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"An Inconvenient Truth," the big-screen adaptation of former U.S. Vice President Al Gore's slide-show lecture about the perils of global warming, won the Academy Award on Sunday for documentary feature.

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TechnologyExpert
Feb. 25, 2007, 11:11 p.m.
This was the only reason I really cared about the Oscars this year. I'm not really into the Awards Show thing ... but I wanted this film to win.
Quote from Gore:
Holding the Oscar, Gore said that solving the climate crisis is "not a political issue; it's a moral issue."
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Scott-O-Rama
Feb. 25, 2007, 11:29 p.m.
Yay!
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TechnologyExpert
Feb. 25, 2007, 11:35 p.m.
Melissa Etheridge won for best song for "I Need to Wake Up", also from this movie:
http://blogs.usatoday.com/redcarpetreport/2007/02/
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Neophile
Feb. 25, 2007, 11:35 p.m.
Melissa Ethridge just won for best song for An Inconvient Truth as well. Way to go!
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bubba2
Feb. 26, 2007, 1:02 a.m.
YES!!!
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Virginia
Feb. 26, 2007, 2:05 a.m.
Didn't see it but bound to be in today's news cycle clips as it should be. Congrats, Al Gore!
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spkguy
Feb. 26, 2007, 2:11 a.m.
I was watching CNN the other day and Wolf Blitzer was interviewing the Department of Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman, and the subject of the environment and global warming and the apparent turn around by this President and the White House opinion in regards to global warming. Well he went on to say that they agree with the science but that they would need more science on what the overall man made effects on global warming are. Then running out of time on the interview, Wolf brings up the upcoming Oscars and and the Movie "An Inconvenient Truth" and then wolf asks Samuel W. Bodman, "have you seen it?" And his answer "NO".
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TimALoftis
Feb. 26, 2007, 2:12 a.m.
worth repeating...
Gore said that solving the climate crisis is "not a political issue; it's a moral issue."
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goodgrief
Feb. 26, 2007, 5:57 a.m.
An inconvenient hypocrisy is more like it. As Gore gets to Hollyweird via private jet, travels in a motorcade of Chevy Suburbans, to an event fed by a river of stretch limos at 6 mpg.
Get real, people. Global warming is about as real as congress. And it's nothing but a giant money and power grab. Same slogans and platitudes as the 60s. Communisim dies, global warming takes its place
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uknowdamnright
Feb. 26, 2007, 6:42 a.m.
It is so funny, Hollywood loves the Democrats, Hollywood produces some of the worst trash I have ever scene.
These shows and movies all use sex to sell and sex as jokes. What is really ironic is that the Islamic's think we are all immoral because all they know of us are these shows and movies. Think about it.
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THOMNH62
Feb. 26, 2007, 6:56 a.m.
yippie Al Bore won an oscar, and due to a clerical error could not win the recieve one, what an Irony. Was ther any doubt the lefties in Hollyweird were going to give there god an award, they couldn't get him elected so here is the next best thing. I just feel sorry for the other people in his catafory, they had no chance. I can't talk now my H2 is running and I have to drive to work, the long way.
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Chunjinhao
Feb. 26, 2007, 7:09 a.m.
"THOMNH62" wrote: they couldn't get him elected...
What the Oscar has to do with "corrupted" Supreme Court?
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silvera
Feb. 26, 2007, 9:36 a.m.
Finally, luvmyhemorrhoid weighs in with yet another intelligent retort to the most moronic post on this thread. (and there's been a bunch of 'em) You go girl!
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staar
Feb. 26, 2007, 7:36 a.m.
Thomnh62..grow up..and sign up for English lessons..guessing you are about..12 ish??
If Al Gore runs..I'll vote for him..right now I'm sitting in limbo..
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rwrnae
Feb. 26, 2007, 7:39 a.m.
As I've said before, with a little luck global warming will exterminate all the wheezing, asmatic fruitcake liberals and leave more room for the rest of us. Global temperature went up a couple of degrees just from the hot air of Gore's speech.
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ADAGUY
Feb. 26, 2007, 7:45 a.m.
There is no doubt in my mind that global warming is real. It is man made. What amazes me is the number of nay-sayers who are still in denial. FYI Bill Orielly, (your hero) last night on 60 minutes said Global warming is real, and man made!
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IcCaRus
Feb. 26, 2007, 7:54 a.m.
this was NOT about Al Gore, it was about the movie, and the movie deserved the Oscar... as for Mr Gore, for his tireless efforts in giving his "little slide show" for all these years.. THANK YOU SIR, you DO deserve the Nobel Prize! with this movie, Al Gore has done more for mankind (even for the cons who hate him so) than Duh-bya could in 10 terms as Idiot-In-Chief.
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simonsez
Feb. 26, 2007, 10:42 a.m.
Each of those smoke stacks is going to become valuable now.
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twangster
Feb. 26, 2007, 8:05 a.m.
Why is it that in the US anyone who has even mildly humanist views is labelled a lefty?
So let me see if you're a compassionate conservative, what does that make the rest? arseholes?
Oh I love it!! The correct spelling of ARSE beats the system.
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momydearestc
Feb. 26, 2007, 8:04 a.m.
I didn't need to watch the Oscars to know Big Al would win. What a surprise! Too bad he didn't clean up his own state back in the 1990's, the people of Tenn., would of voted for him. Maybe he wouldof won. If Al would keep his fat mouth closed along with the liberals we wouldn't have global warming! And WHEN Big Al wins the Nobel Prize he'll be in good company with Hitler and Yasser. Never trust a liberal. global warming is a myth. LOSERS
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DeltaX
Feb. 26, 2007, 8:50 a.m.
And the Alexa arrow keeps pointing down.
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ybdogsct
Feb. 26, 2007, 10:57 a.m.
LUVMYPREZ WROTE:
"BUT OF COURSE, the story about the flaming wacko kook liberal gets pinned. I think I just threw up a little."
If you don't like this thread, then don't read it. Nobody's forcing you to.
And if you don't like this website, then don't visit it. Nobody's forcing you to.
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jwh1476
Feb. 26, 2007, 8:12 a.m.
How much better the world would have been today had the person that received the most votes in 2000 actually won. At the very least we would have had a leader that could have put together a coherent sentence.
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droid3913
Feb. 26, 2007, 8:17 a.m.
Give me a brake! My sister who holds a Phd in Physic's saw one of his lectures while she was in college. She says he's one of the biggest moron's ever on this subject. The uneducated will believe anything. Can I tell you the sky is falling too? LOL
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Amazing1
Feb. 26, 2007, 8:17 a.m.
Only time will truly tell whether global warming is manmade or not. I personally believe we have certainly contributed to the intensity and speed of the cycle.
Al Gore has been tireless in bringing his views into the public consciousness. This is not a profit motivated move. He deserves to be appreciated for having sincerely done what he thought was right.
You may disagree with him, but you should at least admire that he has done what he thought was right. And would that we had more who would do the same.