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Is Poco Nuts?
>How many times has Gore been described as the title of >"HBO's fine western series"? I'm thinkin' O'Hehir knew >exactly what he was saying. Pretty funny huh?
Does anybody know what the heck this is supposed to mean?
I think Poco is a little bit loco...
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Strange and portly?
Better than stupid and obsessed with bicycling and running. Frankly, Salon, couldn't you find a writer that didn't drag out every idiotic Fox News lie about Gore? One that recognized that Gore has been consistent with his environmental message for over a decade and that he received more popular votes than any other Democratic candidate? If Gore does run in 2008, I hope that Salon will feature articles on how he can win, not those that tear him apart.
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Grow Up
Maybe Al Gore isn't running for president now because he didn't run in the first place. A corporate-financed dead guy in a Brooks Brothers suit ran in his name. Why hasn't anyone noticed that the candidate who nearly, or probably, won against the current president was a corpse, a figment of a focus group's imagination? What does that tell us about how well a live person could do?
But a live person with morals and ethics, which Al Gore may well have become, is considered a long shot for the presidency. To borrow from an op-ed posted long ago on Salon, Americans seem to have internalized the image game. An awkward, quiet guy with a slide show could never lead us, so say the pundits and we. So what the heck was Abraham Lincoln, except the same thing without even a slide show?
The so-called leaders of this country are children because we are children, craving cartoon entertainment. We will not have true leaders in this country again until we grow up.
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AAAAAHhhhhhhh !!! The sky is falling !
Enough with the globaloney warming BS. Nature is cyclical. The earth warms, the earth cools. Nothing in nature is static. The peddling of this junk science while strong arming any opposition shows that the fantasy that humans are causing global warming is flawed.
Al needs to retire and maintain whatever dignity he has left.
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Serioulsy?
From the article:
"If there's no hope at all, there's also no point in listening to this strange, portly man drone on in his slightly put-on Tennessee accent (remember, he was mostly raised in a Washington hotel suite) about rising ocean temperatures and melt rates in central Greenland. It's difficult to imagine that "An Inconvenient Truth" will change many Americans' views on global warming."
This is the same article that links to a story about how we need to put aside pessimism if we're going to have a chance of making a difference. I wonder if Fox News would say something to toxicly dismissive about John McCain or any other leading Republican... I highly doubt it.
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Now, don't get snippy
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I, for the record, voted for Gore.
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Sorry, Susan M.
It means your letter has been selected by an editor as an "editor's choice". The yellow circle with star means you're a subscriber. Trust me. Or check out any number of other threads. I don't subscribe, and teacher gives me a star once in a while.
leme
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uprooting corruption
I quote Chairman Mao:
"A revolution is not the same as inviting people to dinner, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing fancy needlework; it cannot be anthing so refined, so calm, so gentle , or so mild, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an uprising, an act of violence whereby one class overthrows another....To right a wrong it is necessary to exceed the proper limits, and the wrong cannot be righted without the proper limits being exceeded."
Al Gore didnt and doesnt realize this truth--that's why he rolled over and played dead, thinking that his brand of magnanimous Southern Courtesy was the right response the vicious and violent wrongs of Bush's first Usurpation.
Acting as if a white-trash Yankee carpetbagger whose carpetbags are made out Osama bin Laden's family's rugs, (now with a few extra luxury bags from the Prince of Dubai's tents...) needed to be treated as he were a Gentleman will go down as one of the great stupidities of history. This kind of character flaw is usually described as the hybris of Greek tragedy, and we are all suffering the unhappy and tragic consequences.
So--if he should think of running again, does he now have that understanding of how to lead a vast uprising against the classes of persons who have usurped our country--I dont think so. (Does ANY Democrat? ...)
Leading a revolutionary uprising is not so refined, mild, calm, gentle, courteous, restrained nor magnanimous as addressing a college classroom via videotape.
--tommyoratesgood
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Global warming is good!
God wants Americans to wreck the Earth. The sooner we do it, the sooner his son Jesus will come back to Rapture us up into Heaven, send all the sinners to Hell, and then make the Earth perfect again for a 1000 years!
Think of it: perfect weather, year-around, everywhere! Never again will we experience a rain-delay, a washed out picnic, or slick rush-hour freeways.
It's pretty much all in the Bible, somewhere- why not be a part of the fun? Just accept Jesus as your personal savior, and stay out of the carpool lane.
Gore and his ilk are actually keeping Jesus away...
Bush-Cheney '08!!!
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Seeing stars
Thanks for the clarification, Brad, and I apologize for the misinfo. Your explanation made my day!
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Response from Salon
The response to my letter complaining about this stilted review, and in particular the line about Gore growing up in a "suite":
"Thanks for the email, and for sharing your concern. Andrew's a critic, not a political reporter, and that means not couching anything he writes along any faux-objective lines. He's got to call it as he sees it (and the review, by the way, was a rave). Also, though, I want to point out that the Daily Howler link you submit does not debunk anything Andrew wrote; I have yet to see a source that states that Gore did not grow up mostly (around 9 months a year) in a Washington hotel (and I've been looking!)."
My reply to the response:
Ah, the old "he's a commenter, so what he says doesn't
have to be true" argument. The WSJ op-ed page couldn't
survive without it.
As I said, I expect better than that from Salon.
I wonder if you'll consider adding a disclaimer to your
reviews that no "faux-objective lines" -- like
facts -- are presented as obstacles when your critics
are "calling them as they see them"?
Regarding the "suite" -- that's what O'Hehir called it, not simply "a hotel," as you do -- I wonder if you've looked at the Marjorie Williams piece in Vanity Fair, March 1998, cited by Somersby. Or the Bob Zelnick bio that she cites describing the economic position of the Gore family.
"Although the Fairfax Hotel later became the Ritz-Carlton, it was not a posh place at the time Gore was growing up; in any case, the apartment was in their reach only because the hotel was owned by a cousin.
"Cousin Grady let the Gores live at the Fairfax for free, according to biographer Bob Zelnick."
http://www.dailyhowler.com/h101899_1.shtml
But why split hairs when O'Hehir is just calling them like he sees them, and if he throws in a bunch of half-truths and smears, so what? Truthiness wins!
Clearly we will need to turn to blogs for a debunking of Mr. O'Hehir.