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Tucker "Bow Tie" Carlson just did a segment of Al Gore in the Political Alert titled Where's Al Gore,he mentioned about the 2000 election when gore lost,plus he mentioned on all the speeches that gore is making and he concluded by calling gore an embarrassment. Paul Begala did his best to defend gore and fire back at tucker but carlson kept on talking and wouldn't give begala a chance to respond.

I say to mr bow tie that he,his buddy bush and the rest of the republicans party are an embarrassment for their lies and are a bunch of idiots.

I can't stand Robert Novak & Tucker Carlson! :sport:

Carlson must not have gotten the GOP talking points on Gore. The other night on FAUX they were saying that he was Kerry's attack dog.

He is himself an embarassment, those that make fun of others are doomed to eventually listen and follow. Question is how long will it take for the people to cut through the film of laughs and strike to the heart of issues that ONLY Gore is bringing to the people?

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Here is the actual transcript:

CARLSON: Well, if you listen carefully to this show, and we know that you do, then you've heard the claim many times -- George W. Bush stole the 2000 election. That means Al Gore really won, and that means Al Gore is actually, at this very moment, the president of the United States.

OK, let's take that claim seriously just for a minute. If Al Gore really is the rightful winner and the current president, where is he? Why isn't Al Gore standing shoulder to shoulder with John Kerry at all of their events? Why isn't Gore's face on every single Democratic television commercial, or even one? Why, according to "Roll Call," has only a single Democratic candidate this season called to ask for Gore's help campaigning? Why, in other words, are Democrats so embarrassed of the man they claim to love? You know the reason, of course. Because deep down, even Democrats know that Al Gore is pretty embarrassing.

BEGALA: Well, we love Al Gore, but we also democracy. Let me make my point before you...

(CROSSTALK)

BEGALA: Let me make my point before you attack.

CARLSON: Oh, you love democracy.

BEGALA: Democracy. In a democracy, it used to be, the old- fashioned way, you get more votes than the other guy...

(CROSSTALK)

BEGALA: ... you get to win the election.

CARLSON: Just answer the question.

BEGALA: President Bush now is banging on Mr. Edwards for being a trial lawyer. If it weren't for lawyers, George Bush wouldn't be in the White House. He lost the election and won a lawsuit.

CARLSON: It's not...

(CROSSTALK)

CARLSON: It actually makes for a buoyant conversation. My conversation is, where is Gore? He should be a political hero.

BEGALA: He's speaking out on public issues with great courage and clarity. You would do well to read and listen to what he says.

CARLSON: I've listened to every speech.

BEGALA: He's speaking the truth, something pretty rare out of Mr. Bush...

CARLSON: I know, but (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Why haven't more candidates asked for his help? It's an interesting question.

I think Tucker Carlson should divorce his wife and marry Ann Coulter so they can rip each other to shreds.

But, I hate to admit it, and I know I'm going to get creamed for saying this, Carlson does have a point. It's true that the Democratic leadership continues to act as if Gore is an embarrassment rather than the rightful president of the United States. Yes, a few here and there (including Kerry) have publicly referred to him as the man who should be president now, but it's almost as if they are so embarrassed by what happened in 2000 that they try to downplay the whole thing. I suppose it could be something other than embarrassment, though. I suppose we could look at it as them trying not to look like sore "losers" (I use that term loosely here--they did not lose) by bringing up the theft of the election all the time, especially since it's such a contentious issue. But unfortunately I think it gives the public appearance of embarrassment, which is very damaging. I just wish Gore had run this time so he could boot Bush out and we could prove that the people had wanted Gore all along, not Bush.

Of course there are some that are embarassed. It drives me crazy when independents like Bill Maher say 'Get over it'.

One thing I like about Paul Begla is that he never shys away from the subject. Just the other day he chided Carlson saying that Bush should like trial lawyers like Edwards because they are the one who got him appointed to the Presidency.

There also could be those that believe in what Gore said, that elections should be about the future and not the past.

This is a letter I sent to Tucker Carlson at Cnn. From our site:


Jun 25th, 2004:
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Regarding the episode of Crossfire, dated June 24, 2004, and the comments from Tucker Carlson and guests that Al Gore's speech was "over the top" and "hysterical."

