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Morning Joe Crew Rips Hillary Apology: 'Hostage Video...Lie...Freakish'

By Mark Finkelstein | September 9, 2015, 9:30 AM EDT

My mother had a saying about heeding warnings from others: "if one person tells you you're drunk, ignore him.  If two people tell you you're drunk, lie down."  So what should Hillary Clinton do when the entire Morning Joe panel tells h ...

Halperin: Hillary 'Great Public Servant, Extraordinarily Strong Candidate'

By Mark Finkelstein | August 17, 2015, 9:29 AM EDT

You know those super-fast-talking disclaimers run at the end of some ads?  The kind of CYA things the lawyers force the advertisers to say? That's what Mark Halperin's pro forma praise of Hillary on today's Morning Joe brought to mind.  Hal ...

Heilemann: Gore 'Hates' Hillary, 'Huge' Problem for Her If He Runs

By Mark Finkelstein | August 14, 2015, 6:34 PM EDT

This blog brought to you by Orville Redenbacher... One short segment on today's  With All Due Respect  packed plenty of explosive commentary.  There was John   Heilemann saying that Al Gore "hates" Hillary and that if he gets in the race wo ...

Pope’s Climate Encyclical To Land On Original Date of Al Gore Eco-Concert

By Joseph Rossell | June 15, 2015, 11:36 AM EDT

Pope Francis “has echoed the sense of crisis” from some scientists about the environment, and on June 18 will tackle the subject of climate change in an encyclical, a letter to Catholic bishops. That was the same day as former Vice President Al Gore’s Liv ...

Climate Hypocrites and the Media That Love Them

By Mike Ciandella | May 6, 2015, 7:13 AM EDT

Journalists help promote Hollywood celebrities while condemning average Americans for causing climate change. The same media go out of their way to ignore or excuse the hypocrisy of celebrity “environmentalists” who fly their private jets around the world ...

With O'Reilly, Dennis Miller Takes on Starbucks, Al Gore, and Sings 'Putin on the Ritz'

By Tom Blumer | March 21, 2015, 12:49 AM EDT

On Thursday's "O'Reilly Factor" on Fox News, Dennis Miller put in an uproariously funny but also insightful appearance. On the more serious side, Miller and O'Reilly also discussed former Vice President Al Gore's expressed pr ...

National Journal's Laughable Tweet du Jour: Al Gore's Getting 'Hotter by the Hour'

By Ken Shepherd | March 18, 2015, 4:53 PM EDT

If we gave out an award for laugh-out-loud absurd tweet of the day, this would likely be it for Wednesday, March 18.  Take it away, National Journal: Al Gore, just like the planet, is getting hotter by the hour these days: http://t.co/AUyMNiI1Dq — Nationa ...

Vox’s Ezra Klein: ‘Al Gore Should Run For President’ to Combat the ‘Existential Threat’ of Climate Change

By Tom Johnson | March 16, 2015, 2:33 PM EDT

Many Democrats would like to see a first-tier figure challenge Hillary Clinton for the party’s presidential nomination. Vox editor-in-chief Ezra Klein agrees, but his choice isn’t Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, or Martin O’Malley. On Monday, Klein sent ...

Al Gore, Felipe Calderon Want to Spend $90 Trillion to Eliminate Cars

By Tom Blumer | January 28, 2015, 12:11 AM EST

Ever since the publication " Earth in the Balance " in 1992, we've seen the press minimize the public's exposure to the more outrageous ideas and quotes emanating from former Vice President Al Gore. Concerning that original book, Gore& ...

NYT, AP Ignore Large Contingent of Socialists and Far-Leftists in NYC Climate March

By Tom Blumer | September 22, 2014, 6:37 AM EDT

At Tea Party and conservative events, the press routinely seeks out any shred of evidence of far-right extremism, racism or even uncivil behavior exhibited by attendees. If found, it then tries to portray even one or a few such people out of thousands as ...

Arctic Ice Cap Grows Same Year Al Gore Predicted It Would Disappear, Networks Ignore

By Mike Ciandella | September 3, 2014, 9:29 AM EDT

The same year that former Vice President Al Gore predicted that the Arctic sea ice could be completely gone, Arctic ice reached its highest level in two years, according to a report by the Danish Meteorological Institute.  According to that report, which ...

Arctic Ice Cap Expands by 41 Percent in Two Years; Al Gore Thought It Might Be Gone by Now

By Tom Blumer | August 31, 2014, 1:23 PM EDT

Ice, ice baby. That's what they have a lot more of in the Arctic. The UK Daily Mail, one of those British tabloids the left has despised going back to the Clinton administration and its paranoia about a right-wing media conspiracy, reports from autho ...

Al Gore Sues Al-Jazeera For Every Last Penny Of Its Outlandish Current TV Bid

By Tim Graham | August 19, 2014, 11:01 AM EDT

“Greed, for the lack of a better word, is good.” Who knew that former Democratic vice president Al Gore would embody that Oliver Stone movie mantra? Gore’s filed a lawsuit in Delaware against Al Jazeera America claiming its owners (the Qatari royal family ...

Al Gore Denounced in Australian Press as Money Hungry 'Ferengi' for Suspicious Mining Magnate Alliance

By P.J. Gladnick | June 29, 2014, 10:16 AM EDT

Imagine if in America there were a coal mining magnate as famous as Donald Trump who was the founder of a political party named after himself (Trump United Party?). In addition, this well known person would be strongly opposed to a carbon tax. Obviously s ...

Al Gore Answers Charge of Causing Global Warming Mockery With Mockable Quotes

By P.J. Gladnick | April 28, 2014, 1:21 PM EDT

Al Gore! Come on. Admit it. Just reading the name of Al Gore put a smile on your face. Why is that? Because after years of Gore's over the top rantings about global warming, he has turned himself into a laughingstock. That added to his blatantly gree ...