Gore’s Running!
He's crisscrossing the country campaigning like mad. He's making speech after speech and appearing on any media outlet he can. He's courting likely voters any way he can, even planning an appearance via satellite hookup right in people's living rooms. And if all goes according to his plans he's get the big nod he's seeking!
That's right, Gore is expending presidential campaign-like amounts of energy trying to get an Oscar nomination for his movie, An Inconvenient Truth.
NEW YORK - Al Gore is waging a fierce campaign for recognition and an Oscar statuette for his global warming documentary, while reviving talk that he's pursuing a bigger prize: the presidency.
His recent itinerary has been the ultimate in high profile. The former vice president made self-deprecating jokes on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno," offered ideas on preserving the environment to Oprah Winfrey and her daytime audience and parried questions on Iraq from Matt Lauer on the "Today" show.
This Saturday Gore is hosting a network of 1,600 house parties across the country to watch and discuss his documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," with the Democrat planning to address the gatherings by satellite hookup. The movie is on the short list of feature-length documentaries being considered for Oscar nominations.
Crisscrossing the country to promote the DVD version of the movie — just in time for holiday gift-giving — Gore insists that he's not planning a return to politics.
"I am not planning to run for president again," Gore said last week, arguing that his focus is raising public awareness about global warming and its dire effects. Then, he added: "I haven't completely ruled it out."
Those words make Gore the 800-pound non-candidate of the Democratic field. The possibility of another presidential bid delights many Democrats still steamed over the disputed 2000 election, in which they argue a few more votes, a state other than Florida and a different Supreme Court could have put Gore, not George W. Bush, in the White House.
Now, someone who was a tad cynical might question the amount of carbon emissions being generated by "crisscrossing the country" in search of an Oscar nomination. But logical consistency was never Gore's strong suit. But aside from the distinctly carbon non-neutral campaign he is conducting to try and claim a statuette, there's one other thing to keep in mind about Darth Algore. As the self-proclaimed person responsible for the internet, he must, therefore, also bear partial responsibility for the invention of spam. (Also, according to this picture, his wiring appears to be coming loose.)
