‘The Shepherd Cries’: Al Gore Reads His Bleak Climate Change Poem

"Here are your tools."

December 11, 2009 at 10:13 am - CNN
Dateline: Washington, DC
Talen   December 11th, 2009 - 11:08 am

So Glenn Beck is the only fear monger ?

Al Gorelioni crime syndicate   December 11th, 2009 - 11:09 am

Al Gorelioni is the type of person defined in my Business classes as a “doomsdayer”. They totally believe in Keynesian economics that doesn’t work and that people are the cause of the universe’s problems. On top of it, this man is emotionally unstable.

VictorVictim   December 11th, 2009 - 11:11 am

This Guy Is Looking More And More Like A Psychopath

MagicMan   December 11th, 2009 - 11:14 am

Scooby Dooby Doo Where are you?

steve   December 11th, 2009 - 11:19 am

I’m not saying this because it’s Gore. I’m not saying this because I don’t believe in man made global warming.
His poem sucks.

steve   December 11th, 2009 - 11:22 am

One thin September soon
we’ll look up to the moon
thankful that some of us here
didn’t listen to that loon.

Please feel free to add on!

James K   December 11th, 2009 - 11:25 am

Torture

eamon   December 11th, 2009 - 11:30 am

The con game this criminal and his felonious cronies are playing make Madoff look like bully taking a kid’s lunch money. He should be in friggin’ jail.

M Todd   December 11th, 2009 - 11:37 am

Here IS a tool!

Lisa B.   December 11th, 2009 - 11:39 am

Yup, you’re right on that score… You are not a poet, and yes you really really do suck at the job.

m miller   December 11th, 2009 - 11:40 am

Gore displays desperate qualities. Initially he backs the theory of global warming. After the emails, he intimates that Copenhagen will not do enough. Moreover, he cancels his 1200.00 handshaking event in Copenhagen. Now he appears to the affective nature of humankind. Gore, Gore, Gore.

Dooley   December 11th, 2009 - 11:51 am

Al Gore = Chicken Little

He does NOT have a full deck.

SanFranciscoGo   December 11th, 2009 - 11:51 am

Embarassing, is he blushing or is that just global warming.

MagicMan   December 11th, 2009 - 11:52 am

James K December 11th, 2009 – 11:25 am

Torture

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Gitmo Detainee watching this on CNN: “No! No! Nooooo! Please! Waterboard me! Please!!”

RogerCfromSD   December 11th, 2009 - 11:53 am

Why is Al Gore not stoned on sight?

MagicMan   December 11th, 2009 - 11:53 am

BTW, is it me or does it look as if Al’s been to Pelosi’s plastic surgeon?

N1nestein   December 11th, 2009 - 11:57 am

Bleak days ahead
as winter’s grip grabs hold
if these are times of warming
then why is it so effing cold
doom and gloom
and more
from Gore
Bangladesh
just wants to settle the score
Human consumption is the cause
bringing on complete change in the weather
then next thing you know
dogs and cats will be living together!

Al Gore is a scary dude… I might have a nightmare and hang from tree in a flood after hearing his dire predictions.

jbone   December 11th, 2009 - 11:59 am

..he didn’t even mention manbearpig?

Kevin   December 11th, 2009 - 11:59 am

The biggest TOOL is reading the poem.

Ha Ha   December 11th, 2009 - 12:00 pm

The right idiots have come out of the woodwork to jump all over the emails that were hacked from a college in England. They had no idea what they were reading and made their own moronic interpretation to suit pro polluting point of view. Watch and enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch...

WARNING!! This might be way over the head of the typical right winger,since they tend to be less education and don’t believe in science anyway.

George California   December 11th, 2009 - 12:11 pm

My Name is Al Gore
Some know me as a Climate Whore

In Truth I’m something of a Chicken Little
The Sky is Falling The Sky is Falling and that’s No Riddle

Thank You,

Alfred Gore, Jr.
Climate Whore

Richard Sanitizer   December 11th, 2009 - 12:14 pm

Al Gore has lost what ever he had. He stands to make a lot money from “Cap & Trade.” He is a do as I say not as I do kind of idiot.

GeneralPatton   December 11th, 2009 - 12:22 pm

======================AND HERE IS WHAT algore is ’saying’ that he doesnt want YOU to hear–> http://www.infowars.com …Click LISTEN NOW and feast your ears!

IceCream Rover   December 11th, 2009 - 12:25 pm

Mr. Gore please keep up the fight. Mother earth has caught the Human Flue and it is up to us humans to cure Mother earth. The temperature spikes and frezzing chills have our Mother Earth laying in her sick bed wishing for the days when she was felling better. All of us need to stop consuming and start conserving and stop emmitting all that polution in our Mother earths atmosphere which is what is making her sick all the time. We progresives must be warriors in the fight aganst Climate change and lead the way in curing our Mother earth of the Human flue.

