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What an utter suckup. I haven't seen such sniveling since Couric had Michael J. Fox on her last place show. So much for media asking the tough questions of wackos like Gore.
Not only did Matt Lauer push Al Gore to run for President, as pointed out here, on this morning's Today show, he also repeatedly plugged Gore's An Inconvenient Truth DVD and pushed the former Vice President to call the President's decision to invade Iraq, "The worst strategic mistake in the entire history of the United States."
First Lauer pressed Gore on the Iraq Study Group's findings: "So it's being described by some as 'cut and stay,' as opposed to 'cut and run.' Does it do enough to acknowledge the results of the midterm election and, and the message that voters were sending this administration, if these are listened to, these recommendations?" Then Gore moved on to Gore's pet cause, the environment, and pressed him to run for President with the following questions:
Lauer: "This is obviously gonna be a huge issue in 2008 for whoever's running for president, Iraq and radical Islam. Another issue that you want to see as a major issue is the environment, in particular, global warming. Are you hearing any one out there who may be thinking of running for president spending enough time and energy talking about this issue to satisfy you?"
Lauer: "What, what it makes me think is, from your point of view, if you were to run for president you could take this issue to the next level, even during just a campaign. And if you were fortunate enough to win the presidency you'd sit in the most powerful office in the free world with a real chance to make, you could be in a position to save the planet, without putting too much emphasis on it. Wouldn't that be enough of a reason to run for president for you?"
Gore thanked Lauer for the endorsement: "Well I appreciate the impulse behind the question."
Lauer: "But as someone who feels as passionately about the subject as you do and your documentary is evidence of that, why pass up the opportunity to have that world stage again? Because although you're a former Vice President, being a sitting president would give you a much higher and much more powerful platform."
Gore, again, grateful for Lauer's imploring: "Well again I, I appreciate that very much. I, I'm not making plans to do it."
Full transcript available here:
http://newsbusters.org/node/9481
Not only did Matt Lauer push Al Gore to run for President, as pointed out here, on this morning's Today show, he also repeatedly plugged Gore's An Inconvenient Truth DVD and pushed the former Vice President to call the President's decision to invade Iraq, "The worst strategic mistake in the entire history of the United States."
First Lauer pressed Gore on the Iraq Study Group's findings: "So it's being described by some as 'cut and stay,' as opposed to 'cut and run.' Does it do enough to acknowledge the results of the midterm election and, and the message that voters were sending this administration, if these are listened to, these recommendations?" Then Gore moved on to Gore's pet cause, the environment, and pressed him to run for President with the following questions:
Lauer: "This is obviously gonna be a huge issue in 2008 for whoever's running for president, Iraq and radical Islam. Another issue that you want to see as a major issue is the environment, in particular, global warming. Are you hearing any one out there who may be thinking of running for president spending enough time and energy talking about this issue to satisfy you?"
Lauer: "What, what it makes me think is, from your point of view, if you were to run for president you could take this issue to the next level, even during just a campaign. And if you were fortunate enough to win the presidency you'd sit in the most powerful office in the free world with a real chance to make, you could be in a position to save the planet, without putting too much emphasis on it. Wouldn't that be enough of a reason to run for president for you?"
Gore thanked Lauer for the endorsement: "Well I appreciate the impulse behind the question."
Lauer: "But as someone who feels as passionately about the subject as you do and your documentary is evidence of that, why pass up the opportunity to have that world stage again? Because although you're a former Vice President, being a sitting president would give you a much higher and much more powerful platform."
Gore, again, grateful for Lauer's imploring: "Well again I, I appreciate that very much. I, I'm not making plans to do it."
Full transcript available here:
http://newsbusters.org/node/9481