Al Gore is being bashed

[KalicoKitty]

He is being called a hypocrite by so many beacuse of articles like this:


http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=nation_world&id=5072659

I believe his home is energy efficient.

Does anyone have any info, so I can rebut some jerks who are bashing him?


AL GORE FOR PRESIDENT!!!!!

[ellacott]

1. This is Al Gores's response

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/26/gore-responds-to-drudge/

[SharonRB]

3. Oh, good. someone had the link

I knew they would. :)

[KalicoKitty]

13. Thank you very much, ella!!!!

I appreciate that! :)

[smalll]

26. Thanks! I wonder who called who -

Your link tells us:
"Responding to Drudge’s attack, Vice President Gore’s office told ThinkProgress..."

If ThinkProgress called Gore's office, well, OK. But if Gore's office called ThinkProgress - why, that's ... rapid response! And you know what THAT means:
Dude's a CANDIDATE! :)

(Honestly, I can't predict one way or another at this point about Al, I'm on tenderhooks though, because I'm pretty sure he'll let us know SOON!

[SharonRB]

2. I read something earlier today

It's a 10,000 SF old farm house, which he rehabbed. The rehab was done to make the house as green as possible. I wish I could remember where I read it so I could post the link.

KO is doing this story tonight and will hopefully have someone on who can refute the slams.

[ourbluenation]

7. I would LOVE that link if you can find it, or direct me to it.

[Pirate Smile]

12. I hope he comes out and makes a big statement to that effect because

I didn't have access to a computer for about five hours and he is getting pounded. The Think Progress response isn't enough. The rehab actually makes it all make sense and it needs to get out there in a big way.

[ronnykmarshall]

4. Damn ... they must be REALLY afraid of Gore.

[Champion Jack]

14. BINGO!!!!!

You hit it Mr. Marshall

[Double T]

5. sigh........................??

Here you go.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/GlobalWarming/story?id=2906888&page=1

[The Count]

11. Someone should track this Tennessee Center for Policy research and check

who pays their ...um...utility bills. I'm sure some familiar names will pop up, especially to those privy to the Swift Boat/Arkansas Project sets.
For starters, they seem to want to provide...private alternative to government
http://www.ncpa.org/

One of their other credible opinion is, wait for it....

Minimum Wage Hike Means Maximum Harm for Working Poor

http://www.tennesseepolicy.org/main/article.php?article_id=345

[kskiska]

28. Electric company didn't give info

(snip)

The think tank said Gore used nearly 221,000 kilowatt hours last year and that his average monthly electric bill was $1,359. Johnson said his group got its figures from Nashville Electric Service.

But electric company spokeswoman Laurie Parker said the utility never got a request from the policy center and never provided them with any information.

more…
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/16796546.htm

[blm]

6. ABC and Tapper have been ramping up their competition with FOX to serve up the most

RW talking points.

[Caoimhe]

8. I wonder what GWB's carbon footprint is

add up his ranch bills, vacation homes, etc

Has anyone done this?

The man is like a walking lump of coal.

[ellacott]

9. The fundies are already on it

This is their version:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x301138

[donkeyotay]

42. Rancho Boguso is green for one reason only, and it's the same reason

survivalist buy cabins in the boonies. It's a bomb shelter, because bush is anticipating the outcome of his policies. You and I, however, are screwed...or screwn.

[GCP]

39. Not to mention AF 1 being used for campaigning

:grr:

[donkeyotay]

40. Or what's the carbon footprint of the Iraq war and the perpetual war for oil? nt

[Emillereid]

10. When you have a pool you will use a lot of energy even if you don't heat it!

[Cha]

15. And abc broadcast the Oscars..that

must have really killed them to show all those beautiful, talented, liberal people giving Al Gore many rounds of warm applause!

All the insanelyfascist think tanks in the world can't change the direction Prez Al Gore is taking the world.

[monmouth]

16. Rush really did a hatchet job today, I had to turn him off.... Says this "warming"

is all nonsense and the biggest load of BS to be foisted on the public.... Ugh.

[kwolf68]

20. GIVE ME DATA

I want to hear Rush provide his evidence that the hypothesis that global warming isn't happening is true.

First of all, anyone who says the world isn't warming is a complete idiot, it is a FACT that it is warming. No one can dispute that.

The question revolves around...are we perpetuating that warming....and since the science and models I have seen are complex, I wonder how much investment of time Limbaugh has put into his scientific research.

SHOW ME THE DATA...if global warming is false, PROVIDE evidence and I will be the first to reject the hypothesis. PROVIDE THE DATA...what experiment did you do? Let me see your methods so I can duplicate your science. PLEASE rush...provide proof.

[donkeyotay]

38. Wingnuts don't need no stinking data. They don't BELIEVE in global warming

They believe Saddam and al-qaeda were connected. They believe lil boots is a strong leader. They believe in the free market. They don't believe in global warming. What more do you need? Mission - or in this case emission - accomplished.

[hardcore]

23. I've heard about 10 minutes of that guy

...over the last five years or so. He was making fun of what he called "ugly people". I don't care if he criticizes people based on their character or even his interpretation of it. But their looks??? Something they have no control over??? Never again.

