The Real and Unreal Gore
The Real and Unreal Gore Iread Tucker Carlson's devastating expose "The Real Al Gore" (May 19) with mixed feelings. I say mixed not because I doubt the accuracy of Carlson's well-written article,...
...His commitment to her was that of a loving brother to a sister, and for Carlson to imply otherwise is despicable...
...Domestically, the vice president has led an assault on entire sectors of American industry, such as pesticides and biotechnology...
...But I hope Tucker Carlson can take a small measure of comfort in the fact that at least one former Gore supporter has turned over a new leaf and is now a committed Republican activist...
...Those in charge, when I last checked, were still in Washington, D.C...
...He was in East Tennessee when he was notified that his sister, Nancy, had taken a turn for the worse...
...Gore disdains the scientific method, feeling that science needs to be tempered by religion...
...Gore's influence has been palpable in domestic and foreign-policy issues that have scientific, technological, or environmental components...
...What has arisen since the War Between the States is precisely what John C. Calhoun, et al., opposed: a central, all powerful government dispensing "freedom" and "equality" at its whim...
...But will Americans approve of U.S...
...I say mixed not because I doubt the accuracy of Carlson's well-written article, but because I used to be a Gore supporter...
...Non-news has been fit to print for a long time at the Times...
...What will be the international response when Washington launches cruise missiles at a Chinese dam because it alters the local ecology...
...When I was too tired to drive, he would...
...But his article barely touches on Gore's zealous pseudo-envi-ronmentalism, anti-science, and anti-technology views—not to mention the damage they have wrought in public policy...
...Emery's comparison is woefully inaccurate...
...William Blau San Francisco, CA The Stars and Bars Today Congratulations on the excellent study "Confederate Nation" (May 19) by Noemie Emery...
...It is clear in my memory, however, because I was his advance person and driver during that campaign...
...The subtitle of his article is "The Psychoanalyst's Legacy Under Fire," yet he accepts, in his opening paragraph, the author's evidence that Bruno Bettelheim had neither an academic degree or any other training before proclaiming himself a psychoanalyst and working on children's psyches in this country...
...It reflects Gore's worldview, revealed in Earth in the Balance, that the rescue of the environment must be "the central organizing principle for civilization...
...Gore seems sorry the Dark Ages ever ended...
...As an activist, I enthusiastically supported Gore for president when he ran in 1988...
...There was no substance to Bettelheim, other than the success he achieved in conning American acade-mia, the intelligentsia, and the media into thinking he was a great child psychologist, when in fact he was just the insecure son of a well-to-do Viennese lumber seller...
...Richard E. Hall Palm Bay, FL Ienjoyed Tucker Carlson's Al Gore expose...
...He immediately returned to the hospital in Nashville to be with her...
...But for the separation of science and religion, we might not be pumping so much gaseous chemical waste into the atmosphere and threatening the destruction of earth's climate balance...
...Gore's deep antagonism toward science and technology is well documented in his own writings...
...He admirably tried to balance the demands of the campaign while making time to be with her...
...This article should be a must-read for every American-studies class...
...Iwonder weather Peter D. Kramer ("The Battle over Bettelheim," April 7) would let someone operate on his child's brain tumor if the surgeon had no formal training or experience...
...I'm afraid it won't be...
...Harold Freed Teaneck, NJ Istrongly protest Noemie Emery's article "Confederate Nation...
...Jimmy Dale Weaver Irmo, SC...
...Al made time to visit with her often in the hospital and when she was in Carthage...
...foreign policy now include other countries' balancing "the competing goals of protecting a forest against providing additional croplands...
...But that's hardly the point: Weeks by her side in the hospital would not make up for the cheap way he treated her memory at the Democratic convention last year...
...He arrived late in the afternoon and she died that night...
...John Erthein Royal Oak, MI Tucker Carlson's article is certainly convincing...
...The truth is, as Richard Pollack's book The Creation of Dr...
...I have one comment: Why did he omit the Armand Hammer connection...
...I really believed the positive image he has so cynically, albeit skillfully, created for himself...
...Whew...
...Of course not...
...B. points out, that Bettelheim's persona and "contributions" were all part of the same con game...
...First, liberals thrive on the division of certain peoples within our country...
...Second, the founding fathers of the Confederacy, as well as the Constitutional Union known as the United States of America, never intended that any central government should attain enough power to dictate what "tribes," "ethnic groups," "minorities," or "special interests" would receive preferential treatment or protection...
...I was a democrat until mid-1994...
...What were Bettelheim's "heroic qualities" that Kramer so admires Nina Sutton is commenting on in her biography...
