GorePing
Posted on 08/31/2007 5:00:16 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
Al Gore, a former U.S. vice-president and star of the global-warming warning movie An Inconvenient Truth, will be in Victoria next month.
Deirdre Campbell, of Tartan Public Relations, confirmed Gore will speak at the Victoria Conference Centre, on Saturday, Sept. 29. Tickets start at $199.
Campbell said Gore's appearance was arranged by three students from the University of Victoria who she declined to name.
She promised more details about the event in the near future.
Gore was vice president to Bill Clinton for two terms. He ran for president in 2000 but lost, in a controversial election, to George W. Bush.
He now devotes much of his time to lecturing about the dangers of global warming.
Victorian Brian Gordon took training from Gore to deliver warnings about climate change, and is looking forward to Gore's Victoria visit.
"Most people I present to, they're well aware we have a problem. They just want to know what we can do about it," said Gordon. Gore has solutions to offer.
Gore's standard fee is reported to be $175,000. Event organizers are seeking corporate donations to defray costs, as well as charging the $199-plus ticket fees.
"I suppose in a way I'd like him to do it for free," Gordon told CH News.
"But on the other hand I know that his fees do go back into the climate project ... The money is going to a good cause."
This disgusts me. What do you think the odds are that: "the money is going to a good cause"? Does anyone have more information about what Gore's hauling down from the global warming scam?
I'm not looking forward to this event, and all of the propaganda that will be filling the local papers and airwaves. My only consolation is that the suckers who attend the event will be lighter by at least $199.
Moo
He needs the money to pay his electric bills on his mansions.
Fodder for the dupes of the world. The flim-flam libs have a following and they actually PAY to listen to this swill....hook, line and sinker.
I hope the University is prepared for record-breaking cold on that day. It seems to follow him wherever he goes.
O.M.G.
At least the people being hosed are richly deserving.
I am glad Al will not be there at the same time!
I can think of a thousand ways to waste $199.00 better than this!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
That's truly amazing
Words fail me that anybody would actually PAY Al Gore that much money to hear his line of crap.
Even if you are a true believer you would have to be a complete moron to agree to pay him THAT MUCH dough
It might be worth it to see a creature that’s half man, half bear, AND half pig.
LOL...guru...that’s funny.
Naturally, he’ll be flying in by private jet & taking a limo to the venue. Also, naturally, he’ll be buying carbon offset credits to make the whole thing “carbon neutral”. Naturally, he’ll buy these credits from the company he has a part interest in. And, naturally, his fan-base will see nothing hypocritical in all of that — in fact, they’ll be more convinced than ever that he’s a green saint.
He has built his reputation on global warming, although I know he is talking climate change now instead of warming. I sincerely hope that eventually it will come clear to even moonbats that Gore built his castle in the sky and then moved into it. Or maybe I’m overestimating them.
By then, though, the “climate guru” will have thoroughly cashed in wherever possible and be looking for another scam on which to make money and garner attention. In some ways I consider people like this worse than those who snap and murder someone. This is cold, calculating and cynical to the extreme. I would not want to be this guy at the Judgment Day.
By the way, good luck with the rain or snow. Victoria is a beautiful place. I enjoyed a terrific camping trip on the Pacific Coast Trail many years ago.
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