"Al Gore scares the bejesus out of me" and George Allen is an Idiot.

[Pirate Smile]

In Focus
Gore and Guggenheim: Speaking 'Truth' to Power

By Michael O'Sullivan
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, June 2, 2006; Page WE43

Al Gore scares the bejesus out of me.
Okay, not him personally. During a meeting in his Washington office to discuss the documentary based on his traveling slide show on global warming, Gore comes across as more relaxed, genial and funny than he ever did when he was in public office. But his movie, "An Inconvenient Truth" (see review on Page 44), is rattling stuff indeed.

So I decide to see if I, in return, can shake up this prophet of doom and gloom whose PowerPoint demonstration, despite its not infrequent touches of levity, may leave many with the impression that the world is coming to an end. I begin by reading aloud from an e-mail sent out by the office of Sen. George Allen (R-Va.), who sits on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, in response to a letter from a concerned constituent (and film critic pal of mine), urging her senator to support "green" legislation.

"Thank you for contacting me regarding greenhouse emissions," Allen's message begins. "I appreciate your concerns and value your input on this important matter. Although the human contribution seems minimal, I'm glad . . . "

"Oh God," interrupts Gore, cutting the performance short with a weary sigh at yet another example of what he likes to call the "global warming deniers" -- people who may have come around to the acceptance of global warming as real, but who still cling to what he calls the "manifestly untrue" explanation that it's all, or mostly, the result of natural causes.

-snip-
As far as Sen. Allen is concerned, Gore has this to say. "I think that, at some point, people like him who say these things that are manifestly absurd, when you actually look into them, will be confronted by their constituents, by their friends, by their family, by their ministers, by people they respect, who say to them in a quiet moment, 'By the way, you should know that what you're putting in this e-mail to your constituents is idiotic, and more and more people who read this may think you're an idiot.' "

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/01/AR2006060100632.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/movies

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[rosesaylavee]

1. I hope he continues to scare the bejesus out of

a lot of people. Gore is a true patriot - thank g*d for him!

[bleever]

2. Holy shit.

If Gore continues to speak truth from the ground up, he's gonna blow this whole house of cards down.

I've got his back.

[dweller]

3. i've got his back too.

:kick: and Rec if you do also.

put it at the top.
dp

[Uncle Joe]

18. I have his back three,

kicked and recommended for President Gore.:patriot:

:kick:

[Virginian]

4. Yes, Virginia, our Senator is an idiot. N/T

[tinfoil tiaras]

8. Our senators are idiots too

(Mississippi; Lott and Cochran, Lott more so than Cochran, though he 1/4 the way redeemed himself by going on The Daily Show)

K&R for the thread and Al Gore! :kick:

[Va Lefty]

10. Not just an idiot; a racist idiot...

paraphrasing Dean Wormer in Animal House--stupid, republican and prejudiced is no way to go thru life

[Catchawave]

16. please add "bored in the Senate"

as in a bored, racist, idiot Senator, who has never responded to my polite constituent's correspondence :cry: However, John Warner always responds to me!

[demdiva]

17. This is why I should not leave the District!!!

[saltpoint]

5. Wow. Good for Al Gore. I don't think he's afraid of anything these days.

Our consumer society is a society that NEEDS the bejesus scared out of it, at least in environmental terms.

[Digit]

6. I believe in Al

It is time for the grownups to take charge.

[Spangle]

7. FINALY!

Someone sounding grown up and speaking out.

You GO Gore!

[Rose Siding]

9. ROFL

"...people who read this may think you're an idiot"

That was fun to read :D

[blm]

11. Is there a sane person left who DOESN'T think Allen's an idiot?

.

[Kahuna]

12. Alright! Al Gore Rawks! Let it riiiip, Big Al.

:yourock:

[smiley_glad_hands]

13. Yeah GA is an Idiot and a Racist. eom

[smoogatz]

14. Gore just keeps on impressing me, simply by telling the TRUTH.

That's all it takes. You go, Big Al!

[bleever]

15. Kick!