Mr. Carlson,

How much do you really know about the constitution and the intent of our founding fathers in crafting it? How much do you know about checks and balances in this govt.? Obviously not enough to debate it like an adult, so once again you resort to childish insults of a man who does know and who has served this country well for many years. Once again, Al Gore delivered a speech of truth, fact and brilliance about the erosion of this nation's soul at the hands of the Bush misadministration. So on target was it, that once again RW pundits like yourself couldn't wait to start your propaganda that Mr. Gore's speech was, "over the top" and, "hysterics" without even discussing the words in it! My, how afraid of the truth you all are! It was Bush who said he wouldn't mind if this were a dictatorship as long as he were the dictator... With the help of his minions and Congress he is getting what he wants, and it will be the partisanship of the political hacks in this country like you who enable it even more. Are you truly proud of yourself for that? Do you truly believe should Bush assume all the power he seeks, that you and your cohorts will somehow be rewarded for your enabling? How foolish. Absolute power is simply that, absolute.

Those who would call Mr. Gore's speeches that warn us of the impending oligarchy based on history "hysterics", clearly have absolutely no idea what our founding fathers really had in mind when framing our constitution. I think you all better start reading and listening. According to the power Bush has already, ANY American can be arrested, labeled an "enemy combatant", and tortured in a prison by Bush's command. Any one of us. Do you even realize the constitutional weight of all of this? And you enable it with your partisan rancor and denial, rather than discussing it seriously as it should be discussed. Al Gore's sincere words of truth are hysterics? What does that then make your inane banter? This is no political game being played here. This is a struggle for the very Representative Democracy you say our young men and women die in Iraq for. And yet, you would mock a man who would care for that and what led us there? A man who has more foreign policy experience than you can ever hope to have? How dare you.

BTW, when are you signing up to go over to Iraq if you think it such a noble cause? I'm sure they would let you wear your bow tie under your kevlar vest. How about you put some muscle behind your empty words for once, instead of using them to condemn a man who was elected this country's President four years ago, and knows of what he speaks? How about you refute his claims instead of always stooping to this cheap tactic of questioning his mental state, when we all know that is just BS on the part of the media that does all in its power to kiss Bush's rear. You can posture and cover for Bush all you like. However, he has already proven what a liar, warmonger and opportunist he is. 54% of Americans now believe it was a mistake to send troops to Iraq, and that we are no safer. They sure must pay you well at Crossfire to keep your conscience from bothering you. Al Gore is a Patriot standing up for the constitution and for this nation. I can only hope as you grow older, you will begin to understand that there is no price you can put on such integrity.

Jan Moore
Chairperson,
Patriots For Gore
www.patriotsforgore.com

That response will REALLY put him in his place! Sarcasm off. :dripple: :dripple:

I see you have a sense of humor yourself do you yay. :D

There is nothing more humorous than seeing that uninformed little pischer sitting in a bow tie trying to look intelligent. Methinks it's a bit too tight around his neck. Also notice for all his talk, he is still sitting in that cozy little studio and not out on the front lines in Iraq breaking international law like Rumsfeld is commanding... Just like all the flag draped Ford Bronco bigmouth armchair warriors who spend their lives trashing REAL men who did serve...and the pseudo-macho chickenhawks with names like "Dick," (how fitting) who hide behind "other obligations" to cover for the yellow streaks down their backs.
Jan
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Based on the actual transcript, I think Paul Begala did a great job of defending Al Gore and exposing Carlson for the hypocrite slime that he is. Sorry earthmother but you need to understand that the leadership of the democratic party doesn't in any way want to fight back against the Bush election stealers. They're trying to disappear Al Gore and the stolen 2000 election in the same way that the former Soviet Union used to re-write history in order to hid the bad things that it had done. Throughout my lifetime, the democratic party claimed to be the champion of the rights of african americans and women and they talked the talk but they clearly and flatly refused to walk the walk and defend the voting rights of those they had claimed to champion whose votes were now not being counted in Florida in 2000. Our country is paying a needless and terrible price for the refusal of the democratic party leadership to fight back against the stolen 2000 election and Bush's disasterous policies since. The leadership of the democratic party is following in the footsteps of the non-nazis in the german parliment who did nothing to stop Hitler when they had the chance to do so in the early 1930's. I fear that our countryis now headed down the same terrible road that Germany went down because the democratic party is now funded and run by the anti Gore, pro republican pro big business, republican imersonating DLC wing of the party and is no longer the party of we the people. It's the DLC who doesn't want Al Gore because they don't want anyone to stand up for we the people and against the powerful like Al Gore is doing.

Paul Begala tries, but he doesn't defend Al Gore the way he should. Tucker Carlson and Robert Novak are horrible. The things they say about the real president are unacceptable. I no longer watch Crossfire because of these comments made against Al Gore. As far as the stolen 2000 election, I will never "get over it" or forgive for it.

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