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."
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
That, of course, will be front and center in the news for weeks - of course...yeah
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Oh!
That’s OK!
It's truly frightening to know that isn't digitized - and you are right on both counts
“Precious”
Stop that right now!!! Gore has treated everyone, including his lobotomized fans, like saps since at least 1992. Anyone who finds fault with Gore on any of his goofy behavior has to be named Rocky because he is dumber than a box of rocks.
By the way, for a luddite, Gore looks like a guy who has consumed more than his share of beef and butter.
This is an English newspaper. Obviously they didn’t get the memo that they’re supposed to be ooh-ing and ah-ing over Gore’s having ridden a train in Norway. Will any of this negative publicity show up in the American MSM?
Well, we can certainly tell him to try!
Just a few more pounds to go.
Al Gore has come under fire for making personal gain from his mission to save the planet....
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I am so shocked ... Not! How long did it take these clowns to figure out the deal? How many carbon credits have they bought from Al?
THE CHICKEN BUSINESSor..."Is Gore a Rooster?"
John the farmer was in the fertilized egg business. He had several hundred young layers (hens), called "pullets", and ten roosters, whose job it was to fertilize the eggs.
The farmer kept records and any rooster that didn't perform went into the soup pot and was replaced. That took an awful lot of his time, so he bought a set of tiny bells and attached them to his roosters. Each bell had a different tone so John could tell from a distance, which rooster was performing. Now he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report simply by listening to the bells.
The farmer's favorite rooster was old Butch, a very fine specimen he was, too. But on this particular morning John noticed old Butch's bell hadn't rung at all! John went to investigate.
The other roosters were chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing. The pullets, hearing the roosters coming, would run for cover.
But to Farmer John's amazement, old Butch had his bell in his beak, so it couldn't ring. He'd sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next one. John was so proud of old Butch, he entered him in the Renfrew County Fair and he became an overnight sensation among the judges.
The result...The judges not only awarded old Butch the No Bell Piece Prize but they also awarded him the Pulletsurprise as well.
Clearly old Butch was a politician in the making: who else but a politician could figure out how to win two of the most highly coveted awards on our planet by being the best at sneaking up on the populace and screwing them when they weren't paying attention?
What makes him a scientist now?
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Geez, don’t you know anything? He’s smarter than we are because he’s famous, and we’re not. Example, he gets invited to all kinds of Hollywood parties? Do you? I didn’t think so. See? He’s smarter.
Is that photo for real?
what an ass...
Algore wakes up in a cold sweat every night fearing he might actually have to debate global warming someday. Or explain his gi-normous carbon footprint.
Al Gore rewards himself with carbon credits if he doesn’t have to fly home to have sex with his wife.
I might pay Algore a nickel to empty my garbage. He is the greatest hypocrite of our times!
Al Franken
Al Bundy
Al lah:
Makes me damned glad we never named a son "Al"!
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