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Al Gore: The Hottest Star in Cannes

By Jeralyn, Section Elections 2008
Posted on Mon May 22, 2006 at 05:14:51 PM EST
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Arianna's there, and she says so.

....even with Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Penelope Cruz, Jamie Foxx, and Halle Berry here for the film festival, the hottest star in town is Al Gore. In Cannes for the European premiere of his powerful global warming documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," Gore has been surrounded by adoring crowds and deluged with interview requests. He told me that he gave 23 back-to-back-to-back interviews on Sunday, Hollywood junket-style (all on only one hour's sleep), and had another 23 scheduled for Monday.

Even though Gore has said he's not running:

The pressure on Gore to run will continue to grow because watching him speak out so eloquently, so passionately, and so personally on this issue -- in other words, displaying real leadership -- is like suddenly being served a steak after a steady diet of fast-food burgers. It's a stark reminder of just how far we've lowered the bar on what we expect from those we elect.

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    Al Gore: The Hottest Star in Cannes | 19 comments (19 topical)
    Re: Al Gore: The Hottest Star in Cannes (none / 0) (#1)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon May 22, 2006 at 05:42:33 PM EST
    run Al, run!! www.draftgore2008.com

    Re: Al Gore: The Hottest Star in Cannes (none / 0) (#2)
    by Dusty on Mon May 22, 2006 at 07:07:06 PM EST
    Anyone see that asshat Drudge today? He had an unsubstantiated comment on his site that Gore and his group took five Limo's to drive 500 feet to the festival. Run Gore..please.

    Re: Al Gore: The Hottest Star in Cannes (none / 0) (#4)
    by squeaky on Mon May 22, 2006 at 07:28:08 PM EST
    Gore walked to the beach. It was a no carbon policy. Drudge removed the claim on his website that Gore took limos everywhere even to go a few hundred feet, It is no longer on his website. From crooks and liars:
    Matt Drudge smears Al Gore and then is forced to print a retraction about Howard Dean. Will Howard Kurtz write a story about Drudge tomorrow and ask if he is a credible news source? He certainly couldn't wait to jump on the Leopold story about Rove. The least he can do is print a fair representation of the liberal bloggers reaction to it. 
    crooks and liars

    Re: Al Gore: The Hottest Star in Cannes (none / 0) (#5)
    by Slado on Tue May 23, 2006 at 09:55:01 AM EST
    Gore's performance over the last few years and his now red hot (pun intended) performance at Cannes has all but sealed his political demise. Even if he could somehow convince the people who control the Democratic party to run as their canidate again there is no way he could win in a general election. He is so looney now that people mike actually hate him more then Hillary. And that is hard to do. Also is TL going to stand behind the science regarding global warming? There are too many factors that make claims by the likes of Al Gore over the top and alarmist at best. Powerful is one thing but "true" or "factual" is another.

    Re: Al Gore: The Hottest Star in Cannes (none / 0) (#6)
    by squeaky on Tue May 23, 2006 at 09:59:21 AM EST
    Gore said that he is not running in 2008. Jeb Bush also said he is not running. Wonder who else is 'not running'?

    Re: Al Gore: The Hottest Star in Cannes (none / 0) (#7)
    by Slado on Tue May 23, 2006 at 10:00:54 AM EST
    Two great pieces about Gore... #1 - A Goregasm all about how he might win... New York Magazine #2 - A critique of his movie... Opinion Journal

    Re: Al Gore: The Hottest Star in Cannes (none / 0) (#8)
    by soccerdad on Tue May 23, 2006 at 10:11:12 AM EST
    Oh yeah the WSJ opinion Journal is going to give an unbiased view of climate change. Right. Most of the nonsense in the article has been repeatedly debunked. The corporate world, in general, doesn't give a crap about anything but profits the environment be damned. A notable exception is the head of Shell oil who believes in global warming.

    Re: Al Gore: The Hottest Star in Cannes (none / 0) (#9)
    by jondee on Tue May 23, 2006 at 10:34:42 AM EST
    "Is TL going to stand behind the science regarding global warming?" Its a hypothesis based on scientific data that thousands of scientists are "standing behind" enough to seriously investigate. If you've been involved in some cutting-edge research that has conclusivly disproved the hypothesis, perhaps you should share your methods and findings with the rest of us.

    Re: Al Gore: The Hottest Star in Cannes (none / 0) (#10)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Tue May 23, 2006 at 11:34:23 AM EST
    Jondee.... research that has conclusivly disproved the hypothesis, perhaps you should share your methods and findings with the rest of us. I think most people agree that the earth is warming...(it's gone up 1 degree the last 100 years or so) what is debatable is what's causing it. Warming & cooling is a cyclic thing and will happen regardless of who's occupying the planet. The earth was hot when formed...then cooled...then got hot again...etc.

