A few choice quotes from the article:

The rest of the article is here: ABC News

Thanks for supplying the link, 0wn. I didn't get to GMA until 7:45 this morning, and Gore had already been on.

An even longer article has been posted with small excerpts from Gore's book:

There is much more at this link: ABC News: 4-page article

The original link you provided had a video clip of the interview, so that's the best thing!

I was waiting to see how he'd be answering "the question" during these interviews. He's changed it from, "I'm involved in a different kind of campaign (climate crisis)" to "I'm not a candidate." On the face of it, that sounds serious to us, but it's true--he's not a candidate. Not now. He still hasn't said he's not going to BE a candidate. General Sherman doesn't appear to be with him right now. Let's hope he stays away! :lol:

Thanks for the article.

I watched the interview up to the break...Sawyer said Gore would be back in the next segment, but instead we got the Nancy Reagan stuff. Did Al come back on? What happened?

Nagasakee:

No he wasn't back on. Her statement completely fooled me too. I believe Gore was attacking the MSM pretty hard and Sawyer cut the interview short.

I waited thru the entire program also, for his return. :wtf:

BUT, STRONG WORDS FROM OUR GUY TODAY! :good:

Al was trying really hard to stay on message about the book. I think Diane made a mistake in pushing so hard and continually bringing the interview back around to whether he'd be running. Gore even made a negative comment about the backdrop, which said "Campaign '08." I think he was kind of pissed that she wasn't asking so much about the book as she was about whether he would run. Hopefully other interviewers will take their cue from this and let him talk about the book. :rolleyes:

I thought I had left the house before he was on, but I guess I just didn't turn GMA on early enough and missed him earlier rather than later. Hubby had CNN on for a while. I thought Al would be on later in the show.

He must have been on quite early. I turned it on at 7:45, and he'd already been on. But he's giving that huge speech in San Diego tonight, so I guess he had to fly out early.

I'm actually hoping not that many people saw the GMA interview. It wasn't the best.

Our local ABC affiliate had a lunchtime segment on Al Gore possibly running in 2008.

They talked about a recent poll where 75% of Americans thought our country was on the wrong track. Al Gore's new book was featured where they directly said what Gore has written about Bush's illegal spying, the Iraq war, incompetence in regards to 9-11 and Hurricane Katrina, and so on. They mentioned a quote in which Gore wrote that Bush was "profoundly unfit" to lead America. Then they mentioned how Al Gore has not ruled out running in 2008, how this fall may be his last chance to run, and how many Democrats are looking for him to do just that.

Coming from ABC, I thought it was decent. ;)

I thought that Gore did very well in the interview, but Sawyer wanted to bring up negative parts of the book that was taken out of context, and Gore would not let her do it. He kept her feet to the fire. I understood that they would run Nancy Reagan's interview starting tomorrow, but they started it today because Diane was not getting from Gore what she wanted.

NO, he didn't and I sat and watched the rest of the show with that stupid dancing and Nancy Reagan stuff.

I only watched the rest, because I heard and thought the same thing that there was more of the interviev with AL, and EM was right, it wasn't the best interview.

The backdrop WAS totally inappropriate. :bad:

Yeah, it was, and I think it pissed him off, as well it should have.

And so was the 'weight' topic, I'm so sick of it. :bad:

He covered well on the weight topic, but she really shouldn't have brought that up. The more I think about the interview, the more I'm surprised he didn't get really pissed off at her. But he's good at this type of thing, and he handled it well. I just hope Larry King is better tomorrow night.

I hear he's also on Nightline tonight, but that's past my bedtime! :o

I thought the Nightline interview went pretty well. For one, the 2008 questions didn't seem annoyingly inappropriate, because that was the main thing they were billing the interview as, instead of saying the main talk was about his book.

The most interesting part of the interview was when they were talking (peripherally) about efforts to draft Gore. The interviewer (Terry Moran, I believe) had been asking Gore about his statement that there were events that could possibly bring him into the race. The conversation went something like this.

MORAN: But if a group of prominent Democrats, a large group, came to you, and said, this is your time, your country needs you-

GORE: That doesn't happen anymore.

MORAN: But if it did, would you say no?

GORE: I'm not a candidate.




My memory might be a little hazy, as it was late, so I probably didn't catch everything said, but that stuck in my mind, along with Al talking about why he won't make a Sherman statement.

It was an amazing interview on GMA (missed Nightline darn it!). I have always respected Diane Sawyer, but lost nearly all respect for her and ABC (and I LOVED watching Peter Jennings) during the interview. The backdrop was just wrong and I applaud Gore's brass ones for commenting upon it.

