Inconvenient Box Office
by Tim SlagleAfter I came home from the fabulous sold out Maher -Coulter debate, I began to wonder something. The next big show on the MSG Speaker series is the Al Gore show on April 1st. If two circus acts like Maher and Coulter can sell out the Chicago Theater it should be no problem for an elder Statesman like Gore whose mantle holds trophies from the Nobel, Oscar, Emmy, and Grammy organizations. Certainly a man so popular with the elite should have no trouble selling out the joint.
A couple clicks on the Ticketmaster link assured me that there is no danger of a People’s Choice Award on that mantle anytime soon, since the public isn’t buying Gore. With a little more than two weeks before showtime, it is still possible to purchase six seats on the main floor, center stage, row K. Ouch.
Turns out that even hardcore Al Gore supporters cannot imagine sitting through an hour of listening to him. People like the idea of Al Gore far more than the actual person. They want him to speak much more than they care to listen. It’s much easier to give him an Academy Award than to sit through his movie. Ditto on his Emmy awarded for Current TV, a cable channel with scant evidence of capturing even a single viewer.
So what could Al Gore do to move some of the tickets? I did notice that he is the only solo act on the entire Speaker Series. All the other acts have agreed to a debate or round-table format. This solution worked quite well for Bill Maher, as evidenced by the sold out Chicago Theater show–as recently as last July, he could not sell out an entire house by himself. An inside source tells me that he gave free tickets away after a Chris Rock show and sold two-for-ones in order to get an audience into his Minneapolis Orpheum show (that’s Dark Blue Minneapolis). He was able to put the butts in the seats last Wednesday by adding Ann Coulter to the ticket
Of course, Al Gore would never do that. Al Gore refuses to debate and has declared the Global Warming debate over. My friend Jerry Agar suggests this is not because he doesn’t want to debate, but because he CAN’T debate. If Al Gore were to face an opponent who actually studied science in college rather than spending football weekends driving sorority girls out to the family vacation retreat, everyone would recognize Global Warming Apocalysim for the fraudulent house of cards it really is.
What an opportunity we have here. The entire Chicago Theater could be purchased for under a quarter mil. With only a small handful of Al Gore fans having bought tickets, it would be very easy to fill the house with skeptics and overwhelm the supporters. Imagine the red faced tantrum that Prince Albert would toss as one baseless claim after another is booed down by the audience.
Of course, that probably won’t happen. Between the overwhelming indifference of the general public and the propensity of Mr. G to create a snowstorm wherever he goes, I’m ready to lay ten to one odds that the show gets canceled.
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Is there a return policy for the tickets? Would it be possible to buy/return tickets a day or two before curtain? An empty house would make a statement. A full house, even with skeptics, puts money in Gores pocket.
Of course he won't allow a debate forum. Only Al Gore was capable of making George W. Bush look like Abraham Lincoln in debate. Like those pesky wisdom molars, Al Gore is simply an incovenient tooth.
April fool.
Law, thats the tooth and nothing but the tooth.
Good 'ole tennessee tuxedo could't put a bum in the seat if he offered a bum two-hundred dollars to sit in it. He's a walking oxymoron – in that he looks like an ox, and speaks like a moron. I love when grammar gives me a double-entendre.
"tennessee tuxedo"….hysterical Jack. And a "touche" for the oxymoron breakdown! The refusal to debate just exposes the vacuousness of Gore's claims. It is the most hackneyed and lame debating tactic…declare victory and withdraw. I know I'm not the first to say that, but it is always worth repeating. Gotta say hi to my daughters…Hi Lucy, Hi Ellen…Daddy loves you! Question O-thority!
The proper "Dusty Rhodes" ending for this imperious gasbag.
HA!! Well put. GWB was a genius compared to Mr. Gore, or at least looked like it during the debates.
An award winning fake. Hey, wasn't that wasted bit of celluloid he made his only way to play with Leo and the rest of the Hollywood gang. . .well where are they now. . .oh yeah, onward to the next lost cause in the White House.
Don't forget who these delusional people are. In their ivory tower of babble, they can say anything, and believe it as well. First they tried to use the Atlantic conveyor as the reason earth was getting cooler while it was warming (yeah, I know, I'm lost too). It showed up in that silly movie "Day After Tomorrow." That didn't seem to work out too well, so they changed the name of the topic to "climate change." As they say in advertising, "same s–t, different package." And it was never a debate. It's an ongoing harangue. And it worked for Hitler. Keep repeating the big lie often enough and loud enough, and people will start to believe it.
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Shedding a little light on the real Tennessee Tuxedo.. .one in the same?
Who's playing Chumley?
Is it ironic or symbolic that this lecture is scheduled for April 1st?
My favorite picture of Gore… http://growabrain.typepad.com/photos/uncategorize...
Ah, and Tennessee Tuxedo's catchphrase works well for His Goreness' attitude, too:
"Tennessee Tuxedo WILL NOT FAIL!"
What a great idea. Get a bunch of "non-believers" to buy up the empty seats and treat Gore like a conservative on Real Time with Bill Maher.
If only I lived in Chicago…
Wait, scratch that. I have no desire whatsoever to live in Chicago.
Despite it's politics, Chicago is a great town.
Paying hard core cash to watch Al Gore for an hour? I'd rather pay double to watch paint dry.
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My black headed conure could debate Gore and win… (:
Leo Di Caprio, I think…
What kills me is that they put a bunch of money in the "stimulus" bill to study "Global Warming"…….I thought the science was settled!!! And of course the Forth Estate(sic) had nothing to say about it. That money could have been better spent on midnight basketball.
I would SO take government payout to see this, then excite Talk Radio with "bailout money going to Gore Speaker Series." Might as well skewer two inconveniences at once.
