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"Something will start at the Republican National Committee, inside the building, and it will explode the next day on the right-wing talk-show network and on Fox News and in the newspapers that play this game, The Washington Times and the others. And then they’ll create a little echo chamber, and pretty soon they’ll start baiting the mainstream media for allegedly ignoring the story they’ve pushed into the zeitgeist. And then pretty soon the mainstream media goes out and disingenuously takes a so-called objective sampling, and lo and behold, these R.N.C. talking points are woven into the fabric of the zeitgeist."

The world according to Gore--Fox news is not the mainstream media, despite having the highest ratings of any cable news chanel. And Republican ideas have no legitimate place in the "fabric of the zeitgeist". Zeitgeist. A real man of the people that Algore.

"Zeitgeist. A real man of the people that Algore."

LOL.....exactly what I was thinking. How many of Albore's Palm Beach voters understand the zeitgeist that poor Al is now battling!

"Something will start at the Republican National Committee, inside the building, and it will explode the next day on the right-wing talk-show network and on Fox News and in the newspapers that play this game, The Washington Times and the others. And then they’ll create a little echo chamber, and pretty soon they’ll start baiting the mainstream media for allegedly ignoring the story they’ve pushed into the zeitgeist. And then pretty soon the mainstream media goes out and disingenuously takes a so-called objective sampling, and lo and behold, these R.N.C. talking points are woven into the fabric of the zeitgeist."

Me thinks that he has has just revealed the standard operating procedure for the DNC, the major networks, and CNN. Being the consummate idiot that he is, Gore merely applied the model that he knows (and probably thinks he invented) to today's reality where Democrats occasionally have to face up to some criticism. (As opposed to the past where 99% of all media was their bought and paid-for cheering section.)

"Lockbox." -Al Gore, 2000

"Zeitgeist." -Al Gore, 2002