Al Gore's Weak Defense

The Daily Beast ^ | July 28, 2010 | Lloyd Grove

[lbryce]

Crisis managers tell The Daily Beast’s Lloyd Grove that the former vice president is not doing enough to combat the salacious allegations that he behaved inappropriately with several masseuses.

It has been, for Al Gore, a swift and brutal fall from grace. Before all the unpleasantness, the former vice president was mainly known as the planet’s premiere environmentalist and anti-global-warming crusader. He has been a bestselling author, Oscar-winning filmmaker, successful businessman and, lest we forget, the man millions still believe should have been sworn in as president in January 2001.

But now the 62-year-old Gore is tabloid fodder—notorious as a “crazed sex poodle.” That’s the nickname he allegedly received during a scolding from an aggrieved masseuse in Portland, Oregon, who claims Gore ignored her pleas to stop his inappropriate touching during a long-ago massage session. Today, ironically, the ex-veep is the target of seamy sexual allegations that rival those once leveled at his former boss, Bill Clinton, whose impeachable peccadilloes Gore privately blamed for damaging his own presidential campaign.

“Whenever you’re accused of anything these days, and it’s not true, you have to fire back with both barrels,” says Allan Mayer.

Now, four weeks into his multimedia ordeal, Gore hasn’t managed to formulate an effective PR strategy to counter the toxic fallout polluting his once-gleaming image. And crisis managers say his passive stance is only fueling the problem. What’s more, he has yet to personally confront the allegations in a public forum, and refuses to take questions from the howling media mob during increasingly furtive speaking appearances. Inevitably, the ugly charges and Gore’s apparent evasiveness are harming his reputation.

[Eddie01]

Lloyd Grove is paid to lie. He makes good money.

[ETL]

Your Gore poster, priceless!

It isn't mine. I think I got it from here.

[seawolf101]

Yeah, I remember that, along with him having invented the internet, devekoping the technology for fusion power, overturned the laws of physics with the perpetual motion device, and his greatest gift to humankind, the triple-threat combo time machine/can opener/moustache waxer.

Wasn't Al Gore also the inventor of that HOT TUB TIME TRAVEL MACHINE?