ConArtist , Racist Draft Al Gore Monica Keeps on lying about conning the American people and Al Gore
ConArtist , Racist Draft Al Gore Monica Keeps on lying about conning the American people and Al Gore
Signatures, but little money for Gore? (updated)
Thomas LifsonWSMV television in Nashville, Al Gore's home town, recently reported that "more than 100,000 people" have signed a petition urging Al Gore to run for president. Sounds like a lot of people really want him to run, doesn't it?
But according to Act Blue ("The online clearinghouse for Democratic action"), The Al Gore for President Draft Fund has, as of this posting, received only 165 donations, with a total of $4806 raised.
That means that fewer than 0.165% of those who supposedly signed the petition have actually donated even a buck to the draft Gore fund. Given the fact that petition-signers are obviously a group well-disposed toward donating and that there are supposed to be over 100,000 of them, such a tiny number of donors stepping up and putting up cash is curious, to say the least.
"Azihp", who blogs at Daily Kos, notes,
"...people seem confused about ActBlue's Draft page. The money goes to Gore if he declares, or the eventual Dem nominee if he does not. So its risk free."
Gore-bots never impressed me as the brightest bunch. After all, they accept Gore as a scientific authority. But even with this excuse for the poor confused supporters, this fund-raising total is pathetic. As "Azihp" notes, the undeclared Fred Thompson candidacy is raising "boatloads" of cash.
With his Live Earth concerts a bust, the turnout in Washington, DC for a free concert humiliatingly pathetic, it sounds like Al Gore is so very 90's.
Update:
We received the following email from an email account with the name DraftGore in it:
Dear Editor, Your article entitled "Signatures, but little money for Gore" is one of the most embarrassing bits of journalism I've ever seen. You pick up a bit of news (100,000 signatures) and then check a random ActBlue fund that has NOTHING to do with the people raising money for this effort or the organization running the petition, and conclude there's no money for Gore. What does that insignifacant ActBlue fund have to do with anything? And especially with the petition? Or Draft Gore? Or the entire movement, which has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars?For your information, Draft Gore -- yes, that's us, the PAC that has run the petition -- has raised some $50,000 over the last few months from grassroots contributions. With almost no publicity. Feel free to check with ActBlue and see that our fund through their organization (NOT the generic ActBlue fund that's not advertised anywhere) has raised nearly $40,000. And we raise money in other ways as well, not just through Act Blue. I'm a journalist by profession and would have never graduated from J-school with the kind of shaby and biased reporting you did here. I very respectfully request you correct this. Sincerely, Monica FriedlanderDraft Gore (Draftgore.com)
I did in fact consult Act Blue, and you can, too. Just go to the homepage http://www.actblue.com/ and click on "Candidate Directory" at the top of the page and then "Candidates for president" and then "Al Gore" and you will find the total I cited.
This is apparently evidence of "one of the most embarrassing bits of journalism" Ms. Friedlander (who got a J-school degree!) has ever seen. Evidently she has never heard of Rathergate, faked exploding trucks, or Walter Durranty.
But she does seem to think it would be admirable journalism to take the word of an emailer and post a correction. I wrote back to her and asked for some evidence at a Draft Gore site or at least posted posted somewhere that her claims were true. Strange that she didn't learn about not accepting the word of strangers sending emails at face value in J-school, but then again I seem to remember that Al Gore gave some J-school lectures at Columbia.
And after I asked, she did write back with a link to this page on ActBlue, revealing 845 people (less than 0.845 percent of the 100,000 signatories) had sent in almost $37,000 to draft Al Gore. I have suggested that she clue in the ActBlue folks, but she has written not one word of criticism of them or Daily Kos, for that matter. All her fury seems reserved for American Thinker, so far as her correspondence with me reveals.So because she did finally reveal a published source (and now claims that figure needs to be revised upward), we offer this update to indicate the massive wave of support for drafting Gore, and the response rate of less than one percent of petition-signers putting up money. I hope that everyone will weigh these figures and decide independently how impressive they are.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/07/signatures_but_little_money_fo.html
Signatures, but little money for Gore? (updated)
Thomas LifsonWSMV television in Nashville, Al Gore's home town, recently reported that "more than 100,000 people" have signed a petition urging Al Gore to run for president. Sounds like a lot of people really want him to run, doesn't it?