[hardcore]

17. Nothing new

Gore has done this before and it cost him big in 2000. Nader took enough votes from Gore in Florida to make the difference. A lot of people went to Nader when the 1988 campaign clip of him came out bragging about his experience as a tobacco farmer to tobacco farmers. This after the convention where he was talking about his sister dying from lung cancer in 1981. NOBODY needs to use 20 times as much electricity as the average home. The kids are grown and gone so it's only him and Tipper. He shot himself in the foot on this. So close yet so far.

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[newyawker99]

19. Hi hardcore!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[hardcore]

22. I call things the way I see them.

....and don't really care how others take it. It's the end result that counts, not the candidate and we hurt ourselves and our causes by not being fair and objective about them. Let the other guy blindly follow a personality and screw up for a long time into the future. The Republican Party did that in '04 and it cost them in '06 and will cost them more in '08. Even after four years they put on their blinders and re-elected him. We need to make sure that we don't pickup those same blinders and try them on for size. AMEN!

[Cha]

21. Too bad you don't know

:wtf: you're talking about..sparky.

[kestrel91316]

27. HAHAHAHAHAHA! HAHAHAHAHAHA!

OMG

You really need to learn how to play the game here. Don't shoot your wad in the first post, ROFLMAO!!!! How the hell are we supposed to have any fun with you when you immediately out yourself????

[ourbluenation]

35. he and Tipper BOTH run their offices out of their house so bills not so odd.

enjoy your stay, by the way, it won't last long.

[Flubadubya]

24. CNN's John King has his sword out...

He just announced that after the commercial break he would be talking about Al Gore's "carbon footprint" and how this will be very surprising to everyone.

Yep, they must really be afraid he's going to run.... they are in total Swift Boat mode now. :grr::mad::puke:

[blm]

36. Ever see two Dems get more Feigned Outrage thrown at them than Gore and Kerry?

The RW is so anxious to rewrite history and can't do it with those two going around and telling the truth all these years.

[ecstatic]

25. Watching on CNN. His yearly electric/gas bill is allegedly 30,000!!

SERIES!!!11

All jokes aside, I hope Gore can produce information that shows that this is not true otherwise this doesn't look good.

[NYCGirl]

30. Yes, here's the information:

Responding to Drudge’s attack, Vice President Gore’s office told ThinkProgress:

1) Gore’s family has taken numerous steps to reduce the carbon footprint of their private residence, including signing up for 100 percent green power through Green Power Switch, installing solar panels, and using compact fluorescent bulbs and other energy saving technology.

2) Gore has had a consistent position of purchasing carbon offsets to offset the family’s carbon footprint — a concept the right-wing fails to understand. Gore’s office explains:

What Mr. Gore has asked is that every family calculate their carbon footprint and try to reduce it as much as possible. Once they have done so, he then advocates that they purchase offsets, as the Gore’s do, to bring their footprint down to zero.

It’s the latest in a series of desperate attacks by Drudge to paint Gore as a hypocrite.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/26/gore-responds-to-drudge/

[brettdale]

29. Faux noise is having a field day

Faux and friends were quite nasty, not with what they were saying, but just their body language, they were either laughing in a nasty way, or shaking thier heads in disgust, doocy's voice was raising and squeaky again, all because of the so called story of the amount of electricity he uses.

They now even have it on thier front page as a video story.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

31. as always, it starts with drudge, then to fox, and now...

the so-called mainstream media reports it. Can't we just put the final nail in the coffin of the 'lib'rul media conspiracy theory?
It's Love canal/love story/ "he invented the Internet" all over again

[donkeyotay]

43. And these same talking heads claimed we wanted to have a beer with bush

That he was likable, that he wasn't an elitist like Gore but was comfortably stupid. Gore wore earth-tones and wasn't trustworthy. Heck, he even misspoke about FEMA! Snark, snark, har, har. The media pushed Bush, an otherwise laughable candidate. He was their guy. They wanted the Iraq war, too. They have so much to answer for.

[donkeyotay]

32. The GOP parrot choir is in full voice. I've heard of attacking the man

when your argument sucks, but it took the wingnuts to invent attacking the man's house.:eyes:

So, Green Power Switch (that means he pays a premium on his bill to support green energy sources), solar panels, compact fluorescents and carbon offsets......nope, guess he's a hypocrite. Let's make fun of the man. After all, he might want to do something positive for the country, and that would make professional obstructionists like Tucker Carlson look, well, like losers. Not going to happen again, GOP Wurlitzer.

OMGAWD, did you hear? He travels on planes, too!

[Moochy]

37. Some of the choir has showed up to practice

on this thread even... though their pitch is far from perfect...

[imax2268]

33. I'm willing to bet

that Keith Olberman will have something to say about it...

[Dr Ron]

34. Response posted last night at Liberal Values

http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=1144

(Also cross posted at DU last night)

[dogday]

41. Why doesn't ABC do any follow-up or checking to

this stupid rumor? If they did, they would be printing the truth... We can't have that can we???