W. Post.: Tipper Played Whale Sounds to Drown Out Protesters, Bill Had Fridge on Porch of N.Y. Manse

The Washington Post Magazine ^ | Wednesday, November 13, 2002 | Liza Munday, with comments by Kristinn

[kristinn]

Buried in a lengthy Washington Post Magazine profile of former Vice President Al Gore, reporter Liza Munday lets loose with snarky and sublime observations about the man who woulda, coulda, shoulda been President and the man he served under who really shouldn't have been.

Almost like ABC News, which cut the Gore family's reactions to the daily protests outside the Vice President's official residence on Embassy Row in Washington, D.C., Mundy gives scant mention to the Gores' reaction to the protesters:

Much of this time, Gore directed the engagement while secluded in the vice president's house at the Naval Observatory, talking on the phone and e-mailing on his hand-held wireless. He was surrounded by Tipper and their four children--the adult children, Karenna, Kristin and Sarah, had converged on the house, and Albert, the teenager, was still in high school--who alternately played cards, worried, hoped and tried to distract one another. Outside, protesters were shouting things like "Get out of Cheney's house!" Tipper pushed boomboxes to the windows, pointed them at the hecklers, and played whale sounds and nature noises. "What are we going to do?" she says now. "Leave?"

To Mundy, playing whale sounds to drown out the real world must seem like a natural reaction for a liberal when the peasants are at the gates demanding their country back from those who betrayed her.

Further on in the article, Mundy relates the perils of "Pauline" Gore as he makes his way back to the states from Austria after the terrorist attacks of September 11.

Like a whipped puppy, Gore finds his way back to the home of his former abusive master, Bill Clinton. Mundy picks up the sordid, trashy tale:

While he and the aide were driving, Bill Clinton called. He'd been flown to the United States on military transport, and was now at home in New York. Bush was sending a plane to take him to National Cathedral. Why didn't Gore drive to Chappaqua and fly down with him? Clinton gave him directions to get to the house, so that's where Gore went, arriving in the middle of the night. Clinton had waited up. He was doing some renovating, with the result that there was a refrigerator on the front porch. "Al arrives at about 3:30 in the morning, sees the refrigerator on the porch, and the first thing he says is, 'I see you've managed to bring a little bit of Arkansas to New York,' " Clinton recalled in a statement for this article. "And I knew that after all he'd been through, he hadn't lost his sense of humor."

Sense of humor, my a$$, if Al thought more of the good folks in Arkansas (let alone his home state of Tennessee) he woulda, coulda, shoulda been President now.

Instead, he's a circus freak. The subject of piffling profiles by the likes Barbara Walters and Liza Mundy.

Those sounds in the distance Al Gore hears aren't the throngs of voters pleading for him to run again, they're the sounds of front porch refrigerators and beached whales crying, "Never Gore, never Gore,"

[kristinn]

Also in the article is a bit about a seafood restaurant company that wanted the Gore family to star in their ad campaign. The proposed ad featured Al re-counting his "thirty shrimp."

Al turned it down. For a man who faithfully stood by a lying, evil, rapist traitor for eight years, it is a welcome show of dignity, LOL!

[gorebegone]

Gore do you realize how sickening you are? I hope not, please campaign for every democrat that ever runs for any office. You just may be the best way to rid the planet of liberals. Keep up the good work.

[Always Right]

Also in the article is a bit about a seafood restaurant company that wanted the Gore family to star in their ad campaign. The proposed ad featured Al re-counting his "thirty shrimp."

Too bad, that would have been a classic.

[gorebegone]

"What are we going to do?" she says now. "Leave?"

No please stay around forever and help all your fellow democRats campaign for 2004. We sure appreciated algore's help this season! BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA !!!!!!!

[nutmeg]

Great comments, kristinn! LOL

[nutmeg]

ping

[Heff]

Hannity was all over this today on the radio. He talked about the Freepers outside chanting "Get out of Cheney's house"...he said freeper at least 6 times. It was great!

