“Al Gore is waging a fierce campaign for recognition and an Oscar statuette for his global warning documentary, while reviving talk that he’s pursuing a bigger prize: the presidency,” Beth Fouhy reports for Forbes.
“This Saturday Gore is hosting a network of 1,600 house parties across the country to watch and discuss his documentary, ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ with the Democrat planning to address the gatherings by satellite hookup. The movie is on the short list of feature-length documentaries being considered for Oscar nominations,” Fouhy reports. “The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announce the Oscar nominations Jan. 23, with the 79th Oscars slated for Feb. 25.”
“‘I am not planning to run for president again,’ Gore said last week, arguing that his focus is raising public awareness about global warming and its dire effects. Then, he added: ‘I haven’t completely ruled it out,'” Fouhy reports. “Those words make Gore the 800-pound non-candidate of the Democratic field.”
Full article here.
Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth,” the highest-grossing documentary of the year, features copious use of Apple’s Keynote presentation software, even while many reviewers of the film incorrectly describe it as a “PowerPoint” presentation.
Apple’s Keynote use in “An Inconvenient Truth” here: http://www.apple.com/hotnews/articles/2006/05/inconvenienttruth/
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“Those words make Gore the 800-pound non-candidate of the Democratic field.”
That’s right — non-candidate.
Talking about the enviroment
i´m very shocked about the fact that my favorite brand apple
is not as green as it should be.
steve and co go check out the C2C concept and start rocking the Cradle.
Let the fun begin!
Board member Al Gore.
How embarrassing.
Imagine what life would be like now if Gore’s election to the presidency had not been subverted. Large and growing national fiscal surplus, strong economy, PEACE, international support, a million Iraqis still alive, and on and on. Good thing it didn’t happen.
This is a pretty sorry excuse for a Mac Daily News article though. Do we have to read about everybody who uses Keynote? There are MILLIONS of us.
President George the Chimp (TM).
How embarrassing.
what – no gore bashing from mdn? i’m shocked!
You’re forgetting:
a country overrun with illegals
loss of national identity
complete loss of family values
no security from future terrorist attacks
unemployment rate over 10%
Crap documentary based on flawed science plus facts discredited by real experts in most disciplines.
Not a candidate ? A wannabe president who should be at home doing to his wife what he’s doing to academic respectability
Chimp, or Missing Link – who knows??
macca-
No need. (Unless, perhaps YOU are MDN trolling for hits?)
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No, any moment now, we’ll see the right-wing geniuses start with the crap-
“…commies…libs… terrorists… scary…creepy….”
-then, some dipshit will actually refer to Rush LimpBalls (TM), even though he, for the majority of his “career”, has been WASTED!
“…Here is what the record to date shows: Mr. Limbaugh’s housekeeper, Wilma Cline, approached Florida media and Florida authorities to reveal that she had acted as Rush Limbaugh’s drug buyer for years, purchasing “more than 30,000 hydrocodone, Lorcet and OcyContin pills,” and she reports he “took as many as 30 OxyContin pills a day.”**** Florida authorities then began investigating, and Ms. Cline’s allegations have apparently proved solid, certainly solid enough for the State of Florida to take action…”
How can you possibly quote him? HE_IS_HIGH! 30 a day? THIRTY!
Now, if the gerry-mandering bullshit and criminal activities of the republican party (disallowing ex-con voters in FL) and rigged diebold machines hadn’t been a factor, we’d have a statesman-like, concientious (sorry ’bout the big words, right-wing goobers) President, and WOU;DN’T BE IN THE FUCKING MESS WE ARE IN (our invasion of Iraq).
(now some dipshit’s going to post “we’re fighting them over there, so we don’t have to fight them over here”.
Really? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAA!
WHO’S coming here to fight? The Shiite and Sunni?
$8 billion a month. WHAT THE FUCK.
Has anyone actaully scene the movie, does it show keynote being used??
Gore everywhere-and more gore.
Newt for Prez.
Green Apples, a.k.a “Granny Smith”.
BTW, stop with the Green Peace propaganda. Apples are green and always have been despite what the GPers say, Apple doesn’t make CRT monitors, they were one of the first to drop those super polluters. They embraced Energy Saver™ guidelines loooooooong ago. They come in one box not several like PCs. They last longer and have a higer resale value, and don’t get trashed as often, or ever.
Love the shots of the MacBook Pro (PowerBook?) running Keynote that shows prominently in “an Inconvenient Truth”
Imagine if Gore had become POTUS where would environmental issues be in the agenda, perhaps Kyoto would have been ratified with a US signature?
