Comments gringo has made

  • Re: Gore Evermore

    "I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is."
    Does that mean it is OK to over-emphasize how dangerous global warming is?  I worry about comments like this affecting the credibility of the message.
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    I think what he meant was that if you talk about global warming today in the US do it this way:
    80%: explain the problem
    20%: explain the solution.On An interview with accidental movie star Al Gore posted 3 years, 6 months ago 17 Responses

  • ponderous, consultant-driven bid for president?

    That's an over-the-top oversimplification -- if I may put it that way.

    His campaign seems to be more and more reasonable in light of what has been done under Bush.

    Why do you think that Gore's campaign was more ponderous and consultant-driven than the Bush campaign? Karl Rove used focus-groups and polls as much as anyone and Bush couldn't take a step without Rove telling him what to do.
    To name one thing where do you think the phrase "compassionate conservativism" came from? Sure not from Bush's own brain.

    Still somehow I don't hear people complaining that Bush ran a  consultant-driven campaign.

    Or was Clinton's campaign in 1996 less consultant-driven than Gore's? Hardly. If anything Clinton's centrism was far more calculated (and the product of the ultimate political consultant Dick Morris)  than Gore's populism.

    Still I don't hear people talking about Clinton's consultants.

    I sense a double-standard here and it's seems to me the only reason why it exists is that Gore is not in the White House. If he was president noone would talk about his consultants.
    But it's hard to make the case -- in light of how that election turned out -- that Gore is not in the White House because of he was the puppet of some paid political hacks.On An interview with accidental movie star Al Gore posted 3 years, 6 months ago 17 Responses

  • Image problems

    I don't know whether you noticed but the number of urban legends about you exceeds the number of falsehoods the Bush administration said about Iraq -- and it's really difficult to compete with that.

    Why didn't you counter the mass media's obvious efforts in 2000 to convince the public that you were a phony arrogant liar who claimed he "invented the Internet" "inspired Love Story" etc.

    Don't you think that your image built upon these myths and misquotes undermine your efforts to convince large number of Americans that man-made global is in fact a major problem as they will simply laugh at you no matter what you say?On Me and Al Gore posted 3 years, 7 months ago 25 Responses

  • South Park

    What does he think about the recent South Park episode (Manbearpig) and the apparent effort of Matt Stone and Trey Parker to convince people that global warming is a hoax?

    Does he think that  South Park can fool fewer people -- despite it's popularity -- than companies like Exxon?On Me and Al Gore posted 3 years, 7 months ago 25 Responses