...troops deployed to enforce limits on carbon-dioxide emissions...
...She had been sick for some time and was in and out of the Vanderbilt Hospital for a period of months and also stayed at her parents' house in Carthage, Tennessee...
...He also directly or indirectly financed young Al's expensive education...
...She logically and powerfully expressed the great philosophic differences that beset our nation...
...In Earth in the Balance, he repeatedly uses the metaphor that those who believe in technological progress are as sinister and evil as the perpetrators of the Holocaust...
...The last thing Nancy would have wanted was for Al not to run for the Senate because of her sickness...
...Even measured against other American politicians, Al Gore is a consummate phony and chameleon...
...Back at the height of the Iran-Contra controversy, the Times ran a front-page story on the fact that nobody had called for President Reagan's impeachment...
...In light of Carlson's article, I am profoundly embarrassed to publicly admit I ever supported Gore for anything— but there it is...
...One can only hope that in January 2001 Gore will be able to assume the job for which he seems to have been preparing all his life: instructor in "creation biology" at West Tennessee River Delta Junior College...
...I am writing because I am insulted not as a liberal, but as a southerner...
...Donald R. Holm Port Townsend, WA Regarding Tucker Carlson's "The Real Al Gore": The implication that Al Gore gave campaign speeches Correspondence and interviews on the same day and possibly after his sister died is inexcusable...
...Exactly what were the "genuine contributions" that Bruno Bettelheim made to combating autism (the understanding of which he set back 20 years...
...In April the State Department published a major policy statement, Environmental Diplomacy, the theme of which is that environmental issues are of such importance that they are now equal to national security and economic issues...
...When no bandwagon materialized, the Times editors abandoned the effort...
...The Environmental Protection Agency's licensing of new chemical pesticides has shrunk to a trickle while the agency has placed regulatory roadblocks in the way of biotechnology research and development that could provide biological alternatives...
...Why are those smooth-talking con men who are caught posing as surgeons, internists, etc., sent to prison, while men like Bruno Bettelheim, who artfully pull the cloak of psychoanalysis over their shoulders, are able to garner the admiration of writers like Kramer who grovel before their reputed "genuine contributions...
...Henry I. Miller Stanford, CA Tucker Carlson's article put a lot of meat on the bones of what I knew about Al Gore...
...It also confirmed my existing summary: "An empty cab stopped and Al Gore got out...
...The late Comrade Hammer was president of Occidental Oil and a Soviet mole, who bankrolled the senior Senator Gore to gain Washington access...
...The separation of these groups is not to enhance their individual cultures or heritages, but to keep every group small and hostile enough so as not to take power away from those in charge...
...On the other hand, if I ever have any doubt that I did the right thing by switching to the Republican party, all I need to do is consider that, thanks to the Democratic party, we now have Al Gore as the heir apparent to Bill Clinton, another terribly flawed Democrat . This is pretty depressing, and I have a lot to live down...
...Carlson says that "it is not clear" whether Gore was campaigning before or after his sister's death that day...
...George J. Phillips Alexandria, VA TUCKER CARLSON RESPONDS: Inexcusable or not, Al Gore was campaigning on the day of his sister's death, as records of both his interview and his speech that day make clear...
...Our civilization is "dysfunctional," according to Gore, who believes we have created "a false world of plastic flowers and Astroturf, air conditioning and fluorescent lights, windows that don't open and background music that never stops, days when we don't know whether it has rained or not, nights when the sky never stops glowing, Walkman and Watchman entertainment cocoons, frozen food for the microwave oven, sleepy hearts jump-started with caffeine, alcohol, drugs, and illusions...
...According to Environmental Diplomacy, critical issues for U.S...
...She completely missed the point of the Confederacy, and distorted it horribly in comparing it to modern liberalism...
...We would drive from one end of the state to the other to get back to Nashville or Carthage so he could spend time with her...
...But for the separation of science and religion, we would still be burdened with the pre-Copernican notion that the sun and the planets revolve around the earth...
...While the institution of slavery, and the concept of racial superiority, held by some southern thinkers in the past are wrong, they cannot compare to the segregation perpetuated by those in power today...
...Gore analogizes this to "Nazi Germany [where] dysfunctional thinking was institutionalized in the totalitarian state, its dogma, and its war machine...
...Clay Edmunds San Francisco, CA a Mad Doctor...
...Tricks of the Times The "Negative Reporting" noted in the Scrapbook (May 19) is not the innovation in New York Times reporting you think it is...
...The decisions by sovereign governments, we are told, "have social, environmental, and economic implications, which in turn affect our foreign policy...
Vol. 2 • June 1997 • No. 37
