Al Gore: Al Jazeera “Tell It Like It Is,” They’re “Respected” — Fox News Is “Propaganda”
Gore appeared on the Charlie Rose show last night, unfortunately the editors left the part where Gore rips Fox News as “propaganda” on the cutting room floor. I’ve watched Gore’s appearance on the Charlie Rose show on my DVR and also on Charlie Rose’s web site and the “propaganda” part is not there. The editors did leave in the part where Gore praises the Al Jazeera network–so I grabbed that. Having said that, someone who attended the live taping of the show recorded the “propaganda” part on their cell phone. The video is not stellar but the content is worth watching–especially when it is juxtaposed with Gore’s praising Al Jazeera.
I am angry at myself because I can’t believe I voted for this guy. Not only did I vote for him in 2000 but I spent most of 2007 hoping he would decide to run again.
I guess Ralph Nader was right after all.
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I used to think this guy walked on water too:
why this man isn’t being held accountable for his irresponsible views on spending is beyond me. Just another example of how meaningless the Nobel is.
I listened to Krugman the other day on NPR and was astonished at his casual embrace for more spending by the gov’t no matter what they spend money on – “Kash for Klunkers” for example? He is an idiot and I won’t say what other impression I got from him because its too rude but the Nobel has become a joke in my opinion because of him and Obama winning one.
For the record, his nobel was actually for some really good work on his part in microeconomics. His problem is that he knows nothing whatsoever about macroeconomics, and that’s all he talks about now. So the nobel went to his head and he thinks he knows everything. Turns out, he doesn’t know jack. Also, he’s a fucking asswipe.
Also, he barely even talks about economics — macro or micro — he talks *politics* and uses economics in the most superficial way to give his opinion credence.
yup
Rent control Room.It covers the start of the Iraq war and the birth of Al Jazeera There is a reason all the politico’s etc watch al Jazeera. I wish I could get it
I followed the links through to find the study. Of the 17 economist studied, 5 were women. Of the six found to be partisan, none were women. Ergo, we need more women in economics.
Just like that study that showed that women are better stock market investors.
Men are clearly too emotional for such abstract intellectual pursuits. Poor dears.
We need more women everywhere there is power.
Ben Stein:
The problem is coming up with a plausible explanation that blames white people for black-on-black violence.
Ding Ding Ding!
^Bingo!^
Word.
right there with you myiq2xu——Gore has become so sleazy, so dishonest, such a caricature of what you and I and others admired in him. It’s heartbreaking to see how creepy he’s become
off topic—-for everyone here, if you can, please distribute this graphic far and wide;
http://www.womenwintoo.blogspot.com/2013/02/blog-post.html
thanks myiq
I should have added this link to your other Hillary thread but didn’t want anyone to miss it:
http://www.businessinsider.com/hillary-clinton-photos-2013-2
That was awesome. Thanks for sharing.
I watched that interview with Rose and Gore and it seemed as if Gore lives in another world – one of wealth and privilege and couldn’t relate to any of us at home. His talk of loving the business world… I bet since he’s made billions off of nothing. Wonder what else was left on the cutting room floor. As for Al Jazeera, I’ve watched it and they do seem a hell of lot more comprehensive in their reporting than any American mainstream media. They will put Obama’s feet to the fire compared to the propaganda networks.
OT: Interesting. The Newtown Board of Education has voted unanimously to add more armed guards to their schools.
Apparently , they agree with the NRA.
Of course they did. Politics is fun and all, but someone decided they actually wanted their kids to live.
This.
honk
Glad someone is watching out for the kids instead of using them to score political points.
You’ve “evolved”!
I have to admit, when I heard Gore saying this shit, and just the fact of the bastard becoming richer than Romney and that being fine amongst the usual limousine liberals, I found myself saying what I never thought I’d say: thank god Gore didn’t become president in 2000. Now that’s fucking sad.
Honk!
