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Canadianreader
12-05-2007, 09:36 AM
John Baird has been critiqued for misquoting the former U.S. vice-president in the House of Commons Feb 6. So Baird produced a video clip from Entertainment Tonight.

Gore was shown to say: "Canada is once again providing leadership in the world, fighting above its weight class and showing moral authority to the rest of the world. That's what Canada's known for." CLIP CUT

Gore himself insisted at the time the quote was also taken out of context and his complete comments were intended to be critical of Canada for not meeting its Kyoto targets.

Travh20
12-05-2007, 01:16 PM
God not Al Gore again. MAybe we should send him to the sun to combat global warming.

Oldtimer
12-05-2007, 02:07 PM
Such talk about the true President :).
Imagine what the US would be like if he had succeeded. By now you would be paying $zillions in carbon taxes and sending it all to some poor impoverished countries. You could then feel good about yourselves, because you'd be something about the dreaded Global Warming.

Travh20
12-05-2007, 02:35 PM
We would be paying carbon taxes while he maintained 2 huge mansions and aprivate jet.

fluffernutter
12-05-2007, 02:40 PM
By now you would be paying $zillions in carbon taxes and sending it all to some poor impoverished countries. Yeah, instead we get to spend TRILLIONS in defense department taxes and spend it in some poor bombed out country... What a huge difference.

Travh20
12-05-2007, 02:45 PM
at least those are taxes we can actually see dong something.

Canadianreader
12-05-2007, 02:49 PM
In Ontario you can sell solar energy to the Province for 48 cent (approx)(cost to produce it), and buy it back at .06 cent (Subsidized cost). Doing this not only poor countries would be benefitting from the Kyoto Protocol .

fluffernutter
12-05-2007, 02:50 PM
A Misquote Is a Quote (http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-6503629/Building-the-environmental-state-what.html)

What Al Gore said: "My friends in Canada tell me that, across party lines and in all regions, there is very strong support for Canada once again providing leadership in the world, fighting above its weight class and showing moral authority to the rest of the world. That's what Canada is known for."

What John Baird said Al Gore said: "Canada is once again providing leadership in the world, fighting above its weight class and showing moral authority to the rest of the world. That's what Canada is known for."

What Al Gore said about what John Baird said: "I understand that last week Canada's Minister of the Environment, Minister John Baird, mischaracterized comments I made last summer as praise for the Harper government's actions on global warming."

John Baird twists the facts so much he should be working in the Bush administration.

paulc
12-05-2007, 03:34 PM
''showing moral authority to the rest of the world''.

If Canadian oil rigs push off Labrador much further, theyll be in Galway Bay.

How is that combatting Global Warming?

Travh20
12-05-2007, 03:56 PM
A Misquote Is a Quote (http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-6503629/Building-the-environmental-state-what.html)

What Al Gore said: "My friends in Canada tell me that, across party lines and in all regions, there is very strong support for Canada once again providing leadership in the world, fighting above its weight class and showing moral authority to the rest of the world. That's what Canada is known for."

What John Baird said Al Gore said: "Canada is once again providing leadership in the world, fighting above its weight class and showing moral authority to the rest of the world. That's what Canada is known for."

What Al Gore said about what John Baird said: "I understand that last week Canada's Minister of the Environment, Minister John Baird, mischaracterized comments I made last summer as praise for the Harper government's actions on global warming."

John Baird twists the facts so much he should be working in the Bush administration.

soudns like he pulled a Dhramabum and chooped off apiece of someones statement to make it fit his agenda.

fluffernutter
12-05-2007, 04:04 PM
sorry I forgot I'm not supposed to quote any sources any more - just take cheap personal shots to further my agenda.

Travh20
12-05-2007, 04:13 PM
Hey, I believe you that al gore was criticizing the Canadians for not doing what he thought they should be doing, that is after all whathe does now.

I was just saying, that canadian guy did what Dhramabum does all the time and lops a few words off of someones statement to make it look like they said something different then what they really said.

Canadianreader
12-05-2007, 04:21 PM
Hey, I believe you that al gore was criticizing the Canadians for not doing what he thought they should be doing, that is after all whathe does now.

I was just saying, that canadian guy did what Dhramabum does all the time and lops a few words off of someones statement to make it look like they said something different then what they really said.
True he made it look like al Gore was indorsing his work****I'm still going to vote for this guy in the next election I'm a constitute of his.

Freethinker
12-06-2007, 02:35 AM
Yeah, instead we get to spend TRILLIONS in defense department taxes....

at least those are taxes we can actually see doing something.

Right you are. We do indeed see them **doing something**.

We see them bankrupting the nation.

We see them making taking money away from countless programs that might actually HELP people.

We see them funding numerous campaigns of military aggression overseas that cause this country and its leaders to be despised around the world.

We see them used to wage disastrous, expensive, unwarranted wars on sovereign nations, wars that only serve to cause terrorists numbers to grow and for terrorists to become more desperate, with people launching suicide attacks against the U.S. just to try to retaliate in some way.

Travh20
12-06-2007, 10:19 AM
I see the cliche machine is in high gear today.