Ingraham uses doctored video to smear Gore
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SUMMARY: O'Reilly Factor guest host Laura Ingraham presented clips of Al Gore's recent congressional testimony that had been edited to remove his statements that he donates the money he makes from his climate-related work to a non-profit organization.
On the May 1 edition of The O'Reilly Factor, during a segment suggesting that former Vice President Al Gore has profited from his advocacy of renewable energy and climate change mitigation, guest host Laura Ingraham presented clips of Gore's April 24 congressional testimony that had been edited to remove his statements that he donates the money he makes from his climate-related work to a non-profit organization.
Introducing the segment, Ingraham stated: "It seems that being green does pay big time -- just ask Al Gore. Mr. Global Warming was worth about $2 million or so when he left office in 2001, but after eight years of tirelessly working to save the world, the planet, he's now reportedly -- get this -- worth a whopping $100 million. His financial windfall came up at last week's Capitol Hill hearing." Ingraham then aired the following selectively edited clips from Gore's testimony:
REP. MARSHA BLACKBURN (R-TN): Is the legislation that we are discussing here today, is that something that you are going to personally benefit from?
[Ingraham's cut]
GORE: If you believe that the reason I have been working on this issue for 30 years is because of greed, you don't know me.
[Ingraham's cut]
GORE: I've been willing to put my money where my mouth is. Do you think there's something wrong with being active in business in this country?
BLACKBURN: I am simply asking for clarification --
GORE: I'm proud of it.
BLACKBURN: -- of the relationship.
GORE: I'm proud of it.
The full exchange from the hearing is included below, with the parts Ingraham provided in italics, and Gore's relevant responses -- which were omitted from the O'Reilly Factor segment -- in bold:
BLACKBURN: So you're a partner in Kleiner Perkins. OK. Now, they have invested about a billion dollars in 40 companies that are going to benefit from cap-and-trade legislation. So is the legislation that we are discussing here today, is that something that you are going to personally benefit from?
GORE: I believe that the transition to a green economy is good for our economy and good for all of us, and I have invested in it. But every penny that I have made, I have put right into a nonprofit, the Alliance for Climate Protection, to spread awareness of why we have to take on this challenge.
And Congresswoman, if you're -- if you believe that the reason I have been working on this issue for 30 years is because of greed, you don't know me.
BLACKBURN: Sir, I'm not making accusations, I'm asking questions that have been asked of me and individuals -- constituents that were seeking a point of clarity, so I am asking you for that point of -- point of clarity.
GORE: I understand exactly what you're doing, Congresswoman. Everybody here does.
BLACKBURN: And, well -- you know, are you willing to divest yourself of any profit? Does all of it go to a not-for-profit that is an educational not-for-profit --
GORE: Every penny that I have made --
BLACKBURN: Every penny --
GORE: -- has gone to it. Every penny from the movie, from the book, from any investments in renewable energy. I've been willing to put my money where my mouth is. Do you think there's something wrong with being active in business in this country?
BLACKBURN: I am simply asking for clarification --
GORE: I'm proud of it.
BLACKBURN: -- of the relationship.
GORE: I'm proud of it.
From the May 1 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:
INGRAHAM: It seems that being green does pay big time -- just ask Al Gore. Mr. Global Warming was worth about $2 million or so when he left office in 2001, but after eight years of tirelessly working to save the world, the planet, he's now reportedly -- get this -- worth a whopping $100 million. His financial windfall came up at last week's Capitol Hill hearing.
[begin video clip]
BLACKBURN: Is the legislation that we are discussing here today, is that something that you are going to personally benefit from?
[Ingraham's cut]
GORE: If you believe that the reason I have been working on this issue for 30 years is because of greed, you don't know me.
[Ingraham's cut]
GORE: I've been willing to put my money where my mouth is. Do you think there's something wrong with being active in business in this country?
BLACKBURN: I am simply asking for clarification --
GORE: I'm proud of it.
BLACKBURN: -- of the relationship.
GORE: I'm proud of it.
[end video clip]
INGRAHAM: Did she get the question actually answered? With us now Marc Morano, who's the executive editor of ClimateDepot.com. Marc, that was kind of a hot hearing with Al Gore and the congresswoman. And tell us what we need to know about Al Gore's relationship to a business that will seek to profit off of any kind of cap-and-trade legislation.