This started to change my mind on Climate Change: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_email_controversy
And when I did more research, THAT’S when I was glad that Gore lost in 2000. While we do need to be careful managers of our environment, I am now convinced that GW is indeed a scientific conspiracy invented to advance more control of human activity by those who think they know better, but whose credentials and evidence for “knowing better” are highly questionable. The last thing these people need is a popular politician who would advance those ideas and solidify that control.
You know, I really wanna like and believe Al but for another take on the Goracle:http://www.michellesmirror.com/2013/01/qatar-hero-algorical-returns-to-explain.html
I voted for him – phone banked for him — begged people to vote for him not Nadar because “this was important.”
Still — my vote for Kerry 4 years later is more shameful.
^^This^^
ditto—-funny how things turn out. Gives me hope for the future that these omorons will evolve….
Hey everyone — go to this link & join TCH’s Oscar Pool — only 3 weeks left to make your picks! (Picks can be changed up to the day of the Oscars before the broadcast begins). You have to create an account. The name of our pool is “TCH” and the password is: crawdad
http://www.funofficepools.com/joinpool.php?Passed_Pool_Key=216134f2e46
My picks are in. Suck it people, I’m going to win.
Sorry- I am totally unqualified to participate. I know nothing about movies. I saw Les Miserables and the Hobbit last yr. Which is twice as many films as I have seen in a theater in at least ten yrs.
(It’s one of my weird things- I totally dislike sitting in a dark room full of strangers. And now I find the sound to be so loud it hurts my ears- I had to plug my ears during Les Mis to be able to halfway enjoy it. I got earplugs before I went to The Hobbit. What is wrong with people that they have to have deafening sound anyway?)
I like going to movies generally, but I have to agree with you on the sound. WTF is going on with the average movie goers hearing? Is it life with ear pods/headphones? Brain rot in general? How on earth can most people sit there with damaging decibel levels and not have a problem?
Even worse is the “IMAX experience” ones — I went to see The Hunger Games & because of the times I went to the IMAX experience one — biggest mistake of my life.
If I go into a movie theater, I spend $11 for a 2 hour nap. I fall asleep as soon as the lights go down.
PMM, please participate. Most of my picks are guesses. Because I wait for the DVDs to come out, I haven’t seen most of the films.
LOL I don’t even recognize a 100th of the names of the movies. I generally don’t pay much attention to Hollywood or their products. My era has long gone. I liked it when some things were left to the imagination and there were actual story lines.
I do know there was some film about Lincoln that everyone was talking about. And I would vote against zero dark thirty on principle.
So that makes a total of four movies I know exist- and still only two I actually know anything about lol.
Well, I typed in a whole reply- but it went to ethernet hell I guess. Anyway- I only know the names of four movies- the two I saw and Lincoln and the fake bin laden raid/obama fluffer.
And the site wants me to create an account.
sigh
Yeah, I just made guesses. Mostly I leaned towards what has already won or what is politically likely to win. And some just random guesses. Just like the real oscar voters.
Actually seeing the movies isn’t a requirement to play — most of the members of the Academy who really* vote on them don’t see them either (shocker: the Oscars are all a political popularity contest).
I didn’t like “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” but I think it could do well because we live in the Age of Obama.
Frankly, I thought “Beasts . . .” was pointless and a waste of my time (I know, raaacist,) I spoke to my sis – the resident authority of film in our family – and an obot to boot. I figured when I told her how I felt she’d pull her usual r@cist card on me. She agreed with me about the movie. Said the play was most likely much better. I didn’t know it had been a play. Did you?
No. From Wiki, Lucy Alibar wrote the one-act play, “Juicy and Delicious.” My Obot SIL liked the film.
I haven’t met anyone who actually liked the movie. Most of the people I know, waited for the DVD.
We watched “Beasts” on dvd. My kid said, sniffling, that movie was so sad. I said duh, it’s a movie about a kid watching her dad die.
Emotional manipulative crap, imo.
