Chris Matthews: Gingrich, The Joker, Obama, Batman

I think MSNBC should send Chris Matthews packing - immediately. The damage being done to the NBC news brand is enormous and probably irreparable.

Like Matthews' former MSNBC colleague Keith Olbermann, I'm sure Al Gore's network would welcome him with open arms.

On Wednesday, Matthews cast Newt Gingrich as the Joker to Obama's Batman.

I'm not a Newt Gingrich fan, but this is ridiculous.

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Transcript, from NewsBusters:

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Let me finish tonight with the Joker. Remember him? He was played by Jack Nicholson in that great “Batman” movie by Tim Burton. He was the key to the movie. Why? Because his dark world of malevolence and revenge set in contrast the goodwill, generosity and glamour of our hero. He was to the movie on the bad side what Batman was on the good. Batman stands on tall buildings looking for evil to be perpetrated, people to be saved. The Joker looks for ways to manipulate public opinion, interrupt the TV news, and bring his evil intentions and motives and instincts into reality.

Maybe the President today is our Batman, trying to do good, a bit mysterious, a bit cool and technocratic, a bit removed from the world of emotions, but right, right there on the side of good, always using his brains and wit to look out for the people in trouble. Well, maybe he's not that good.

No, Newt Gingrich is a far better Joker than Barack Obama is our Batman, that wide demonic smile of his, too much smile, not even a twitch of heart behind it, all guile, all dark delight in the menace he can dredge from the afternoon newspaper, the fears of people on the street, the midnight dread of what might be coming in an uncertain world and time.

Newt Gingrich, like all the bad guys of the Batman world, has now gotten caught up in his own nasty ploys. He’s just so instinctively looking for the next chance to attack he loses control even on his own bad attitude. “Life’s been good to me,” the Joker tells us on his comeback from the past, his face repainted to cover the horror, his smile deluding none of us instead being an unintended warning.

The joker is out there again, and no one's safe from his menace, least of all himself.

Matthews has really gone off the deep end. It's almost scary. He's so over the top.

The funny thing is Gingrich isn't the comic book villain Matthews makes him out to be.

Instead, Matthews is the joke.

Another Inconvenience for Al Gore

From NewsBusters:

It goes without saying that climate realists around the world believe Nobel Laureate Al Gore used false information throughout his schlockumentary "An Inconvenient Truth" in order to generate global warming hysteria.

On Friday, it was revealed by ABC News that one of the famous shots of supposed Antarctic ice shelves in the film was actually a computer-generated image from the 2004 science fiction blockbuster "The Day After Tomorrow."

What genius thought it would be a good idea to swipe a computer-generated image from a fictional movie and pass it off as truth in a "documentary"?

That's unbelievably stupid.

Oh, Gore...

Barack Obama and Al Gore

Another reason to NOT vote for Barack Obama--

WALLINGFORD, Pa. -- Democrat Barack Obama says as president he would consider putting Al Gore in a Cabinet-level position — or higher.

A woman at a town hall asked the Illinois senator if elected president would he consider tapping the former vice president for his Cabinet, or an even higher level office, to address global warming.

"I would," Obama said. "Not only will I, but I will make a commitment that Al Gore will be at the table and play a central part in us figuring out how we solve this problem. He's somebody I talk to on a regular basis. I'm already consulting with him in terms of these issues but climate change is real."

That's scary.

I don't want Al Gore at any table crippling the economy with silly, ineffective regulations. I don't want him telling me what to do. Government does not belong in my light sockets.

THEY WILL HAVE TO PRY MY INCANDESCENT LIGHT BULBS FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS.

Hillary "Misspoke"

Is this really such a big deal?

Depending on your opinion of Hillary Clinton, you might say that she lied, or embellished, or misspoke.

In any event, her account of being under hostile fire during a visit to Bosnia in 1996 was false.

GREENSBURG, Pa. -- Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday she made a mistake in claiming that she came under hostile fire in Bosnia 12 years ago, as rival Barack Obama's campaign continued to challenge her credibility.

In a recent speech and interviews, the New York senator described a harrowing scene in Tuzla, Bosnia, in which she and her daughter, Chelsea, had to run for cover as soon as they landed for a visit in 1996. But video footage of the day showed a peaceful reception in which a young girl greeted the first lady on the tarmac.

Clinton told reporters in Pennsylvania on Tuesday that she erred in describing the scene, which she now realizes after talking with aides and others.

"So I made a mistake," she said. "That happens. It proves I'm human, which you know, for some people, is a revelation."

The more important issue, she said, is whether she would be a better commander in chief than Obama or Republican presidential candidate John McCain. Clinton and Obama are competing for votes in Pennsylvania's April 22 primary.

Clinton's aides had tried to control the Bosnia flap Monday, saying the New York senator "misspoke."

But Clinton had to address the issue herself Tuesday, after repeated airings of the 1996 video clips caused critics to ridicule her.

Reminded that she had said it was the first time she had misspoken in 12 years, Clinton told reporters: "I was joking. Lighten up, guys."

Yes, while Obama was vacationing in the Virgin Islands, the most important issue of the Democrat primary race was Hillary's account of her Bosnia visit.

All that the media cared about was Hillary's screw-up or deception or whatever it was.

Why is so much emphasis put on these goofy things? Why are they given so much weight?

...Clinton began retracting the remarks in a series of private interviews Monday and Tuesday before addressing about two dozen reporters here after a speech.

She told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: "I was sleep-deprived, and I misspoke."

She told KDKA radio in Pittsburgh: "You know, I have written about this and described it in many different settings, and I did misspeak the other day. This has been a very long campaign."

That sounds a little weird.

The sleep-deprivation excuse isn't good. It's better to say she made a mistake and leave it at that. Apologize and move on. Get back to the real issues.

The Obama campaign fueled the Bosnia brouhaha Tuesday, sponsoring a conference call with Pennsylvania reporters that featured retired Maj. Gen. Walter Stewart of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard. Stewart said he was assigned to the Army's European headquarters when Clinton visited Bosnia as first lady in 1996. He said her claim that she landed under enemy fire insulted U.S. soldiers charged with her security.

Clinton's explanation that she misspoke was "really astonishing," said Stewart, who supports Obama.

"She has no sense of what a statement like that does to soldiers," Stewart said. "She is insulting the command in its entirety."

"Believe me, heads would have rolled all over" if the military put the first lady and her daughter in a position of "unacceptable risk."

Obama's campaign is in no position to be casting stones when it comes to insulting the military.

Obama has belittled the military's accomplishments in Iraq and besmirched the sacrifice of U.S. personnel in what he calls a "dumb war."

AMES, Iowa -- A day after jumping into the presidential race, Democrat Barack Obama began the courting of Iowa party activists Sunday with a blistering critique of the war in Iraq.

More than 6,000 people who came to hear him at the Iowa State University campus saved their biggest cheers for his criticism of the war.

"We ended up launching a war that should have never been authorized, and should have never been waged, and to which we now have spent $400 billion and have seen over 3,000 lives of the bravest young Americans wasted," Obama said.

Obama bashes the military but now, when it's politically expedient, his campaign is condemning Hillary's "confusion" about her Bosnia experience as such a terrible insult to the military.

Give me a break.

At her news conference, Clinton said, "the military and the Secret Service did a terrific job" of handling the situation in Bosnia. "We did take precautions," she said, noting that she was the first president's wife to enter a war zone since Eleanor Roosevelt.

Certainly, Hillary should be forgiven.

Obama lied, or "misspoke," about his knowledge of his pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright's racist, anti-Semitic, anti-American remarks.

Again and again, even after the tapes of Wright's hateful sermons were receiving lots of airplay, Obama said he didn't know about Wright's comments.

Of course, just days later, Obama delivered the speech and retracted what he had been saying about his knowledge of Wright's views.

