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California’s Lt. Gov. John Garamendi visits a Bay Area elementary school on Read Across America day:
Garamendi was perched on a stool in front of the students, who sat cross-legged on the floor surrounded by a collection of books he’s read to his children and grandchildren.
When he brought out the famous children’s book “Where the Wild Things Are” by Maurice Sendak, the kids all cheered with excitement.
But he got a different reaction from the students when he showed them Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth.”
“Are you ready for this big book?” he asked them. “No!” they screamed.
Poor Al. People are never ready for his prescient ideas, as Maureen Dowd explains:
The man who was prescient on climate change, the Internet, terrorism and Iraq admitted that maybe his problem had been that he was too far ahead of the curve. He realized at a conference that “there’re ideas that are mature, ideas that are maturing, ideas that are past their prime and a category called `predawn.’
“And all of a sudden it hit me,” he told John Heilemann of New York magazine last year. “Most of my political career was spent investing in predawn ideas! I thought, Oh, that’s where I went wrong.”
He’s a victim of his own genius.
If you want really good kids’ books on science and nature (well written and lavishly illustrated with color photographs) try anything written by Seymour Simon. But Albore - please, no. In fact the unanimity of the children’s cry sounds like they’ve already heard far too much from him and their Distant Early Warning sensors are in full working order.
And dare I ask, what are ``predawn ideas’‘?
Posted by Sonetka's Mom on 2007 03 04 at 09:41 AM • permalink“Predawn” is a euphemism for “half-baked”.
Or possibly a synonym for “ahead of the news cycle”, as that phrase was applied to the mythical Karl Rove indictment.
Posted by Paul Zrimsek on 2007 03 04 at 10:06 AM • permalinkGore retails fear to a target market of useful idiots with massive backing from the incredibly biased MSM.
With this false “legitimacy” attached, his primary goal of commercialising emotion for power and wealth has been attained with remarkable speed.
I feel this sniff of AGW redundancy I’m getting will also gather traction fairly quickly.
Another predawn thinker, with a mention of Al too:
http://tinyurl.com/2lrhjzPosted by andycanuck on 2007 03 04 at 10:14 AM • permalinkThe only person we can be positively certain read Algore’s first book is the Unabomber.
Posted by bugscuffle on 2007 03 04 at 11:19 AM • permalinkPredawn ideas are those ideas you have at three in the morning, jolt awake, scribble on a napkin, fall back asleep… and have no idea what you wrote when you try to read them in the morning.
Fortunately for Algore, “illiterate” and “incomprehensible” are actually signs of “authenticity” to cutting-edge NY publishers.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 03 04 at 11:44 AM • permalinkGod, I’d love to snark about this, but I’ve been beaten to the punch(line) by everyone else!! Good on y’all!
But it looks to me that Algore is just all about Algore. I really think that if he were on the Titanic, he would be the first person into the lifeboat, women and children be damned.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 03 04 at 12:25 PM • permalinkPrecient on terrorism and Iraq? Well, he used to spout the conventional wisdom on both before he became a pouting little crybaby after the 2000 election.
But I guess regime change in Baghdad, extrajudicial kidnapping and assassination of known terrorists, and the looming dangers of an Iraqi WMD program—all of which Gore is on record as having believed in and supported in the 1990’s—are among the ideas which became “past their prime” once George Bush became president.
As for Gore’s precience on the Internet: It’s a bit like Bush’s plastic turkey—a long discredited and ridiculed item of faith true believers will never let go.
At one time, I thought South Park‘s AlGore-mocking “Manbearpig” episode (which as on again last night) was a bit harsh. Not anymore. The man really does talk like that, treating his audience as 8-year-olds.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 03 04 at 12:46 PM • permalinkI understand Al was instrumental in the predawning of the Age of Aquarius.
Mark Steyn eviscerates the Goreacle this morning.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 03 04 at 12:56 PM • permalinkAnd dare I ask, what are ``predawn ideas’’?
Considering the permanent adolescence of these people it must refer to flogging the bishop.
Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2007 03 04 at 01:13 PM • permalink“Are you ready for this big book?” he asked them. “No!” they screamed.
Nonetheless, he gave them a short lesson about global warming and climate change, and showed them pictures from Gore’s book of swirling hurricane clouds from satellite images.
“Some people in the Legislature are using this book to make laws,” he said.
That’s the legislature in my state. I’m so proud. One day the Goreacle will stand with the likes of Moses and Confucius and Blackstone and Solon as one of the Lawgivers. His embossed likeness will grace the entrances to courthouses all over the world. Statues will be erected, the Goreacle standing tall against the predawn, the sacred text cradled in his arms. Just wait. You’ll see.
This indoctrination of “the children” is starting to piss me off. What’s the purpose? To turn them into stooges reporting on gas guzzling parents? Do you suppose there will be re-education camps for the heretics?
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 03 04 at 01:31 PM • permalinkKyda, do you really have to ask? In California there are hotline numbers for you to report non recyclers and lawn waterers.
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2007 03 04 at 02:38 PM • permalink#1 “Allow me to introduce my self. I am Al E. Goreyote, Super Genius”
My thought, exactly. What an insufferable pompous hypocrite.
Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2007 03 04 at 03:06 PM • permalinkAnyone remember what Algore’s first stint in college was? He was a divinity student, right?
He’s always been a religious sort; he just prefers the type of religion in which he’s being served, rather than serving others.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2007 03 04 at 04:00 PM • permalinkHere is a revised list: Women, children, Red Indians, spacemen, and inventors of the Internet first.
Posted by Paul Zrimsek on 2007 03 04 at 04:19 PM • permalink“And all of a sudden it hit me,” he told John Heilemann of New York magazine last year. “Most of my political career was spent investing in predawn ideas! I thought, Oh, that’s where I went wrong.”
Man, I know what he means. In my youth I wasn’t overly popular with the ladies because I was too darn attractive. And too well endowed. It’s just not fair. I want reparations.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 03 04 at 05:03 PM • permalinkNo Al not predawn just preschool ideas. That “lockbox” was a beauty.
Posted by alien kiwi on 2007 03 04 at 05:44 PM • permalinkhey #32 wronwright fortunately for the rest of us those ladies will never know what they were missing, just like US voters.
Posted by alien kiwi on 2007 03 04 at 05:49 PM • permalinkWhenever i get a predawn idea the missus tells me to “stop bothering her” and “if you keep poking me with that Ill snap it off”.
I understand Als pain.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 03 04 at 06:35 PM • permalinkThe apparently arab person who goes by the name of Al Gore is a wanker.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 03 04 at 07:31 PM • permalinkGore, like Kerry, confuses sonorous, boring, tendentious speaking with genius.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2007 03 05 at 01:30 AM • permalink
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