    Re: Al Gore: The Hottest Star in Cannes (none / 0) (#11)
    by squeaky on Tue May 23, 2006 at 11:48:01 AM EST
    Must be gods work. Armageddon or Eden?

    Re: Al Gore: The Hottest Star in Cannes (none / 0) (#12)
    by Lww on Tue May 23, 2006 at 03:29:03 PM EST
    Al Gore, he learned from the best BS artist on the planet. When he said he remembered his mother holding him in her arms and singing " Just look for the union label", you just knew he was a lying sack of sh^t. He was a grown man when it was written. Personally I think the obesity problem in this country is responsible for most of the global warming. Ever been stuck in an elevator with a bunch of fat people?

    Re: Al Gore: The Hottest Star in Cannes (none / 0) (#13)
    by Dadler on Tue May 23, 2006 at 03:43:17 PM EST
    Slado, The heir to a chemical dysnasty trying to convince me he's an informed and objective and qualified critic of environmental documentaries, and thus environmental science...now THAT's loony. And if Gore makes a genuine energy revolution a major theme of his campaign, and withstands the slings and arrows and money that will line up against him, then I think he'll do fine. If he hiccups in the passion and committment department WHEN THE POLITICAL CHIPS ARE REALLY ON THE LINE, then he'll suffer. Of course this is all presuming that he is, indeed, running.

    Re: Al Gore: The Hottest Star in Cannes (none / 0) (#14)
    by squeaky on Tue May 23, 2006 at 04:43:17 PM EST
    Sterling Burnett is a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, an organization that has received over $390,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998. This afternoon on Fox, Burnett compared watching Al Gore's movie, An Inconvenient Truth, to watching a movie by Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels to learn about Nazi Germany.
    Environmentalism = Fascism...Wow. Only Rove/Goebblels could pull that one off. link

    Re: Al Gore: The Hottest Star in Cannes (none / 0) (#15)
    by jimakaPPJ on Wed May 24, 2006 at 08:15:13 AM EST
    Squeaky - Ya gotta love Algore's talking the talk. Too bad he doesn't walk the walk. GLOBAL WARMING ALERT: GORE BURNS 439,500 LBS OF FUEL TO ATTEND SUMMIT

    Re: Al Gore: The Hottest Star in Cannes (none / 0) (#16)
    by Peaches on Wed May 24, 2006 at 08:45:48 AM EST
    From the nytimes

    Re: Al Gore: The Hottest Star in Cannes (none / 0) (#17)
    by Peaches on Wed May 24, 2006 at 09:28:04 AM EST
    From the review
    Appearances to the contrary, Mr. Guggenheim's movie is not really about Al Gore. It consists mainly of a multimedia presentation on climate change that Mr. Gore has given many times over the last few years, interspersed with interviews and Mr. Gore's voice-over reflections on his life in and out of politics. His presence is, in some ways, a distraction, since it guarantees that "An Inconvenient Truth" will become fodder for the cynical, ideologically facile sniping that often passes for political discourse these days. But really, the idea that worrying about the effect of carbon-dioxide emissions on the world's climate makes you some kind of liberal kook is as tired as the image of Mr. Gore as a stiff, humorless speaker, someone to make fun of rather than take seriously.
    I also read this this morning about infectious diseases spreading north to Alaska from a bacteria found in Oysters. Interesting interview with the doctor.

    Re: Al Gore: The Hottest Star in Cannes (none / 0) (#18)
    by squeaky on Wed May 24, 2006 at 10:28:19 AM EST
    Here is something surprising:
    At a speech at the American Enterprise Institute on Monday, the White House Council on Environmental Quality Chairman Jim Connaughton distanced himself from his boss and advised the audience to go watch Gore's film. According to E&E News (sub. req'd):
    Connaughton said:
    Gore's Film Gives The 'Same Advice I've Been Giving For Years'
    think progress

    Re: Al Gore: The Hottest Star in Cannes (none / 0) (#19)
    by jimakaPPJ on Wed May 24, 2006 at 11:40:09 AM EST
    Squeaky - So Gore and Connaughton are wrong. Every seen two people wrong before?

    Re: Al Gore: The Hottest Star in Cannes (none / 0) (#20)
    by soccerdad on Wed May 24, 2006 at 11:45:23 AM EST
    Every seen two people wrong before?
    I'm too busy observing you be wrong here about everything thereby disproving the old adage "even a blind squirrel finds an acorn"

    Al Gore: The Hottest Star in Cannes | 19 comments (19 topical)