This part was omitted from the Barbara Walters interview with Al Gore:
ABC refused to broadcast the truth, because the truth is butt-ugly and
it often casts
President Perfect in a less-than-sainthood light, so ABC News, part of
Bush's good puppy press,
agreed the terrorists would win if America knew the truth about this "president."
The following exchanges, while sure to interest Note readers and historians,
actually
won't be part of tonight's 20/20 broadcast, so you can read them only here
and now:
WALTERS: I'm not sure that people realize that while you were in the residence
of the
Vice President there were crowds of people outside screaming at you. What
was that all about?
AL GORE: Well, this was the Republican response to what was happening during
that 36-day period,
and they organized busloads of people that came and stood outside the house
all day and all night
screaming at the top of their lungs.
WALTERS: What, "Get out!"?
TIPPER GORE: Things like that, yes, and, and sometimes
things that we
don't want to
say on your program, and, some people saw that they were buses from "churches,"
but
it was organized. The one thing that, that they did mainly was reach the
bedrooms of
our children, and Albert was still in school locally, and trying to study,
so we
rearranged, you know, they
kids moved to a different part of the house,
and I was
trying to think of a way that we could kind of laugh about this since obviously
it was
out of our control, there wasn't anything anybody could do so I got all
the boom boxes
in the house and
I remember sort of what the government did with Noriega
I
thought we'd try that, and I aimed them at, toward, you know, where the
crowd
WALTERS: The crowd?
TIPPER GORE:
And I put nature sounds on and turned it all the way up.
And at least
the kids laughed.
AL GORE: There were a few, more than a few who supported us and were offended
by
the organized chanting round the clock who came out on the other street
corner during
the day to express their support with signs, and
You know, emotions were
running
high throughout the country and it was just an unprecedented time.
KARENNA GORE: Well, when we were in the Vice President's house during the
recount, it
was it was very intense. And one of the things I remember is that there
was an organized effort by,
I don't know whether it was the RNC or it was
it was right-wing groups,
it was definitely
Bush-campaign-oriented effort to bus in people to have a sort of siege
at the Vice President's house,
and, so, they were all lining there, screaming, and it was kind of an assortment
of groups. I mean,
some of them were anti-abortion groups, and some of them were pro-gun groups,
they all had their
different signs. But they were all screaming, "Get out of Cheney's house,"
the whole time. And I just
remember being there next to my dad, because I went for a run, and I ran
back through them, and I
was very upset when I came into the house.
And my whole attitude was, like, "We've got to fight back harder. And
where are our crowds?"
And my dad, I'll never forget his response. He said, "We have to do
what's best for the country,
and it is not good for the country to have this kind of divisiveness.
And he was on the phone,
really calling off the dogs. There were people who wanted to fan the flames
of the racial issue and have
real unrest. And he was on the phone asking them not to, because of what
was best for the country
not because of what was best for him politically. And that's really who
he is...
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/DailyNews/TheNote.html
And that's why we lost in 2000, even tho we had the most votes.
Gore did what he thought was best for the country, and the GOP
did what was best for the B.F.E.E. - so we lost.
Of course, we wouldn't want to be like them.
We'd rather lose our country to fascist dogs than "be like them."