Re: Fake Al Gore uses fake Polar bear

Horatio Fudruckerton wrote:
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 22:00:44 -0400, "The Dead Kennedys" <Democrat
Hasbeens@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Gore Likely to Win Oscar Sunday Despite Violating Academy's Rules
Posted by Noel Sheppard on February 23, 2007 - 15:54.
As sickening as it might seem, Al Gore appears to be a lock to win an
Academy Award Sunday for his schlockumentary about global warming.
Unfortunately, the real inconvenient truth is that the film appears
to violate the Academy's own rules concerning documentaries.

As reported by CNSNews Thursday:

According to the "rule 12" standard for documentary films
established by the Academy, while it is permissible to employ
storytelling devices such as re-enactments, stock footage, stills
and animations, the emphasis must be on fact and not fiction.

The critics argue that in the case of "An Inconvenient Truth," the
criteria are not met.

Here are some of the specifics:

One point of contention in Gore's movie is animated footage of a
polar bear struggling to find stable sea ice. Gore has argued that
human-induced global warming is directly impacting polar bears'
habitat and sea ice in particular. Consequently, he suggests, polar
bears are forced to swim longer distances and sometimes drown in the
process.

"A new scientific study shows that for the first time they're
finding polar bears that have actually drowned swimming long
distances - up to sixty miles - to find the ice," Gore says in the
movie.

John Berlau, author of a new book on the environmental movement
entitled "Eco-Freaks," claims the polar bear scene alone should
disqualify Gore's film from consideration for best documentary,
because it departs from reality.

Berlau noted that while the movie's companion book says the bears
were drowning in "significant numbers," the study Gore is most
likely referring to only found four polar bear carcasses in the sea
off Alaska.

That episode took place after a severe storm, he noted, but Gore
makes no reference to a storm during the film's animated polar bear
sequence.

But there's more:

Gore also never cites a source for his polar bear claim, Berlau
points out, but scientists on both sides of the polar bear debate
told Cybercast News Service he was probably referring to a recent
report filed by the U.S. Minerals Management Service.

Researchers with the service in 2004 found four dead polar bears
floating in the sea off Alaska but said in a report that the bears
"are believed to have drowned as a result of the storm."

Berlau, an analyst at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI)
- an organization known for global warming skepticism - who has also
written about the entertainment industry, said the polar bear
sequence does not square with a large body of scientific evidence.

"The polar bear cartoon was the emotional linchpin of this movie
for a lot of people, but the science behind it was not rooted in
truth and is a violation of rule 12 on many levels," Berlau told
Cybercast News Service.

There are indeed precedents for "documentaries" which falsify or
recreate events being either disqualified after the fact, or not
considered for Oscars at all:

He cited as an example a 1958 Disney documentary "White
Wilderness," which won an Oscar but was subsequently discredited.
Film crew had apparently induced lemmings to jump off a cliff in an
effort to highlight the species' suicidal behavior.

If those standards were still in effect, "An Inconvenient Truth"
would be disqualified, Berlau said.

Other more recent examples involving storytelling techniques
described in rule 12 include "The Thin Blue Line" (1988) about the
shooting of a Dallas police officer, and "Touching the Void" (2005),
a film about a near-fatal climb in the Peruvian Andes.

Both films received critical acclaim but, Berlau said, ultimately
fell short of serious Oscar contention because the Academy took
issue with the use of re-enactments.Fascinating.

The article gave other examples as to why Gore's film should never
have been nominated based upon the Academy's own rules.
Unfortunately, it appears irrelevant when politics are involved as
stated early in the piece: "Documentaries that distort reality and
shade the truth are insulated from criticism so long as they advance
left-wing causes."

I guess this gives conservatives one more reason to do something
else on Sunday.



Snore was trained at the michelle moore school of lying *documentary*
manufacturing.


You're an idiot. Go troll somewhere else.



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