| June 22, 2008 | -
Al Gore endorsed Obama, as did Donatella Versace, whose spring-summer 2009 men's line, which includes slim pants with a “slick techno-fabric sheen,” is dedicated to the candidate.
| Source 1:
The Hill
Source 2:
AP via Yahoo
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| May 29, 2008 | - La Scala announced that it will produce Al Gore's “An Inconvenient Truth” as an opera.
| Source:
Breitbart
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| November 25, 2007 | -
Al Gore visited the White House,.
| Source:
ABC
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| October 15, 2007 | - Six million dollars in Nobel Prizes were awarded to: a pair of physicists who discovered giant magnetoresistance; a chemist who created a method for studying surface chemical reactions such as rust; three doctors who used stem cells to deactivate mouse genes; three economists who study malfunctioning markets; novelist Doris Lessing; and documentary film star Al Gore, who, along with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, was cited for efforts “to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract [climate] change.”
| Source:
Nobelprize.org
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| October 15, 2007 | - Former aides to Gore told the press that he was unlikely to join the presidential race because he thinks Hillary Clinton is unstoppable.
| Source:
Telegraph
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| August 30, 2007 | -
India's Khasi tribespeople announced that they would honor Al Gore's cinematic excellence at a “People's Parliament” held in a sacred forest.
| Source:
BBC
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| July 7, 2007 | - Al Gore Jr. was arrested for possessing both pills and pot after he was pulled over for driving 100mph in his hybrid car. At Gore's father's 24-hour, seven-continent Live Earth concert for the environment, Duran Duran's Simon Le Bon addressed the crowd. “Everyone who did not arrive on a private jet,” he said, “put your hands in the air.” Le Bon then put his hand in the air.
| Source 1:
Reuters
Source 2:
NME
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| March 21, 2007 | -
Al Gore returned to Capitol Hill to testify that global warming is a planetary emergency. Rep. Ed Markey of Massachusetts called Gore a prophet, and Rep. John Dingell of Michigan addressed him as “Mr. President.” Joe Barton of Texas, the leading Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, told Gore he was “totally wrong” and that, if need be, Republican lawmakers would stay late for an “all-out cat fight” with Democrats. Ralph Hall, also of Texas, speculated that Gore's attack on the energy industry could result in war “when and if OPEC nations abandon the U.S.A.,” and Roscoe Bartlett (R., Md.) said that he thought it was “probably possible to be a conservative without appearing to be an idiot.”
| Source 1:
AP vie Breitbart
Source 2:
Huffington Post
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| February 1, 2007 | - Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. “Al Gore,” said a Norwegian lawmaker, “has made a difference.”
| Source:
AP via BREITBART.COM
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| January 16, 2006 | - America celebrated the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Al Gore compared the FBI's spying on King to the Bush Administration's authorizing spying on American citizens.
| Source:
The Raw Story.
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| October 6, 2005 | -
Al Gore gave a speech in New York City. “Something,” he said, “has gone basically and badly wrong in the way America's fabled ‘marketplace of ideas’ now functions.”
| Source:
The Mercury News
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| September 3, 2004 | - It was reported that Al Gore was given a speeding ticket in Oregon.
| Source:
Reuters
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| June 25, 2004 | -
Al Gore said that George W. Bush is a liar for repeatedly suggesting that Saddam Hussein was allied with Osama bin Laden and that the president's "consistent and careful artifice is itself evidence that he knew full well that he was telling an artful and important lie."
| Source:
Reuters
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| May 5, 2004 | -
Al Gore and a group of investors bought a cable television news channel they plan to market to young people.
| Source:
New York Times
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| January 16, 2004 | -
Al Gore denounced President Bush as a "moral coward."
| Source:
Los Angeles Times
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| December 10, 2003 | - Al Gore endorsed
Howard Dean for president; Joe Lieberman, Gore's former running mate, was somewhat miffed.
| Source:
Los Angeles Times
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| June 19, 2003 | -
Al Gore was reportedly planning to start a cable television network.
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 17, 2002 | -
Al Gore declared that he will not run for president in 2004.
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| November 26, 2002 | -
“This revolutionizes our ability to investigate terrorists and prosecute terrorist acts.” Al Gore denounced George W. Bush for taking “the most fateful step in the direction of the Big Brother nightmare that any president has ever allowed to occur.” Investigators concluded that a fatal train wreck last year in Michigan occurred because the engineer and the conductor on the train were both suffering from severe sleep apnea.
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| March 26, 2002 | -
Al Gore shaved off his beard.
