Letters to the Editor
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more shots at Al
I love the way our writers pretend to praise Al Gore while simultaneously smearing him with the same old tired jive.
Gore presents a "wonky but highly effective" presentation which is of course, not just a presentation but is a "lecture-demonstration". There he goes again, boring Al Gore, giving a boring lecture.
Not much later we get "Guggenheim seems to see the 2000 election as the third, and perhaps most decisive, of Gore's life-changing personal trials." In a new twist (most of our media just pretend to read Gore's mind) O'Heir reads the director's mind reading Gore's mind. Amazing!
Next we get an entire paragraph full of golden oldies. Gore "preaches", and we're reminded that "yes, his lectures are sometimes dense and wonky affairs". What does O'Heir mean with the "yes" part? Who is this imaginary dull, lazy person O'Heir agrees with by throwing in the "yes"?
Of course Gore's unsexiness gets a point: "Hey, babe, wanna catch the flick about Al Gore's slide show?"
And right in line with the "Al Gore is crazy" smear, we're told that Gore is "strange"--and not only that, he's also "portly". His Tennessee accent is "slightly put-on" (Once again, Gore's inner thoughts are divined and he is declared a phony), and we're reminded that "he was mostly raised in a Washington hotel suite". Ah yes, the privileged childhood spent in a swank hotel suite. Andrew, you might want to look into that a little further.
And there's still more of this tired shit. Next we get the news that Gore is "uncomfortable in his own skin", in case we didn't get it when the Beltway media falsely smeared Gore with it in 2000.
And still we're not done! Apparently, Gore didn't know who he was until recently, because we're informed that it looks like he has finally "become his own man."
No, it's not necessary to praise the man exclusively. Of course not. But I don't believe the author is sharing original thoughts. He's just repeating the same old shameful, false smears we've heard for years.
Andrew, of course Al Gore isn't getting back into politics! He's smart. He knows that he'll just get smeared again. Your article is the perfect example. You can't even praise him without repeating all the doozies: Gore's a phony, Gore doesn't know who he is, Gore's strange, Gore's not sexy, preachy Gore is always boring us with wonky boring lectures.
Andrew, I usually like your writing, but this stuff is lazy.
GF