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To: TimF who wrote (20943)	6/14/2006 2:23:08 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541236

I see no reason to think the interview was a misrepresentation of what Gore said. It isn't just someone blurting out "Gore said X", and it isn't a small snippet of an interview with no context. Also it the interview was obviously conducted by someone who supports Gore. Sure the text of the interview could just be a blatant lie but that seems unlikely. I don't know whether you've ever been interviewed by a journalist and then read the results of the interview or not but it ain't fun. I promise you. All sorts of things get garbled. Gore, for instance, could easily have said one and two are consensus, then either in that context or in another, said something about three, four, and five and thought it was clear there was a different order of scientific agreement. Or he could have said what he was quoted as saying. My only point here is that one should not be held to the letter of the quote in such quotes. The better measure is to read or see something that is much more reliable. Check the book out of the library and see. If it's said that way there, then he's made a mistake. It then becomes a question of the magnitude of the mistake.