Posted on 12/04/2009 6:20:26 AM PST by markomalley
Edited on 12/04/2009 6:30:41 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
But two Hollywood conservatives (yes, there are some) have called upon the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to rescind the prestigious, profitable gold Oscar statuette that it gave ex-Vice President Al Gore two years ago for the environmental movie "An Inconvenient Truth."
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PING!
Original Soundtrack by Milli Vanilli.
It’s a start.
Oh, I so hope he loses his shirt. Even with all he has, I picture him as a hobo trying to con someone out of a dollar for a 50 cent cup of coffee.
Has any Oscar been taken back? This just shows that the Academy, like global warming, like the Nobel Prize are all political issues not based on talent.
More like billions.
Won’t ever happen but it’s still good they are doing this. Maybe it will make up for the lack of coverage on the MSM and have people going “Huh? They want him to give back his Oscar? FAKED THE DATA? What?”
Oh, let him keep the Oscar.
Since algore INTENDED to do something.
Just like Obama and the Nobel Peace Price.
Whatever the specific reason, an Academy Award is award for great acting or putting on a convincing show. Of anybody, Al deserves one!
Whatever the specific reason, an Academy Award is award for great acting or putting on a convincing show. Of anybody, Al deserves one!
Does the Academy have an award for best political propaganda? If so, algore definitely earned that award and should keep his little trophy.
They’ll just change the category to whatever “Spinal Tap” would have fallen in.
Same genre.
At least “Spinal Tap” was funny...
This is a great move! Why? Most Americans probably don’t know about the UK High Court ruling that Gore’s contains serious “inaccuracies.” But they do pay attention to the Oscars...
I picture algore in prison.
If anything the Academy should simply re-award the Oscars for algore but in a different category, after all, they are rewarding the very best in fictional works.
Ah Ha! An inconvenient Oscar.
What did Gore know and when did he know it?
Speaking of Milli Vanilli .. hadn’t they just won a major music award when the ‘stuff’ hit the fan? Did they have to return the award?
IIRC, Gore’s Oscar was in the ‘documentary’ category; if in fact, as it appears, the entire AGW thing was a fraud, why wouldn’t the academy down the line have the right to demand its return.
Not that it’s gonna happen.
I’ll be watching the entertainment channels to see if they cover this. There was no lack of media adoration when he won the thing.
Irena Sendler wants her Nobel prize.
The world is returning back to normal. LOL the fat dork is coming undone.
Is it just me, or is Owl Gore trying to go for that John Gotti fat mobster look?
Climategate starting to get legs, for sure.
I say let him keep them...
In a place where the sun don’t shine! (Shove those up you lying, lib-tard a**, Al!)
Didn’t he also get a Nobel?
I suspect this aimed at the Academy, rather than at Gore’s ill-gotten Oscar (and fortune). Look for more of a row when the Academy nominates a clearly undeserving and politically motivated film— there will be a loud response.....
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Why stop here. He was given the Nobel Peace Prize for the same bs. Recind that, along with the cash that came with it. Oh, and add about 30% interest to that just to have Algore cough up more $$$. He would never part with a penny of any of that.
Liberals do not, have never, nor ever will care about the facts. All that matters is how you feel. If you feel more responsible, more caring and more protective of preserving 'the planet'; then any lie, any cost, any deception is justified.
You are thinking logically, thoughtfully and using reason; these are the antithesis to Liberal thought patterns.
LOL!
Only to those who think the science of global warming has anything to do with their 'feelings'.
sure did! And another of the ‘major’ awards .. ‘they’ couldn’t give him enough accolades for all he did to save the planet with “An Inconvenient Truth.”
Nobel has shown itself - repeatedly now - to be no more serious than an Oscar.
You mean you hope he loses his organic cotton shirt that was not made in a sweatshop. And I think you also mean trying to buy a 50 cent cup of organic, fair trade coffee. Come on, step it up! ; )
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I believe you’re right... It will take this story out of the political arena (something many Americans don’t pay attention to), out of the science arena (which barely ever gets reported on outside trade journals), and into the Entertainment arena where we ALL know the majority of Americans know WAY more about than either of the two preceding subjects! Hollywood is like America’s “Royalty” and I think this is a brilliant move!
Now, I wonder if anyone will suggest they should take away his Nobel Prize? Don’t worry I won’t hold my breath!
Wouldn’t that be sweet? I wonder what the CEOs of all those corporations that bought Carbon-Offset Credits are thinking right now??? If we can get THEM to start complaining the picture you posted might actually come true... After all they were defrauded!
These airplanes will include Air Force One with its primary passenger President Obama, who's returning to the Copenhagen scene where he didn't help win the 2016 Summer Olympics for Chicago, which could do with a little global warming at this time of year.
Thanks for the laugh, Andrew Malcolm.
As has been noted before, Obama's jetting in to Copenhagen at an insignificant time -- not at the beginning, (where the tone is set), nor the end of the conference (when decisions are made). Actually, he's just passing through, on his way to collect his Nobel Peace Prize, at his convenience, on his own timetable, while gathering some photo ops and media swoons along the way.
I’d like to see some teachers who showed this lie to millions of children in the same suit!
You are exactly right. Sure, it won’t happen. The prize will never be rescinded.
It doesn’t matter. AGW doesn’t happen either, but the propaganda campaign was almost successful enough to make the taxes happen.
So many americans are clueless to the whole goings on. If it gets coverage in the entertainment world though, a whole new audience will be reached. And it will be the audience of morons crucial to the electoral survival of liberals.
This is a good thing.
IIRC the AA went to the producers of that pile of crap but Al accepted it as the star of it and on behalf of them. I am not sure he actually has the actual statuette but who knows for sure.
Exactly.
AL GORE NEVER WON AN OSCAR!!
THE DIRECTOR AND PRODUCER OF THE FILM HE WAS IN WON THE AWARDS.
IF HE HAS ONE IT WAS A GIFT AND NOT AWARDED TO HIM BECAUSE THERE WAS NOT A CATEGORY TO GIVE ACTORS IN A DOCUMENTARY THIS HONOR.
LAST TIME I CHECKED HE WASN’T IN THE CREDITS AS BEING ONE OF THE PRODUCERS OR THE DIRECTOR.
IF HE DOES HAVE ONE, THE ACADEMY SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED FOR FRAUD.
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