I have already condemned, in unequivocal terms, the statements of Reverend Wright that have caused such controversy. For some, nagging questions remain. Did I know him to be an occasionally fierce critic of American domestic and foreign policy? Of course. Did I ever hear him make remarks that could be considered controversial while I sat in church? Yes.

As soon as Obama's camp determined that this issue wasn't going away, it was hurting him, and it had the potential to do even more damage if he kept up the ruse, Obama changed his story. He admitted that he was present in church to hear Wright make controversial statements.

So Hillary changed her story, too.

If Obama is allowed to retract his "misspoken" statements, then Hillary should be given the same opportunity.

Think of the many lies of Al Gore from the 2000 election. His public career is packed with lies.

Dems didn't care about Gore's pathological lying.

Obama has lied. Hillary has lied.

Although both are guilty of playing loose with the truth, I find Hillary's story-telling to be less disturbing than Obama's association with racist Rev. Wright.

Vladimir Putin: TIME's Person of the Year

Veiled fears of a new Cold War and a frightening new world order, courtesy of the U.S.A., Evil Empire of the 21st century, topped frenzied fears of global warming as the defining story of 2007.

Al Gore must be crushed.

Vladimir Putin beat him out for TIME's Person of the Year.

Vladimir Putin gives a first impression of contained power: he is compact and moves stiffly but efficiently. He is fit, thanks to years spent honing his black-belt judo skills and, these days, early-morning swims of an hour or more. And while he is diminutive—5 ft. 6 in. (about 1.7 m) seems a reasonable guess—he projects steely confidence and strength. Putin is unmistakably Russian, with chiseled facial features and those penetrating eyes. Charm is not part of his presentation of self—he makes no effort to be ingratiating. One senses that he pays constant obeisance to a determined inner discipline. The successor to the boozy and ultimately tragic Boris Yeltsin, Putin is temperate, sipping his wine only when the protocol of toasts and greetings requires it; mostly he just twirls the Montrachet in his glass. He eats little, though he twitchily picks the crusts off the bread rolls on his plate.

Putin grudgingly reveals a few personal details between intermittent bites of food: He relaxes, he says, by listening to classical composers like Brahms, Mozart, Tchaikovsky. His favorite Beatles song is Yesterday. He has never sent an e-mail in his life. And while he grew up in an officially atheist country, he is a believer and often reads from a Bible that he keeps on his state plane. He is impatient to the point of rudeness with small talk, and he is in complete control of his own message.

He is clear about Russia's role in the world. He is passionate in his belief that the dissolution of the Soviet Union was a tragedy, particularly since overnight it stranded 25 million ethnic Russians in "foreign" lands. But he says he has no intention of trying to rebuild the U.S.S.R. or re-establish military or political blocs. And he praises his predecessors Yeltsin and Mikhail Gorbachev for destroying a system that had lost the people's support. "I'm not sure I could have had the guts to do that myself," he tells us. Putin is, above all, a pragmatist, and has cobbled together a system—not unlike China's—that embraces the free market (albeit with a heavy dose of corruption) but relies on a strong state hand to keep order.

Like President George W. Bush, he sees terrorism as one of the most profound threats of the new century, but he is wary of labeling it Islamic. "Radicals," he says, "can be found in any environment." Putin reveals that Russian intelligence recently uncovered a "specific" terrorist threat against both Russia and the U.S. and that he spoke by phone with Bush about it.

What gets Putin agitated—and he was frequently agitated during our talk—is his perception that Americans are out to interfere in Russia's affairs. He says he wants Russia and America to be partners but feels the U.S. treats Russia like the uninvited guest at a party. "We want to be a friend of America," he says. "Sometimes we get the impression that America does not need friends" but only "auxiliary subjects to command." Asked if he'd like to correct any American misconceptions about Russia, Putin leans forward and says, "I don't believe these are misconceptions. I think this is a purposeful attempt by some to create an image of Russia based on which one could influence our internal and foreign policies. This is the reason why everybody is made to believe...[Russians] are a little bit savage still or they just climbed down from the trees, you know, and probably need to have...the dirt washed out of their beards and hair." The veins on his forehead seem ready to pop.

No wonder TIME gave the recognition to Putin as Person of the Year.

What better way to bash Bush, Republican foreign policy, and America than to highlight Putin?

Conjuring up tensions of the past between the Soviet Union and the U.S., TIME manages to send out a warning.

Putin can be a threatening figure, but Republicans are the real danger. They are in the process of ushering in a new Cold War.

In other words, vote Democrat in 2008.

And check out this Zelman Platon photo that TIME uses to capture the essence of Putin. Although the crotch is cropped, it's reminiscent of Platon's Bill Clinton "masterpiece."



Al Gore shouldn't be too disappointed. TIME did make him first-runner up.

I wonder if the Miss America standard applies in this case: "If, for any reason the new titleholder cannot fulfill her (his) reign, the first runner-up will take over."

Who wrote the piece on "bridesmaid" Gore?

Bono. Yes, that Bono, previous TIME Person of the Year.

He writes:

As 2007 closes and 2008 begins, one of the great questions that hangs in the cynical European air is how America will carry itself in the world next year. From the outside, the coming election seems less about "the economy, stupid" and more about America's role in the future of the planet. I think it's even deeper than that. I think this election is about how America sees itself. That's not really an existential question, or a spiritual one; mostly, it's a practical question. In this election year, Americans are looking for leadership that can turn spiritual yearnings into practical realities.

Al Gore is the kind of leader these times require. Not as President — God and the Electoral College have given him a different job. As it happens, Al is at work repositioning his country from the inside out as a leader in clean energy; and along the way restoring faith in the U.S. as a moral powerhouse that can lead a great, global spiritual revival as the temperature rises.

That's right, a spiritual revival. Because this apostle of all things digital is the first to admit that technology alone will not reverse the damage done. He says it's going to take "a shift in consciousness." This isn't loopy Sixties stuff, or I wouldn't tune in. Al is tough-minded. He marshals history to make his argument, and countless examples of civilizations changing course and attitudes midstream roll off his tongue.

For Al, 2008 is a rendezvous with destiny and an appointment with the enemy. The foe he sees is our own indifference to the future and a lack of faith in our ability to do anything about it. He stresses that through crisis we can find opportunity. His language is pretty Biblical, but, then, doesn't the Bible say something about floods? He is like an Old Testament prophet amped up with PowerPoint and an army of the world's scientists at his disposal. The right response to the global-warming crisis, he explains, will be a mosaic of solutions that will kick off a whole new economic boom, one that is low-carbon and high-productivity, with truly sustainable development, and an atlas for planet management — using not New Age technology but old age wisdom generating sustainable solutions.

Is this for real?

Gore like an Old Testament prophet? That's a bit much. Bono is so smitten with Gore that it borders on idolatry.

This is priceless:

Desmond Tutu often uses the word ubuntu, meaning "I am because we are." It's my favorite epithet, an ode to interdependence. When I told Al that, he responded with Gandhi: Satyagraha, meaning "hold tight to the truth."

And then Gore said: "Pass the bong."

Draft Gore

The "Draft Gore" movement is picking up steam.

Yesterday, there was that full-page ad in the New York Times.

Today, Gore's Nobel Peace Prize win is sparking speculation that he will use that as a springboard to leap into the '08 presidential race.

Alas, I'm afraid that all of this will prove to be just a deep tissue massage to Gore's ego and nothing more.

I'd love to see him run. (I mean for president, not literally.)

I wish the Democrats would put him at the top of their ticket.

It would guarantee that the Republican nominee would win the presidency.

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Al Gore

Was there really ever any doubt about how this was going to play out?

First, the Oscar. Then, the Emmy. Now, the Nobel Peace Prize.