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| February 19, 2002 | -
Former vice president Al Gore said that Iraq was a “virulent threat” and called for a “final reckoning.”
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| January 29, 2002 | -
Al Gore gave a speech at a conference organized by the magazine India Today but only on the condition that no journalists attend.
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| November 27, 2001 | -
Al Gore decided to become vice chairman of an obscure financial services company in Los Angeles after he failed to persuade anyone on Wall Street to hire him.
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| November 20, 2001 | - A newspaper review of the ballots cast in Florida's presidential election found that Al Gore probably received more votes than George W. Bush, who this week signed an executive order that will permit the government to use military courts to try foreigners accused of terrorism.
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| October 2, 2001 | -
Al Gore, still wearing a beard, declared that “George W. Bush is my commander in chief.” North Korea issued a statement of support for President Bush's crusade against terrorism.
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| September 4, 2001 | - Democratic fat cats and fund-raisers were turning up their noses at Al Gore's recent attempts to “reach out” and beg for cash; many said they were focusing on winning the next presidential election with a viable candidate.
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| August 7, 2001 | -
Al Gore
grew a beard.
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| June 5, 2001 | -
President George W. Bush frowned and shook hands with Al Gore at a funeral.
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| May 1, 2001 | -
Al Gore, angry that Bill Clinton was selected to deliver the commencement address at Columbia University, tried to organize a petition drive among his students there to protest the decision.
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| January 9, 2001 | - Members of the Congressional Black Caucus tried unsuccessfully to block the acceptance of Florida's electoral votes during a joint session of Congress. Federal law requires at least one senator and one member of the House to sign a formal objection questioning a state's electoral votes; no senator was willing to sign. Black congressmen repeatedly interrupted the proceedings and were repeatedly “gaveled down” by Vice President Al Gore, who presided cheerfully over his own electoral demise.
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| January 9, 2001 | -
Al Gore, president of the Senate, called for order.
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| November 28, 2000 | -
Al Gore's chest was described in the New York Times as an “attractive pectoral mass.”
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| November 21, 2000 | -
Republicans accused Democratic vote counters in Florida of eating chads they had secretly and illegally punched for Al Gore.
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| November 14, 2000 | -
Ralph Nader prevented Al Gore from winning a clear victory in the U.S. presidential election. Although Gore won a popular majority nationwide, the Electoral College outcome awaited a decision in the contested Florida vote, where widespread “irregularities” occurred; most commentators were pleased to believe that the irregularities were the result of mere incompetence and stupidity in the state governed by Jeb Bush.
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| November 14, 2000 | - Thousands of Chinese
voted in a mock U.S. election in Beijing; Al Gore won by a 2 to 1 margin.
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| October 24, 2000 | - Vice President Al Gore was still mad at President Bill Clinton for getting oral sex from an intern and lying about it.
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| October 17, 2000 | -
George W. Bush spoke at a sixth-grade level during his debates with Al Gore.
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| September 26, 2000 | - Vice President Al Gore and Senator Joseph Lieberman reassured Hollywood campaign contributors that they did not intend to censor entertainment products despite their claims to the contrary last week.
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| September 12, 2000 | -
Al Gore was endorsed by the Teamsters.
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| August 29, 2000 | - Against the advice of senior Justice Department aides, Attorney General Janet Reno once again decided not to appoint an independent counsel to investigate Vice President Al Gore's 1996 fund-raising activities.
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| August 22, 2000 | - Richard Ray, Kenneth Starr's successor as independent counsel, has convened a new grand jury to determine whether President Clinton should be prosecuted; a Chicago judge admitted that he accidentally leaked the existence of the grand jury to a reporter, who published the story a few hours before Al Gore accepted the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party and announced that he was his own man.
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| August 22, 2000 | - The United States
Food and Drug Administration issued a “draft guidance” concerning a proposal to blacklist foreign companies that import defective condoms; the report said that “continuous monitoring of these devices is needed.” Democratic Representative Loretta Sanchez cancelled a Playboy Mansion fundraiser after Al Gore objected to it.
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| August 22, 2000 | -
Al Gore's son was arrested in North Carolina for driving 97 miles-per-hour.
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| August 15, 2000 | -
Al Gore selected Joseph Lieberman, an orthodox Jew, to be his running mate.
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| August 1, 2000 | - The House of Representatives voted unanimously to ban the execution of pregnant women in response to remarks by Vice President Al Gore that a “the principle of a woman's right to choose governs in that case.” British Columbia asked the Canadian supreme court to affirm the validity of gay marriage.
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