Posted on 12/08/2007 3:42:58 PM PST by melt
Al Gore has come under fire for making personal gain from his mission to save the planet – after charging £3,300 a minute to deliver a poorly received speech.
The former American Vice-President was also accused of being "precious" at the London event, demanding his own VIP room and ejecting journalists, despite hopes the star-studded gathering would generate publicity for the fight against global warming.
Many of the audience at last month's Fortune Forum summit were restless as Mr Gore, who has won both a Nobel Peace Prize and an Oscar for his campaigning work this year, delivered the half-hour speech that netted him £100,000.
The glittering fundraiser was held in The Royal Courts of Justice and attracted world leaders, entrepreneurs and celebrity activists including Bob Geldof, Darryl Hannah and Jerry Hall, who was there as "a Special Ambassador of The Alliance for a New Humanity". Guests had paid between £1,000 and £50,000 to attend.
But a source told The Mail on Sunday: "Many guests looked tired and began to talk among themselves during his speech. Heads began to twitch with tiredness.
"Al uses his position for great personal gain. He goes from event to event delivering a similar speech, earning a large fee, and a lot of the time he doesn't actually inform the audience.
"He refused to speak to journalists and security would usher away VIP guests and the Press.
"He was being very precious and demanded his own VIP room before the event, where he held his own exclusive reception.
"The other guests were cut off. It was very clear that many guests were disappointed by this."
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So they are just discovering that Algore is a big, fat, boring jerk. We could have told them that long ago.
Algore poses with this year's winner of the Huma Abeddin Look-alike Contest!
54 extra long ?
He was only a VP at one time. What makes him a scientist now?
This is capitalism fueled by hypocrisy and conflict-of-interest. Capitalism is not perfect but has the market to generally level such imperfection. As Gore becomes perceived as being self-enriching the market will peter out for him.
Capitalism demands value from a proudt.What Fat Boy is selling isn’t worth 8 cents a minute,the 4k a minute is simply a crime.
Capitalism demands value from a product.What Fat Boy is selling isn’t worth 8 cents a minute,the 4k a minute is simply a crime.
Word on the street is he will run as a Dem nominee for the presidency.
Oink, Oink!
This, in a nut shell, is really what global warming is all about.
And guess who the Chairman of the Board of the "Alliance for Climate Protection" is! Al Gore!!!
Goring = Boring.
” making personal gain from his mission to save the planet “
ROTFLMAO
AL is a POL-LI-TION folks! Nothing has changed, now that the dims fail to support his fat aXX, he is after a different set of fools.
Something here about not changing his stripes.....
Gore is capitalizing on the fact that there are people stupid enough to pay his fee. If people were stupid enough to pay £3,300-per-minute to listen to me, you wouldn’t be able to shut me up.
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One of your classics!
With victims begging for more.
And you're just figuring this out? About time you a-holes woke up and smelled the coffee.
Makin a lot of green off this green scam thingy.
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