Webster   December 11th, 2009 - 12:29 pm

I am the hiphopapptomas, my lyrics are bottomless.

SanFranciscoGo   December 11th, 2009 - 12:45 pm

That they just made a last minute change to the “Goremobile”
heated seats are going be standard equipment.

txmike   December 11th, 2009 - 12:58 pm

Fat moron Al Gore lies
A shepherd cries
CNN tries to support the lies
Americans with common sense roll their eyes.

txmike   December 11th, 2009 - 12:59 pm

Tyrants do not deserve a trial they deserve swift justice

anne can   December 11th, 2009 - 1:04 pm

“Beware the Jabberwock , my son, the jaws that bite, the claws that catch!

Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun the frumious Bandersnatch!”

Gore: what a phony moron   December 11th, 2009 - 1:13 pm

This guy DESERVES to be plane wrecked in the Artic…

He’ll be praying his fat azz off for some “global warming”

Talen   December 11th, 2009 - 1:17 pm

@Ha Ha

Where’s the substance to your argument? We right wingers may not be a smart lot according to you, but at least we can handle the simple task of posting a youtube link.

And you leftist hate these hacked emails with such fervor because it stands as your biggest enemy…the truth. It exposed your entire global warming campaign as a giant hoax, and everyone can see it for themselves. How can you possibly explain this being anything other than a giant bamboozling of the world. Your defense of it just proves the fact that YOU have not read the emails and source code. I bet you believe the latest email in the bunch was 10 years old. Wake up FFS. Get rid of the Us vs Them mentality and think for yourself for a change. Stop letting MSNBC and the rest of the leftist do your thinking for you.

kmichaels   December 11th, 2009 - 1:23 pm

He is not a poet.
He is not a scientist.
He is not a true believer.

What the hell is he then, besides
a money grubbing hypocrite and
idiot liar.

Dave, Tn   December 11th, 2009 - 1:46 pm

See SAW
See SAW
See SAW
I thought I SAW a SAW (self aggrandizing wh0re)
I did
I did See a SAW
See SAW
See SAW

steve   December 11th, 2009 - 2:08 pm

There once was a man from Nantucket…

Bob   December 11th, 2009 - 2:09 pm

He needs to go to jail for the rest of his days, for this BS.

Anne   December 11th, 2009 - 2:23 pm

How many millions does he make from running around the world perpetrating this hoax?

NewOrleansAnn   December 11th, 2009 - 2:27 pm

…proving once again, the insane have the keys to the asylum.

Desiree   December 11th, 2009 - 2:34 pm

liar liar
pants on fire
hang this azzhat with a telephone wire

ChuckyCheese1   December 11th, 2009 - 2:54 pm

Yes America, here are your “tools”

Hard Hitting Journalism   December 11th, 2009 - 2:54 pm

You have to admire the hard hitting journalism on CNN AM. “the most news in the morning”!

“Mr Vice President, first things first, We want to know why you write this poem, Are you trying for Poet Laureate?”

I am surprised that Gore didn’t stop and say,

Ooh, that is a tough question but a fair one!

Were does CNN get these Bimbo’s? And just exactly who are writing the words that they mouth? Come on! What is this slo-pitch softball? You have the guy and a microphone in his face, a guy that controls the media like a cold war Russian or Chinese Communist leader. Just ask him the hard questions, make him explain and support the reason MAN MADE global warming is real, and why we all need to submit to a global government treaty that will seriously affect our lives, dismantle our economy, and ship 2% of our GDP abroad to developing nations.

Not read a poem, and show made up movies of an Armageddon future with dead polar bears, tsunamis, and death, designed to brainwash the gullible and frighten small children.

Make your case, allow debate, and if you are right then you are right. But don’t deal off the bottom of the deck with rigged data, to enrich yourself and make political deals.

Ann   December 11th, 2009 - 3:21 pm

News you probably won’t see in the government-sponsored, liberal media:

http://climatescienceinternational.org/
COPENHAGEN, Dec. 8 /CNW Telbec/ – The International Climate Science Coalition
“Causes of Climate Change not ‘Settled’: Scientists
UN Challenged to Provide Sound Evidence for Catastrophic Forecasts”

http://www.copenhagenclimatechallenge.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=64
Copanhagen Climate Challenge Signatories, 10 December 2009
(List of 141 International Scientists)

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/thank-heavens-cap-and-trade-is-dead/story-e6frg6zo-1225808817696
“Thank heavens cap and trade is dead,” December 10, 2009

RobertB   December 11th, 2009 - 3:57 pm

I’d pay good money to see him read it beer drunk Bukowski-style.

talkerme   December 11th, 2009 - 4:17 pm

Can we just forget him?