Sung to the theme from “The Beverly Hillbillies”
Come and listen to my story ’bout a boy name Bush.
His IQ was zero and his head was up his tush.
He drank like a fish while he drove all about.
But that didn’t matter ‘cuz his daddy bailed him out.
DUI, that is. Criminal record. Cover-up.
Well, the first thing you know little Georgie goes to Yale.
He can’t spell his name but they never let him fail.
He spends all his time hangin’ out with student folk.
And that’s when he learns how to snort a line of coke.
Blow, that is. White gold. Nose candy.
The next thing you know there’s a war in Vietnam.
Kin folks say, “George, stay at home with Mom.”
Let the common people get maimed and scarred.
We’ll buy you a spot in the Texas Air Guard.
Cushy, that is. Country clubs. Nose candy.
Twenty years later George gets a little bored.
He trades in the booze, says that Jesus is his Lord.
He said, “Now the White House is the place I wanna be.”
So he called his daddy’s friends and they called the GOP.
Gun owners, that is. Falwell. Jesse Helms.
Come November 7, the election ran late.
Kin folks said “Jeb, give the boy your state!”
“Don’t let those colored folks get into the polls.”
So they put up barricades so they couldn’t punch their holes.
Chads, that is. Duval County. Miami-Dade.
Before the votes were counted five Supremes stepped in.
Told all the voters “Hey, we want George to win.”
“Stop counting votes!” was their solemn invocation.
And that’s how George finally got his coronation.
Rigged, that is. Illegitimate. No moral authority.
Y’all come vote now. Ya hear?
Al Gore lost his home state!!!
Um, people are dissing Al Gore? The guy who’s election to President was stolen by the corrupt GOP? I don’t understand this at all. At least Gore can hold a meaningful conversation, conjugate his verbs, etc. He would be more than just “the decider” – a lot more.
Al Gore for POTUS-
I agree. GreenPeace really shot themselves in the foot. there.
@ macolyte-
You say:
“…Crap documentary based on flawed science plus facts discredited by real experts in most disciplines…”
Examples, please. That sounds like something stupid you hear on Faux “news” InfoTainment (TM).
Typical horseshit from a RePUBICan.
@Bob
Yes, in fact there are several shots of Gore on an aircraft building his Keynote presentation!
@macolyte
“Crap documentary based on flawed science plus facts discredited by real experts in most disciplines.”
Yeah right! If you had seen the documentary, the information is presented in the clearest most succinct way imaginable! It’s hard to refute historical images of glaciers and the present day images. It’s hard to ignore the breakup of the Antarctic Shelf or the melting of Greenland and deny the implications. Or the drowning of Polar Bears due to lack of ice floes. Or the evaporation of Lake Chad, or the Aral Sea.
But go ahead and try, Ostriches don’t actually stick their head in the sand, but humans have an unparalleled ability to deny the empirical evidence that is right in front of their noses. Go ahead continue to be part of the problem and don’t even try to be part of the solution.
Go ahead and continue to buy your overpriced gas guzzling Hummers and SUVs, take us to the tipping point where its too late to do anything, except move in from the coast as the oceans rise 20 feet. What’s the point – either it isn’t going to happen, or it’s too late to stop it.
The UN is even backing down from the hysteria.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/12/10/nclimate10.xml
or… “cows worse than cars”
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article2062484.ece
Or in older news, the solar warming cycle (news I didn’t keep the link on).
Or all the other stuff that the media chooses NOT to make a big deal of.
Google it, and get both sides for a change. Don’t be sucked in by the political far left. (and the media that will say anything to sell another ad)
Global Warming and Global Dimming are far more serious than most people know, including too many scientists. I see Climate Change in action and it is happening fast, very fast.
In my view, it is the #1 most serious issue we have.
I will be ignoring disagreements with candidates or parties on other issues and voting only for the candidate who will be seriously and quickly addressing this issue.
Yeah, he’ll be campaigning for an Oscar – but first, he’s helping Lindsey Lohan to find her panties.
Personally I don’t give a crap about politics, partisan or otherwise, this is an issue that transcends all that petty crap. What’s at stake is the future of humanity and life on this planet, all of it!
I imagine that even if we manage destroy ourselves the planet will eventually return to homeostasis … at least I hope so.
MW = river
Would that be “cry me a river” ?
To those who disagree with the concept of global warming, can it not be argued that it still is indefensable to spew waste into the oceans, soil and atmosphere?
Doesn’t that just SEEM right?