I’ll be in as soon as I get home and off my iPad. I usually have an Oscar party. Not this year, though. I know the women in supporting roles out to be the toughest of categories. Those women were all amazing!
From RCP:
Hillary Clinton: Secretary of Empowerment – Donna Brazile, CNN
Can’t bring myself to read it.
I guess Donna’s ‘mama’ changed the ‘rulz.’
*pukes*
*Sees photo of Al at top of screen, pukes again*
I voted for him too. Seems like so long ago..
Speaking of Gore and 2000, oh wait ……
Sweet statement from Barney’s dad……
So sweet.
That’s lovely! What a life Barney had.
I was reading about a Jack Russel, the only dog to see both the North and South poles. Apparently his family were discoverers and liked to travel a lot. I can’t imagine taking a dog for a arctic exploration, but I guess they’d help to keep you warm.
Sweet was exactly what I said when I heard it on the news. There are times when I regret my past thoughts about W. (not all of them, however.) He certainly seems a more humane person than the current poseur.
I feel so manipulated by the media during the Bush years – i really bought into all that “horrible hateful chimperor” crap.
I still think Iraq was a big mistake, ftr.
Very interesting thread this morning…so what actually opens one’s eyes to these fraudulent people? Many of you have said at one time you voted for these guys, what made you realize they are something different today? I ask this question because so many folks out there still believe these creeps walk on water, Obama included, and yet it isn’t difficult to uncover their hypocrisy and in some cases, idiocy. Obama is a good example….very few people who idolize him know very much about him…oh, he was “community organizer”…yeah, ok, what exactly did he organize? Oh, he’s a constitutional scholar…yeah, right…what scholarly articles or work has he done about the constitution….so on and so forth. Van Jones is another one in my book…oh, he’s an “alternative energy expert”….oh, really, just exactly what alternative energy projects has he himself done???
I think it’s important to know exactly at what point people change and become enlightened and what that means? When do people, for example, really understand “governance” and what it means to them and to the community that they live in.
That’s a good question! I think I was a Dem for so long because of peer pressure, LOL! Seriously, it was that tribalism we talk about. You’re either a Dem or you’re a mean greedy selfish racist nasty person. I never thought too hard about candidates or issues, I just went along with the crowd. Then they turned on me! It was a bit like being in junior high and realizing that the in crowd is not all that it’s cracked up to be. They’re an illusion and when you strip away the fantasy you’re left with these insecure, self centered people, that really don’t have anything to offer.
so right.
I still have a hard time understanding what people see in Bronco, reads from a teleprompter, makes outlandish promises which he never keeps, trashes the rich while aspiring to be one of 1%, etc., etc.
I don’t know about anybody else, but the last time I idolized a politician, I was 10 years old & gaga for Kennedy. Sadly, it was all downhill from there until 08 when I thought I’d finally found a candidate that I could truly believe in.
The enlightenment for me came at the party level when all my previous assumptions about the Democrat Party came crashing down on the day they handed the nomination to BO. That was the eye-opener that turned me from a loyal straight D-ticket voter into a skeptical, questioning, vote for whoever the hell I want, Independent.
I think it comes down to betrayal for most of us. The abusive boyfriend analogy holds. We’ll stick with people as long as we think our wants and needs c an get met, and that the people we’re sticking with are the only ones who can deliver. But betray us on principle, and it has a way of wiping the eyes clear, and making everything come into sharp focus.
But you have to be smart enough to see it, first. You have to be a natural critical thinker in the habit of asking questions and challenging assumptions, including your own. Because nearly every Dem constituency has been betrayed one way or the other by the neolib in the white house, but they don’t see it.
May 31, 2008 forced me to open my eyes and question a lot of the assumptions I had been taking for granted my entire adult life — not just about the Dem party but the people who were running it at the upper levels. I free admit that I was a blind tribalist up until that point in my life — I voted for Gore and Kerry because they had Ds after their names — no other reason. I knew almost nothing about them or their records beyond that. Now that I’ve actually taken the time examine them, I not only find them wanting, I’m embarrassed on how glaringly obvious their short-comings were & are and how I could have been so unaware (although even blind tribalist as I was, I knew Kerry was a dickhead back then).