The gluttonous Al Gore is the 2007 winner.


Al Gore and the private jet

OSLO, Norway -- Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s climate change panel won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for spreading awareness of man-made climate change and laying the foundations for counteracting it.

Gore, whose film on global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth," won an Academy Award earlier this year, had been widely tipped to win Friday's prize, which expanded the Norwegian committee's interpretation of peacemaking and disarmament efforts that have traditionally been the award's foundations.

"We face a true planetary emergency," Gore said. "The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity."

The Nobel committee chairman, Ole Danbolt Mjoes, asserted that the prize was not aimed at the Bush administration, which rejected Kyoto and was widely criticized outside the U.S. for not taking global warming seriously enough.

"We would encourage all countries, including the big countries, to challenge, all of them, to think again and to say what can they do to conquer global warming," Mjoes said. "The bigger the powers, the better that they come in front of this."

Gore was expected to take advantage of the global stage the prize will give him to push for a resolution over climate change, instead.

The question: What does climate change have to do with peace?

The Norwegian Nobel Committee explains:

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.

Indications of changes in the earth's future climate must be treated with the utmost seriousness, and with the precautionary principle uppermost in our minds. Extensive climate changes may alter and threaten the living conditions of much of mankind. They may induce large-scale migration and lead to greater competition for the earth's resources. Such changes will place particularly heavy burdens on the world's most vulnerable countries. There may be increased danger of violent conflicts and wars, within and between states.

Through the scientific reports it has issued over the past two decades, the IPCC has created an ever-broader informed consensus about the connection between human activities and global warming. Thousands of scientists and officials from over one hundred countries have collaborated to achieve greater certainty as to the scale of the warming. Whereas in the 1980s global warming seemed to be merely an interesting hypothesis, the 1990s produced firmer evidence in its support. In the last few years, the connections have become even clearer and the consequences still more apparent.

Al Gore has for a long time been one of the world's leading environmentalist politicians. He became aware at an early stage of the climatic challenges the world is facing. His strong commitment, reflected in political activity, lectures, films and books, has strengthened the struggle against climate change. He is probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted.

By awarding the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 to the IPCC and Al Gore, the Norwegian Nobel Committee is seeking to contribute to a sharper focus on the processes and decisions that appear to be necessary to protect the world’s future climate, and thereby to reduce the threat to the security of mankind. Action is necessary now, before climate change moves beyond man’s control.

Oslo, 12 October 2007

This press release is more sappy and silly than those fraudulent photos of the polar bears stranded on an iceberg, doomed to die because, to quote Al Gore, "The planet has a fever."

This paragraph officially marks the moment the Norwegian Nobel Committee has jumped the shark, or jumped the polar bear if you prefer:

Indications of changes in the earth's future climate must be treated with the utmost seriousness, and with the precautionary principle uppermost in our minds. Extensive climate changes may alter and threaten the living conditions of much of mankind. They may induce large-scale migration and lead to greater competition for the earth's resources. Such changes will place particularly heavy burdens on the world's most vulnerable countries. There may be increased danger of violent conflicts and wars, within and between states.

Imagine how difficult it must have been for the Committee members to come up with some justification for linking global warming and Al Gore to peace.

I'm sure they must have struggled.

It's as if they decided Al Gore was the winner before they came up with reasons why.

The Committee has to cook up potential "increased danger of violent conflicts and wars, within and between states" to make a connection between global warming and peace.

So, Al Gore joins that illustrious list of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, including:

JIMMY CARTER JR., former President of the United States of America, for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.

The truth is Jimmy Carter has been the chief PR man for terrorists and the anti-Israel contingent for years.

He has gone beyond being an apologist for Hamas and terrorists. He is firmly entrenched in their corner. In short, Carter is an enemy of Israel.

That became clear with the release of his book, Palestine Peace Not Apartheid.

He should quit pretending to be the wise elder statesman, the peacemaker. He was never wise and he was never a statesman. In my opinion, he wasn't much of a peacemaker either.

KOFI ANNAN, United Nations Secretary General, for ?

While Annan was Secretary General of the United Nations, the organization was steeped in scandal and anti-Semitism.

The astounding corruption, the human rights abuses, and the shocking incompetence of the UN during Annan's tenure is jaw-dropping.

The appeasement of terrorists and refusal to address genocide are just two of this peacemaker's accomplishments.

YASSER ARAFAT, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the PLO, President of the Palestinian National Authority, for his efforts to create peace in the Middle East.

The list of terrorist Arafat's disgraces is endless.

One highlight: He was a mastermind behind Black September's slaughter of the Israeli 1972 Summer Olympic team in Munich.

Give the man a Peace Prize!

MIKHAIL SERGEYEVICH GORBACHEV, President of the USSR, helped to bring the Cold War to an end.

The Committee has a distorted view of Peacemaker Gorbachev.

"Ending the Cold War was given as a gift" to the United States, but it only strengthened its arrogance and unilateralism, he said. "The winner's complex is worse than an inferiority complex, because it's harder to cure."

Gorbachev claims that the USSR ended the Cold War as a gift to the U.S.

That is such a load!

What is he talking about?

The U.S. isn't arrogant.

The former Soviet Union was arrogant and that is why it fell apart under Gorbachev's watch.

In terms of a "winner's complex," the millions of people who were freed from Soviet oppression were the greatest winners in the implosion of the USSR.

THE UNITED NATIONS PEACE-KEEPING FORCES

A quick scan of the list of abuses by the UN "peace-keepers" leaves me ill.

UN peace-keepers have abused women and little girls in Liberia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Cambodia, East Timor, and Congo.

The UN has adopted a policy of "robust peacekeeping" to secure peace.

United Nations soldiers in the east have at their disposal tanks, armored personnel carriers, Mi-25 attack helicopters, mortars and rocket-propelled grenade launchers - all of which are getting heavy use....

"It may look like war but it's peacekeeping," said Lt. Gen. Babacar Gaye of Senegal, the force commander in Congo, of the largest and most robust of the 18 United Nations peacekeeping operations around the world.

Let's not forget the peace-keepers' Food-for-Sex program.

Disgusting, but worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize.


BETTY WILLIAMS, co-founder of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement (later renamed Community of Peace People).

Ah, yes. Betty Williams, that peacemaker who has repeatedly stated that she wants George W. Bush dead.

From the Dallas Morning News:

Nobel Peace Prize winner Betty Williams came from Ireland to Texas to declare that President Bush should be impeached.

In a keynote speech at the International Women's Peace Conference on Wednesday night, Ms. Williams told a crowd of about 1,000 that the Bush administration has been treacherous and wrong and acted unconstitutionally.

"Right now, I could kill George Bush," she said at the Adam's Mark Hotel and Conference Center in Dallas. "No, I don't mean that. How could you nonviolently kill somebody? I would love to be able to do that."

About half the crowd gave her a standing ovation after she called for Mr. Bush's removal from power.

Williams also publicly voiced her wish to kill President Bush before. While addressing a group of young people in Brisbane. Williams said, "Right now, I would love to kill George Bush." The audience cheered.

Rather than being a model peacemaker, she tranformed the event into something creepy, like a Hitler Youth rally.

Clearly, included among the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates are a strikingly large number of nutjobs.

It's rather embarrassing; but embarrassment requires a sense of conscience and shame, something the Norwegian Nobel Institute apparently lacks.

Hypocrites, terrorists, anti-Semites, and people prone to violent outbursts as symbols of peace?

Weird.

I wonder if deep down Bono is jealous that he didn't make the list for his work and Gore managed to become a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate for making a seriously flawed film and being a hypocrite.

He should be relieved that he didn't.
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Upon winning the Peace Prize, Al Gore speaks:

"The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level."

I think he wants an "Amen."