The crawler underneath kept showing Gore says Bush "genuinely unfit to lead nation" and "Gore On the Attack"...completely missing Gore's "thesis" that news is about the horse-race and personality attacks. I was shocked that Diane apparently didn't get it...she ran with her pre-conceived approach ("Gore angry with Bush, slams him") Gore's approach be damned. She actually said the book was "about George Bush...and (as an afterthought) ...also about democracy" OMG!

Tonight it will be even worse....CNN keeps running the teaser promo... "Is Al Gore Running for President" and initiated a text messaging contest last night at the end of Larry King..."Should Al run?" saying they will give him the results on <tonights> program. I love Al getting coverage but the approach from both networks (and yes, I admit it, I watch CNN too) is exactly what Al says is the problem...

I thought Al showed good humanity is his laugh about Sawyer's question on his weight issues. He again called her on it. I wondered if Al was such a hard interview that GMA bailed on it and ran with the dance contest fluff later...and for longer than what they spent with Al. Or it could be he just had other places to go...he seemed surprised when she indicated they would go into the next segment...

Anyway...I will watch tonight and hope, hoping Al leaves the door a little more ajar. I am going to send an email question in..."Al could you please speculate on what conditions would take to get you to run, under what scenario" but I doubt it would either get asked or answered.

Sigh...

I actually wish they would STOP asking him whether he's running. He's made it abundantly clear. He's not now a candidate. Leave the guy alone and talk about his book.

I was encouraged, however, by the fact that he said he's "grateful" when supporters ask him to run. That at least makes me feel better about the organized events we have at the book-signings where we're getting as many people as possible to wear Gore 2008 buttons and stickers. But that's different from them hammering him on TV about whether he's running. I wish they'd just let him talk about the book.

And Moran said last night on Nightline that Gore was calling Bush "a liar." Gore was obviously very uncomfortable with that. He tried to work his way out of it, but I'm not sure how effective it was. Actually, the interview was edited to take out Moran's hammering away at that point (I saw the unedited version of that exchange in the promo clip ABC posted before airing the interview). I'm glad they edited it the way they did.

Al Gore was on GMA again this morning with te second installment of the Sawyer interview. It focused more on the book.

There is a new article at Huffington Post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/a...-a_b_49039.html

The GMA interview can be found at this link

http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/Story?id=3196881&page=2

...but, if you click "MORE VIDEOS" link at the lower-right corner of the little video player, it opens a window with a column called, "CHANNELS." Toward the bottom of that list is a "Nightline" link. Click that and it opens up a sub-menu. If you click the "Nightline Online" link, there are two other videos on Gore. One is the Nightline segment and the other is a webcast, behind the scenes of the interview. Neither is earth-shaking, but interesting.

Vote in this poll:

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/BeSeenBeHea...opup?id=3199911

DOES GORE HAVE A SHOT AT THE PRESIDENCY?

Former Vice President Al Gore has never been more popular, prompting speculation that the champion of climate change could become a leading presidential contender.

If Gore ran for office, do you think he would have a shot at winning?


Yes. He's seen as passionate not stiff and is popular with the American public.

Um, he already won once. The question is can he do it again?

No. He is popular because he's espoused one issue, not because he can tackle the nation's woes.


These are the three choices given in this poll.

Did anyone else catch Gore's quip about violent revolution after Moran asked why he didn't do more to oppose the Supreme Court decision in 2000?

Guess I somehow missed that. What did he say?

Al Gore quote from Nightline:

"Look, we're a year and half away from this election," he said, "[I] see no need to say, 'OK. I'm not ever going to even think about that in the future.'"

He was talking about why he conceded gracefully instead of fighting it further.

Oh, yeah, I did catch that. Because he didn't want people to lose faith in their system of government. Which has happened now anyway because of Bush & Co. . . . <_<

Well, Moran asked him what he thought about people saying he should have fought harder during and in the aftermath of the Bush v. Gore decision. He noted that he didn't think there was much more room to fight the Supreme Court short of a violent revolution.


Of course, if Gore, or for that matter, Americans in general, had known that six years under George Bush would have seen one of the most incompetent, corrupt, and perhaps criminal, administrations since Richard Nixon's, perhaps an uprising would have been considered a good idea. :mad:

Yeah, well we all know hindsight is 20/20 . . .

What happened at CNN? The last fifteen minutes of Gore's interview went black.

I didn't have that happen.

Maybe your service provider lost their feed?

EDIT: Larry King informed Al at the end of their show that the CNN live poll had said either.. er, 82% or 88% of those polled said he should run. Curse my inability to remember numbers...