MORANO: Well, as you mentioned, Al Gore went from $2 million to $100 million, according to Bloomberg --
INGRAHAM: He did a lot of things, though, speaking --
MORANO: --speaking, other investments, yeah, absolutely, yes. And I think it's -- I also think Al Gore is motivated beyond money. I mean, he is an ideologue, he is a committed believer, so it's not fair to say he's doing it all for the money.
INGRAHAM: Sure.
MORANO: But this is big business in Washington. There's four lobbyists, four climate lobbyists for every member of Congress. That's how bad it's gotten. But Al Gore -- she mentioned the law firm Kleiner and Perkins -- Al Gore is a partner in that firm, which vested a billion dollars in 40 different firms. Now, when government mandates come down the road, this is going to increase these companies' business and portfolio, and the amount of profit Al Gore, according to [Harvard University atmospheric physicist and global warming skeptic] Dick Lindzen, one of his scientists from MIT who Al Gore has criticized -- Al Gore wants to become the first carbon billionaire, and he's poised to do it. He has the Alliance for Climate Protection, he has his other groups in the UK Generation Investment Management. Both of these groups -- one of them's pledged to spend $300 million to promote climate fears, promote government policy that's going to force carbon markets, carbon trading, where Al Gore has essentially either founded or partnered in a whole wide range of groups, including in Chicago and the UK stock market climate -- carbon trading where he is set poised to benefit incredibly. As much as he's made now is gonna be pikerly --
INGRAHAM: Wow.
MORANO: -- what he's gonna make in five years if all these new carbon trading mandates go --
I'm very happy that Laura Ingraham is up here; I listen to her on the two days I drive home in the morning on the weekday, and I can't believe some of the things she throws out there. She's nearly as bad as Hannity and miles worse than O'Reilly IMO.
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=al+gore+worth&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=al+gore+worth&fp=OlAWEoQSgPM
Or that he's worth far, far less than McCain or the Bushes.
You do know that he has other income streams, by the way, and would make a lot more money if he weren't so heavily involved in this topic.
Oh, come on. For people who can put words in Gore's mouth (see here, here, and here), taking words out of it is a very easy trick.
Sure, but what about the part of his argument she left in? Would she or any GOP have grilled a fossil fuels investor who stood to gain from the Bush Administration energy policy? I mean, if those hearings had been conducted in public...
They can't get over it. Elephants never forget, remember?
Maybe, but elephants really don't have a lot to remember.
I think people like Ingraham are incapable of seeing a motivation beyond money. The fact that Gore is intelligent and CARES about the environment and our future is totally lost on these idiots.
I think Gore only CARES about making money. Does anyone else (besides me) notice that the Alliance for Climate Protection is a non-profit that Al Gore is the Chairman of the Board? Also he is Chairman of Generation Investment Management
Umm, the arguement is that Gore gives all the money to a non-profit organization, but that was not mentioned by the beautiful Laura Ingraham. I think it would have served her purpose better if she had left it in, because that non-profit organization is controlled by Al Gore. So, Al Gore pays all his profits to Al Gore. And, you wanted that known??
She cropped the video to make him look like a liar. Does that not bother you? Maybe you could do some research into how much he draws from the non-profit, meanwhile, here is my cropping of your post (since its ok to do in your mind):
"Gore gives all the money to a non-profit organization but that was not mentioned by the beautiful Laura Ingraham. I think it would have served her purpose better if she had left it in."
See, in Fox world, you now agree with us.
After reading that beatdown, I'm sure Floyd will feel like the 13 yr old boy whose mother walks in on him after he has been in the bathroom for 45 minutes.
As far as I'm concerned in this particular National Policy issue, anything and everything about former VP Al Gore, including his net worth, is completely immaterial and irrelevant.
I'm all for the Federal regulation of TAILPIPE EMISSIONS and other SMOKESTACK EMISSIONS, and all for any State's regulations also, whenever they might exceed Federal regulations (as California would like to do), because those EMISSIONS are a serious health hazard, and therefore their regulation becomes a part of our National (and State's) Policy, under the heading of Public Health and Safety (a very important heading indeed).
And so anything and everything about former VP Gore, whether true or untrue, slanderous or not, about his personal wealth or anything else, is immaterial and irrelevant to me, and just falls on my deaf ears.
I don't play the celebrity game, or belong to the cult of personality, when it comes to National and Public Policy at any level, particularly in the important matters of EMISSIONS, and especially in all things concerning Public Health and Safety.
I discourage you all too, from the celebrity game and from the cult of personality, in these very serious matters of National and Public Policy.
