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"Ubiquitous" |
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04 Jun 2007 07:41:58 PM |
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Assaulted Nuts |
Is Al Gore a genuine intellectual, as he would like us to believe, or is he
just pretentious à la John Kerry? He has a new book out called "The Assault on
Reason," and we suppose reading it would shed some light on the question. But
life is short.
Here's an excerpt from an interview Gore gave Gwen Ifill of PBS's "NewsHour":
Ifill: You write of a "determined disinterest" in learning the
truth, on the part of the Bush administration on pre-war
intelligence. You accuse the White House of an "unprecedented
and sustained campaign of mass deception," very strong words.
And you say that President Bush "outsourced the truth." Are you
suggesting that President Bush deliberately misled the American
people when it comes to the Iraq war?
Gore: Well, there was certainly a coordinated effort in the White
House and in the Department of Defense simultaneously to convey
the image of a mushroom cloud exploding over an American city and
to link it to a specific scenario, the very strong and EXPLICIT
IMPLICATION that Saddam Hussein was going to develop nuclear
weapons and give them to Osama bin Laden, and that would result
in nuclear explosions in American cities.
"Explicit implication," huh? How do you know it wasn't an implicit
explication? Such slipshod thinking leads one to think that Gore does have
more in common with Kerry than with, say, Pat Moynihan.
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| User: "Anim8rFSK" |
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| Title: Re: Assaulted Nuts |
04 Jun 2007 08:48:29 PM |
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In article <8d2dndkjUvHLLPnbnZ2dnUVZ_gGdnZ2d@giganews.com>,
Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
Is Al Gore a genuine intellectual, as he would like us to believe, or is he
just pretentious à la John Kerry?
Is Kerry pretentious? No doubt Gore is, but I have no feeling on Kerry.
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| User: "Ubiquitous" |
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| Title: Re: Assaulted Nuts |
05 Jun 2007 07:54:23 AM |
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wrote:
Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
Is Al Gore a genuine intellectual, as he would like us to believe, or is he
just pretentious à la John Kerry?
Is Kerry pretentious? No doubt Gore is, but I have no feeling on Kerry.
Neither do I, but I thought I heard once somewhere that he had served in
Vietnam.
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"You know, education--if you make the most of it, you study hard, you
do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you can do
well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq." JFKerry
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| User: "RichA" |
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| Title: Re: Assaulted Nuts |
04 Jun 2007 09:20:49 PM |
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On Jun 4, 8:41 pm, Ubiquitous <web...@polaris.net> wrote:
Is Al Gore a genuine intellectual, as he would like us to believe, or is =
he
just pretentious =E0 la John Kerry?
He's a genuine pretend intellectual. And he's getting fatter by the
day.
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| User: "WQ" |
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| Title: Re: Assaulted Nuts |
04 Jun 2007 08:02:27 PM |
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Ubiquitous wrote:
Is Al Gore a genuine intellectual, as he would like us to believe, or is =
he
just pretentious =E0 la John Kerry? He has a new book out called "The *****=
ault on
Reason," and we suppose reading it would shed some light on the question.=
But
life is short.
Here's an excerpt from an interview Gore gave Gwen Ifill of PBS's "NewsHo=
ur":
Ifill: You write of a "determined disinterest" in learning the
truth, on the part of the Bush administration on pre-war
intelligence. You accuse the White House of an "unprecedented
and sustained campaign of mass deception," very strong words.
And you say that President Bush "outsourced the truth." Are you
suggesting that President Bush deliberately misled the American
people when it comes to the Iraq war?
Gore: Well, there was certainly a coordinated effort in the White
House and in the Department of Defense simultaneously to convey
the image of a mushroom cloud exploding over an American city and
to link it to a specific scenario, the very strong and EXPLICIT
IMPLICATION that Saddam Hussein was going to develop nuclear
weapons and give them to Osama bin Laden, and that would result
in nuclear explosions in American cities.
"Explicit implication," huh? How do you know it wasn't an implicit
explication? Such slipshod thinking leads one to think that Gore does have
more in common with Kerry than with, say, Pat Moynihan.
--- Oh, let's not get picky-picky now, you know what he meant.
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