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Imperialism Inc. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-10-06 08:18 AM
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Request for links to Al Gore Speeches since 2000
With the new movie coming out about Al Gore's campaign against global warming , An Inconvenient Truth, I am wanting to make a compilation DVD of Gore Speeches during the Bush presidency. This is for some friends that were unaware that he had been giving great speeches since his run in 2000.

The 2 bigs one I can remember are the one on Abu Ghraib and the one about domestic spying (on MLK day). I was thinking there was another about the Iraq war in general but I could be wrong. Links to the one on MLK day are in the research forum here so I am sure I can find a copy there but links are still appreciated just to be sure. Does anyone have an extensive list of speeches since 2000 and links to them (preferably video)?

If you give me a link or post on the thread , whatever list I come up with I'll eventually put up a Research Forum thread and send you a link to the converted MPEG video if you'd like to make a DVD or Video CD for yourself.

Thanks for any help.

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Loge23 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-10-06 08:23 AM
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1. We need to combat Gore's low ratings
In today's NYT:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/10/washington/10poll.html?pagewanted=2&ei=5094&en=641ddb430eab14f8&hp&ex=1147320000&partner=homepage

Why is Gore getting a 28??
What has this guy done to deserve this? Has he ruined our future? Started a war for no reason?
Lied to the American people repeatedly? Spied on us?

We need good press about this guy. He's a good man.
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-10-06 08:30 AM
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2. And I bet if you asked those people....
Why they had an unfavorable view of Gore, they couldn't come up with one answer, except maybe that he lost in 2000 (which he really didn't).
I don't know whether to scream or cry for the willful ignorance of Americans. I bet 99 percent of people have no clue as to what he's been doing and saying since that apocalyptic election. :grr:
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Loge23 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-10-06 08:30 AM
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3. you're absolutely right! (eom)
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bryant69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-10-06 08:36 AM
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4. In 2000 the Media declared war on Gore
Since 2000 very few of our representatives are willing to talk about the Media's war on Gore.

I know that Past Performance is no guarentee of future results, but part of me believes that if Gore ran again, the Media would revert to form.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com
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NYCGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-10-06 08:57 AM
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5. I especially like this one about the complicit media:
http://www.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/10/5/14301/6133

I came here today because I believe that American democracy is in grave danger. It is no longer possible to ignore the strangeness of our public discourse . I know that I am not the only one who feels that something has gone basically and badly wrong in the way America's fabled "marketplace of ideas" now functions.

How many of you, I wonder, have heard a friend or a family member in the last few years remark that it's almost as if America has entered "an alternate universe"?

I thought maybe it was an aberration when three-quarters of Americans said they believed that Saddam Hussein was responsible for attacking us on September 11, 2001. But more than four years later, between a third and a half still believe Saddam was personally responsible for planning and supporting the attack.

At first I thought the exhaustive, non-stop coverage of the O.J. trial was just an unfortunate excess that marked an unwelcome departure from the normal good sense and judgment of our television news media. But now we know that it was merely an early example of a new pattern of serial obsessions that periodically take over the airwaves for weeks at a time.

LOTS MORE AT LINK ABOVE
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Imperialism Inc. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-10-06 09:23 AM
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6. Thank you.
I'll add one I found about Global Warming


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johnaries Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-10-06 09:28 AM
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7. Don't forget to include anything you can get on his Katrina
efforts, and how he tried to downplay it (obviously NOT a "photo-op"!). A comparison to B*'s photo-ops and many a clip of Colbert's "he also stands ON things..." might be a good contrast.

I sent some links about Gore's efforts to some conservative friends, and they ALL said they would consider voting for him if he ran again - based on this alone. :woohoo:
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NYCGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-10-06 09:37 AM
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8. And here's one from 2002 against the Iraq War (before it had started)
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Imperialism Inc. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-10-06 11:00 AM
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9. A kick
Here is a trandscript of his Abu Ghraib speech but I am having trouble locating audio or video versions. It was the one were he gave a great speech and all the press could do was talk about how he was sweating.

http://political.moveon.org/goreremarks052604.html
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Imperialism Inc. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-11-06 12:50 PM
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10. Finally got the Abu Ghraib speech to come up on
C-SPan search results.

Also a link directly to the video:

rtsp://cspanrm.fplive.net/cspan/archive/iraq/iraq052604_gore.rm

I plan on trying to make a VideoCD/DVD ready file and a research forum thread within in the next couple weeks.

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