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Al Gore visits cold, cold Berlin to speak at a global warming conference:
Despite the high demand for tickets for last night’s slide show, not everyone in Berlin was happy.
People not happy? In Berlin?
Some climate campaigners said Gore’s speaker fee – rumoured to be $180,000 – was not sending the right message.
Yes. Gore deserves more.
Journalists moaned after finding that his meeting with Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, was just a photo-op. No questions allowed.
Al is punishing reporters!
More seriously, the heavy-handed restrictions on reporting Gore’s words at the conference caused headaches. Scribblers and television cameras were allowed to document the first five minutes of his comments, but then had to put their pens away and turn off their cameras.
Ah, yes; the old five-minute law.
Journalists had to submit a written declaration that they would not break the rules ...
Shouldn’t be a problem. In Germany.
No one left doubting Gore’s message, but some grumbled that the Nobel Prize had gone to his head.
*PLEDGE WEEK* Give before Al Gore owns all the money on earth.
DAMN you Hero!
Ok then I got in first with a coherent parody!
Posted by carpefraise on 2007 10 24 at 05:07 AM • permalinkI have to admire some of Gore’s style. Let me elaborate:
• He’s racking in a fortune;
• He doesn’t have to be right about anything he says;
• He can heat his house, pool, garage, and have every appliance in his house on, even when he’s in another country and not be seen by his followers as a hypocrite;
• He can boost his speaking fees because he has “Nobel Prize Recipient” to add to his CV; and
• He can ignore all naysayers and questions, and live in his own merry world.(wronwright notes a crowd forming near - but not very near - Hero and carpefraise. Suddenly music, earry funereal music, begins being played. Yes, he sees RebeccaH slowly keying the organ, conveniently placed close to - but not very close to - Hero and carpefraise)
Okay. Where’s paco and his popcorn stand?
Posted by wronwright on 2007 10 24 at 05:20 AM • permalinkPosted by Ash_ on 2007 10 24 at 05:15 AM
It sounds nice, but I’d still rather be sane.
Posted by The Apologist on 2007 10 24 at 05:27 AM • permalinkThe only thing lamer than claiming “FIRST” on a commnet thread is claiming a Nobel Peace Prize.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 10 24 at 05:33 AM • permalink#7, #13, blame blogstrop #84. He turned me on to it. Way cool!
Posted by Hero Schema on 2007 10 24 at 06:10 AM • permalink#13 and #7. You don’t understand, I always get here late! For once i thought I could get a head start on the issues and beat Wronwright to the mead cupboard. Need those lemon juice treats you know. But it was not to be….
OT more on IslamoFascism Awareness where censorship and over-sensitive feelings of - guess who? - have arisen…
Posted by carpefraise on 2007 10 24 at 06:19 AM • permalinkOops, that is IslamoFascism Awareness WEEK
Posted by carpefraise on 2007 10 24 at 06:20 AM • permalinkI try to avoid being first in case I step on something nasty. That reminds me- Hero Schema is an anagram of ‘A Schmo here’
We’re being a bit harsh on the Gorebot aren’t we?- I mean the man has selflessly turned himself into a waddling wheezing caution on the dangers of overconsumption with no expectation of any reward other than scads and scads of cash.
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 10 24 at 06:43 AM • permalinkNo one left doubting Gore’s message, but some grumbled that the Nobel Prize had gone to his head.
The grumblers have already have already, inadvertently, moved beyond the dialectic of Global Warming ; with a theory based upon…OBSERVATION!
Posted by Toiling Mass on 2007 10 24 at 07:36 AM • permalink#4 _ash
And that’s exactly why he’ll never run for President.
Presidential annual salary: $400K
Gore’s weekly earnings (assuming 3 speeches, not counting movie and book royalties): $450KOf course, he donates much of this money to himself.
Posted by Mambo Bananapatch on 2007 10 24 at 07:38 AM • permalink#4 Ash_ , sorry—don’t know where I got _ash from. Still early here.
Posted by Mambo Bananapatch on 2007 10 24 at 07:40 AM • permalinkThis is what pisses me off so much about the usual anti-Americans.
They always pick on nonsense reasons to hate on us even when we offer up legitimate personalities just begging to be roasted, lambasted, belittled and ridiculed.
You never hear the aAs citing Jimmah Catah or this latest, the Alar Goracle as reasons to hate us. And those two cant be contested as legitimate reasons for disgust.
#29 well even if journalists had to sign a declaration they wouldn’t break the rules. why should that stop them? Why won’t someone record it secretly, then put the transcript up on the web anonymously? Then the scoop still can be made by reporting on the secret expose of what Gore really says…. I thought journalists were a lot more sneakier…obviously not.
