Bob Richter: Gore sure didn't want coverage, but here's why he's getting it

San Antonio Express-News ^ | 05/05/2007

[AmericanMade1776]

Al Gore's speech Saturday at the American Institute of Architects convention was closed to the media, but you can read about it in today's Express-News on Page 1B. How we cracked the former vice president's iron curtain is a mildly entertaining story, but more on that later. The why we crashed the speech is more important. Here is Express-News Editor Robert Rivard's reasoning in asking the paper's environmental reporter, Anton Caputo, to find a way to infiltrate the AIA confab:

"Al Gore and his crusade to raise awareness about global warming and climate change are issues of great public interest, and while he has the right to address the visiting architects behind closed doors, we have an obligation to make every effort to report on his speech to a wider audience.

"We take climate issues seriously at our newspaper and, frankly, it's odd that he is adamant about shutting out the press."

[AmericanMade1776]

So here's what happened: Our intrepid reporter, Caputo, went over to the convention center Thursday, registered under his own name and address as an "expo only" attendee and got a pass that gave him access to the speech. Then he covered it and wrote about it. It was that easy.

Purists might contend that was unethical. To me, it was like crashing a Ku Klux Klan rally.http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA050607.03B.richter.2e871d4.html

[tioga]

it was like crashing a Ku Klux Klan rally. Gore didn't want coverage. We think he deserved it.

LOL........sneaking into gore's speed was like crashing a Ku Klux Klan rally........ROTFLMAO!!!!!

[tioga]

speed=speech

[3AngelaD]

The “inconvenient truth” is that Gore has degenerated into a total whackjob who goes around the country making statements that are false, misleading, scientifically inaccurate and likely to be publicly challenged. He and his minders don’t want too many people to find that out. Congrats to Caputo for crashing and reporting on this loon-fest.

[AmericanMade1776]

yeah... Al Gore was trying to hide something, maybe he was trying to hide the fact he is still a great Big Bore.

[Mobile Vulgus]

this report is a complete joke. It nothing but pure idolization with NO substance at all.

Proof once more that the Globaloney myth is a religion for its believers and has NOTHING to do with science.

[1066AD]

Report on speech itself.

[AmericanMade1776]

From the article you posted: Gore also called for a business pollution tax that would be used to offset or eliminate employment and payroll taxes and for the creation of a federal mortgage institution that would help offset the cost of building environmentally friendly homes.

Create a TAX Gore... yes that will solve everything.(sarcasm)

[AngryJawa]

The “inconvenient truth” is that Gore has degenerated into a total whackjob

I don't think he's a total whackjob.

He's a minor league whacko and a big-time scam artist.

He's creating a very lucrative business for himself and his cohorts at Lehman Brothers by scaring the hell out of the non-skeptical sheep.

He's also a hypocryte, but that's to be expected of a swindler.

[Izzy Dunne]

a perfect opportunity for Gore to burnish his self-image as a deep thinker

Burnishing one's SELF-image... Ouch.

[Dick Bachert]

Sadly for the attendees, Gore suffered from a problem that has plagued him for most of his adult life when NOT speaking to a room full of cameras, and was unable to deliver his speech. (See clandestine photo below.)

While the EXACT cause is not known, medical researchers at Vanderbilt University speculate that Al's Descronificator Drive has suffered oxidation damage by being subjected to the warm, moist atmosphere during his increasingly frequent and lengthy "cranial-anal inversions."

Not to worry: Here you'll find an excerpt of Al's vital message during an earlier presentation with a little bonus from Hillary at the end of this short clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_qeWnS7Eig

[Izzy Dunne]

From the article about the speech itself:

Global warming is the heating of the Earth caused in large part by man-made emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

Just the facts, ma'am.

[Izzy Dunne]

On the request of Gore's media handlers, Saturday's event was closed to the media. Because of the importance of the issue and Gore's status, the San Antonio Express-News chose to cover it anyway.

Methinks that was exactly the plan.

[cake_crumb]

All this writer does is worship on the alter of Al’s alarmist achievements. There’s nothing about what he said in the speech, nothing but orgasmic gushing about why it’s so important to get Al’s Word out. The only half decent line was that it was like crashing a KKK meeting, but the author doesn’t tell us WHY it was like craching a KKK meeting.

[DManA]

Totally useless story. What did he say?

[3AngelaD]

I agree with you on the shyster part, except that I actually saw him speak and he has the true whackjob glint in his eye. That, combined with his natural pomposity, is truly something to behold. There is no rule that says hypocritical whackjob swindlers can’t get rich in the process. Sucker born every minute alert.

[HawaiianGecko]

Where's the story in this story?

[weegee]

...except that I actually saw him speak and he has the true whackjob glint in his eye.

Are you saying he has the "crazy eyes" stare?

[thebaron512]

This story hurts my brain this early in the morning to read about them sucking on Gore’s “wang”.

[hermgem]

Of interest:
Ordinary people worry about their children or grandchildren when it comes to global warming.
When it comes to not gutting Social Security, Medicare those very same parents and grandparents come up with justifications:
It lasts while I’m still alive while disregarding their obsession of stripping those younger ones that do the laboring, and leave nothing while refusing to listen to needed reforms.
Self centered ordinary people???