A Spork in the Drawer

Motor City Madness

The big one:

(If only Al had been this passionate eight years ago...oh well.)

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Destroying The Democratic Party

Hillary attacks Al Gore and John Kerry.

Remember this when McCain is sworn in as president.

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Teevee

Al Gore will be appearing on 30 Rock tonight.

You might as well enjoy the show anyway; depending on how long the WGA strike lasts it might be one of the last eps.

Speaking of the strike, worth a read: The United Hollywood blog and Jane Espenson (Among other things, writer/producer of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and currently co-executive producer of Battlestar Galactica. She also came up with the name "Zima" for the briefly trendy drink. (Full disclosure: I've long had a mad crush on Jane.))

Atrios has posted a funny video of the folks from The Office on the picket line.

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Will Al Gore run For President?

No.

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And Again

Scarecrow:

On CNN this morning, John Roberts, the White House shill who is embedded at CNN, spent the entire discussion trying to discredit Gore, by asking his guest expert about the recent British judge who ruled that if British schools show Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, they must point out several “errors” in the film. To her credit, Robert’s guest said the “errors” were trivial, that the judge apparently had an ideological bias, and that scientists agreed on the basic message of the film. But that didn’t stop Roberts from asking question after question about how “controversial” this would be. John Roberts: first class jerk and shill.

This would be the same John Roberts who yesterday regurgitated GOP talking-points when reporting the Graeme Frost story.

Memo to CNN: No matter how much you act like Fox "News" the right is still going to hate you.

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Nobel Laureate

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Stating The Obvious

NYT:

Gore Supporters’ Movement Lacks a Candidate

We've noticed.

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Dear Al

What Susie says.

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The Assault On Reason

Time has an interesting excerpt from Al Gore's upcoming book, The Assault on Reason. (An apt title if there's ever been one.) I enjoyed this bit about our "liberal" media:

And what if an individual citizen or group of citizens wants to enter the public debate by expressing their views on television? Since they cannot simply join the conversation, some of them have resorted to raising money in order to buy 30 seconds in which to express their opinion. But too often they are not allowed to do even that. MoveOn.org tried to buy an ad for the 2004 Super Bowl broadcast to express opposition to Bush's economic policy, which was then being debated by Congress. CBS told MoveOn that "issue advocacy" was not permissible. Then, CBS, having refused the MoveOn ad, began running advertisements by the White House in favor of the president's controversial proposal. So MoveOn complained, and the White House ad was temporarily removed. By temporarily, I mean it was removed until the White House complained, and CBS immediately put the ad back on, yet still refused to present the MoveOn ad.

As a service to you, dear reader, I will continue to search for evidence of this "liberal" media we hear so much about but, to be honest, I'm not optimistic about finding any.

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Here We Go Again

In a replay of 2000 the NYT's Maureen Dowd selectively edits an interview with Al Gore in order to make him look bad.

It looks like MoDo is sharpening her claws in case Gore decides to run. I can't figure out what her problem is; did Gore run over her puppy or something? Abandon her on a date? Or is Dowd just the High School Queen Bitch of the pundit class?

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Incisive Analysis

Deep thoughts from the Daily Scaife:

That Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth," a political screed on global warming, won an Oscar for "best documentary feature" shows how the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences knows the meaning of neither "documentary" nor "science."

Yes, that's the entire entry.

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Gore Meets Oscar

AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian
Al Gore with An Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim.

Now announce you're running, dammit!

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ADDED: Judge Rufus Pekham has a shocking update.

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To Lighten Up The Mood

HuffPo:

Al Gore appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last night to promote the DVD of his hit documentary An Inconvenient Truth. Leno asked Gore about special features the DVD might have, and Gore joked that it included an uncensored version called 'Global Warming Gone Wild'...including "hot glacier on glacier action."

Video at link.

Draft Gore 2008.

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