Al Gore and Modern Interpretive Dance

At the end of Jay Leno's monologue, Al Gore just happened to drop by for a quick appearance. It was like Bob Hope dropping in on Johnny Carson, only Gore wasn't very funny or entertaining.

Gore mentioned Current TV and the launch of the new website.

Enough already with Current.

Gore also talked about winning an Oscar and an Emmy.

He said that he wanted to try for a Tony.

Gore dramatically told Leno, "Modern interpretive dance is my life."



Watch the clip here.

Yes, the wooden Gore has loosened up a lot since he became a celebrity. He acts much happier than he did as a politician.

I wonder if he really is satisfied with his new status -- Al Gore Superstar.
___________________

After the commercial break, sweet older lady Marjorie Johnson, "Blue Ribbon Baker" from Minnesota, acted as Leno's correspondent to cover the Emmy Awards.

She posed a question to Gore when he was in the press room after winning the Emmy.

Marjorie asked Gore if her baking was harmful to the environment.

Gore was very kind. He said that he was familiar with her and that he didn't think she could ever do anything that would be harmful.

Afterward, she whispered to the camera, "Al Gore knew me. So now I feel a little bad that I didn't vote for him."

The Emmys and Al Gore and Other Libs

Former U.S. vice president Al Gore accepts the award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Television during the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, California September 16, 2007. REUTERS/ Mike Blake (UNITED STATES)


Former Vice President Al Gore and Jole Hyatt accepts the outstanding interactive television award at the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards Sunday, Sept. 16, 2007, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Al Gore won an Emmy for his Current TV, a dud cable network that he launched two years ago.

Gore already has an Oscar and an Emmy. A Grammy and a Tony can't be far behind.

Al Gore: The Musical -- Andrew Lloyd Webber is probably working on it right now.

Rather than the traditional set normally used in awards show, the 2007 Emmys were staged in-the-round.

That's not a forum that's kind to those with less than perfect bodies, such as the bloated Gore. Though, I must admit, he did seem like he may have lost a pound or two.

No, I take that back. He's looks as big as ever.

Al Gore received a standing ovation from the Shrine Auditorium audience as his Current TV channel, which features viewer-created videos, was honored for achievement in interactive television.

"We are trying to open up the television medium so that viewers can help to make television, and join the conversation of democracy, and reclaim American democracy by talking about the choices we have to make," said Gore, whose global-warming documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" received an Oscar earlier this year.

Here's Emmy coverage from AP.

Some other Emmy notes:

---It was barely a few minutes into the show when a Ray Romano joke was too much for the censors.

The Emmys are being broadcast on FOX this year, so that's saying a lot.

The usually staid awards needed attention from the censors from the start, with first presenter Ray Romano. He joked about his former "Everybody Loves Raymond" wife, Patricia Heaton, sleeping with her new "Back to You" co-star Kelsey Grammer.

But he used a stronger word, which prompted Fox to black out the show for a few seconds.

I had no idea what had happened at first. I thought it was a technical glitch. All of a sudden the sound went out and there was a shot of the ceiling.

After a few seconds, it was back to Romano and there was Patricia Heaton. Romano was talking about Kelsey Grammer and Heaton having babies. It was then that I realized it was no glitch, but something too inappropriate to be broadcast.

The camera caught Heaton's reaction. She was smiling and chuckling, but looked a little embarrassed.

---Another sudden camera diversion was needed when Katherine Heigl of Grey's Anatomy was announced the winner of a supporting actress Emmy.

When the camera was on her to capture her initial reaction, she clearly said, "Oh, shit."

Of course, it was inaudible. She wasn't near a microphone. I didn't see the purpose of going back to the Ray Romano ceiling shot again. It drew more attention to it and really was awkward.

---Sally Field, winner for best actress in a drama, Brothers and Sisters, was also censored and the audience was treated to more dead air and another ceiling shot.

She was giving one of her trademark stupid acceptance speeches. "You like me, you really like me!"Field was babbling nonsensically. I wouldn't say that she seemed drunk. I would call it a bit tipsy. If alcohol wasn't a factor in her behavior, then she's just a natural ditz.

Toward the end of her incohorent ramble, she began talking about war. She said something to the effect that "if women ruled the world, there would be no goddamned war."

She was cut off before completing the sentence. She clearly said, "If women ruled the world, there would be no godda...."

When the sound was restored, the audience was roaring its approval.


Sally Field accepts the award for outstanding lead actress in a drama series for her work on 'Brothers & Sisters' at the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards Sunday, Sept. 16, 2007, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

The Associated Press ignored that incident completely. It was Field who rocked the boat, but the AP doesn't mention her anti-war rant at all. That's bad reporting. Plain and simple.

Sally Field was honored as best actress in a drama for "Brothers & Sisters."

"How can that be? These wonderful actors," she said. A clearly flustered Field lost her train of thought at one point, shouting at the audience to stop applauding while she struggled to finish her acceptance speech.

Here's more.

When asked if she minded that her comments may have been cut off, she said, “Oh well.”

“I've been there before,” she addd. “If [mothers] ruled the world we wouldn't be sending our children off to be slaughtered. I shouldn’t have said the ‘god’ before the damn.”

---Late Night with Conan O'Brien won a writing award for variety, music or comedy series.

As in past years to announce the nominees, there were taped comedy pieces submitted by the nominated shows to take the boredom out of the reading of the lengthy lists of names making up the writing teams.

Bill Maher's crew did a rather funny but too graphic Larry Craig bathroom spoof.

At least that showed a little more creativity than what David Letterman did. His segment was "our favorite George Bush moments." The writers names were read as clips of embarrassing George Bush moments rolled.

Yes, Dave, we know you're a flaming lib and hate Bush.

---Boston Legal actor James Spader won for best actor in a drama series.

He had a funny line about having a really bad seat, worse than at any concert he's ever attended. An in-the-round awards show is not a good idea.

---30 Rock won for best comedy.

---The Sopranos won for best drama.

Playing off of Sally Field's earlier comments, in his acceptance speech, executive producer and writer David Chase said, "Let's face it, if the world and this nation were run by gangsters.... Who knows? Maybe it is."

"In essence, this is a story about a gangster," said "The Sopranos" creator David Chase. "And gangsters are out there taking their kids to college, and taking their kids to school, and putting food on their table.

"And, hell, let's face it, if the world and this nation was run by gangsters" — Chase paused and shrugged, as everyone laughed — "maybe it is."

Hollywood, Hollywood, Hollywood.

Maybe I should have watched football.

105

The hottest temperature ever recorded in Milwaukee, since records started being kept, occurred on this day.

105!

Clearly, it's another sign of the climate in crisis and global warming.

Thankfully, Al Gore came along, made his movie, staged his Live Earth concerts, and raised awareness.

Al Gore to the rescue!!!

One problem.

The record was set in 1934, before Gore was born and way before there was talk of environmental disaster.

True and inconvenient!

Too bad FDR didn't recognize and respond to the global warming crisis.

Al Gore III: The VERY Inconvenient Truth

Al Gore III's future looks worse than Al Gore's predictions for our doomed, warming planet.

From a People EXCLUSIVE:

Al Gore's son was charged with felony drug-possession charges and lesser offenses related to his July 4 speeding stop, authorities said Friday. And a law enforcement source tells PEOPLE that Gore had 140 Vicodin pills and "dozens" of other prescription drugs.

If convicted on all charges, Albert Gore III faces up to three years and eight months in prison. But state law makes him eligible for a drug diversion program instead of incarceration, according to the Orange County District Attorney's Office.

His arraignment is set for Aug. 1 in Laguna Niguel, Calif.

Gore, 24, was pulled over south of Los Angeles in a blue Toyota Prius around 2:15 a.m. July 4 for allegedly driving more than 100 mph.