But according to Act Blue ("The online clearinghouse for Democratic action"), The Al Gore for President Draft Fund has, as of this posting, received only 165 donations, with a total of $4806 raised.
That means that fewer than 0.165% of those who supposedly signed the petition have actually donated even a buck to the draft Gore fund. Given the fact that petition-signers are obviously a group well-disposed toward donating and that there are supposed to be over 100,000 of them, such a tiny number of donors stepping up and putting up cash is curious, to say the least.
"Azihp", who blogs at Daily Kos, notes,
"...people seem confused about ActBlue's Draft page. The money goes to Gore if he declares, or the eventual Dem nominee if he does not. So its risk free."
Gore-bots never impressed me as the brightest bunch. After all, they accept Gore as a scientific authority. But even with this excuse for the poor confused supporters, this fund-raising total is pathetic. As "Azihp" notes, the undeclared Fred Thompson candidacy is raising "boatloads" of cash.
With his Live Earth concerts a bust, the turnout in Washington, DC for a free concert humiliatingly pathetic, it sounds like Al Gore is so very 90's.
Update:
We received the following email from an email account with the name DraftGore in it:
Dear Editor, Your article entitled "Signatures, but little money for Gore" is one of the most embarrassing bits of journalism I've ever seen. You pick up a bit of news (100,000 signatures) and then check a random ActBlue fund that has NOTHING to do with the people raising money for this effort or the organization running the petition, and conclude there's no money for Gore. What does that insignifacant ActBlue fund have to do with anything? And especially with the petition? Or Draft Gore? Or the entire movement, which has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars?For your information, Draft Gore -- yes, that's us, the PAC that has run the petition -- has raised some $50,000 over the last few months from grassroots contributions. With almost no publicity. Feel free to check with ActBlue and see that our fund through their organization (NOT the generic ActBlue fund that's not advertised anywhere) has raised nearly $40,000. And we raise money in other ways as well, not just through Act Blue. I'm a journalist by profession and would have never graduated from J-school with the kind of shaby and biased reporting you did here. I very respectfully request you correct this. Sincerely, Monica FriedlanderDraft Gore (Draftgore.com)
I did in fact consult Act Blue, and you can, too. Just go to the homepage http://www.actblue.com/ and click on "Candidate Directory" at the top of the page and then "Candidates for president" and then "Al Gore" and you will find the total I cited.
This is apparently evidence of "one of the most embarrassing bits of journalism" Ms. Friedlander (who got a J-school degree!) has ever seen. Evidently she has never heard of Rathergate, faked exploding trucks, or Walter Durranty.
But she does seem to think it would be admirable journalism to take the word of an emailer and post a correction. I wrote back to her and asked for some evidence at a Draft Gore site or at least posted posted somewhere that her claims were true. Strange that she didn't learn about not accepting the word of strangers sending emails at face value in J-school, but then again I seem to remember that Al Gore gave some J-school lectures at Columbia.
And after I asked, she did write back with a link to this page on ActBlue, revealing 845 people (less than 0.845 percent of the 100,000 signatories) had sent in almost $37,000 to draft Al Gore. I have suggested that she clue in the ActBlue folks, but she has written not one word of criticism of them or Daily Kos, for that matter. All her fury seems reserved for American Thinker, so far as her correspondence with me reveals.So because she did finally reveal a published source (and now claims that figure needs to be revised upward), we offer this update to indicate the massive wave of support for drafting Gore, and the response rate of less than one percent of petition-signers putting up money. I hope that everyone will weigh these figures and decide independently how impressive they are.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/07/signatures_but_little_money_fo.html
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