Thursday, August 6, 2009

Secret Service: Al Gore Was a Dick

Posted by Pete Kotz on Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 5:13 AM

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It seems that former state Sen. Paul Stanley doesn't have a lock on hypocrisy among Tennessee politicians. In Ronald Kessler's new book, "In the President's Secret Service," he interviews agents assigned to guard various White House officials and their families. According to Kessler's reporting, the Obamas, Bush I and II, and the Cheneys were polite and respectful of the hired help (see Daily Show interview above). But while Al Gore played a man of the people on TV, he could have used a refresher course on Southern hospitality. Kessler writes about the time Gore was lecturing one his kids about the need to study when he pointed to the Secret Service and said, "otherwise you're going to end up like these guys," or something to that effect. Can you say huge prick, boys and girls?

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Posted by truth13 on 08/06/2009 at 7:37 AM

I didn't know AlGore was a VooDoo medicine man!Every time the temps drop in Tennessee, he's off to the badlands of America spreading his cap and fraud on the American people and he just needs to take his several hundred million and LEAVE! Is that he chasing around after BHO with a doggie scoop, a plastic bag, gathering up the droppings for hopes of a better day? Hey Al, the world is laughing at you and indirectly at each of us because of your clown act! Get a life, preferably away from ours.....

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Posted by William on 08/06/2009 at 8:06 AM

He may very well have been a Dick to the secret service. But I would take with a grain of salt the charges by Ronald Kessler. His previous books have been somewhat tabloid and he has a right-wing outlook. Does he name the agents or are they "anonymous?" These kind of charges have made the rounds before his book. I remember getting a chain email to that effect several years ago. But these kind of charges can't really be verified because the Secret Service isn't going to "dish" on their subjects. So Kessler could have very well made all of this up and we wouldn't know any better.

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Posted by chris1974 on 08/06/2009 at 8:32 AM

# Al Gore's real agenda: 2008.
# The Aral Sea and Mt. Kilimanjaro issues — two glaring "convenient lies" in Al Gore's film.
# The myth of a man-caused sea level rise: why Florida and California will remain dry.
# How modern temperature-measuring techniques could be giving a "false positive" to global warming.
# Why computer models predicting climate change are necessarily flawed.
# The former Democratic senator who brazenly says he pushes the global warming theory — "even if it's wrong."
# What implementation of the Kyoto Protocol would really cost the U.S.
# The optimistic global temperature rise projection that Gore ignored.
# How a leading doomsayer admits exaggerating the global warming threat.
# The increased tornado activity in the U.S. — is it really linked to global warming?
# An expert's four common-sense "alternative cures" for global warming.
# Why a prominent MIT professor says global warming is an out-and-out fraud.
# Time magazine and Newsweek's dire warnings in 1974 — of another ice age!
# How the global warming scare is cool in Hollywood.
# What a leading U.S. expert told the Senate about the "science fiction" of a disappearing Arctic.
# Why we could actually be heading for a cooler, and not warmer, period.
# Vice President Gore's "reign of terror" against global warming skeptics.
# Why America's top hurricane expert doubts the hurricane-warming connection.
# How a clean energy source — which already exists — could eliminate the threat of global warming.
# And the bottom line for you: How global warming policies will mean more government, higher energy prices, and more costs and taxes to you! The greatest hoax ever put before the American people!

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Posted by David on 08/06/2009 at 8:34 AM

Southern hospitality is a long dead myth.

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Posted by mmary b on 08/06/2009 at 8:56 AM

I don't know, Chris. If Kessler was only pushing some rightest agenda, why would he emphatically say the Obamas are so nice to the secret service, yet single out Gore? Presumably the Obamas are a much bigger target if your only concern is to deliver damage.
I'm not saying that you're wrong. But it always seemed to me that being disrespectful of working people is the lefty sin equivalent of family values guys cheating on their wives. It betrays such an essential value.

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Posted by Pete Kotz on 08/06/2009 at 12:22 PM

I´m just asking if he actually names people in his book or uses anonymous sources? I mentioned a chain email that I received saying similar things, but also smearing the Clinton´s. Snopes researched it and couldn´t verify it. Here´s the link: http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/secretservice.asp
I don´t know Gore personally and he just might be the biggest Dick in the universe. But I´d be careful putting too much stock in what guys like Kessler say, especially with the money there is to be made writing right-wing screeds. Unless he i.d´s his sources, it smells more like a hit job to me. He may just have an axe to grind with Gore and doesn´t with Obama. Gore has been driving the Right nuts for several years now with the climate change stuff. Just look at David´s post if you doubt this. He will undoubtedly be one of the people who buy the book.

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Posted by Chris1974 on 08/06/2009 at 3:18 PM

I guess I'm not sure, Chris. I haven't read it yet, and I didn't find anything that looked like a non-partisan review. The guy writes for a conservative website, but also used to work for the Washington Post.

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Posted by Pete Kotz on 08/06/2009 at 3:32 PM

Gore is the bigggest fraud going. Besides owning a huge chunk of Ocidentle Petroleum, he' gotten filthy rich with his carbon copany. Cap and Fraud is all about making a few people richer and pay the banker bailout. SEE what Dennis Kusinich has to say about Cap & Fraud. No wonder they tried to get him kicked off of the debates. He's honist

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Posted by Anonymous on 08/06/2009 at 8:56 PM

Let's remember that Pete also believed Mark Sanford's Appalachian Trail alibi. Woods may have talked him into it, but he bought it.
Kessler works for NewsMax and you're taking him seriously?

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Posted by Marvin on 08/06/2009 at 9:26 PM

My fiancee worked for Al Gore and he was and IS a PRIC*!!!!

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Posted by Mike Dietz on 08/06/2009 at 10:30 PM

Well, you got me there, Marvin. I guess I'm not inclined to believe a guy who used to work for the Washington Post is a partisan shill. But I also have a track record of gullibility.

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Posted by Pete Kotz on 08/07/2009 at 12:35 PM

Funny that Chris immediately runs to the rescue of his political hero.
And people want to build a statue to this clown. What a joke...

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Posted by Kevin on 08/11/2009 at 2:10 PM
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