Police previously said officers, who had searched the car because they detected the smell of marijuana, found prescription drugs including Xanax, Valium, Soma, Vicodin and Adderall, as well as a small amount of marijuana. No prescriptions were present, police said.

The amount of medication wasn't revealed at the time, but the source tells PEOPLE that Gore was carrying 140 pills of Vicodin alone, along with "dozens" of the other medications.

...In all, he was charged with two felony counts of possession of a controlled substance, misdemeanor counts of possession of a controlled substance without a prescription and possession of marijuana, and a speeding infraction, the DA says.

Gore III is really messed up.

This is serious stuff, hundreds of pills.

I doubt that a drug diversion program is the answer to his problems. I don't know that incarceration would be a solution either.

Gore III's past still bothers me. He almost died in an accident when he was a child. He got a second chance at life and now he's squandering it.

He's been so blessed, yet he's choosing to reject all his good fortune to go down a path of self-destruction.

Poor Al Gore. The earth is melting and his son is imploding.

Although I don't buy into Gore's global warming theories and scare tactics, when it comes to his family issues, I sincerely hope that his son manages to pull himself together and successfully rehabilitate. It's certain to be a challenge.

Gore has a real and immediate crisis on his hands and it has nothing to do with glaciers or ice caps or polar bears.

An Oscar and concerts and adoration from Greenies won't fix it.

Boycott Live Earth

The carbon footprint left by Al Gore's Live Earth concerts will be enormous.

From The Daily Mail:

The Live Earth event is, in the words of one commentator: "a massive, hypocritical fraud".

For while the organisers' commitment to save the planet is genuine, the very process of putting on such a vast event, with more than 150 performers jetting around the world to appear in concerts from Tokyo to Hamburg, is surely an exercise in hypocrisy on a grand scale.

Matt Bellamy, front man of the rock band Muse, has dubbed it 'private jets for climate change'.

A Daily Mail investigation has revealed that far from saving the planet, the extravaganza will generate a huge fuel bill, acres of garbage, thousands of tonnes of carbon emissions, and a mileage total equal to the movement of an army.

The most conservative assessment of the flights being taken by its superstars is that they are flying an extraordinary 222,623.63 miles between them to get to the various concerts - nearly nine times the circumference of the world. The true environmental cost, as they transport their technicians, dancers and support staff, is likely to be far higher.

The total carbon footprint of the event, taking into account the artists' and spectators' travel to the concert, and the energy consumption on the day, is likely to be at least 31,500 tonnes of carbon emissions, according to John Buckley of Carbonfootprint.com, who specialises in such calculations.

Throw in the television audience and it comes to a staggering 74,500 tonnes. In comparison, the average Briton produces ten tonnes in a year.

The concert will also generate some 1,025 tonnes of waste at the concert stadiums - much of which will go directly into landfill sites.

What a load! Literally.

A massive global event to raise awareness about the impact that human beings have on the climate while actually adding to the alleged problem is such a joke!

Organizers claim that the concerts will be as "green" as possible. Yeah, right. The concerts aren't going to be "green." Impossible.

That brings us to one of the biggest scams of the century -- carbon offsets.

...So just how does Gore claim that Live Earth will be carbon neutral? He does so by convenient use of 'carbon offsetting' - a trendy new method of absolving yourself of guilt.

Carbon offsetting involves 'neutralising' the emissions you are responsible for by buying 'credits'.

A spokesperson for Live Earth says: "This might involve buying environmentally sound lightbulbs for a Third World school, planting trees, or installing solar panels in a developing country."

A huge industry has sprung up to provide corporations with carbon credits.

However, critics say that the practice is simply a way for consumerist industries and nations to export their responsibility to developing countries. Others say it simply does not work.

Carbon-offsetting is, it turns out, how celebrities square green issues with their extravagant lifestyles and use of private jets.

Jon Bon Jovi has said: "We wrote a cheque, we took care of our footprint and raised awareness, blah blah blah."

When Gore - who himself spent eight years flying on Air Force Two - was asked if he had persuaded Madonna to stop using private jets, he said: 'Well, I appreciate and respect her as an artist and as a person, and there are many artists who are offsetting their role in contributing to the CO2 build-up, and I understand that.' A rather longwinded way of saying 'no'.

I love Bon Jovi's quote: "We wrote a cheque, we took care of our footprint and raised awareness, blah blah blah."

That perfectly sums up the idiocy of erasing one's footprint.

The "carbon-neutral" line is a lame attempt by celebrities and other gluttons to excuse their inexcusably exorbitant energy use and the inordinate strain that they put on the planet's resources.

In effect, Gore and his followers argue that while they're destroying the planet, they make up for it by doing something that is more earth-friendly to balance the damage that they're doing.

That's like Bill Clinton rationalizing that although he's having sex with Monica Lewsinsky, it's acceptable because he balances that out by having sex with Hillary. He has an adultery-neutral lifestyle.

This ridiculous "carbon-neutral" claim is no more than a cover for those with self-indulgent, eco-destructive lifestyles.

This "I pollute but then I do something to offset it" stance is just plain stupid.

Wouldn't it be better to cut back on the excess and do better than "carbon-neutral"?

Of course, it would.

...Dr John Barrett, from the Stockholm Environment Institute at the University of York, says: "There is a huge irony in flying halfway across the globe in a private jet, eating up fossil fuel.

"The idea that you can offset the pollution you cause is just ridiculous. What these people at Live Earth have done is defined their boundaries to suit themselves, but there is no sense in which this concert is carbon neutral.

"Planting trees or investing in renewable energy does not reverse the damage of releasing huge quantities of carbon dioxide into the environment.

"It is far better not to pollute in the first place. Carbon offsetting can be a removal of guilt, but it is not an effective one."

Exactly.

Carbon offsetting is an attempt to exorcise one's guilt demons.

It's a silly game and its players are exposed as self-deceptive fools, not good stewards of the earth.

I, for one, believe it's best to boycott Gore's Live Earth concerts.

Since the "concerts for a climate in crisis" are actually compounding the crisis, a good first step toward caring for the environment would be to take the pledge to shun the concerts.

Also, try to exhale less and cut down on your carbon emissions.

We're Having a Heat Wave

It's a dream come true for Al Gore.

At least in the U.S., steamy temperatures will coincide with his "the planet is melting" Live Earth concerts.


Map of tomorrow's high temperatures

It's going to be a hot one.

I guess the use of all those incandescent light bulbs and the burning of all that fossil fuel have finally caught up with us.

I often say that context is everything.

It seems to me that Al Gore is a lightweight when it comes to lending context to a discussion. He conveniently ignores the truth of history before his life and times.

Al was born on March 31, 1948.

He missed the North American heat wave of 1936.

The 1936 North American heat wave was the most severe heat wave in the modern history of North America. It took place in the middle of the Great Depression and led to an enormous human and economic toll. The death toll exceeded 5,000 which made it the deadliest natural disaster of the 20th century in the United States. Agricultural losses were enormous as well as crops were destroyed by the high heat and lack of moisture.

The year 1936 brought significant amounts of extreme weather. The winter was one of the coldest on record, and the summer was one of the hottest.

This significant heat wave started in late June, when temperatures across the US went up over 100°F (38°C). The Midwest was seeing some of their highest June temperatures on record. Drought conditions worsened due to lack of rain. In the Northeast, temperatures climbed in the mid 90s°F (around 35°C). The South and West started to heat up also, and also saw rainfall shortages. The heat wave began to extend into Canada as well. Moderate to extreme drought started to cover the entire continent.

