Daily Show with Al Gore - Assault on Reason and Media

[Sapphire Blue]

Run time: 10:10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J2O1TLoqHk   Posted on YouTube: May 26, 2007 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: May 27, 2007 By DU Member: Sapphire Blue Views on DU: 5801

 

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Thank you so much for posting this....

[msongs]

2. yes indeed, nice to see for any american nt

[Jelybe903]

27. Start a list of reporters who get it!

Charles Osgood took the lead this morning on CBS sunday morning...

The quote "For those who care...Lindsey Lohan was arrested last night..." That was it...just one line...not much of an explanation, no fan fare, just a 1 second blurb!

Love It! Responsible reporting...more then what it deserves...but less then most reports will say!
Jelybe903

[waiting for hope]

3. Off you go to GP Land....

:hi:

K&R!

[Cha]

4. I enjoyed the HECK outta that,

Sapphire Blue!~ Thank you! One question..how come we're still able to get "youtube"? I'm glad I just thought it was over cause of you know what.

Al Gore's lookin' good..much healthier..I like it!

I could tell Jon enjoyed the heck outta that, too! :loveya: :toast:

We're on the "great equalizer"! "Blowing the whistle", as it were :)

Recommend!~

[Catch22Dem]

9. Huh?

What did I miss? What happened with DU and Youtube?

[Cha]

21. I read on DU that

youtube was bought by viacom and we weren't going to be able to get their videos no mo'.

[Maestro]

5. Nice interview!

And for a while there he just kept hammering home the disconnect between 9-11 and Iraq and how dumb the neo-cons were to take us there. Man, I hope he runs!

[Cha]

22. You can bet Molly Ivins would

have something sharp to write about this latest deal the Democrats sent through in Congress.

[Maestro]

36. Too bad she is gone! I miss her wit.

But we still have Jim Hightower here in Texas and of course DU has NanceGreggs. ;)

[Cha]

42. Yes! We have Nance Greggs!

And Jim Hightower and Molly's spirit is lookin' down on us. O8)

[Mojambo]

6. He's a lock to be President if he gets in this. n/t

[Cha]

24. You would think so

but one thing we've learned is we can't take anything for granted in this 1984 fascist society.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

7. John missed a real opportunity at the end

He failed to thank Al for inventing the internet...

:rofl:

[Cha]

23. I thought of that, too~

It's sure locked into our brains! :)

[19jet54]

31. No one person did?

... while a misstatement on Al's part - I do give both Newt Gingrich & Al Gore credit for championing the "Commercial Internet" cause in government during their 15 minutes of fame?

[Cha]

34. It was not a "misstatement" on Al's

part". The corporatemediawhores took up the fascist wing lies about Al Gore and had everyone believing Al said it. But, Gore had a huge hand in carrying the internet forward so we're just shoving it back in their collective lyin' gin hole.

[mzmolly]

8. That was great, thanks Saphire Blue!

:hi:

[moblsv]

10. Run Al, Run

The Country needs you

[diane in sf]

11. Thank you Sapphire Blue!

Somehow I missed seeing this live.
How wonderful to hear our real president.

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[kiteinthewind]

13. Thanks, Sapphire Blue! I enjoyed it even more the second time! K&R!

:kick:

[ecdab]

14. Thanks

What a great man Al Gore is!

[Honeycombe8]

15. I missed that show, so thanks. That was great. n/t

[blondie58]

16. thank you for posting this, Sapphire Blue!

I have been without a TV for almost a year now. Haven't missed it much, other than things like this and Desperate Housewives.

What a wise, wise man- we need him to run for President. Did you see the face he made early in the show when someone shouted out "run for President!"

[tavalon]

17. Luckily

Each and every day, the internet is getting more and more of this sort of content. I chose to remove TV years ago but I can still keep up with stuff like this because of my precious internet.

[Sapphire Blue]

19. Instead of appearing on TV talk shows, he should be holding press conferences from the Rose Garden.

:( Sigh... this would & should have been the 7th year of his presidency.


FYI - Episodes of some shows are available online @

ABC: http://dynamic.abc.go.com/streaming/landing

CBS: http://www.cbs.com/innertube/player.php

NBC: http://www.nbc.com/Video

Comedy Central: http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/player.jhtml

[michael_1166]

18. It's all a bit see-through, don't you think?

He's wearing black, meaning "I'm not visible - yet!"

You can bet he'll run for president. It's a carefully crafted show we're witnessing.

