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Al Gore: Flat-earthers question
global warming
Mark Silva
Baltimore
Sun
Friday, March 28, 2008
Al Gore, the Nobel Prize-winning former vice president and Democratic
nominee for president in 2000 who won the popular vote but lost
the Electoral College, contends that those who doubt global warming
-- and he counts Vice President Dick Cheney in that crowd -- remind
him of those who doubt that man landed on the moon or who believed
the world is flat.
These are among the declarations that the Democratic warrior
against climate change (and an ucommitted super-delegate so far
this year) makes in an interview airing Sunday evening on CBS
News' 60 Minutes. Another declaration: Gore will use profits from
his book and film, An Inconvenient Truth, to support a $300-million
advertising campaign to boost awareness of global warming. Enter
Toby Keith and the Dixie Chicks.
Gore, who repeatedly has ruled out another run for the White
House yet is repeatedly asked the question in the midst of a protracted
campagin for the Democratic nomination, speaks with Lesley Stahl
in an interview airing at 7 pm EDT Sunday.
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Stahl tells Gore that some prominent people, including the nation’s
vice president, are not convinced that global warming is manmade.
Gore replies: “You’re talking about Dick Cheney.
I think that those people are in such a tiny, tiny minority now
with their point of view, they’re almost like the ones who
still believe that the moon landing was staged in a movie lot
in Arizona and those who believe the world is flat.
"That demeans them a little bit, but it’s not that
far off.''
Some of the ads that Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection will
air will feature an ecumenical odd couple, the Rev. Al Sharpton
and the Rev. Pat Robertson. as well as odd political bedfellows,
Nancy Pelosi and Newt Gingrich, and a pairing of country crooners
who flank the right on left on the radio, Toby Keith and the Dixie
Chicks.
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INFOWARS:
BECAUSE THERE'S A WAR ON FOR YOUR MIND
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