If Al Gore Is awarded the Nobel Prize he WILL be smeared. There is no question about it.
On May 15, 2007, we wrote a post titled, We Guarantee Al Gore Will Be Attacked Next Week, We Absolutely Guarantee It. We wrote,
On Monday, Al Gore has a new book coming out next week, titled, The Assault On Reason.Because he is standing up, telling the truth and because he simply is a Democrat and progressive leader, Al Gore will be smeared mercilessly by the right-wing smear machine. He will be ridiculed, made fun of and mocked. They will tease and make fun of him.
They will rush to say that he is bitter about 2000, crazy, insane, pontificating and out of touch.
They will bring up his utility bills and the boards he is a member of. They will talk about his kiss with Tipper, her crusade against vulgar rap lyrics.They will bring up his weight and the beard. And say it's all about 2008.
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, of course, we were right.And what happened when Al Gore won an Oscar for his documentary, An Inconvenient Truth? Again, smeared. And that smear continues to spread. There are currently 519,000 web pages referencing it.
Now there is a possibility that Al Gore is going to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his outstanding work warning about and fighting climate change caused by greenhouse gases released into our air.
You would think this was a good thing. But there is a multi-million-dollar "global warming denial industry" operating. It is funded by the big oil and coal companies. Because they have a stranglehold on our economy - and our thinking - these are the most profitable corporations in the history of the world. And they want to keep it that way. So they dish out millions to front-groups to fog over the science that tells us the planet is in danger -- and to smear good people like Al Gore who want us to be more efficient in our energy use, and find alternatives to fuels that pollute.
So if Al Gore is awarded a Nobel Prize, expect the worst -- from the worst.
The newer, big boat they were now counting on using has gotten towed off while the rightwingers were making time, doin' their thing in public bathroom stalls..
I caught Shaheen and Baines, crowing and cawing in 2004 here in New Hampshire, on stage and televised, at John Kerry's primary success in 2004, after they savaged current Dem Party Chair and former Vermont Governor Howard Dean's candidacy. Remember the repeatedly televised "primal scream"? Viewing Baines and Shaheen surprised me at the time, because they had kept a very low profile prior. But all should give credit where credit is due. These electable New Hampshire Democrats are not true Democrats in my book. We have a whole slew of similarly "Republican lite", Corporatized Democrats in Washington, DC nowadays. To my view, they are politically worthless.
We have Baines and Shaheen to thank, really, for eight years of an incredibly misbegotten Junior Bush in our White House. Give credit or blame where it belongs, folks. That's what you get for countenancing New Hampshire's "First in the Nation" Primary. Fact is, this is not the first time History has turned, or soured, on this Little State: Remember the savaging of Edmund Muskie's presidential effort in the Winter of a similar discontent back in February 1972? We ended up with a 2nd Term Richard Nixon, and another inextricable foreign war in Bhietnam. See http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/remember/muskie_3-26.html
Thank you, New Hampshire, the political gift that "keeps on giving" much like a venereal disease.
Now today, I have heard early rumors, megaphoned in the Media's artfully building tabloid crescendo, of the torpedoeing of the John Edwards campaign. Well, does anyone other than myself see a pattern here? The fingerprints of the ersatz or "fake" New Hampshire Democrats are once again all over the scene of the crime. Cuff 'em, Dano!
He has done such good that people won't believe the Trolls.
Yep, they've been at it all week. But they are becoming comical because they keep drudging up old stuff that they already made such a to do with, and it's been debunked that now folks see what losing liars they are. LOL
Superman wears Al Gore pajamas.
And it's about Peace baby!
ya know? he's doing so well and doing so much good in the private sector it's a huge sacrifice to ask of him to step in an try to clean up the enormous disgusting mess the neoCONs have made of our country. all i could say as a comment was "Please, Al! PLEASE!".
but who could blame him if he doesn't?
If any of you can point out a single time where a republican has done something selfless for the greater good and has been attacked by democrats for it, I'll lick your penny-loafers. Or even a time in recent history when a republican has done ANYTHING selfless for the greater good...
Al knows this. Al is neither stupid nor uninformed. Neither is he unaware that of those people able to mount a run for the Presidency, he is by far the most qualified. But is the inevitability of a smear what is keeping Al out of the race?
Sure, winning 2000 and losing the Presidency must have broken his heart. Sure, he sees the criticism of his sighs, kissing his wife, the twisting of his involvement in the internet as exercises in triviality. But these are the currency of the Republican opposition. As much as I hate to say it, as much as it disappoints, I believe that the reason Al isn't running is that he lacks the conviction to weather the onslaught, to face the Clintons, and to speak truth to stupidity, even for a cause as noble as righting our Ship of State.
And a man without conviction cannot help us.
Sadly, it's not just the Republicans who have done this. Granted, they were earlier, slightly, and nastier, a lot, but the Democrats are also smear happy. Far too smear happy when they are running against each other, too...
This is a big yawn of propaganda to the point of boredom. I like progressive thinking despite my conservative stance which is why I come to the site. I look for discourse and righting the wrongs in this nation. I see non of that in this post and wonder why even bother with the rhetoric.
Gore should not be raised to the rank of demagogue because he posed an interesting argument about climate change. He should be respected and thats about it, he definitely belongs under the eye of scrutiny especially when postulating scientific theories.
How about even a single example of a "war-supporter" or Republican being "smeared"? What nonsense.
Isn't this how most dictatorships start out? Claiming to help the people with good changes while robbing those same people of everything?
Anyone that still defends this administration is either clinically insane, mentally deficient, or seriously, SERIOUSLY rich (and still immoral).
The slandering of people who act with compassion is hilarious, and the only tragedy in connection with it is that the sane people don't shout the wingnuts down. If the press will not report anything benefitting the public, then it is time to wage war with the press. Hit them where it hurts - with MONEY. We shouldn't spend a penny on the corporate supporters of this ideology. We should be overtly hostile against it. It is what they understand.
Just stop being so damn polite with people that would step on your grandmother's face for a nickel. I quote from The Untouchables -"....always bringing a knife to a gunfight." The "democrats" (most of whom should be replaced) should learn from this line.
If you are in politics to get rich you should find another profession - and we, the public, should DEMAND IT!!!