Good point. The corporate media loves to either admire or take potshots at the celebrity and obscure the message. However, it is important to me that Al Gore has been demonized by the press, because he's a decent man.
Congrats to Laura.
Another blonde ditz gets hired at the Fox Noise Channel.
Who could have predicted THAT?
Of course the Mata Hari of news will scream "OUT OF CONTEXT" at MMFA. There is one way to remedy that. Send an O'Reilly stalker producer to follow her around and take copious notes of her every move. Is that enough context for ya, Mata?
Randy
Another clip and paste from Fox. What else is new? Unfortuante that people watch and believe this stuff. Dumbing down of America
That's what FOX does - If it doesn't fit the prepared theme they just make it up.
"That's what FOX does - If it doesn't fit the prepared theme they just make it up."
It's only because FoxNoise is --> LEGALLY <-- allowed to lie...
They have the bulk of the 70+ audience--you know, the ones who remember a US which never was, and never will be.
Laura Ingraham is another right wing lunatic who, like Ann Coulter, is very well educated. How can an educated woman like Ingraham believe half of the right wing sewage she spews? How can she not know that doctoring Al Gore's comments is wrong? How can a woman who is reportedly a convert to Catholicism exemplify such downright meanness? Laura Ingraham strikes me as a miserable person whose life is devoted to spreading her own unhappiness.
To people like Ingraham:
1. If you are rich, it means you are smart
2. If you are rich, it means you've successfully put something over on the silly sheep out there who are not as smart as you are (if THEY were smart, they'd be rich, too.)
3. Since Gore has made a lot of money over the last decade talking about climate change, he must be a smart fraud, just like Ingraham, Hannity, etc. There's simply no other explanation.
The world is made up of two types of people- successful, smart con artists who use their brains to manipulate people out of their money, and the stupid sheep who listen to them and keep them rich. It's as simple as that- there's no room for sincerity, honesty, earnestness. There are no legitimate values beyond "what will make me rich?"
So when Ingraham, Hannity, etc. look at a Bill Clinton, or a Hillary Clinton, or an Al Gore, they see THEMSELVES- these people must all be pitchmen for a phony cause or causes, and it's all about lining their wallets.
Oh, and the people MOST deserving of labels like "loopy" and "weirdo" and "loon?" People like Dennis Kucinich and Al Gore, who have not become wealthy through their championship of their causes. To people like Ingraham, they are BEYOND weird. What's the point of claiming to believe in something if you can't cash in on it?
I think you nailed it.
You've forgotten the belief that rich people have worked harder than everyone else. Rich people have all sacrificed and pulled themselves up out of poverty.
It's fascinating to listen to people claim they started with nothing, yet borrowed thousands of dollars from mom and dad to start their first business. I'd love to have had parents who weren't living paycheck to paycheck.
Your are right in that Al Gore must be lying. He's saying something that's inconvenient (sorry).
You're right. Also, people who work hard and don't make a lot of money- Community Organizers, Teachers, etc- are stupid suckers who only do what they do because they aren't smart enough to do something that pays BIG money. Nobody would WILLINGLY do a job that doesn't pay out in big bucks, after all.
And in their paranoid fantasies, these idiots KNOW that they don't actually EARN their money, which is why they are constantly whining that someone's trying to take it away from them. It's as if they know that someday, the jig will be up.
His "conservatism" is just another role he plays.
Oh, by the way, he has a social life with a number of Supreme Court justices to some of whom he has introduced me.
Oh yes, the illustrious Christopher Monckton, who has already been critiqued in earlier threads, but here's another go:
"Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, whose academic qualification is a classics degree, maintains that "politicians, scientists and bureaucrats contrived a threat of Biblical floods, droughts, plagues, and extinctions worthier of St John the Divine than of science." He came to public notice with a long paper published on the website of the Sunday Telegraph, accusing the UN of scientific fraud. His paper was filled with sciencey equations and calculations, which were rapidly dismissed as bunkum by real scientists."
"The judge said it might be necessary for the Department of Children, Schools and Families to make clear to teaching staff that some of Mr Gore’s views were not supported or promoted by the Government, and there was “a view to the contrary”.
He said he had viewed the film and described it as “a powerful, dramatically presented and highly professionally produced film”.
When the judge indicated last week what his findings were likely to be, Children’s Minister and Cardiff West MP Kevin Brennan said, “The judge’s decision is clear, that schools can continue to use An Inconvenient Truth as part of their teaching on climate change in accordance with the amended guidance. We have updated the accompanying guidance, as requested by the judge, to make it clearer for teachers as to the stated IPCC position on a number of scientific points raised in the film.
