Al Gore and the BBC win International Emmy Awards

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Al Gore wins International Emmy Awards
Tue Nov 20, 2007 6:19am EST
By Chris Michaud

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former Vice President Al Gore won another honor on Monday when he received the Founders Award at the International Emmy Awards, which also gave a top prize to a controversial British television film about the assassination of President George W. Bush.

"Death of President," which explores the aftermath of Bush's assassination in Chicago in October 2007, won the International Emmy for best TV movie or miniseries, leading a pack of winners from the United Kingdom and the BBC that dominated the 35th annual awards.

The award was presented moments after Gore accepted his honor, an annual prize that recognized his role in launching Current TV, a cable and satellite network that uses viewer-created content.

Gore, accepting from Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro, said in brief remarks that the future of world democracy "depends to a surprising degree on democratizing TV." Current TV was thus born of the idea of connecting the Internet to television, Gore said.

The former vice president, who ran against Bush in 2000 in a disputed election that was decided by a divided U.S. Supreme Court, also used the occasion to lobby on behalf of the environment, saying "the climate crisis is by far the most serious challenge the human race has ever faced."

Earlier this year Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize, and graced the stage at the Academy Awards when the documentary about his lecture tour on global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth" won the Oscar. He also won a prime-time Emmy for Current TV.
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Congratulations to a great man, and thank you SO MUCH for CURRENT TV. If we now take what you have given us and use it we can see a new revolution.

I will always support anything and everything he does. Bravo to President Gore! :applause:

Julie

Regardless of his address, he is a leader.

I gotta get me some of whatever he's using. ;-)

Julie

a very handsome man.