefit analysis” of the sale to Al Jazeera and where the issue of sustainability came in that assessment.
“You had an opportunity to make a statement probably about your principles and some people would feel, and for me as well, I thought it was an odd move,” Stewart said. “Not because of some of the other things, but because it is backed by fossil fuel money.”
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Gore on CO2: “The greater evaporation from the heat off the oceans fills the sky with much more water vapor so that when a storm releases it, we get these giant floods”; CO2 also causes droughts because cough-mumble
GORE: And [trace amounts of human-emitted CO2] traps enough extra energy to equal 400,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs going off every day. It’s a big planet, but that’s a lot of energy. And that is what contributed to Superstorm Sandy. That’s what contributed to 60% of the country being in a drought last year. 110 billion dollars worth of climate-related disasters. Yesterday in Queensland, Australia, they had 2 1/2 feet of rain. The greater evaporation from the heat off the oceans fills the sky with much more water vapor so that when a storm releases it, we get these giant floods.
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Hump Day Hilarity – Gore: As American as Apple pie
Josh says: Climate Depot reports on Al Gore’s appearence on the David Letterman show, where Letterman asks:
‘You, Al Gore, Are Doing Business With Country That’s Enabling Your Ultimate Foe of Climate Change’
Al tells David ‘There’s a lot of opportunity in this crisis’. From Green tech to Oil funded Al Jazeera to Apple he has certainly done rather well.
A full transcript and video of Gore’s appearance is here:
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From the nationally syndicated Lars Larson show, where Gore was a radio guest yesterday, you can click the orange play button to hear the interview:
Former Vice President Al Gore joined me for a short time today, and boy did we have some fun.
What did you think of what he had to say?
Special thanks to loyal Lars listener Eric for making this.
Mr. Gore, the climate challenged people of the world would like to know…how much (non carbon based of course) Jet fuel was consumed by your private jet on this little book tour
“Gore also praised liberal billionaire George Soros as a “wonderful guy” who should have “more influence” while discussing money in politics.”
Nice of him to acknowledge the biggest puppet-master\ paymaster of left wing activist groups and Obama.
Can’t someone down there below the 49th nail Gore on RICO charges? And notice he is really moving the goal posts. 10,000 years?
@Chuck says:
February 2, 2013 at 8:31 am
“Al Gore is the most hypocritical person I can think of. Not only is he the ultimate “do as I say not as I do” person. He uses the power of money and position to try to force you to do as he says.”
…and force MSM not to present skeptics view – here’s a good example from BBC Hardtalk with Al Gore & Dr Pachauri, the clip should start 320s in
Al Gore is a hypocrite. He has claimed to be a long time environmentalist and worries about co2 rise in the atmosphere. Well, does the following sound like an environmentalist or a hypocrite? You decide. Aside from Al Gore taking Al Jazeera oil money and acquiring a second large home we have:
http://youtu.be/2VV309lbB8c
Do as I say, not as I do. Al Gore is the biggest hypocrite this world has ever known. Plus he’s shameless and brazen about it.
“I thought oil was bad; then I learned that it’s sequestered carbon-neutral vegetable matter. Green oil, green bucks. I’m good.”
– Al “Slum Lord” Gore
[/satire. I think.]
I learned of WUWT from listening to Lars. Anyway, there’s a reason why almost no Dem in Oregon or Washington will come on his show and Gore just learned why. He asks some pretty darn tough questions they don’t like to answere.
It seems like AlGore’s people booked him onto the Lars Larson show wiithout knowing that Lars is conservative. Somebody on Al’s staff must’ve got torn a new one after that. Oh, and Al was spewing utter BS.
wow just wow..what a moron gore cant give a straight answer to anything
Least they didnt ask him also about the wife he cheated on
Too bad Lars didn’t spring Chuck Wiese on him…
Oil-backed anti-American Al Jazeera, should we call it Oil-Jazeera, for Al’s sake?
How about Al Goil?
Just wondering..
I am sitting in my home in Sydney 3/2/2013 16 c with the heater on
Jesus, thank God he never made it to be president.
Pointman
Too bad they weren’t able to steal Florida in 2000. I can only think four years of this oaf and nobody would have any doubt global warming was a scam.
The satellites and weather balloons have yet to find any trapped heat…and what pollution is he on about? CO2 is not a pollutant.
Of course, these fellow travelers interviewing Al had no information or data to dispute Al’s
ridiculous claims I noticed that.
Reblogged this on This Got My Attention and commented:
Al Gore (a.k.a. Algore), from golden boy to goblin boy.
I suspect it is hard for people who get close to the presidency to maintain their connection to reality. Gore seems to have lost his.
Sean says:
February 2, 2013 at 7:51 am
‘Does Al Gore come across to you as the Milo Minderbinder character from Catch 22? ‘
Nah, Milo Minderbinder had way more principles. Remember everybody had a share with Milo.
Albert Gore’s just mad because the scam that is “climate change” has progressed beyond his control, especially with the general failures in the carbon exchanges and companies getting better ideas and growing wise to his scams. He’s a victim of his own manipulations, but he wants you to believe the problem is Fox News and real informants who don’t agree with him. What an ass!!
As it is, the climate change context has little to do with science, but nearly everything to do with manipulation of economies, changing their scales and redistributing trillions of dollars by force. Those pushing the context have done a terrible wrong to science, co-optin emerging concepts and perverting natural science and real facts.
Theirs is a crisis structure, a fraud of massive proportions that deserves to go away!
2013: global cooling starts and scam exposed, oh check out that negative arctic oscillation
Fox News hasn’t been skeptical of climate change in any noticeable way, has it?
Rodgerknights: No, Fox is a lukewarmer station at best. Gore’s attack on Fox is just part of the overall democrat attempt to de-legitimize Fox. The left does take their marching orders seriously.
After praising the integrity, independence and journalistic standards of foreign oil-backed anti-American Al Jazeera,
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This wouldn’t be the same feel thy foreign oil-backed corporations that you guys buy your oil from would it. Shame on you for buying oil from feelthy oil-backed corporations.