“However, it is important to be clear that the central arguments put forward in An Inconvenient Truth, that climate change is mainly caused by man-made emissions of greenhouse gases and will have serious adverse consequences, are supported by the vast weight of scientific opinion.
“Nothing in the judge’s comments today detract from that.”
She may have attended and graduated from an Ivy League school, but, like George W Bush, she didn't come away educated.
If INGRAHAM is well educated, she certanly dosent show it on radio or tv.
Catholocism? *LOL* Yeah, like Newt Gingrich converted to Catholicism after his third marriage...and Clarence Thomas, and...
It's convenient today, and appeals to the lunatic fringe, anti-abortion plank.
You are assuming that she can make the connection between the two....and judging from everything else she has said, there are TWO sets of rules. One for the smart, sensitive people in the world, and one for the Democrats. She is a joke.
Extricating pertinant comments is disgraceful. It was evident in the O'Riley video that it had been cliped. It was not as though the audience was led to believe it was contiguous, but still shameful to remove pertinant testimony. The news clip sound bite has led our media services to pick and choose which phrases suit their purpose--not only for comentators, but for "hard news" anchors as well. In any case, expecting to see the whole story told by any single source seems more and more an exercise in futility. Just the facts, please...all the facts all the time.
remember a few weeks ago when fox doctored that biden clip from last september, where biden was criticizing mccain for saying the economy was strong and they made it look like it was something biden had just said. lot of doctoring going on at fox. they must all have medical licenses.
That's what I was thinking of when I read this item; that doctored clip of Biden . . .
I guess that, for the Fox Comedy Channel, when all other forms of smear -- "some people say", guilt-by-association, etc. -- lose their effectiveness, doctoring clips/audio is the next logical step . . .
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As a poster said on another site, The plural of "anecdote" is not "data."
Here's a clip from Al Franken - in his pre-senate career on AAR/Sundance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5crhZAAlXME
BillO took a segment of Biden from Stephonopolis' show, EDITED OUT Biden's solution (for a commission to determine the best way to close Gitmo) then stated Biden's idea AS HIS OWN!
Franken did a really NICE job on this, showing side by side clips, and pausing BillO's version, while playing the uncut one.
Yet another reason Orally refuses to mention Franken's name (calls him Stuart Smalley, instead) There's that Harvard Law smarts, applied to forencics...
As Bill Maher said a few weeks back: Coleman needs to look in a mirror, and repeat "I'm not good enough. I'm not smart enough. And doggoneit people don't like me"
Meanwhile, John Cornyn says Coleman should run the full gamut of FEDERAL courts, as well - hopefully taking a couple of years... Has there EVER been a house/senate result delayed this long?
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Al Gore is the man who spoke out publicly in speech and article of the perils, and foly of Republican policies like the Patiot Act, Iraqi War Resolution, and the far reaching criminality of the Bush/Cheney Admin. only to be branded a Kook, an eco-terrorist, and worst by Republican Senators, Congressman, Vice President, and even President and yet look where we are!
Who do you need to follow when the trail comes down to survival? When it comes to me, and mine, we'll be standing with Mr. Gore.
Happy Thoughts;
Dan Grady
Well said, Dan.
Outstanding Dan!!! Nice to see you on here posting again ;-)
Unfortunatly, INGRAHAM is still on the radio in my aera,( DALLAS-FORT WORTH).
fox news is just bad...
Let's face facts, there is no conclusive evidence of global warming. In fact over the past decade, global temperatures has dropped. There at *least* deserves to be an open, clear scientific debate in the public forum to determine what evidence is known and what's unknown, before we all spend a LOT of money on things like cap and trade.
Putting massive amounts of our money into relabeling CO2 (a necessary molecule) as a pollutant, and trying to control it, when even the most optimistic estimates of our ability to control it simply delay the next century's output by a few years, should not be undertaken lightly, or in an uninformed way.
Undertaking an effort like this for political goals is a travesty.
