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Al Gore video posted on eve of Iowa caucuses

by Christian Grantham - 9:17 pm January 2, 2008

Watch this video on [shorts] of Al Gore posted just minutes ago on YouTube by WarnerBrosRecords on the eve of the Iowa caucuses. The video and timing of the post raises Gore’s environmental cause as Democrats and Republicans face voters tomorrow in Iowa.

In the video, Al Gore talks about “the seven point pledge.” He stopped counting, but there is an inaudible moment in the video. What did he say?

“I pledge: 1) to demand my nation join an international treaty within two years to cut global warming polution by 90% in developed countries and by more than half world wide. Now the second part of the pledge is a little more personal. 2) I pledge to reduce my CO2 polution as much as I can and offset the rest in order to become carbon neutral. The other parts of the pledge focuses on things like renewable energy, conservation, planting trees, and protecting rainforests, fighting for legislation, new laws, new policies to greatly increase energy efficiency. Also, on the personal side the focus is on my home, my school, my work, my place of worship, [—-inaudible—-] to make sure those changes are underway there as well.”
[YOUTUBE: Live Earth - The Concerts for a Climate in Crisis - Al Gore - 01-02-07]

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  1. Comment by Dick — January 2, 2008 @ 9:54 pm

    Where you have an “[—-inaudible—-]” put this: “I’m going to stop talking about my plan now…”



  2. Comment by Rob — January 2, 2008 @ 10:45 pm

    The inaudible phrase starts out “my community,” then Mr. Gore mumbles, “or as we say at my Communist Party meetings, my soviet.”



  3. Comment by brewski — January 3, 2008 @ 1:24 am

    This is an old video from the Live Earth concerts. I listened to it and could find nothing unusual. Where you say it’s inaudible, he says “my community”.



  4. Comment by Christian — January 3, 2008 @ 6:18 am

    The video might be old, but the timing on posting by WarnerBrosRecords to their YouTube channel is part of a larger strategy by Gore to position his environmental cause in the public policy debates during the presidential elections. You might not see it now as the very first, subtle move, but in context of the others to come it will become more apparent. Gore is his own 527 at this point.



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