This should be interesting. The ad campaign starts next week.
Al Gore: Flat-earthers question global warming
by Mark Silva
Al Gore, the Nobel Prize-winning former vice president and Democratic nominee for president in 2000 who won the popular vote but lost the Electoral College, contends that those who doubt global warming -- and he counts Vice President Dick Cheney in that crowd -- remind him of those who doubt that man landed on the moon or who believed the world is flat.
These are among the declarations that the Democratic warrior against climate change (and an ucommitted super-delegate so far this
year) makes in an interview airing Sunday evening on CBS News' 60 Minutes. Another declaration: Gore will
use profits from his book and film, An Inconvenient Truth, to support a $300-million advertising campaign to boost awareness of global warming.
Enter Toby Keith and the Dixie Chicks.
Gore, who repeatedly has ruled out another run for the White House yet is repeatedly asked the question in the midst of a protracted campagin for the
Democratic nomination, speaks with Lesley Stahl in an interview airing at 7 pm EDT Sunday.
Stahl tells Gore that some prominent people, including the nation's vice president, are not convinced that global warming is manmade.
Gore replies: "You're talking about Dick Cheney. I think that those people are in such a tiny, tiny minority now with their point of view, they're almost like the ones who still believe that the moon landing was staged in a movie lot in Arizona and those who believe the world is flat.
"That demeans them a little bit, but it's not that far off.''
Some of the ads that Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection will air will feature an ecumenical odd couple, the
Rev. Al Sharpton and the Rev. Pat Robertson. as well as odd political bedfellows, Nancy Pelosi and Newt Gingrich, and a pairing of country crooners who
flank the right on left on the radio, Toby Keith and the Dixie Chicks.
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