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O Great Goreacle Award
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Co-host Harry Smith: “President Bush getting ready to go to
Europe for the G-8. The folks in the European Union want to do emissions
reductions. The President said yesterday we’re not going to
participate....If you were president, you would have probably signed
on?”
Former Vice President Al Gore: “Yeah, yeah.”
Smith: “Do you mind if I-? [holds up a ‘Gore 2008’ pin]...There
you go. You can hold it. [laughter]....Here, let’s see what it looks
like. [holds pin to Gore’s lapel]...All right, all right. Save that in a
freeze frame.”
— Exchange on CBS’s The Early Show, May 30. [64 points]
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Runners-up:
“Incredible as it may seem, Al Gore is not only totally carbon neutral,
but geek-chic cool. No velvet rope can stop him....’He is more popular
now than he ever was in office, and he knows it,’ says Laurie David, one
of the producers of Inconvenient Truth and a Hollywood environmental
activist (and wife of Seinfeld co-creator Larry David) who has traveled
around the world promoting the film with Gore. ‘He’s a superhero now.’”
— Washington Post reporter William Booth in a February 25
front-page profile of Gore headlined, “Al Gore, Rock Star; Oscar Hopeful
May Be America’s Coolest Ex-Vice President Ever.” [57]
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“You know, Bob, you’d still be holding your breath and kicking your feet
if what had happened to Al Gore in Florida had happened to you. He rose
above a great injustice....He became a prophet on an issue that is
crucially important to the world.”
— Ex-Time reporter Margaret Carlson to Chicago Sun-Times
columnist Bob Novak on Bloomberg TV’s Political Capital, October 13.
[45]
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Matt Lauer: “From your point of view, if you were to run for
President you could take this issue [global warming] to the next level,
even during just a campaign. And if you were fortunate enough to win the
presidency, you’d sit in the most powerful office in the free world with
a real chance to make — you could be in a position to save the planet,
without putting too much emphasis on it. Wouldn’t that be enough of a
reason to run for President for you?”
Former Vice President Al Gore: “Well, I appreciate the impulse
behind the question. I am not planning to run....”
Lauer: “But as someone who feels as passionately about the
subject as you do, and your documentary is evidence of that, why pass up
the opportunity to have that world stage again?”
— Exchange on NBC’s Today, December 6, 2006. [43]
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“Al Gore — the
improbably charismatic, Academy Award-winning, Nobel Prize-nominated
environmental prophet with an army of followers and huge reserves of
political and cultural capital at his command....[Losing the 2000
election] changed Gore for the better. He dedicated himself to a larger
cause, doing everything in his power to sound the alarm about the
climate crisis, and that decision helped transform the way Americans
think about global warming and carried Gore to a new state of
grace....No wonder friends, party elders, moneymen and green leaders are
still trying to talk him into running.”
— Time’s Eric Pooley in his May 28 cover story, “The Last
Temptation of Al Gore.” [40] |
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