July was the peak month, in which the heat reached all-time record levels - many of which still stand as of 2006. In Steele, North Dakota, temperatures reached 121°F (50°C), which remains North Dakota's hottest temperature on record. In Ohio, temperatures reached 110°F (43°C), which was close to tying a record high set in 1934. The states of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, Minnesota, Michigan, North Dakota, South Dakota, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Nebraska, Wisconsin, West Virginia, and New Jersey also saw their record highs broken. In addition, the provinces of Ontario and Manitoba both set still-standing record highs in the 110s°F (above 43°C).

Here's an interesting chart:



Look at the actual temperatures for July.

It was sweltering in 1901.

I wonder what caused that spike in temperatures.

And the 1930s, especially 1936, what can you say about that?

What was the problem? No Prius on the road?

After some of the hottest periods on record, the temperatures plummeted.

Here's a chart displaying annual temperatures:



Bottom line:

In the last 100+ years, we've had periods of extreme heat and cold.

Go back further. Evidence of extremes are everywhere -- mountains, canyons, plains, lakes, oceans.

The fact is the history of the LIVE EARTH is one of cooling and warming and constant change.

Is that a crisis?

Al Gore on Today

I thought it was a poor choice of words when Meredith Vieira started her interview this morning with Al Gore with this line:

Former vice president Al Gore is back in the spotlight today. He's throwing his weight behind this weekend's Live Earth concerts which will educate people about what many call a global climate crisis.

I think it was a mistake to highlight Gore's weight.

It doesn't appear that he practices what he preaches. He needs to walk or bike or eat less meat or do something that makes it appear he isn't straining the earth's resources.

It's not surprising that Gore was promoting his concerts on NBC since the network and its cable outlets will be airing the events.

Before getting to the climate crisis, Vieira brought up Al Gore III's arrest.

“Not as a politician or someone who is concerned about the climate, as a dad, what was your reaction to this?” Vieira asked the former vice president.

“We are dealing with this as a private family matter,” Gore said. “We love him very much. We are glad that he is safe and that he’s getting treatment. We are gong to leave it as a private matter.”

Case closed, as it should be, though I think Gore should have stressed that he was glad Gore III didn't injure or kill someone else. It took Vieira's prompting for Gore to comment on that.

Once Gore got around to pretending to be Bob Geldof, he talked about the goals of the concerts.

“We are going to ask the two billion people estimated to be in the audience Saturday to take a seven-point pledge that is designed to change behavior and also to put pressure on political leaders in every country across the ideological spectrum,” he said. “We really have to solve this.”

Although all the major candidates in both the Republican and Democratic parties have expressed concerns about global warming, Gore said climate change must rank high on the next president’s list of priorities.

“It’s 500 days off,” Gore said of the Democrats’ convention. “If I do my job, then all of them will make this their top issue. None of them have yet.”

Two billion people?

That seems as inflated as Gore's ego.

Anyway, I think it's crazy to suggest that climate change should be the "top issue" for presidential candidates.

Does Gore really believe that climate change is the MOST pressing issue facing our nation?

If he does, he's not fit to be President of the United States.

There's no way that Gore's going to run again. No way.

Will the "seven-point pledge" make a difference?

I doubt that many in the concert audiences will follow through on the pledge.

Does Gore really think he has the power to control the future of planet?

Could Gore's seven points have stopped the formation of the Grand Canyon?

Watch the interview.

Al Gore III and the Inconvenient Truth

Al Gore III encounters a controlling legal authority.

Al Gore, the Big Green Kahuna, is just days away from his Live Earth extravaganza.

Unfortunately, there's been a diversion in Gore's grandest opportunity yet to bask in the warmth of the globe.

It's not an attack by Republicans, no vast right-wing conspiracy.

His own son, Al Gore III, has derailed his biggest moment.

Al Gore III, son of the former vice president, was arrested in California early Wednesday morning for suspicion of possessing marijuana and prescription drugs.

Gore III was allegedly driving a blue Toyota Prius at speeds over 100 mph when he was pulled over around 2:15 a.m. on the San Diego freeway south of Los Angeles. Smelling marijuana, police searched the car and found less than one ounce of marijuana and prescription drugs Xanax, Valium, Vicodin and Adderall, Orange County Sheriff's Department spokesman Jim Armormino said. The last pharmaceutical is a treatment for attention deficit disorder.

"He does not have a prescription for any of those drugs," Amormino said.

Gore, 24, was released from a men's jail in Santa Ana after posting $20,000 bail.

To me, one of the most shocking things about this incident is that Gore III managed to get a Prius up to speeds over 100 mph.

I didn't think that was possible.

Not only was he suspected of driving under the influence, Gore III had A LOT of different drugs in the car with him and no prescriptions for any of them. The contraband highlights the extent of Gore III's problems.

This wasn't just an isolated mistake, a lapse in judgment.

Far from it. This was just another in a string of arrests for Gore III.

This is the second time he was arrested on a marijuana possession charge. Police in Montgomery County, Md., pulled over Gore in December 2003 and noticed the smell of pot. Police were also tipped off by the open windows and sunroof despite the freezing temperature.

Gore, who at the time was a Harvard university student, and his two male passengers were charged with a misdemeanor count of possession of marijuana and released. The youngest of Al and Tipper Gore's four children then completed substance abuses classes as a pretrial diversion program, before settling the charges.

I guess those classes didn't help.

Gore was also ticketed for reckless driving by North Carolina police in August 2000, and military police arrested him for drunk driving near a military base in Virginia in September 2002. Gore III now lives in Los Angeles and is an associate publisher of GOOD, a magazine about philanthropy aimed at young people.

Gore III obviously has some serious issues.

They predate his father's recent ascendance to movie star status. It's not like Gore III went along for the Hollywood ride and veered down the wrong path.

Perhaps he needs some jail time. Maybe he'd undergo a jailhouse conversion like Paris Hilton did. Whatever, I hope he gets his act together before he hurts himself or someone else.

Gore III was given a second chance at life when he survived the accident that nearly killed him as a little boy. Now, he's abusing himself and putting others at risk in the process.

It's entirely possible that Gore III's reckless driving while under the influence could result in a child being seriously injured or killed.

He's a 24-year-old adult, but I guess he doesn't have the maturity to make that connection.

The timing of this latest arrest couldn't be worse for Daddy Al, just before Live Earth kicks off and the hysterical, "sky is falling" environmentalists prepare to bow down before their patron saint Al.

Then again, Gore III was driving a Prius.

If it had been a gas-guzzling SUV, this would really be a disaster.

__________________________

Trouble in Rio.

The Irony of Gore

It was over two decades ago when Tipper Gore, wife of former Vice President and current global warming guru Al Gore, led the charge to get labels on albums to warn of objectionable content.

In recent days, the Don Imus controversy has sparked debate about the lyrical content of music, particularly rap.

An editorial in today's The Washington Post addresses the decency crisis and the responsibilities of free speech.

WHAT A NERVE radio shock jock Don Imus struck. His denigration last week of the Rutgers women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos" sparked protests that first cost him his deal with MSNBC and ultimately his perch at CBS Radio. But what Mr. Imus did is a symptom of a larger problem. And it didn't take long for the debate to move from his racist and misogynistic musings to gangsta rap, its artists and the record companies that have helped move hateful words and negative images of women and African Americans into the mainstream. Maybe now those who have been battling this for years will finally be heard.

The right to freely express one's views through art, music, writing and the spoken word is a jewel of American democracy. It is a right we cherish and will defend. But the right to express doesn't mean there is an obligation to consume. Degrading racist and sexist lyrics and images don't have to be celebrated and consumed. That's what led Tipper Gore more than 20 years ago to push for content-warning labels on record albums marketed to children.

When Mrs. Gore led that movement in 1985, it was in reaction to "Purple Rain" by Prince. Today, the lyrics of the songs on that album would seem quaint compared with the raunchy rhymes of rappers like 50 Cent ("P.I.M.P."), DMX ("My Niggas") Lil' Kim ("Shut Up Bitch") and Ludacris ("Ho").

