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http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/6/20/102043/590Gore. Letterman. This Friday. I was at the taping. WOW.
by clammyc
Tue Jun 20, 2006 at 07:20:42 AM PDT
I was lucky enough to get a ticket through work to a taping of the Letterman show, which was last night. Funny enough, I thought that we would be seeing the Monday June 19 show being taped, just earlier in the day. And I was pretty psyched to see Adam Sandler as a guest.
On the way over to the studio, someone mentioned that we were seeing the Friday June 23 show being taped, which had Al Gore as the guest. Needless to say, I was happy with the step up from the childish humor that I love oh-so-much and being the dork that I am I got some paper and a pen so I could take down some notes on the discussion that Gore and Letterman had.
And man, am I glad that I did. Being the sole guest, Gore spoke to Letterman for 15-20 minutes on a wide range of topics and issues, and while I was very impressed with Gore, I was even more impressed with Letterman, who barely hid his disdain for the current policies in Iraq, the environment, North Korea and a number of other administration policies.
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Sadly, before Gore even came on, Letterman asked the audience "how many of you believe in global warming?" to which there was a good amount of applause. Then he asked "how many of you do not believe in global warming?" and there was way more applause then there should have been. Lastly, he asked "how many of you are like me and just don't care?" to which there was lots of applause. Now, he was of course kidding, but it was a sad state of affairs when more people either didn't believe or didn't care about global warming.....
Anyway, Gore was pretty loose - he cracked a few jokes, including one right at the outset when Letterman asked about whether he still has a Secret Service detail. Gore's reply?
No. I'm not worth killing anymore.
Well, I took a bunch of notes and hopefully will be able to make some sense of them below. Either way, this is a MUST SEE (or a must-record) and it will be on this Friday night.
On Gore's experience making and promoting the movie
Gore described it as a very interesting experience, and it has been "crazy promoting the movie" in recent weeks. Looking back, he indicated that it was a "no-brainer" to make the movie. There was a funny exchange when Letterman talked about the serious nature of the movie:
Gore: Well, after a long, hard week, what other movie do you want to see to wind down? And who do you want to see? This guy (pointing to himself).
On Iraq
Here, Letterman was barely holding back his contempt for what is going on there, and I totally applaud him for that. The exchange went something like the following:
DL: We have over 2,500 of our soldiers dead. Anywhere between 60,000 - 100,000 Iraqi civilians dead. Are we knee deep in a mess of our own making?
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