[Route66]

Do you realize that 75 years in the future, if the world makes it that long, people will be reading the recorded history of the Clinton/Clinton/Gore/Lieberman saga which will include such bizarre details as Tipper playing whale sounds over the cries of demonstrators and Bill keeping a fridge on the porch.

I hope by then things will have improved so much under 75 years of Republican dominated government that no one will believe what it was really like....
What a wild ride it has been.

[CARepubGal]

Nice FReeping DC folks.

[Timesink]

It's so nice to know that in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, instead of doing something worthwhile to help others, Bubba locked himself up at home to work on renovating the kitchen.

[kristinn]

Related post by alisasny here>.

[kristinn]

A more closely related post by Pokey78.

[kristinn]

Sean's hip to how important those protests were to helping stem Gore's efforts to steal the election.

[AFPhys]

This article makes me so proud to be associated with this group.

Notice the terrible chant which was quoted, "Get out of Cheney's house". It is so exciting that even an article by such an antiBush reporter could not even add a phrase such as "and other obscene remarks.".

Thank you all for your classy FReeping.

[dk/coro]

Talk about protracted discomfort ! Think about this:

As a young commander recently returned from SEA, I had the pleasure of serving as Adm. Thomas H. Moorer's Personal Aide in 1967-68 during his first years at CNO. His Quarters at that time was the Mansion at the Naval Observatory -- more recently occupied by our serving Vice Presidents.

Just think how I felt those eight horrific years as I watched Gore and Tipper sully the heritage and history of that magnificent national treasure.

Every time I saw pictures or read of Gore's linkage to the Residence I felt like going into the bathroom and getting sick. I may very well have done so on more than one occasion!

So many wonderful memories of our Naval leaders sullied by the likes of this political flotsam really takes its toll on Naval persons who cherish our great country and have some sense of its historical precedents.

Gore's encampmment at the Naval Observatory was an abomination !!

Thank you. I feel better now; regrettably I have carried this anguish for a long time. /s/ dk/coro

[staytrue]

I never believed that "you are your job". If Bush had lost, he would have said "oh well, time for my next life experience". Only in Washington are people so closely identified with their jobs, and they are the sicker for it.

[SkyPilot]

Tipper Played Whale Sounds to Drown Out Protesters

Al, you should have just made love to Tipper by an open window, it would have produced the same effect.

_{I realize this is not a nice thing to say, but after seeing liberal newspapers run pictures of President Bush depicted as a chimp, I must say I have no qualms about hitting back.}

[SkyPilot]

Kristinn,

Man, I actually read that bloody thing in the Washington Post you linked. Incredible.

Sometimes what he is confronted with is the kaleidoscopic cluelessness of the American electorate.

Note to readers: this is Munday's slap at Americans who didn't vote for Gore, or don't recognize the slob at airports.

Thinking about Al Gore, you find yourself groping for comparisons.

Hmmmmmm

Still, losing the presidency, in one of history's closest races, is bad in a particular way that no other living person has experienced. It's a Joblike, Lord-what-have-I-done-to-deserve-this sort of badness.

Gee. Golly gee. Let's think of a few, shall we?
Ummm, how about the time Al was confronted by a woman (herself a rape victim) who asked Gore how he felt about President Clinton being accused of rape. Remember that one, Liza? Well, Prince Albert's response was to lecture the woman about "accepting people's personal failings." Huh? So, rape is akin to someone's habit of nose picking or something?

Why else would the good Lord punish you so Al? Maybe, could it be, your horrific support of abortion? Maybe your constant lying?

[Quilla]

I can't recall specifics, but in a futher show of respect, didn't the Gores scrawl messages on the walls of the Mansion before their departure?

[SkyPilot]

didn't the Gores scrawl messages on the walls of the Mansion before

I am not sure. I think there was an article about Gore's son trashing the place, but I don't know a source.