...The common use of racist language and negative images of women, African American women in particular, won't end if those with the power to effect change sit on the sidelines. The late C. Delores Tucker railed against rap's misogyny. The Rev. Calvin Butts of New York used to bulldoze rap CDs on a Harlem street to protest their lyrics and lurid images of black life. And the Rev. Al Sharpton, who led the campaign to fire Mr. Imus, has spoken out repeatedly about this. If anything positive is to come from ending Mr. Imus's 30-plus-year-radio career, the revulsion at his comment will extend to the gangsta-rap artists and their record companies.

The Post tries to appear to be consistent. Even the libs at The Post realize that they cannot simply ignore the "common use of racist language and negative images of women, African American women in particular" that permeates rap while expressing outrage at Imus.

It would be too glaringly hypocritical.

That brings us to Al Gore. He doesn't seem to have a problem with enlisting some rap artists for his LIVE EARTH global warming consciousness-raising concerts. Gore is implicitly endorsing the racism and sexism in their music. A little awkward, isn't it?

I wonder if Tipper knows that Ludacris, one of her targets, is on the bill at Giants Stadium.

Read the lyrics to Ludacris' "Ho."

(WARNING: EXPLICIT CONTENT.)

[Chorus]
Hooooooooo (Ho)
Youza Hoooooo (Ho)
Youza Hoooooo (Ho)
I said that youza hooooo (Ho)
[Repeat 1x]

[Ludacris]
You doin ho activities
With ho tendencies
Hos are your friends, hoes are your enemies
With ho energy to do whacha do
Blew whacha blew
Screw whacha screw
Yall professional like DJ Clue, pullin on my coat tail
an why do you think you take a ho to a hotel?
Hotel everybody, even the mayor
Reach up in tha sky for tha hozone laya
Come on playa once a ho always
And hos never close they open like hallways
An heres a ho cake for you whole ho crew
an everybody wants some cuz hoes gotta eat too

[chorus x2]

[Ludacris]
Cant turn a ho into a housewife
Hos dont act right
Theres hos on a mission, an hoes on a crackpipe
Hey ho how ya doin, where ya been?
Prolly doin ho stuff cuz there you ho again
Its a ho wide world, that we livin in
feline, feminine, fantastical, women
Not all, just some
You ho who you are
Theres hoes in tha room, theres hoes in tha car
theres hoes on stage, theres hoes by tha bar
hos by near, an hos by far
Ho! (But can i getta ride?!)
NO! (Cmon, nigga why?!)
Cuz youza

[chorus 2x]

[Ludacris]
You gotta run in your pantyhos
Even your daddy knows
that you suckin down chocolate like daddy-o's
You hos are horrible, horrendous
On taxes ya'll writin off hos as dependents
I see tha ho risin
it aint surprisin
its just a hoasis
with ugly chicks faces
but hos dont feel so sad and blue
cuz most of us niggaz is hos too

[chorus x2]

(Ho)
Muthafuckas im so tired of yall niggaz always talkin
bout hos this, hos that, you tha muthafuckin ho nigga
I wasnt no ho last night

(Pimp)
Ho, bring yo ass!

(Ho)
Ok, hold on

Has Tipper loosened up over the years?

Are the concerts going to be adult affairs and not meant to be viewed by children?

I guess it might be necessary to have a warning accompany Gore's LIVE EARTH concerts.

This is not good.

It's possible that Gore's global environmental nightmare message is in danger of being upstaged by racist, sexist, obscene music.

Maybe Al Sharpton will lead the campaign against Gore to clean up his lineup and ditch the offensive rappers. At the very least, he should demand that they perform something positive, something Tipper would enjoy.

The Post should write an editorial sending Gore the same message -- clean up the lineup.

After all, this is just the beginning, right?

Gore's New Jersey Live Earth

Al Gore, global warming doomsday prophet, was looking for a place in Washington, D.C. to hold his Live Earth doomsday concert.

He couldn't make it happen.

From The Washington Post:

Washington has given Al Gore's global-warming concert the cold shoulder, so the former vice president has decided to move "Live Earth" to more hospitable climes: the swamplands of New Jersey.

The event will take place July 7 at Giants Stadium in the New York suburb of East Rutherford, N.J., with the Police, the Dave Matthews Band, Alicia Keys, Fall Out Boy, Akon, Melissa Etheridge, Kanye West and Bon Jovi among the 16 scheduled performers. It will be one of seven massive concerts staged around the world that day to bring attention to Gore's effort to raise concern about global climate change.

Gore and the Live Earth producers had hoped to bring the North American Live Earth show to Washington, but finding a suitable venue here proved difficult. The obvious choice -- the Mall -- was booked for the Smithsonian Folklife Festival as well as a Christian festival called Together One Unity, and a bipartisan resolution to bring the concert to the Capitol grounds ran into Republican roadblocks. A last-ditch effort to find an alternative location in Washington proved futile.

So yesterday, Gore and Live Earth Executive Producer Kevin Wall announced that they were going to the Garden State.

"I would have loved to have been in Washington," Wall said. "We're disappointed it didn't work out, but we're also happy to be at Giants Stadium."

Why have the concert in Washington?

Was the idea to make Gore king for a day?

King Al had problems finding a suitable venue in D.C.

...Last month it appeared that Live Earth might come to the Capitol through an act of Congress. After organizers ran into scheduling problems on the Mall, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) introduced a resolution authorizing use of the Capitol's west side for the concert.

But when Reid tried to pass the measure by unanimous consent, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) objected, saying more time was needed to review the resolution. ("The senator thinks it's important, before you vote on a resolution, to be able to read it," McConnell spokesman Don Stewart said yesterday.)

Several days later, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), the ranking Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, vowed to block Live Earth from coming to the Capitol, telling the Hill newspaper that "there has never been a partisan political event at the Capitol, and this is a partisan political event."

...Snowe, who co-authored the measure to bring Live Earth to the Capitol, was "disappointed" by the outcome, according to her spokesman, David Snepp. "This is the perfect venue to focus attention on what Senator Snowe calls one of the most pressing issues of our day," Snepp said. "She tried hard to convince her colleagues that this was an appropriate and fitting venue...."

Are the "colleagues" that Snowe supposedly tried to convince to support the political rally and concert at the Capitol Republicans?

When I think of Snowe's colleagues, I don't think of Republicans.

She doesn't seem to want to be a Republican. She often seems to think that the grass is greener on the other side of the aisle, preferring to lean to the Left.

At least some Republicans, like McConnell and Inhofe, had the good sense to prevent the Dems and their RINO allies from staging a political event on the Capitol grounds.

...Wall said: "I was a little shocked by what happened in Washington. I'm not a political guy at all. The only politician I know is Al Gore. I didn't want it to be politicized. It's not a political show. I think it's a red alert about an environmental issue that the world has to come together on."

Give me a break!

"I'm not a political guy at all."

Yeah, right.

Not a political show?

Wall has to be kidding.

Is he so naive to think that Kanye West isn't going to say something like, "George Bush doesn't care about black people or the planet"?

A Bush bash fest isn't going to bring people together. Well, I suppose it would band some together. The concert would unite the far Left Lefties with the less Left Lefties for at least a day.

As one, they could worship their supreme environmental leader, Al Gore, in the name of melting glaciers and drowning polar bears.

They could join in one voice to spout their alarmist, hysterical, inaccurate "facts" about the earth being on the brink of destruction, with Armageddon Al leading the chorus.

Tickets to the Giants Stadium concert will go on sale Monday. Pricing hasn't been set, but Wall estimated that they'd "average around $100 or $125." Had Live Earth been staged on the Mall or at the Capitol, admission would have been free, he said. Ticket revenue will help cover the facility fee at the Meadowlands sports complex.

