I think Elmer cuts the video pretty early because it is plain by Gore’s hand gesture that he knew the end two portrait busts, but not the middle two. He makes the ‘devil’s horns’ gesture as he says right and right, then uh huh (or aha) when he is informed of who the two mystery busts actually were. For context, recall the entry hall where the guide makes a point of saying how TJ kept a surprising variety of portrait busts including arch rivals etc.

But of course, your glass is half full of wwnj bullshit, so you will believe Mr Fudd instead of yer lyin eyes.

Gore clearly (wink!) points out the two in the middle – Lafayette and John Paul Jones – and this is a gaffe? You wouldn’t be able to identify a bust of either of these two gentlemen (as Craig admits, to his credit). Clearly Mr Gore wasn’t pointing at Washington ;)

So 2 of the 4 busts are not easily recognizable and Gore asks ‘and who are these people?’ No one batted an eye. Why? Because those are not commonly recognized portraits. You’ll also note he says “right” at the same time as the guide is identifying George Washington. As if to say ‘of course’. Maybe if you weren’t viewing the video thru bullsh!t colored glasses or your 90˚ (to the right) polarizing filter you might hear the guide remarking several times at algore’s recall of interesting items in the house.

Yet another trumped up right wing bullshit trope down in flames.

But you will focus on the glass being half full of bullshit.

like this tool (mb this was your source wwnj? Elmer Fudd with a 80 IQ)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJfigbWbAB0

They also move the busts around (the Franklin portrait in the QT pano movie is a warm amber color, that didn’t seem to be the case in the video)
http://www2.monticello.org/house/tearoom.html

google images “tea room monticello”

If you can’t point to the time signature on that video and say “algore’s gaff is at X:YZ” then your link and the myth is bullshit.

Right wing tropes are almost always bullshit. I’m more than willing to acknowledge it could be true, but so far your ‘evidence’ is lacking.

heck who hasn’t said something stupid or as a joke that fell flat, like that guy who tells the Dalai Lama a joke “Dalai Lama walks into a pizza parlor and says “make me one with everything” (halfhearted rimshot)

Come on wwnjs cough up a legitimate source (not some wwnj bloggrrrrr! ;)
Make the dum lib eat tasty crow!

I know you can do it (actually I am beginning to suspect that this is bullshit, or possibly something that happened on their first visit – the curator welcomes them back…) It is ok to use algore’s Amazing Information Superhighway (note: Conservapedia sources are not legitimate)

I just read an email Palin wrote as if she were God…

That’s some crazy shit too!

You say “yes, it’s there”… where?

Show me. Prove it.

I went to the Monticello web site and found out who those four busts depict (now they could have changed in the last decade and a half or so, but I doubt it). They sure aren’t who you say they are.

I’m calling bullshit on yet another wwnj myth.

Prove me wrong.

I’ve already said that Gore’s quote (yes, it’s there) isn’t an indicator of anything other than a politician making small talk to fill time during a media event.

Politicians say dumber things almost daily.

Funny, I was all set to say “well, gee he did say something stupid! don’t we all now and again” or perhaps “well, I wouldn’t know what Lafayette or JPJ looked like, so perhaps this is understandable”

Instead you offer up a video link that does not support your claim (and then totter off clutching your pearls and decrying how rude those awful dum libs are!)

Same old bullsh!t. Or can you show me a legitimate source for algore’s amazing gaffapalooza? Still waiting for wwnj’s ‘source’ (probably more bullsh!t)

There is a pattern, and it is drawn out in sepia tones of bullsh!t.

I’ve taken the house tour of Monticello, and it is a wonderful place.

I did search more than a half dozen google pages and couldn’t find anything particularly reputable right off the bat. I don’t see your result in there at all, but maybe you searched google for 60 seconds while I only spent about 30 seconds.

So was Gore in front of the Lafayette or J P Jones busts when he made his famous gaff? It is OK to use algore’s marvelous Information Superhighway to look up the answer. Go on, or is it back to lurking and pearl clutching?

But seriously, did you actually listen to brer Palin? She just stepped out of the Old North Church and her take-away is “we saw where Paul Revere hung out as a teenager… he who warned, uh, the British… uh, by ringing those bells and making sure as he’s riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells…” PR did not ring any bells, nor did he fire any shots on his famous ride… but why let facts get in the way of partisan bullshit, eh?

Actually, I can’t blame you for tiring at the Google search for such evidence. After all, it took me all of 60 seconds to find it. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/37153-1

Actually, I put Gore’s comment along the same lines as Bush asking a cashier how the price scanner worked. Both are examples of people making small talk while passing time during a standard media event/photo op.

If pressed, I’m sure Gore would have actually identified Franklin and Washington (but I doubt any of us could have named John Paul Jones or Lafayette). And Bush didn’t think the scanner was some magical creation.

But it all makes for great fodder for those who want to support their broad-based characterizations of someone with “evidence” via non-critical thinking.

Every schoolchild knows the legend of Paul Revere. He who warned the British… rang them bells and shootin up the town… yeehaw! lorry!

Every schoolchild knows what Ben Franklin and TJ looked like (tho those waifs in Texas eventually may not know who Thomas Jefferson is… they’ve been editing him out of their textbooks cuz he were a dang lib!)

If your primary criteria for president is a knowledge of history then Newt is your man, of course he has an approval of what 7% of Republicans and just lost most of his staff.