You're absolutely wrong. For starters, look here:
• NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS): http://www.giss.nasa.gov/edu/gwdebate/
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/globalwarming.html
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/index.htm
• National Academy of Sciences (NAS): http://books.nap.edu/collections/global_warming/index.html
• State of the Canadian Cryosphere (SOCC) - http://www.socc.ca/permafrost/permafrost_future_e.cfm
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): http://epa.gov/climatechange/index.html
• The Royal Society of the UK (RS) - http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?id=3135
• American Geophysical Union (AGU): http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/policy/climate_change_position.html
• American Meteorological Society (AMS): http://www.ametsoc.org/policy/climatechangeresearch_2003.html
• American Institute of Physics (AIP): http://www.aip.org/gov/policy12.html
• National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR): http://eo.ucar.edu/basics/cc_1.html
• American Meteorological Society (AMS): http://www.ametsoc.org/policy/jointacademies.html
• Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS): http://www.cmos.ca/climatechangepole.html
Al Gore has made plenty of money promoting his global climate topics...of which he makes no reference...outside of the "investments" he spoke about.
He gets $100,000+ for a lecture on climate change...where does that money go?
For all of those that cry foul concerning research supported by oil companies as invalid because they have an agenda...the same must apply to Gore. Ergo...no global warming...no speaking fees.
Gore also failed to answer what would happen to his "investments" in the future...he only made reference to past financial dealings.
But for most of us here, we'd like to notice the bigger picture and not be in denial about climate change.
Pfft, big picture indeed! You want to talk big talk instead of small talk. That's so obviously boring. I mean you talk as if the earth is in trouble or some such nonesense. What is your point, you silly girl?
It's as if they love breathing in the smog when they wake up in the morning. "Yup, smells like $$$$$$$$$$$$$$! *Cough, cough*"
And your point? As to the lecture circuit, so what? Elie Wiesel charges that for talking how vicimized he is! Newt Gingrich charges more for saying nothing.
In short, lots of money make money for their presentations/subjects. That doesn't make the subjects invalid.
Yeah, your logic is real Vulcan. He makes money, therefore the cause must be bogus?
As to your last sentence, again, irrelevent, particularly in view of the fact that the tape was doctored.
Shocker... Snake Oil Salesman & Junk Scientist Lied to Congress
"GORE: -- Every penny from the movie, from the book, from any investments in renewable energy. I've been willing to put my money where my mouth is. Do you think there's something wrong with being active in business in this country?
Score 1 for Ingram
Score minus 1 for MMFA
Board of Directors
Al Gore
Chairman of the Board, Alliance for Climate Protection
Chairman, Generation Investment Management
So I would love to know how a man that was worth only 2 million is now worth 100 million on only 9 short years. I would like to know what his salary as BoD currently pays him. So you are saying that he has not profited from the bogus Global Warming Message? FYI, it has not been proven that both northern and southern ice shelves have expanded to beyond the 1979 levels. Check with University of Colorado and the National Snow and Ice Center’s website. http://nsidc.org/index.html
On Thin Ice - Already struggling with pollutions, oil drilling and other threats, can polar bears survive global warming's devastating effects?
Grizzlies Invade Polar Bear Turf - As the thermostat rises, grizzly bears are slowly expanding their range into the higher Arctic, leaving scientists wondering about the ecological impacts of the new arrivals.
Tales of the Great White Bear - Get a scientist talking about polar bears, and you will hear hair-raising stories along with an assessment of the creatures' uncertain future.
The Incredible Shrinking Polar Bears - In Canada’s Hudson Bay, a long-term study confirms they are losing weight and bearing fewer cubs as global warming melts away their icy habitat. Is this a preview of what other populations of polar bears will soon be facing?
"The melting of the Arctic will not only affect animals like polar bears and humans that rely on the ice but weather patterns around the world because of the atmospheric changes the change in air and sea temperature triggers. It can also cause a phenomenon known as "positive feedback" where the white ice reflecting the heat of the sun is replaced by dark water absorbing the energy, therefore causing more ice to melt and the expanse of water to increase."
Look, the reality is that oil will not last forever and thus why were going to need alternative means of energy to fuel our future and look if we can avoid polluting our cities by investing in more hybrids and electrics, then what's wrong with that?
I mean, look at yourselves in the mirror here....you guys are defending the polluting industries like coal and oil and yet are attacking those who are investing their money in clean energy and transportation! If Al Gore made any profits from this, good for him! That's what capitalism is all about and on top of that, it's good for our environment.
But Fox News did air the clip earlier in the program of Gore claiming that "every penny" he earns goes to his non-profit.
See this video clip of The O'Reilly Factor's May 1, 2009 show introduction featuring Gore making the "every penny" statement. (Gore clip begins at 30 sec. mark)
In addition, as one report on Gore's finances noted: “So what if [Gore's] giving all his money to the [non-profit] Alliance for Climate Protection. He's the chair! He gets a tax write-off for donating that money, and then directs where the money goes.”