Badpoetrysociety   December 11th, 2009 - 8:48 pm

One obese ex VP soon
A fraud disappears
From our media screens

Cheers rise as
Science harpoons itself
And the whale, Al Gore, is disappearing quickly

Then people breathe free
As air is not taxed
For the governmental greed

.. Common sense declares
The hour of fraud has arrived
Here are your ballots

Talen   December 11th, 2009 - 9:36 pm

Don’t you just love it when you ask a liberal to provide substance to their mindless argument and they suddenly drop off the comments page? Reminds me of cockroaches scurrying from a freshly flipped light switch in a dark kitchen in the middle of the night. I guess MSNBC didn’t tell them how to answer the questions.

Cygnus   December 11th, 2009 - 10:48 pm

I’ve got $100 that say he wins a Pulitzer for this poem. Any takers?

Valora   December 12th, 2009 - 10:35 am

Oh No! The world is ending, here Al, take all my money, use it with your other billion to save our planet, take all America’s taxes too, take it dear Al, save us, save us, save us!!!

Campbell   December 12th, 2009 - 10:40 am

For steve, the poet above!! More about Al

That loon is singing quite a tune,
of floods, torment, all coming soon,
With billions growing, his eco-fortune,
he rides his private jet, varoom, varoom!

AD   December 12th, 2009 - 10:10 pm

What a crock. The poem sucks and so does he. How many copies of this toilet paper did he sell?

Radioman 777   December 12th, 2009 - 11:47 pm

Actually, there is a good use for Gore’s “poem”. Keep mp3’s on hand in every emergency room for poisoning victims. When induced vomiting is called for, play the poem. If that doesn’t work, then play the video, where the victim will have added visual stimuli.

pocorosso   December 13th, 2009 - 10:49 am

In the words and actions of Al Gore is revealed the core reality of the Democrat Party, which reality, curiously enough, is sham. They set nothing before the country, in the way of policy, that is not a con behind which hides the ulterior motive of their entrenchment in power, the power to manipulate the world’s biggest economy for factional and personal advantage.The Democrat Party leadership, local, state and national, is motivated by the basest of self interest, which means that the truth about any of the many crises that confront us simply will not be engaged, as irrelevant to getting to the desired end.A vote in 2010 for any Democrat is a vote for the howling-mad stupidity embodied in this poem, the stupidity of those, Pelosi, Reed, Kerry, Obama, run the whole list yourself, who spend their entire lives practicing the belief that mendacious falsehood serves one better than being true.Their collectivist, statist governance is necessarily failure because it is false.

Jan   December 13th, 2009 - 1:22 pm

Reading the comments here the human species doesn’t deserve this beautiful planet we are trashing. And if most Americans had an IQ above 50 they would be able to understand the poem and more importantly the book which was well researched and written. But I suppose it is much easier to devolve back to simply trashing that which you don’t have the intelligence to comprehend. What an embarrassment this country is.

Jan   December 13th, 2009 - 3:26 pm

When I read the poem which is at the end of the introduction I was pleasantly surprised. It is a beautiful, evocative, yet sad narrative on the world we live in, with a hope that the tools we have at our disposal will be used to turn it around. I also agree that using poetry and music to bring out this message are all successful ways to evoke responses that lead to action. I then wrote a small piece in response to his poem to show that I agree with the urgency and the hope:

This dagger placed at her heart
carving out coldness
floating through time
melting into infinity

Night falls on desolate land
wasting bones
withered sands
shaped by hands
that knew better

Water now runs slow
thirsting for life
against time
dispensed for folly

We the stewards
never seeing
what lies ahead
striving only
for pleasure of the now

One last breath
as leaves give way
to ill winds
a heart broken
a trust betrayed

As fate slips into the abyss
hope now our last refuge
passion our imperative

Our voices the sound
of silence
in a universe devoid of time

Destiny a feeble reminder of weakness
or yet perhaps,
a promise of tomorrow.
COPYRIGHT-Jan Moore-2009

Thanks Mr. Gore.

Don’t let the uneducated turkeys get you down. For anyone actually following what is going on beyond their own doorsteps and not saturated in reality TV and FOX NEWS this is a major global crisis that needs our urgent attention. Not only because of climate change, but because of the pollution and health effects of burning fossil fuels. Hopefully those responding here and elsewhere on the Internet with the same spiel are not indicative of the majority of world citizens, otherwise we are truly cooked.

Regor   December 15th, 2009 - 12:35 am

Jan, jan, jan. When will you understand this is NOT about the climate or the environment. It’s about MONEY and CONTROL!!!! Al Gore is a denier. He denies that our climate has always changed and it always will. CO2 is NECESSARY for plants to thrive. If we cut back on CO2 like the Warmers want to, the plants won’t be happy.

Nathan S.   December 15th, 2009 - 8:51 am

Guys,

He is crying because his book only sold 40,000 copies and Palin’s has sold a million.

Jan Oh Jan...   December 15th, 2009 - 9:47 am

Please open your eyes Jan… And there isn’t any reason to copyright your poem, it’s worse than Al Goracles. And that’s tough to beat!

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