Why does Al Gore get a special section on the Answers home page for his "question"? What bias?

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I've broke Yahoo!'s balls on my blog a number of times for the bias they show with misleading and outright lying headlines they display on their home page (that they clearly add to AP and Reuters stories on their own), as well as other obvious forms of bias... and I barely scratch the surface. But this is a new low... Giving Al Gore a propaganda soap box at the trendy new Yahoo! Answers? Please explain yourself Yahoo! I'm not even going to get in to what a pile "global warming" is, but please tell me why Gore get's this special treatment?

Sound off more here: http://www.rightwinged.com/2006/07/yahoo_pushes_gore_global_warmi.html

Dennis Dawson3 (below) said that Gore was elected in 2000, and that he would have done a lot more on the environment than Bush... First off, get off the 2000 election you sore sore losers. YOU LOST, DEAL WITH IT! It was 6 years ago!!! As for him doing more for the environment... didn't he have 8 years under Clinton? What happened?

You end with
"Ask a question about something that concerns you, rather than ranting about the access given to someone with a clear message and a public track record. You might establish one of your own."

Um, access given to Al Gore is something that concerns me, so you make no point at all. By the way, the sure sign that you can't win a debate is to tell a person not to ask a question. You win that prize today.

By the way, anyone debating the global warming myth here is wasting their time. This is about Yahoo!'s special treatment of Gore, not the actual "issue".

W Brian28, shouldn't you be in your freshman political science class getting indoctrinated by your liberal professor right now? Or perhaps watching some more F911, and worshipping Michael Moore's lies? I would have liked to have left personal attacks out of this, until you called me insane.

You just come off like a classic liberal nut who has never thought for 2 seconds about anything they say, it's all just been feed to you and you're incapable of independent thought. Like your other buddy above, you have no argument so you tell me to go away:

"It isn't bias and you're far too obsessed with the issue. If you're pissed at Yahoo, just don't come here.

Go somewhere that will support your radical right wing views."

Excuse me? I can come here if I want to, and make use of the site in the manner it was intended. What I don't like is a company masquerading as non-partisan, when they could simply openly admit to being liberally biased.

as for "Just Will", I don't even know where to begin with you... You liberals are really frightening. I can't believe how many of you there are and that you're able to vote and cancel out informed votes. I really think we need voter competency tests... The Democratic Party would cease to exist in a matter of years.

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Well, jonasweepel, you may have a point... but I'm not so sure. While at the moment I'm unable to find anywhere that Yahoo! claims not to discriminate, or hold up one political view higher than the other, that's generally a safe assumption when you're talking about one of the biggest search engines on the planet.

Now, perhaps that's my wrong assumption, I don't know... But I'd be willing to bet that Yahoo! has a policy somewhere, like almost everyone else, that says they don't discriminate based on sex, race, sexual orientation, political leanings, etc.

As is noted at the blog though, Yahoo! isn't just part of the elite liberal media machine, they are outright liars sometimes too. Check out this March post (just one example):
http://www.rightwinged.com/2006/03/yahoo_news_headlines_lying_aga.html

As for the blog not getting much. I would say that a 6 month old blog, with two months of virtually no activity getting approx 100,000 hits ain't bad

ps: when I say 2 months of no activity, I mean virtually no posts in the past 2 months.

Answer 1

he though temper tantrum so they gave him a special section

there was a ice age right ? what melted all of that ice ? global warming ! the globe worms up and the globe cools down it is all in the natural scheme of things.so don't blow a hemorrhoid worrying about global warming.

Answer 2

Let's see, Al Gore makes a non-partisan movie and becomes an advocate of a cleaner Earth.

Oil companies sense the threat and use pundits and their own propoganda to come up with junk science to "debunk" him, turn it into a "debatable theory", or turn it into a political issue, which it is not. Al Gore is no longer in politics, he is simply using his clout to attempt to "do the right thing." Something I wish all these pundits with a little pull would do instead of perpetuating Nazi hate speech to sell books.

Most intelligent people will look at the weight of the evidence and 2000 scientists supporting the fact that "man is accelerating a global catastrophe".

Gore wants to come on Yahoo and talk about environmental issues. He's a celebrity and gets a featured question for the purpose of having an open dialogue, same as any celebrity with any degree of humanity.

Answer 3

Global warming is a serious problem. The "debate" about whether the world has had an unusual increase in temperature as a result of human activity in the last century is a political debate - the scientific community overwhelmingly agree that the world is in trouble.

Al Gore, who was elected president in 2000 and would certainly have led the country in a different direction than it has gone under Dubya has used his time since his tenure as Vice President to focus attention on protecting our environment - continuing a campaign he has waged for decades.

He has released an eye-opening film about this crisis.

Granted, some would prefer to focus on Bradjenilinatney, but there should also be some time given for the future of our planet.

Ask a question about something that concerns you, rather than ranting about the access given to someone with a clear message and a public track record. You might establish one of your own.

Answer 4

I agree. Al Gore shouldn't get this unless Republican leaders get the same. All he's doing is being an ignorant fool because what he should really be concerned with is the War on Terror, because if we don't win that, we won't have to worry about global warming. We all know it's been happening for years. He needs to get off of it - I saw the movie, and all it is is a Powerpoint trash can. Al Gore can't win an election, HE LOST, GET OVER IT!! Anyone who thinks he won in 2000, you've been blinded by lies and deceit.

Answer 5

Something to think about, my friend: Yahoo is in partnership with AT&T. AT&T is a major funding supporter of the Bush campaines.

If anything, Yahoo is trying to show they are bi-partisin. But Gore is not the only person who has been given a Yahoo soapbox. There have also been Republicans.

And it just may be that the heads at Yahoo also are concerned about the effects of global warming.

Whatever the case, propaganda has nothing to do with showing concern about the world's future.

Answer 6

It isn't bias and you're far too obsessed with the issue. If you're pissed at Yahoo, just don't come here.

Go somewhere that will support your radical right wing views.

Oh, and if you've read any real research, you'd know global warming isn't a "pile".

What is a stinking pile is your insanity. It's called freedom of the marketplace.

Now, go away and commune with your fellow radical rightists as you mourn your lost seats in 2006.

Answer 7

Yahoo can do give special treatment to anyone they want. Yahoo's goal is to make money. They do so by generating traffic. Al Gore generates helps Yahoo generate traffic. Case in point, you fell for it.

Why do you claim Yahoo is "masquerading as non-partisan." When did Yahoo claim to be non-partisan?

People aren't interested in your partisan rantings. So your www.rightwinged.com website doesn't generate any traffic and you're not featured anywhere. People find Al Gore to be interesting, entertaining, educational, whatever. Therefore he's featured on Yahoo. Simple enough.

Answer 8

Why no complaining when Donald Trump got one? Or Suzie Orman? It's just a celebrity thing, and Gore is in the news now.

Answer 9

Because you're not Al Gore.

Answer 10

hes al gore