[RestoreGore]

26. A carefully crafted "show?"

Oh, I get it. His passion for the environment all of these years, Current TV, Generation Investment Management, An Inconvenient Truth both the movie (which he didn't want to do at first) and the book, and the one he wrote for younger readers (which I would bet not many here even knew he had written,) The Climate Project, the training, The Alliance for Climate Protection, the Live Earth concerts, The Assault On Reason and all of the other speeches he gave before the last election he DIDN'T run in and all of the work he has been doing globally to bring awareness regarding this crisis are all just some "show" to make PEOPLE LIKE HIM. Seems like a hell of a lot of trouble to go through just to make people like him so they will vote for him. What absolute BS. I think I need to take a break from here because this incessant 2008 obsession is getting kind of creepy at this point.

Through all of the responses there also isn't one response in regards to the fact that this country has been sickened by a disease that has now made power the ultimate drug of those in government that use it to sell fear, so much so that we are willing to sacrifice our Representative Democracy for it. And that is exactly why he wrote this book, because it took him thirty years in that sham of a system to get NOTHING done about the climate crisis precisely because the same interests have used fear, misinformation and a lack of reason to persuade people that the climate crisis either does not exist or isn't something to worry about over their own interests.

But hell, by your logic maybe Mr. Gore made all that up too just to get votes, right, because he is just a lying calculating politician just putting on a show. And then why really talk seriously about this either, because it is only to be used as a conversation starter to get votes in this corrupted toxic system we don't have the guts to really stand up to, and is all a sham on his part anyway to get people to LIKE HIM so they will vote for him. He is really like the very system he excoriates in this book, and this is all only part of some clandestine deceptive political campaign to get revenge. Good lord. If that is what many here really think of this man, I don't see how you can call yourselves supporters of his, unless some saying this are not who they would have us believe. This sounds more like something a media pundit would say.

[michael_1166]

29. Was there something wrong with your cornflakes this morning?

1. Not every showman is a liar (you implied that).
2. What he does recently is carefully crafted to steer towards a "surprise" candidacy for 2009. It's so obvious it gives the surprise away. I bet there's already a team behind him giving him advice for every move he makes in public. But I don't regard his aspirations as a bad thing, I think it's rather clever the way he plays it. It's fun to watch what he does. Hillary and Obama have no snowballs chance in hell against his unique "non-campaign" campaign. And I think that's great.

[RestoreGore]

35. I don't eat cornflakes

And you implied he was lying to all of us about his intentions so I responded. If you think it is great to think him a lying political player go ahead. It isn't surprising to me here.

[michael_1166]

39. I didn't imply anything.

Read point 1 of my previous post. He's not lying, but I think he's not telling the whole truth about his intentions right now. Which is ok for a strategy. Seeing politicians and public figures in a realistic light (and not as immaculate gurus) protects from disappointment. There's always hurt feelings at the end of any guru trip.

[RestoreGore]

40. I'm not going to sit here and argue with you over semantics...

carefully crafted "show" imnplies deception regardless of how you wish to spin it now. I'm done here.

[Kurovski]

44. "I'm done here."

If only one could believe that...

[NastyDiaper]

30. Black is for academics and artists.

And I hope he does run. But if it's a show, it's one that is being written live.

[wryter2000]

20. Whoa, Nellie!

He's slimmed down. That can mean only one thing... :evilgrin:

[Cha]

25. He's healthier!

:evilgrin:

[wryter2000]

28. Yup

Healthier and down to his campaigning weight. Run, Al, run! I'M SERIES1!!!!11

[nam78_two]

32. K&R.nt

[northofdenali]

33. ONWARD!!!

Thanks for showing my President. We're all marching on - and as long as we keep up the fight, we'll win.

It may take time, it will take money, it will take the effort of all of us "believers" out there -

but we WILL WIN.

PS- those of us who haven't donated to the best site in the United States should give it another thought - that $5 could help us save the United States as we know it!

[biggles1]

37. As an Aussie, I have to ask you guys this..

..how come Gore is not a candidate for your next Presidential elections? From this distance, he appears as the most articulate, charismatic, intelligent, committed, leader-like person you have on your political stage. He'd win by a country mile, wouldn't he?

[Conscious Confucius]

38. Simple

We Americans prefer people we can drink beers with instead of capable leaders democratically elected. You see, we wouldn't want to feel dumber than the person running the country, so we elect simpletons.

[RestoreGore]

41. He can't be bought and he has morals, that's why n/t

[Cha]

43. Three words~

US corporatewhoremedia. Same reason he didn't win in 2000. That and the 5 betrayers on the supreme court AND the disinfranchisement of voters in Florida and who knows where else?

We've had enough of this bushit and the corporatemediawhores, though and Al Gore has too.

:hi: