Right Wing Lies Help Us Draft Gore

[Admiral Loinpresser]

Now that the Man in Black is all the way back, the right wing smear machine is taking it up a notch. (Brother, can you spare a Swift Boat?). A link to the right-wing smear is included at the bottom.

All the way back as in two, count’em two, Oscars for his opinion-shaping movie, An Inconvenient Truth. All the way back as in a growing and enthusiastic draft movement to put him back in the White House. http://www.meetup.com/topics/polact/cand/ All the way back as in even reporters who formerly made stuff up about him are finally calling him a winner.

All the way back as in his favorability rating is above water for the first time since the 2000 campaign (7% net positive rating in a Gallup poll published February 26, 2007). http://brain.gallup.com/ You remember the 2000 campaign, right? The one where the Pravda-like character assassination engineered by the “mainstream” media made Gore into a cartoonish, dissembling joke? All that while they held out the likes of George W. Bush, John McCain and Ralph Nader as “authentic” men worthy of respect. This is why Americans and Iraqis are being killed and maimed in Baghdad. But don’t get me started.

Anyway, the latest smear started the day after the Oscars from an obscure right-wing “think” tank in Tennessee. They are upset because Al Gore uses electricity in his house! Their lies have been ably rebutted by Dave Johnson and James Boyce on Huffington Post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-johnson-and-james-boyce/a-far-too-convenient-mea_b_42171.html

How do these lies help us draft Gore? First, it brings more attention to the best candidate for the Democratic nomination. (Ain’t no such thing as bad publicity, at least not when it’s generated by crackpots.) Second, it brings more citizens, bloggers and talking heads (e.g. Keith Olberman) into the cause of defending Gore. Third, it motivates Gore-illas to re-double efforts to take back our country from the right wing clique which has engineered the greatest foreign policy debacles in the history of the republic.

So bring it on. I’m looking at you Hannity! And you (fill in the blank with Coulter, Limbaugh, etc.)! Do your worst, baby. You are grist for our mill. Please lie about our candidate the Chicago way: early and often.

So let’s hoist one for all those Freepers and other assorted nut jobs. You Rushbo-wannabes are our biggest allies at the moment. Pop an OxyContin and make up another whopper. Keep talking smack and we’ll keep working and growing. And then sometime after Labor Day, maybe after the Nobel Prize vote, we will thank you for helping us achieve your worst nightmare. The candidacy of the greatest American of our time.

Right wing smear:

http://tennesseepolicy.org/main/article.php?article_id=367

[donkeyotay]

1. Right on, Admiral Loinpresser

Al Gore not only invented the Internets, he invented the will to act.
:patriot:

[Jeanette in FL]

2. Can't you smell the desperation in the air?

Since Sunday night the amount of articles generated by the Tennessee Center for Policy Research Immediate Press Release - Al Gore’s Personal Energy Use Is His Own “Inconvenient Truth” on Feb. 26th, has been amazing.

In a concerted effort the right wing smear machine parroted the TCPR press release, sometimes in the exact words, without ever researching the smear. Well then again, had they did the research, they never would have been able to reprint the lie.

I find it exhilarating that the right wing is this nervous about an Al Gore presidency. As long as we all know what we are up against.

[donkeyotay]

4. They're scared of Gore in particular, but they're scared of the revolt in general

They did the "Pelosi ordered up a HUGH plane. Who does she think she is, a Queen? Flying her friends, her liberal friends back and forth to California in a gigantic plane!" smear. I think Lou Dobbs said it was big enough to ballroom dance in.

Retraction? Crickets. I didn't hear a retraction. The public sure didn't hear a retraction, even if there was won. The smear was done.

Then we had the "slow bleed" smear that Olbermann covered. That evil rep from Florida whose name escapes me said, after being told that it wasn't true, "I don't care if it's true." Wow. Truer words were never spoken.

Retraction? No.

Then Al Gore. First he actually flew on planes, then he had a house. Obviously global warming is not worth thinking about because Al Gore is a hypocrite.

Retraction? No. They shut up about it kind of fast. I wonder why.

These are just the last three, clearest examples of rightwing media smear jobs I can think of.

Wow, DU's spell checker doesn't even question "hugh."

[ms liberty]

3. They're terrified that he'll run...

Because if/when he does, he'll win and win big. Then he'll make changes they've been fighting for 25 years, and reverse policies they've been making for 25 years or more.

Al Gore '08!

[Uncle Joe]

5. I like Gore-illas

:) Thanks for the thread Admiral, have a good evening.

Kicked and recommended

[rosesaylavee]

6. I like that too -

a great name for Gore supporters is coined! :bounce:

[Vincardog]

7. I am proud to be a Gore-illa Don't we need a Smiley for that?

[Hubert Flottz]

8. Bump and R

[RestoreGore]

9. You sound almost giddy that he is being attacked

Which I find unbelievable. But I suppose that is the essence of "politics." And of course, taking action on this climate crisis now is once again ignored. And in case you hadn't connected the dots, Mr. Gore is being smeared mostly because of baseless political speculation being tied to his work, which may hurt the environmental effort he hoped to gain momentum on after the movie won the Oscar. But again, that isn't important to a political operative, and actually, many RW blowhards are actually pushing him to run now. So at least you all have that in common.