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AL GORE:MOVIE STAR

Al Gore didn't get that distinction from them, so I actually took their desire to interview him now with a grain of salt. I suppose they see how much Mr. Gore has been interviewed because of the success of An Inconvenient Truth and didn't want to be left out, especially since the movie is now on the short list for a potential Oscar nomination for Best Documentary. It's amazing what a movie and a few interviews can do to make people like you, huh?

The themes of the interview and their magazine that I suppose must appeal to virile, buff, sexually active, tough rich men, were Al Gore's sex life, what is on his IPOD, how he would have handled 9.11 differently (the toughness factor,) and "that" question again. So keeping in line with those themes in my response here goes:

Al Gore is the sexiest environmentalist I have ever seen and I want to have his baby. Sorry Mrs. Gore, but you are just going to have to stand aside, because GQ made him look so sexy with those black clothes (which in all seriousness I actually do like but for other more mature reasons,) those long range shots to cover what they call a "broader" look, that Rolex watch (Oh my God, a Rolex watch, I'm getting the vapors) and that globe sitting so precariously next to him on the floor ( I'm an environmentalist too and globes just drive me wild especially when they tilt towards the Equator like that) that I just can't control myself anymore because I'm just a vapid female whose instincts control my brain, or um, well, not always my brain... Oh, excuse me for a minute...................

Ok. I'm better now. Now getting serious... Somewhat.

Mr. Gore, only one thing can be said from reading parts of this interview: you are a big tease, and I think you are enjoying it immensely as well you should. And considering the magazine you were giving the interview for I can see why you would choose to have a little fun and not get too into the topic of the climate crisis in detail more seriously. I suppose that's why your new book "The Assault on Reason" that is coming out next year wasn't mentioned either...Too much to explain and you were probably under a time limit.

I also love how you flip the switch on and off regarding running again which gets the same people all twidipated no matter how many times they read the same words over and over again. Some people are just so easy to please. ;-) Just so you know, I never rule anything out in life either. I haven't ruled out bungee jumping, mountain climbing, skydiving, and a host of other things, and hell yeah, why not running for President myself, which are things I really don't think of doing or want to do, because well, I'm an adult and you just shouldn't be expected to do that, or offer explanations to anyone as to why you have or haven't ruled anything out or in.

In case those reading these interviews hadn't noticed, I think you are fairly busy trying to motivate them to get up and do something themselves about a crisis that will affect our very ability to sustain ourselves and our children. But I suppose that important message isn't as important as what you put on your IPOD to your wife. (eye roll and big sigh ;-))

Seriously though, the comments made regarding Bush were right on target as usual and were made in the past by you as well (which I hope means you agree regarding impeachment) and of course, had you been where people should have been so gung ho to get you when the USSC trampled on our Constitution as they seem to be now for their own reasons (Hillary Clinton) in this political system you have many times called "toxic," it would have been handled quite differently.

But I don't like to think about that because then the anger seethes up again realizing that those very same people who now clamor for you let Bush get away with everything to this point, and will now say impeachment is "off the table." However, that too is water under the bridge I suppose as you have stated you have moved on from 2000 and showed that by deciding not to run in 2004, the year in my view that was crucial to not allowing four more years of this hell, but that's another whole other article.

And I may be the only one to think this otherwise, but I detected a sort of mocking in the tone to this interview regarding politics especially in your answer to the last question. Actually, I hope it was, because to be totally honest, all of these magazines now wanting to talk to the man they call, "The New Al Gore" are now quite funny as well as they clamor for your attention considering how many of them trashed the hell out of you in 2000 when you were the same man you are today. It doesn't look like much has changed regarding what sells.

Again, it's amazing what a movie can do for your image. I hope it does the same thing for the planet's survival.

And that really is no laughing matter. And neither was what happened to our Democracy in 2000 and ever since that now gets relegated to side jokes. And neither is the climate crisis. But again, this is GQ... I then didn't go in reading this expecting much so I wasn't disappointed, especially by the pictures. Keep up that, "Man in Black" look, Mr. Gore. It shows the true rebel you are, and I love rebels. I'm not a vapid female by any stretch of the imagination, and don't give a damn how "broad" you look. You are still a great man to me.

And while this interview was a blast to read on a "fun" level, that was all it was to me, because I do see the climate crisis as the most crucial emergency this civilization will ever face in this lifetime, and frankly, if the readers of GQ are just too upscale to be told that in this interview as you passionately relay that crisis in your presentations then I'm really grateful for the Internet (Thankyou ;-)) because now I don't have to buy it.

Oh, and just a question about the picture... was that globe tilted in the picture above to give us the clue that your book, "Earth In The Balance" was just re released since that wasn't mentioned either? I think you should have held the world in your hands in that shot or had a gigantic one you sat on top of. ;-) I bet that would have given them what they wanted.

Again, fun interview and you gave them just what they wanted in a society that for the most part cares more for what you have on your IPOD than the gravest threat to our civilization. Only, I wouldn't have a drink with Hillary Clinton. A girl has to have her standards, you know. Now, if it were with you to actually talk, I'm there, and that is totally serious.

*I also wanted to add that the title I chose for this opinion and much of it was to mock what I saw as banal questions asked to Mr. Gore in this interview, and I meant no disrespect to Mr. Gore or his wife. His sex life, what he and his wife do in private, his private thoughts, his physical weight, and other questions regarding such matters are to me no one's business. And also, asking him if he could only have a drink with either Bill or Hillary Clinton who would it be was downright stupid and transparent, but of course, that is what sells.

However, regarding his remarks about 9.11, I hope he will join other political leaders in asking some hard questions about that day that the media and the 9.11 commission seemed to be too timid to ask, that many families are still waiting to hear the answers for. That for sure is no laughing matter.