Al Gore: Winning Oscar More Important Than Ending Darfur Slaughter
PENGUIN POLITICS
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=11041
Former Vice President Al Gore has been spending the bulk of his time
campaigning hard with voting members of the Academy for Motion Picture
Arts, committing more than $500,000 of his own money to the PR
campaign set up to win him an Oscar.
When Gore and his aides were approached about providing similar dollar
amounts in support of ending the slaughter in Darfur, he declined, say
fundraisers for the Darfur initiative.
It isn't surprising, then, that Gore is willing to overlook other
inconvenient angles in his pursuit to end global warming. Despite
advice from some of his environmental advisers, Gore is insisting that
there be a musical performance of some kind from Antarctica during the
July 7th "Inconvenient Truth" 24-hour concert to end global warming.
"He has people saying that it would send the wrong message to do
anything down there for commercial purposes, but he wants this multi-
continent concert and this is what he's demanding," says a source
involved in the planning and promotion for the concert.
