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Schadow
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 Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 1:59 am Post subject: Al Gore hits the silver screen |
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Last January, in tow by fellow traveler Robert Redford, Al Gore debuted his soon-to-be-famous film, "The Inconvenient Truth" at Sundance. (Did we miss this in the forum?)
Anyway, world, brace yourselves. The film is going national next month. Here is the official Sundance review of the film. I have highlighted the most gag-inducing passages:
| Quote: | | Extreme poverty, intractable wars, virulent disease, hatred of all stripes–these are a few of the scourges we live with today. And yet global climate change trumps them all; for if it's not addressed, all life on the planet will be devastated, regardless of geography, class, race, or creed. The Inconvenient Truth is the gripping story of former Vice President Al Gore, who became interested in this startling issue while at college 30 years ago, and now devotes his life to reversing global warming. Traveling the world, he has built a visually mesmerizing presentation designed to disabuse doubters of the notion that climate change is debatable. The heart of Davis Guggenheim's film is this elegant multimedia lecture itself, where Gore indisputably correlates CO2 emissions with exponentially rising temperatures, already responsible for dramatic climactic shifts like ice-cap melting, drought, and rising sea levels. Interwoven with this riveting public address are intimate moments revealing the poetic, searching side of Gore as he struggles to define his purpose in the aftermath of the 2000 election. This is activist cinema at its very best, for it serves to popularize and demythologize a problem long obscured by those most threatened by the solution. With humor and searing intelligence, Gore outlines crucial steps we must take to avert impending disaster and proves that inaction is no longer an option–in fact, it's immoral.— Caroline Libresco |
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Below is the DeMille of our day getting ready for his closeup at Sundance. (Notice the earthtones are back to 'mesmerize' the Utahns.)
The only "Inconvenient Truth" is that in failing to steal the election of 2000, Al Gore has become certifiably insane. He should take some time off from his Don Quixote quest and stare at the Sun a while. He would then be looking at the cause of the temporary degree or so of warming, which could reverse at any time.
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dusty
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Hehe. If he only knew he has become the comic relief for sane people everywhere.
And the thought that he came within a few hanging chads of becoming our president is really scary.
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PhantomSgt
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Wow Al has been working out. I only see three chins now.
I guess the Armor Plated Escalade he rides around in must get at least five MPG. What a guy.
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sixdogteam
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Hey, I think you guys are being a little harsh on this old sick guy. You wouldn't even be posting your comments here if he hadn't invented the internet!
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Doc Farmer
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Schadow
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Gore scores a Vanity Fair cover with a couple of his closest looney friends:
| Quote: | Climate scientist Fred Singer offered an editorial on Earth Day:
Today is Earth Day – and also the anniversary of Lenin’s birth. How appropriate! The Reds have morphed into Greens. In the old days of Marx and Lenin, capitalism used to oppress the working class; now it despoils nature. The new religion of environmentalism is on full display in the “Green” issue of Vanity Fair (May 2006), the magazine of conspicuous consumption. So amidst the ads for diamond-studded $10,000 watches and super-powered $100,000 SUVs you find paeans of praise for the moneyed “defenders of the environment.” The irony of it all seems to have escaped the editors.
On the cover of the May issue sits a grim-faced Al Gore, with Julia Roberts hovering over him – done up as a wood nymph in a green Bill Blass dress. There is also actor George Clooney and activist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. To find out which is which, I had to consult page 244: George is the one with the Brooks Brothers suit, Edun shirt, and Ferragamo shoes. Thanks for your help, VF.
On page 106, VF inducts James Hansen into its Hall of Fame. He is the NASA employee whom the “White House tried to muzzle,” who received a $250,000 grant from the Heinz Foundation [Ed.: That would be Teresa Heinz Kerry], who endorsed John Kerry before the 2004 election, and who has been hyping climate fears and mishandling data for nearly 20 years, setting some sort of record unmatched by others. (Not that they haven’t tried.) He is seen wearing a Ralph Lauren Purple Label suit, Calvin Klein shirt, Pringle sweater, and Tyrwhitt shoes. Very elegant.
And beginning on page 200, claiming to be “armed with hard science,” VF explains how New York, Washington, and – yes – Martha’s Vineyard (horrors!) will be all underwater before 2100. (Not even the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change science report agrees with them –although Hansen does.) In the process they manage to deliver ad hominem attacks on respected scientists. How sad.
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Source: Powerline
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