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On April 1, 2008 biotechnology news website Think Gene carried an April Fools Day story about the creation of a human-bear-pig chimera, complete with a picture and scientific description of the genes involved. The story concluded with "Al Gore could not be reached for comment".
In the Season 10 DVD commentary, the creators talk about An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore's documentary film. Matt Stone states that Gore's movie should not have won the Academy Award for Best Documentary, charging "It wasn't a documentary. It was a PowerPoint presentation."
Marine Observation post ManBearPig in Treekha Nawa, Afghanistan is named after the fictional creature.
In a November 7, 2008 interview on Current TV, Gore was asked about spreading "ManBearPig awareness", and he laughingly replied that he found it "unbelievable" how many comments he received from the episode.
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“The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity—much less dissent.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)