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01 Mar 07 - 03:29 PM (#1983095) Subject: BS: Gore Shocker: Loses Oscar to Bush From: Uncle_DaveO "Gore Oscar Shocker" Supreme Court Gives Gore's Oscar to Bush: Stunning Reversal for Former Veep! Just days after former Vice President Al Gore received an Academy Award for his global warming documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," the United States Supreme Court handed Mr. Gore a stunning reversal, stripping him of his Oscar and awarding it to President George W. Bush instead. For Mr. Gore, who basked in the adulation of his Hollywood audience Sunday night, the high court's decision to give his Oscar to President Bush was a cruel twist of fate, to say the least. But in a 5-4 decision handed down Tuesday morning, the justices made it clear that they had taken the unprecedented step of stripping Mr. Gore of his Oscar because President Bush deserved it more. "It is true that Al Gore has done a lot of talking about global warming," wrote Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the majority. "But President Bush has actually helped create global warming." In another setback for the former vice president, a group of scientists meeting in Oslo, Norway today said that Mr. Gore was growing at an unsustainable rate. "The polar ice caps may be shrinking, but Al Gore is clearly expanding," said Dr. Hiroshi Kyosuke of the University of Tokyo. The scientists concluded that if Mr. Gore continues to expand at his current rate, he could cause the earth to spin off its axis by 2010, sending it hurtling into the sun. "Here's an inconvenient truth," Dr. Kyosuke added. "Al's got to stay away from those carbs." Elsewhere, after foreigners received a record number of Academy Award nominations, CNN anchor Lou Dobbs proposed building a 12-foot high fence around the Kodak Theater. Dave Oesterreich, (ever ready to enlighten the public) |
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01 Mar 07 - 03:36 PM (#1983109) Subject: RE: BS: Gore Shocker: Loses Oscar to Bush From: Ebbie I heard them say that another reason for stripping Gore of it was that Gore having it "would have an adverse effect on George Bush". |
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01 Mar 07 - 03:50 PM (#1983125) Subject: RE: BS: Gore Shocker: Loses Oscar to Bush From: Little Hawk Good heavens! Well, we can't have that. Bush is the leader of the "Free World", and such people must be protected from adverse effects if we are all to sleep well at night. |
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01 Mar 07 - 04:06 PM (#1983139) Subject: RE: BS: Gore Shocker: Loses Oscar to Bush From: Donuel Dave, this whould be in your resume to the Daily Show. pm me for the head writer of the Daily Show and contact info. |
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01 Mar 07 - 04:24 PM (#1983164) Subject: RE: BS: Gore Shocker: Loses Oscar to Bush From: Ebbie Keep in mind, though, that Gore did not actually win an Oscar himself. The director and the documentary did. |
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01 Mar 07 - 04:51 PM (#1983202) Subject: RE: BS: Gore Shocker: Loses Oscar to Bush From: Alba Applause Dave Thank you for giggle! Jude |
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01 Mar 07 - 05:13 PM (#1983224) Subject: RE: BS: Gore Shocker: Loses Oscar to Bush From: Bobert 5-4??? Hmmmm??? This ain't gonna make Bush happy at all... Should have been at least 6-3... |
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01 Mar 07 - 06:00 PM (#1983285) Subject: RE: BS: Gore Shocker: Loses Oscar to Bush From: Cool Beans That's really good, Dave! It'll be all over the Internet in a day. Hope you get proper credit. |
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01 Mar 07 - 06:48 PM (#1983323) Subject: RE: BS: Gore Shocker: Loses Oscar to Bush From: Uncle_DaveO Would that I could take credit. I'm just passing along "the news of the day" as it comes to me. Dave Oesterreich |
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02 Mar 07 - 10:52 AM (#1983946) Subject: RE: BS: Gore Shocker: Loses Oscar to Bush From: Uncle_DaveO To give credit where credit is due: The humor piece "Gore Oscar Shocker" which was sent out on March 1st, 2007 was written by Andy Borowitz and is from his Borowitz Report. |
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02 Mar 07 - 02:39 PM (#1984201) Subject: RE: BS: Gore Shocker: Loses Oscar to Bush From: Donuel I used to do pieces a bit like that one before I got hit by lightning ? |