To paraphrase Cassius– the fault is in myself.
Kerry and Gore went after idealistic people, these people remain idealistic but eventually see through the schlock, Obama went after stupid people. His voting block is not going to wise up because they can’t.
HONK!
Not to mention John Edwards…. Now THAT is truly the biggest mistake in judgment I’ve ever made. I am embarrassed to even admit it – I feel like I’m saying “I’m leslie and I’m a fallen woman” whenever I think about my foolishness.
OT: CBS bans sodastream superbowl ad because it competes with Coke and Pepsi.
CBS is on a roll lately banning DIsh ads and from their subsidiary CNet, banning any articles or reviews of DIsh or other competing products.
Major backfire. I’d seen the ads, but don’t drink soda, so it didn’t appeal to me. Because of this article, I looked them up and found you can carbonate anything liquid. Now I want one and will buy one.
I’m totally getting one too after looking them up. And you can control how many bubbles. Super carbonate so you have lots of tiny bubbles, like good champaign. Mmm. Juice and water combo carbonated. Say goodbye to soda.
OT: Michelle’s Fantastical January Harvest or They Will Lie About Anything, No Matter How Ridiculous.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2270381/Michelle-Obama-tweets-pictures-freshly-picked-cabbage-rumors-fly-dropped-anti-obesity-Lets-Move-campaign.html#axzz2Jkt0Tub2
LOL- amazingly enough- it is possible to harvest cabbage in Jan. If the deer haven’t gotten it all.
That being said, I doubt mooch harvested anything. That’s for proles. And that pic shows Napa cabbage- not sure if that is like the regular old cabbage we grow around here- Broccoli too likes cold weather- but I have never had any survive this deep into winter- and certainly the leafy green part would not make it.
The pic would have been more believable with carrots- which overwinter in the ground nicely.
Does winter cabbage look as lush as that though? And look at the lawn, lol.
Here ya go PMM, have your staff build some cold frames
http://obamafoodorama.blogspot.com/2013/01/winter-harvest-in-white-house-kitchen.html#more
Oh, and certain mid-Atlantic grasses do stay green in the winter and die out in the summer. My lawn is half and half now, since it’s a mixture of this and that
So they weren’t lying? Dammit, now I have to apologize for besmirching MO’s character…I’d rather swallow my own tongue.
Oh no, Napa cabbage is not anything like the cabbage we’re used to. It’s more like lettuce in composition (though denser), and very flavorful. It’s what you find in Asian dishes around town. I love it. It does require cool temps to grow.
LOL, wow! A harvest like that in January and it’s sunny out too! I’m glad winter was suspended this year, because it really wrecks havoc on your garden.
Most of us actual gardeners spend January shoveling a different kind of manure, the literal kind. I’m not sure if you can fertilize your garden with straight nonsense, but if it’s possible, the first lady will have a bumper crop this year.
ROFL!
yttik- amazing no? And the grass so nice and green in that pic too!
Must be all the hot air in DC causing a micro climate. Or Al.
ROFL !
Ditto!
ROFL!
DC is in the zone for winter veggies, but “we did build” cold frames to protect them. Obviously they have a food stylist and professional photog to show off the bounty.
I’ve seen Martha Stewart pluck fresh veggies out of her garden on t.v., and they’re all covered in dirt or the outer leaves desperately need removing. Even Martha can’t grow a garden that goes from dirt to dinner plate
The WH released a photo of Obama shooting a rifle too.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/wh-releases-photo-obama-shooting-gun_699234.html
Again, after Keith Koffler questioned if anybody believed “we go skeet shooting all the time”.
we’re getting to him…muahahaa….
LOL Does the WH think one single picture satisfies their adverb “all the time?” Gimme a break.
