Al Gore Dissipates Crowd of 20,000 Architects by...Speaking!

May 9 (LPAC)--Al Gore, scheduled as the keynote speaker of the 20,000-strong American Institute of Architects National Convention in San Antonio on May 5, instead created a mass early exodus of architects from the Convention, leaving only a few hundred behind to listen to Gore's drivel, LaRouche Youth Movement members on the scene reported.

The announcement that Gore had been scheduled as the keynote speaker sparked a blog protest on the AIA website during March and April. Many architects blasted the choice of Gore, and announced that they they would not attend the Convention, and that they would quit the AIA.

The AIA would not reveal Gore's speaking fee; however, it is customarily $125,000. Gore also stipulated that all press would be barred from his speech, and there would be no questions. This may be the reason why some media, such as the San Antonio News Express , inflated the attendance to several thousand. The only thing that involved thousands was the traffic jam getting away from Gore.

Hedge Fund Manager Gore's message, according to the Express , was that global warming was creating "a spiritual crisis--a crisis of our own self-definition."

As one of the prescient architects wrote in his comment, "Count me out of the National Convention. Al Gore--ugh!"