“An Inconvenient Truth,” which turned Gore’s lectures on the threat of global warming into a highly touted theatrical release, won the Academy Award for best documentary feature Sunday night.
Singer Melissa Etheridge also received the Oscar for best original song, “I Need to Wake Up,” which was written for the movie.
And the teaser:
But as he started to read from a piece of paper that he would “formally announce my intention … ” the orchestra started playing — the signal that an award recipient’s time for his acceptance speech is up.
Readers, did any of you see this? What’s up with it?
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Who knew Al could be so coy?
What a tease! He will make you beg.
One thing’s for sure, he’s not trying to quiet the rumor mill at this point. Quite the opposite, I’d say. This story ain’t over yet…
But I still believe
And I will rise up with fists!!
Gore humor
Take it for what it was, they were trying to be funny. Sure, Al Gore announcing his candidacy is something we are all hoping for, drooling for. But if he does announce, you can bet it will be on a far more dramatic stage than that one. And when and if he does I’m going to want to be there because it might turn out to be one of the most dramatic moments in American history. It will be interesting because I’m certain he senses the strong desire for him to run in and amongst our progressive circles but the bigger part of the electorate doesn’t have a clue that he still exists. I’ve got my “Draft Gore” bumper sticker mounted. I hope people notice.
Yes, It was A Joke
He starts to make an announcement and then orchestra interrupts as a signal that he’s going over his time limit; everyone there got it. You could hear the sounds of rightwing heads exploding across the nation.
in all seriousness- now is too soon for him to announce
al has an advantage that few candidate will ever (or perhaps not, in the age of internet money) have: the nanosecond he announced, money people great and small will open their wallets.
it’s rather clear that al has what all of hillary’s triangulating won’t buy- loyal, devoted, “drooling” supporters who really, really, really want him to run. i suppose one way to put it is to compare al to a prom queen, and a large portion of this nation to the football star who got her all the way to third base, back in sophmore year. so tantilizing, so near, yet so far.
what will it take to make her put out? and like any good tease, she knows to keep baiting her prince. winning awards, becoming ever more popular…eventually, the football star will do anything to get her to say yes. no matter how expensive.
that’s how i see al. he may in fact decide not to put out, to walk away from the high school politics, to move on to his own life. but for now, time is on his side. every day he doesn’t quite say “yes” and doesn’t quite say “no,” all of us wait around with an itch we cannot scratch, no matter how many non-queen cheerleaders we do get to have.
Pure Theatre
And damn good theatre, to boot.
And no, SSS, he sure doesn’t seem to be trying to quell the rumor-mill.
More from Al, please!
Eesh, CD
Feminizing Al? An effective rhetorical strategy, you think? Plays right along with the SCLM
’s “coy,” seems to me.
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well, the metaphor (simile?) just doesn't work if it's about
coy football player and a slutty, desperate cheerleader, now does it?
i was just being cutesy. al’s All Man, i’m sure. i’m sure we don’t need to have an argument about why it’s a “bad thing” to “feminize” a man either. because i know you don’t really buy into that.
Yes, I couched my objection terms of rhetorical strategy
But suppose Maureen Dowd were, along with many other celebrities and red meat enthusiasts, a Corrente reader. Naomi Wolf all over again, eh?
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