When Gore came to Canada, quite a few tickets were bought by Unions and handed out for free to its members.
Great… the Goreacle in Chicago on April 1.
Guess I'll hold off putting my snow shovel and salt away…
"The debate is over" means that he no longer has enough evidence to prove his point.
I believe people are beginning to see the light through the proverbial hole in the ozone layer. You can't say that global cooling is a result of anthropogenic global warming and expect people to buy it.
Perfect! Tennessee Tuxedo. I was in high school when Don Adams was doing the voice of the penguin in that cartoon series. I was always waiting for the penguin to say "sorry about that." And best of all, Tennessee Tuxedo was actually cute and educational, as opposed to the blimplike reincarnation we see in Al Gore. Maybe they could recreate the series, with the new Tennessee Tuxedo/Gore competing for space on a tiny ice floe with a polar bear. I know, different poles, but it's a cartoon, right?
Algore has a Nobel Peace prize (like Yassir Arafat does) and an Oscar Award (like Sean Penn does). Why should he lower his all-knowing self to debate earth and atmospheric science with earth and atmospheric scientists. He's gotta save the world!, gonna kick some greenhouse g-ass. And with the support of Hollywood celebrities, who usually stay clear of fashionable causes, this gassy bag-of-wind propagates the biggest and newest big lie. Human existence is now at stake, geez. So the award for the most deceitful and pompous schlockumentary goes to the methane spewing puffed up half-wit huckster……………..not Michael Moore, but Algore.
Agree with your post but want to point out that Al Gore did not win an Oscar. People think he did but the award actually went to the show as best documentary feature. Drives me nuts – and you would think the AMPAS – that this is constantly being reported incorrectly.
In an ideal world… there'd be a campaign in the Chicago MSM. Papers, radio and TV. Backed by someone with deep pockets.
Publicly calling Al Gore a charlatan. Daring him to debate the latest science on 'climate change' with someone in the opposing camp who knows the facts (and who will tie him in blubbery knots).
And when Gore says 'no', which he will, keep chipping away at him. More ads. Talkback radio. Blogs.
Could this blowhard withstand a well-targeted and intense campaign calling on him to 'put up' or 'shut up'?
I went from being upset Al Gore wasn't president (I voted for him by the way to not being able to look at him on the television because of his environmental claims that increasingly seemed unlikely as time. That's saying something.
An Oscar, a Grammy, a Nobel, and an Emmy? You forgot his BIGGEST prize. His HEDGE FUND, that buys and sells CARBON CREDITS. I understand that the Church Of England, just recently, deposited the nice sum of 150 Pounds in to Als' little 'Piggy Bank'. THAT'S the real PRIZE. So, step right up, SUCKERS. Al needs a new pair of PRIVATE JETS. Idiots
[...] Box office woes shouldn’t stop Mr Gore from raking in millions via the stimulus package. [...]
[...] Box office woes shouldn’t stop Mr Gore from raking in millions via the stimulus package. [...]
Let's not forget the all-important Producers Guild Award he received just before the Oscar. I was there. It was the biggest suck-up fest I'd ever witnessed.
"What an opportunity we have here. The entire Chicago Theater could be purchased for under a quarter mil. With only a small handful of Al Gore fans having bought tickets, it would be very easy to fill the house with skeptics and overwhelm the supporters. Imagine the red faced tantrum that Prince Albert would toss as one baseless claim after another is booed down by the audience."
Nice idea, but it wouldn't work. Free market thinkers vote with their wallets. Why would anyone want to spend their hard-earned dollars to watch a slide show?
Hey, the guy coudn't carry his home state in the election. That tells you pretty much all you need to know. Oh, and he did flunk out of at least two colleges that I know of.
Woulda been even better spent if they just put it in my pocket and let me do it…
"If Al Gore were to face an opponent who actually studied science in college rather than spending football weekends driving sorority girls out to the family vacation retreat, everyone would recognize Global Warming Apocalysim for the fraudulent house of cards it really is."
LOL, are you under the impression that people who "actually studied science in college" would take the OTHER side of that argument? You must have meant "studied Bible in college." Most scientists believe more or less in what Al Gore believes.
actually, you can find even more scientists who dissagree with what Al Gore believes than those who are simply positioning themselves for governement grants. I know because I work with them, and being a private company and not a government funded organization, we are not forced to pay lip service to his fool ideas. And no, I did not study the bible in college (I would have had to go to Yeshiva for that), I work in Civil Engineering (geotechnical, enivironmental, water treatment, infrastructure, etc.).
Folks, we have a new target to set our sites on. Al Gore is on the way out. Now we have Thomas Friedman on the corporate speaking circuit pushing his book "Hot, Flat and Crowded." He argues for even more drastic measures than VP Gore, and it is being pushed to corporate America as a "Live Executive Leadership Series Event with Thomas Friedman." Come one, come all, learn how to make outrageous decisions based on questionable evidence with no regard for unintended consequences! We call that leadership?
The professor that Algore studied under in college was the one who came up with the C02 AGW idea. After many years of his predictions not working out like they should have and the empirical data proving him wrong he said he was incorrect. That typically how science is supposed to work. Algore responded by saying that his college professor was senile.
How many different parts of his slide show has he had to take down so far and be proven wrong or blatant lies?
How many different a credited colleges have asked him not to link AGW to their research data because he was misrepresenting it?
Courts in the UK called his movie propaganda.
"are you under the impression that people who "actually studied science in college" would take the OTHER side of that argument?"
No. But I AM under the impression, that anyone who took Philosophy 101, wouldn't make the error in logic that you just did.
There are people who have studied science, on both sides of the debate.
There is also Al Gore. Who did not.
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