Gore Banks Green from Green

Green giant Al Gore makes a pretty penny off of his environmental speaking engagements. The former veep raked in around $100,000 for a recent 75-minute speaking engagement at the University of California, San Diego, reports thesmokinggun.com by way of the L.A. Times.


What did the Big Greenie require during his stay? Only first-class air travel for himself and one companion; $1,000 per day for incidental expenses; security guards; and an environmentally-conscious vehicle for all road travel. The prima donna vice president also demanded that there be no press, video or audio taping of his appearance, and that he have full approval over all banners, logos, and communications materials for the event.

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61. Al Gore is the biggest Southern phony ! Southern Blur Blood's can't have homosexual
children ! He is SO GAY ! Gorw makes me Sick ! Some of the folks here are correct, about his Big house and jet expense's at the tax payer dollars. Making money on global warming, cause he can't make it in pollitic's anymore! Opportunist ALL THE WAY!
AL GORE, AIN'T WORTH 100,000.00 ! tHESE STUPID PEOPLE SHOULD APPLY
100,000.00 TOWARDS GREEN LIVING OR LOW COST GREEN LIVING HOMES FOR THE POOR, AND NOT HIS PHONY FAT AZZZZZ

Posted at 5:38PM on Jul 22nd 2007 by CALIFORNIA

62. TMZ - this is lame! What's your beef with Gore? It's getting a little ridiculous. Primadonna? Look who's talking.

And by the way to posters who continue to make fun of Mr. Gore about "inventing the internet." (1) he didn't actually say that look at the quote in the comments above, (2) he was key in drafting the legislation that established and funded Darpanet - the infrastructure that later became the backbone of the internet you're reading today.

Posted at 5:41PM on Jul 22nd 2007 by nan

63. This thread needs more cowbells!

Posted at 5:40PM on Jul 22nd 2007 by TheExpatriot

64. He has not changed his pompous attitude since he was VP...If he was really serious about being "green", I would expect him to step down to the all the other people who are working on the "green" issue....but he rather play the "emperor role" and ask for complete control...He should sell his current home and be more energy effective, if he truly is into the "geen" culture..

He also should be more involved with his family...He has a son who is addicted to drugs

would think he would be more involved with getting his son back

Posted at 8:19PM on Jul 22nd 2007 by JMJ

65. AMEN # 64 yOU HIT THE NAIL RIGHT ON THE HEAD OF THAT BIG FAT HYPOCRIT
CLOSET LOSER! Your right, he copuldn't even win tennessee ! Southern Blue Blood phony !
Fibiker is correct with comments made about Al the Load Gore \Gore Sucks

Posted at 5:43PM on Jul 22nd 2007 by CALIFORNIA

66. Those of you jealous-types who only come in here to berate people are obviously ill-informed. Anyone who has taken an environmental science class in THE LAST TEN YEARS would KNOW that global warming is not something someone just made up!

I'm fifty years old and they were talking about it when I was a kid so if you believe that Gore "invented" it you're sadly mistaken.

Here's a suggestion... get off the Internet and GO OUTSIDE FOR A WHILE! Then follow that with watching Mr. Gore's movie. You might learn something.

Posted at 8:44PM on Jul 22nd 2007 by Wolfie

67. Another phony is John Travolta ! He takes his big azzz jet all over the world, he will not fly
commerical. Think of the fuel he is wasting and polluting the environment ! Most of Hollywood and the White House leaders are big spender's, because they feel priviledged. They don't want to be inconvenienced, they all can say any ole horse crap.
Called acting and thats what senators and congress & actor's do best ! They have figured way to get paid the big bucks to be phonies !!!!
AL GORE, IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST PHONIES IN AMERICA! gORE MAKES ME SICK AND THAT WOOSIE VOICE OF HIS IS JUST AS BAD !!! YOU FIGURE HIM OUT!
GOD SPARE US FROM HIS POLITICAL VIEWS, CRAPOLA

Posted at 5:55PM on Jul 22nd 2007 by CALIFORNIA

68. His son gave me ass herpes and stole my xanax prescription.

Posted at 6:00PM on Jul 22nd 2007 by Sylvia

69. For a freakin $100,000, I'll put whatever banner I want to post...blow it out of your fat ass.

Posted at 6:22PM on Jul 22nd 2007 by TBA

70. Gore, Shmore... Outside of the "environmentally-conscious vehicle" he is still the same as everybody else. With all the inherited money he has, he still requires a grand of walk-around money? Why doesn't he give that to his precious charities instead? He might need to save up for his son's defense fund (seriously).

Posted at 6:09PM on Jul 22nd 2007 by Deanna

71. And people actually voted for this creep?

Posted at 6:10PM on Jul 22nd 2007 by Happy To Be Me

72. GORE IS A FRAUD ... AN OVERFEED PHONEY .. WHO NEGLECTED HIS DRUGGED OUT SON............................A VIRTUAL PHAMACY OF vicodin,xanax,soma and grass AT THE SAME TIME DRIVING 100mph WHEN HE COULD HAVE KILLED SOME PEOPLE.

LOOK BIG AL, AND TIPPER TOO......................PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR CRAZY SON .. I AM THINKING HE TOOK AFTER THE TWO OF YOU.

Posted at 6:09PM on Jul 22nd 2007 by VAL

73. After listening to Al Gore on Earth Day and as a joke I changed the light bulbs in my kitchen to those curly flourescent things. My light bill is pretty consistent and to my surprise it was $20 lower the next month. The kitchen lights are the ones most frequently left on in our house. So I have a supply and plan to switch out the rest of the bulbs as they burn out which seems to be more frequently as the years go by. It took a couple of days to get used to the flourescent but now we don't notice.

As far as how much he makes on these speaking engagements, so what? He gets what he gets. It's a market economy.

Posted at 6:17PM on Jul 22nd 2007 by Lillianne

74. The days when someone writes a book or makes a movie (like An Inconvenient Truth or Sicko) and expects the rest of us to cower and bow down to say "Well, that's the way it really is" are long gone. We have access to far more information via the internet (scientific papers etc) and participate in forums like this. No more can someone on either the right or left BS people to make a buck, or sway power over what we think or believe. Gore and other propagandists from all sides of the political spectrum are very slow to recognize this.

Posted at 6:18PM on Jul 22nd 2007 by It's Over

75.
WHY DO I FALL ASLEEP WHEN THIS GUY SPEAKS??

NASLDRONE NASLDRONENASDRONE.

Posted at 6:21PM on Jul 22nd 2007 by perry

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