THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume X, Issue # 130, May 22, 2008
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
HOLLYWOOD REWRITES HISTORY -- AGAIN
By Alan Caruba
POLITICAL PARTIES, POPULAR VOTES, & THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY: THE BATTLE BETWEEN TWO EVILS, THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY & THE REPUBLICAN PARTY -- THE OUTCOME OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2000 -- THE BUSH
PRESIDENCY & THE MILITARY CONFLICT IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- THE MIDDLE EASTERN SITUATION & THE HIGH PRICE OF
OIL -- ALBERT GORE, ENVIRONMENTALISM, & GLOBAL WARMING PROPAGANDA -- WHAT THE LAST EIGHT YEARS WOULD
HAVE BEEN LIKE, HAD GORE BEEN ELECTED PRESIDENT
FULL STORY:
The movie, Recount, arrives at a time when the Democratic Party is trying to determine whether the “popular” vote
in its primaries takes precedent over the actual number of delegates, whether “pledged” or “super delegates” whose only
allegiance is to (1) retaining their power in Congress and the Democratic Party and (2) actually trying to win the national
election in November, 2008.
There is enough written about the 2000 election results in Florida to suggest that, had the U.S. Supreme Court not
intervened and stopped the vote count, Al Gore would have won by the slimmest of margins, but that ignores the way
the Gore campaign successfully got disqualified from consideration the absentee military votes that would have
unquestionably put Bush over the top.
In short, Florida, where apparently the voters in Palm Beach County were retarded, remains a great historic muddle. In
2000, it became a battle ground between two evils, the Republican Party and the Democratic Party.
In the end, George W. Bush won the election, became President, and, because of 9-11, transformed his Presidency into a
military conflict in Afghanistan and extended it into Iraq. The reason why there is so little current news coverage of
events in Iraq is that some real measure of political stability has arrived and because no one in the mainstream media wants
to report that Iran has been engaged in war with the U.S. and Iraqi troops there. That war was unofficially declared in 1979
when they took our diplomats hostage and held them for 444 days. Al-Qa'ida has since been reduced to the ravings of
Osama bin Laden.
The reason why the cost of a barrel of oil has skyrocketed is because no one knows how long the de facto Iran-U.S.
conflict will continue and whether it will erupt into a full-scale war involving our having to bomb and/or invade Iran to put
an end to its nuclear ambitions and its endless intrusive efforts to impose its hegemony over the entire region.
It may be “a tiny country,” as Barack Obama says, but it has been a very troublesome one for a very long time.
Meanwhile, despite Hollywood’s effort to convince Americans how much better off they would have been had Al Gore
been elected President, it would be useful to consider that he stands revealed as one of the greatest liars on the face of the
Earth, thanks to his megalomania about global warming.
On Monday, May 19, the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, led by Dr. Arthur Robinson, held a press conference
at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., to announce that its petition rejecting the lies of Al Gore and the UN
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had been signed by 31,000 scientists from around the world. A total of 9,201
of the signers were PhDs and the rest held university degrees in science.
That is an impressive group of “deniers” and they are joined now by millions of people who understand that “global
warming” is a hoax. Indeed, since 1998, all the meteorological data indicates that the Earth has entered a period of cooling.
The oceans are cooling. Glaciers are growing. Winter blizzards are more intense. You don’t need a degree to know that
global warming isn’t happening.
The movie, Recount, is propaganda, not history. Its stars and others involved in its production will swear that it is
fact-based, but the fact is that, since 2001, and his reelection in 2004, George W. Bush has been the President of the
United States.
The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 2008, notes:
“The Nov. 2000 presidential election was one of the closest in history.
While Bush came out behind in the popular vote — by about 540,000
out of more than 100 million cast — the electoral vote total hinged on
the outcome in Florida, where official totals, challenged by Democrats,
gave him a razor-thin lead.”
The U.S. Supreme Court decision — a merciful end to the election — ceded Florida’s 25 electoral votes to Bush.
A mark of maturity is that an individual or a nation ultimately comes to acknowledge reality and acts upon facts, not
emotions.
There is the Hollywood version of history, and then there is reality. The two rarely coincide.
One is tempted to consider what the passed eight years would have been like, had Al Gore been elected President.
His response to 9-11 might well have been to blame America for having angered al-Qa'ida in some fashion. One imagines
a large mosque being built on Ground Zero in order to get Middle Eastern Muslims to like us more.
By now, based on his view that the internal combustion engine is a threat to humanity, it is likely that most voters would
be on bicycles or horseback. All national parks would be off limits to Americans to protect the flora and fauna. There
would be rolling blackouts due to a ban on the building of any nuclear or coal-fired plants to generate electricity. Every
species known to man and God would have been declared endangered. And you would have to flush your toilet at least
five times to achieve the results that preceded his election to office.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
American Politics & Political Competition:
Elections, PACs, & Political Parties
American Government & the U.S. Presidency:
Presidential Politics & National Leadership
The American Political System:
Politics & Government in the U.S.A.
Islamism & Jihadism -- The Threat of Radical Islam
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Middle East -- Arabs, Arab States,
& Their Middle Eastern Neighbors
The Middle East & the Problem of Iran
American Foreign Policy -- The Middle East
International Politics & World Disorder:
War & Peace in the Real World
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Islamist Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.A.
Osama bin Laden & the Islamist Declaration of War
Against the U.S.A. & Western Civilization
Islamist International Terrorism &
U.S. Intelligence Agencies
Counterterrorism & U.S. National Security
U.S. National Security Strategy
Alan Caruba is a veteran business and science writer, a Public Relations Counselor, and Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a
clearinghouse for information about media-driven scare campaigns. Caruba writes a weekly commentary, "Warning Signs," posted
on the Internet website of the National Anxiety Center, which is located at
www.anxietycenter.com.
Caruba has a daily blog at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com.
Caruba’s new book, Right Answers: Separating Fact from Fantasy, has been published by Merril Press.
© Alan Caruba 2008
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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