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'THE POST-election spinning of mortified Democrats shares a premise with all victims of public humiliation: If only people knew! If only people heard my side of the story! They cling to the tenacious old lie of tout comprendre c'est tout pardoner, when in most cases the less aphoristic reality is this: to understand all is not to give a %&*. Democrats refuse to face the fact that more Americans voted Republican because they wanted to."

This is Tina Brown writing for the London Times. (Quoted in Liz Smith's column. Welcome to Bizarro World - a lib who actually gets it.

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Liz also reports:

Tonight, Barbara Walters talks on "20/20" to Al and Tipper Gore and their daughters, Kristin and Karenna, and she claims the former VP is "funny." He says the debates in the last presidential election hurt him and describes himself as "the man who used to be the next president of the United States."

But Tipper takes the blame for her husband's "earth tone" clothes which critics claimed were suggested to Gore by handlers. Says Mrs. Gore, "I choose all his clothes. Blame me!"