GORE: You can't admit that there is man-made global warming & expect to survive in Republican Party

[kpete]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/03/al-gore-on-corruption-in-politics-and-media/

AL GORE:

Here’s an analogy. You think of a family of an alcoholic father who flies into a rage every time the word alcohol is mentioned. Well, the rest of the family sometimes learns to never mention the gorilla in the middle of the room in order to avoid the rage. Well, that is what happens to some in the news media. … they get told by the conglomerate owners and managers hitting the bottom line: Our ratings go down if you make this percentage of people so angry that they switch the channel.

I don’t pretend to understand all of it, but I know that virtually every news and political talk show on television across the dial, one of the three largest advertisers is the American Petroleum Institute, the coal industry, the oil industry, the oil companies, the gas companies. It’s not uncommon to say, “Look I don’t want my ad to be adjacent to a story about the following list of issues.” In any case, there’s been an issue of coverage. I think that’s changing now a little bit, thankfully.

But anyway, the point I was trying to make is, I didn’t polarize it. When I started my efforts after the White House, I had Republicans joining with me to do it, and then there was a new orthodoxy enforced in the Republican Party. A law was laid down: You cannot admit that there is such a thing as man-made global warming and expect to survive in the Republican Party.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/03/al-gore-on-corruption-in-politics-and-media/

[BlueJac]

1. Dumb and dumber!

[Cosmocat]

2. There are a LOT of things you can't admit or acknoledge or say

and expect to survive in the republican party.

[red dog 1]

3. K&R...Thanks for posting

IMO, the American Petroleum Institute, the coal industry, the oil companies,the gas companies and the nuclear power industry are all eco-terrorists, and should all be sued for the billions of dollars they have cost the American people.

[Cha]

4. That's right.. they would bet taken down for

the reality truth dog they were. If they ventured into that terrority..