Funny how that worked out, isn't it?

The concert would have been free if it were held in Washington, as though there would have been no costs for security, crowd control, etc.

All of that would have been free of charge in D.C.

Question: How?

But at the Meadowlands Gore will charge $100+ per person.

That's an awfully steep price for just a facility fee.

Will ticket revenue also cover gift bags for those environmentally conscious artists donating their time for this important cause?

Remember Live Eight in July 2005?

That event was meant to raise awareness about eradicating poverty. It was kind of embarrassing when it was revealed that some performers received lavish gift bags valued at $3000, packed with designer items.

Way to tackle poverty! Personal indulgence gets the job done!

In the case of Live Earth, I wonder about similar instances of counterproductivity.

For instance, how much energy will be consumed to put on this concert?

Will there be carbon offsets purchased to make up for the footprint left behind by the performers' private jets and other pampering?

Think of all the CO2 emissions resulting from tens of thousands of people traveling to Giants Stadium for the concert.

Worse yet, think of all the CO2 the audience will exhale during the concert!

Gore's Live Earth probably will serve to take a few years off the earth as we know it.

I guess raising consciousness comes at an environmentally unfriendly price.

Gluttonous Gore doesn't seem to care.

Gore's Personal Energy Ethics Pledge Lapse

(Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

Yesterday when Al Gore returned to Capitol Hill and pontificated about global warming, he balked at taking a Personal Energy Ethics Pledge.

Republican Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma merely asked Gore to personally commit to the sort of lifestyle that he's pushing on others. Gore refused and Barbara Boxer flipped out.



Read how the lib media are covering Gore's stunning hypocrisy.

From The New York Times:

In the House, there was little debate about the underlying science; the atmosphere was more that of a college lecture hall than a legislative give-and-take. But in the Senate, James M. Inhofe of Oklahoma, the ranking Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, set a pugilistic tone, challenging Mr. Gore’s analysis of the dangers of climate change from hurricanes and melting ice in Antarctica.

“It is my perspective that your global warming alarmist pronouncements are now and have always been filled with inaccuracies and misleading statements,” Mr. Inhofe said.

Beneath the carefully groomed surface of the House and Senate committees’ scripted production, a rift was evident. Republican committee leaders, including Mr. Barton in the House, and Mr. Inhofe in the Senate, seemed somewhat isolated from their rank-and-file colleagues, who appeared more receptive to Mr. Gore’s message and the scientific consensus on climate change. Even J. Dennis Hastert of Illinois, the former House speaker, seemed to accept the scientific consensus.

So Inhofe took a "pugilistic tone."

He's "isolated" because he wouldn't buy into the hysterics of the alleged consensus on the environmental doomsday scenario.

And what was Gore's tone? His usual dull, boring, monotonous drone?

...Waving his finger at some 40 House members, [Gore] said, “A day will come when our children and grandchildren will look back and they’ll ask one of two questions.”

Either, he said, “they will ask: what in God’s name were they doing?” or “they may look back and say: how did they find the uncommon moral courage to rise above politics and redeem the promise of American democracy?”

Yeah, our children and grandchildren should ask: what in God's name was Gore doing by devouring massive amounts of energy, flying all over the world, living in an enormous mansion?

They may look back and say: how did Gore find the uncommon moral weakness to sink so low and be so selfish and disingenuous?

On the Senate side, Mr. Inhofe quickly hit an issue that some of Mr. Gore’s critics have sounded in recent weeks — the size and energy-consuming properties of his new home in Tennessee. Mr. Inhofe sought to exact a pledge from Mr. Gore to cut electricity use so that his home outside Nashville used no more than the average American home in a year.

This triggered a jousting match with both Mr. Gore and Senator Barbara Boxer of California, the committee chairwoman, which ended when Ms. Boxer made a tart reference to the change in power in the Senate. “You’re not making the rules,” she told Mr. Inhofe.

Mr. Gore then said he pays extra to use wind-generated electricity at the home; Mr. Inhofe took that response as a rejection of the pledge.

Boxer is such a joke with her "tart reference."

When faced with Gore's obvious hypocrisy, Boxer deflected Inhofe's challenge by yapping about Dem power.

She's as heavy-handed as Gore is heavy.

The fact is Gore is all talk -- hysterical, misleading, inaccurate talk.

And he most definitely does not walk the walk.

Why should he? There's no controlling legal authority.

Let's face it. Emperor Gore has no clothes.

(Yuck!)

Al Gore Emergency: PANIC NOW!

Former Vice President Al Gore testifies about global warming during a hearing held by the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington March 21, 2007. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES)

Al Gore is desperate.

Actually, he's an emotional wreck.

According to Gore, "Our world faces a true planetary emergency."

Poor Gore.

He's trying to save all of civilization and the polar bears, too.

He's begging people to stop their gluttonous energy consumption.

(Forget about the fact that he gorges himself.)


REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES)

Gore was on the verge of tears during his testimony before House panels today.

"I want to testify today about what I believe is a planetary emergency a crisis that threatens the survival of our civilization and the habitability of the Earth," Gore told the House committees. "The consequences are mainly negative and headed toward catastrophic unless we act."

What drama!

It's the end of the world!

Is Gore's "carbon-neutrality" crap enough to avert catastrophe?

Drastic times call for drastic measures.

Maybe we should ban all air travel immediately.

I suppose we could limit the square feet of living space each person can have.

No more big houses with those evil incandescent light bulbs. Think of the damage that enemy of civilization Thomas Edison has done!

I don't think we have any choice but to round up the demonic cows. We can't sit by as their emissions destroy the planet. Is it possible to keep the cows and their "byproducts" in enclosed chambers?

We put a man on the moon. Why can't we conquer the cows?

Oh, the humanity (and polar bears)!

Gore Leaves Airport Security Breach Footprint

I guess it's understandable.

When Al Gore bypassed security at Nashville International Airport, perhaps he thought it was an Oscar winner perk, the star treatment.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- An airline employee led former Vice President Al Gore and two associates around airport security lines before police spotted the breach and required them to be screened, an airport spokeswoman said Thursday.

The American Airlines employee led the three down to the lower baggage level Wednesday and swiped each of them through a secure turnstile with her security badge, Nashville International Airport spokeswoman Lynne Lowrance said. She declined to identify the employee.

An airport officer assigned to escort Gore to his gate was to meet him at the security checkpoint, but Gore never came through, Lowrance said. The officer found Gore, his communications director Kalee Kreider and another staffer waiting at the gate for their flight.

The officer asked them if they went through security, and when they said they hadn't, they were taken back and fully screened. Gore did not complain and cooperated fully, Lowrance said.

"Everyone goes through security," she said of the employee's action. "It showed bad judgment. They were trying to be helpful, maybe too helpful."

...Kreider said Gore's staff usually notifies airports where he will be flying to make sure they know the former vice president will be coming through.

"I was there, and we didn't know if standards had changed or what," she said. "There are different policies at different airports and you basically do what you're asked to do."

Gore flies all the time, leaving his trail of carbon emissions behind him.

Doesn't he know that EVERYONE goes through security?

His communications director Kalee Kreider sounds like a real ditz.

"[W]e didn't know if standards had changed or what. There are different policies at different airports."

Huh?

Imagine that scenario.

Gore and his group thought that security policies had changed. No need to screen everyone anymore. In other words, "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled terrorists yearning to kill infidels."

Moreover, I would think that Gore would fly out of Nashville frequently enough to be familiar with policies there.

He should have known better.

Gore can't catch a break. He's been exposed as a hypocrite, a one man environmental disaster.

Now, he's caught breaching airport security.

Is this the Oscar curse, or just another day in the hanging chad life of Al Gore?