We’re “truthers” now? Just like the BC proof? LOL,
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/03/us/politics/obamas-skeet-shooting-comments-draw-fire.html?_r=0
Guess that’s our dog whistle to STFU, thou shalt not question Teh Won
A week ago I said that the WH would stage a photo op, pretend it was taken some time last year and release it within a week.
Nice to see I was correct.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-january-31-2013/skeet-fighter
BTW — gun people are asking on Twitter WTF is he aiming at — because when you skeet shoot you aim UP, not straight across like that.
Maybe he’s aiming at his teleprompter?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_pigeon_shooting
In the WH Press Release they did say he was shooting a clay targets, and according to wiki, a clay target always moves …. either in the air (birds) or rolls/bounces along the ground (rabbits, etc).
He is absolutely level in that shot
He’s probably shooting at life-size Palin cutout.
Don’t believe he is shouldering the rifle correctly either…what a dope…they must have run out somewhere yesterday and took this photo…
Exactly.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/02/gun-expert-obama-shoots-a-gun-like-he-throws-a-baseball-panzy-pants/
he shoots like he plays baseball
YUP!!!!!!!!
the title on the yahoo skeet shooting story?
“Obama Clings to Shotgun in WH Photo”
Sorry Barry, you can’t be in our bitter club.
Oh for crying out loud. But I should have seen this coming. Hillary is gone for one day and Joe announces we are willing to talk directly with Iran. But then teh once and future fraud did say he would talk to them.
http://news.yahoo.com/biden-raises-possibility-direct-u-iran-talks-135607063.html
I didn’t vote for him , I voted for Ralph , because I live in Maryland and I figured it was safe and Bush would not win anyway .Hindsight is better than 20/20 . I am so glad he didn’t win . I felt guilty for voting for voting for Ralph for a long time , but no longer .
Excellent post. You’re plain honest.
I voted for him> At the time I was a democrat of many years. First vote was for JFK and stayed a democrat until 2008. That primary opened my eyes and brought tears. The treatment of Hillary and Sarah hurt me as a woman. but backtrack and the comments on bitter knitters was the last straw for me. I have a big problem when people treat me with contempt. That comment told me I had been a fool for many years and it hurt. It is not fun to look in the mirror and see a fool. There is no way in hell I would ever vote for a democrat again. There is not way in hell I will every really believe any politician is working for me again. MY purse and my time are no longer available. I will probably vote with the idea which candidate will do less harm.
Gore – Kerry- Hillary when looked at very closely are not what they seemed to be. That does hurt because it makes you wonder is backtrack just a more obvious and open clone of these three?
slightly off topic
http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_politics/2013/02/brown_out_gop_mulls_romney_energy
after how many republicans sat on the a$$es and stayed home during the presidential race, now the republicans want Romney to run for Kerry’s seat in Mass. Why on earth should he? What’s in it for him.?
sorry phrased that wrong. they want Anne Romney or his son to run. Why should they, they owe the republican party nothing
I kinda want to see one of the Romney boys in the senate. Rich, handsome, and swwooonwooorthy
YES!!!!!
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/02/02/burger-king-admits-to-selling-horse-meat-in-its-burgers-in-u-k/
burger king puts horses in burgers
Saw one funny photo of a groundhog holding up a sign “I’m a rodent, not a meteorologist”
Al Jazeera probably offers more moderate and accurate views of american events than our own american news reporting does. The problem is probably in how A; Jazeera perceives and reports on their own part of the world and the somewhat questionable treatment of women and those not yet adults.
“Somewhat questionable treatment of women?”
Seriously, fuck off for even being able to write that phrasing of it with a straight face.
Questions like: acid on her face vs cutting off her nose – what is more pleasing to Allah?
OT funny
http://minx.cc/?post=336778
Speaking of elections, another miracle of 2012
Nothing to see here — all those Romney crowds v. empty auditoriums for Obama don’t mean shit because — um — Sandy.