Al Gore Speaks About the Media Coverage of 2000
Vanity Fair has the painful story of the media's shameful role in reducing Al Gore to the size of George W. Bush in the 2000 election.
Frank Rich, Lou Dobbs, Elaine Povich, Ceci Connolly, Chris Matthews, Margaret Carlson, Brian Williams, Howard Fineman, Katie Couric, Frank Bruni, Katharine Seelye, Maureen Dowd, etc., I hope all of you are happy with the blood on your hands.
Going After Gore
Al Gore couldn't believe his eyes: as the 2000 election heated up, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other top news outlets kept going after him, with misquotes ("I invented the Internet"), distortions (that he lied about being the inspiration for Love Story), and strangely off-the-mark needling, while pundits such as Maureen Dowd appeared to be charmed by his rival, George W. Bush. For the first time, Gore and his family talk about the effect of the press attacks on his campaign—and about his future plans—to the author, who finds that many in the media are re-assessing their 2000 coverage. . .
“The sighs, the sighs, the sighs … Within 18 hours, they had turned perception around to where the entire story was about me sighing. And that’s scary. That’s scary.” -- Al Gore
"Al Gore is desperate to get chicks. Married chicks. Single chicks. Old chicks. Young chicks. If he doesn't stop turning off women, he'll never be president." -- Maureen Dowd
"Al Gore is so feminized and diversified and ecologically correct, he's practically lactating." -- Maureen Dowd
Hat tip to Shakesville
Draft Al Gore!
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