Why didn’t Paul Kelly write this article a long time ago? The fatuousness of the Kyoto
acolyteseco-lites is way more tiresome than Howard’s rejection of empty symbolism.# 33- there are plenty of things one can legitimately dislike about America- gangsta rap, Rosie O’Donnell, that remake of Fawlty Towers, and agricultural subsidies spring to mind - but any rational person would have to admit the good so massively outweighs the bad that only a moron could be anti-american
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 10 24 at 08:06 AM • permalinkThe juvenile “first” comment left by “Hero Schema” has been removed. All such comments in the future will be removed. And one more like that from you, “Hero Schema” (oh, did I forget to complement you on your “clever” handle”? So clever, I bow to your superior wit. Not.) and you will be banned.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 10 24 at 08:22 AM • permalink“No one left doubting Gore’s message ...”
No one? Not a single one? Not even an old curmudgeon in the back row grumbling that “it’s all bullshit!”? Not one single, solitary reader of The Skeptical Environmentalist, or who had read enough even to question Gore’s thesis? Not one who had looked into Gore’s slide-show and seen the many points where he plays fast and loose with the truth? Among all these purportedly hard-boiled skeptics, not a single, solitary doubt?
Ah, group-think at its most impressive. This has gone well beyond religion: it’s a cult!
Posted by Urbs in Horto on 2007 10 24 at 08:38 AM • permalinkGorezilla charged $180K for his Berlin speech? John Kennedy (a successful Democrat presidential candidate, mind you) gave his for free.
Shows how far the Democrats have fallen since the early 1960s, eh?
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 10 24 at 09:34 AM • permalinkI don’t know if this has been posted already, but there’s big problems in the San Diego county area in southern CA, USA.
Fire is out of control still and upward of 1 million persons forced to evacuated.
News talking head said it’s biggest evacuation since Civil War. Don’t know if that’s accurate though.
TRJ, Jack gave his for free. Well, so they say… (Happy birthday, Mr President.)
On the other hand, he held his nation’s ground by firmly telling Cuba that he’s got ships and planes and such in the early years of th3 Cold War. Which, of course, is completely beside the point.
Screw Marilyn Monroe, if you want to. Jacqui was the hottie!
The speaker’s fee is only the tip of the iceberg, albeit a rapidly-melting iceberg:
For $100,000 a pop, Gore and his eco-tourage travel around like the best of them. His speaker’s contract, managed by the exclusive Harry Walker Acency, Inc., demands first-class airfare and hotel accommodations from his sponsors, not to mention a tidy per diem allowance on top of the impressive speaking fee.
Posted by Mystery Meat on 2007 10 24 at 11:12 AM • permalinkShouldn’t be a problem. In Germany.
Sorta O/T….PW hasn’t commented in quite a while, but I would like to note that no one launched into a “Sergeant Schultz” (of “Hogan’s Heroes” fame) style dialog because of this line.
I’m just trying to decide if this is a good thing (we are becoming “culturally sensitive”) or a bad thing (we missed a chance at a really great thread….what with Gorezilla’s “digital brownshirts” remarks of a few years back).
Ah, well…...I suppose we Blairite denizens are learning as we go along.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 10 24 at 12:29 PM • permalinkEnBW blamed Gore’s handlers, who in turn said they did not want his speech landing on the web.
Two reasons for that: (1) If his speech were on the web, it would be shown up for the bullshit it undoubtedly is and (2) the folks willing to pay $180,000 a shot for the aforementioned BS would change their minds once they saw what they would be buying. Gorebot ain’t stupid, ya know.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 10 24 at 05:25 PM • permalinkAl Gore is my hero. he is scamming millions off greenies and they love him for it. It is astonishing that no one from the left has worked out that for all the millions flowing into Al’s bank accounts, nothing is coming out. No great charitable Gore Foundation. Sure they can talk about the impact of Inconvenient Truth but that has made Al even richer. Nobel Prize? Another bucket of cash for Al. And who is making the most from Big Al’s investment company, Generation Investment Management? Al and his business partner.
Al is actually the ugly face of capitalism yet is a hero of the left. Now that’s funny.
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Some climate campaigners said Gore’s speaker fee – rumoured to be $180,000 – was not sending the right message.
Au contraire, this speaker fee sends exactly the right message: “I want money! I want lots and lots of money! I want it so bad I’m gunna make up stuff and travel around as fast and loud as I can and tell everyone to give me lotsamoney potsamoney before anyone else thinks of how to get your money! HEY! WHO SAID VIDEOCONFERENCING! HERETIC! THAT WON’T GET ME MONEY!”
(Huzzah, I got in first!)