The Press v Al Gore: How lazy reporting, pack journalism and GOP spin cost him the election (laugh!)

Rolling Stone ^ | December 6-13, 2001 | Eric Boehlert

[Timesink]

Sorry, the title was too long to add the phrase "barf alert"!

And for those who don't know, the author of this piece is a Salon writer.

Have fun ripping it to shreds ... or just pointing and giggling at it!

[Timesink]

By the way, I think that photo is a crop of the infamous "Package" Rolling Stone cover. It's rather out-of-date now, isn't it? Here's a more current photo:

[Alberta's Child]

Gore's close friends and admirers agree that Gore has a penchant for hyperbole.

The fact that Gore has a penchant for outright lying in situations where telling the truth would do him absolutely no harm led many people to believe that he had some kind of personality disorder. When he showed up for the first debate wearing so much makeup that he looked like a transvestite, he had them convinced.

[wideawake]

This is great. Boehlert's article which is intended to defend Gore on the charge of lying, is itself full of lies, misrepresentations and half-truths.

Eric is the only person in the world who believes that Coelho bowed out of the Gore campaign "for health reasons"! LOL!

[Freemyland]

Right. I know someone who would rather lie than tell the truth about things of no consequence whatsoever. Really creepy.

[Utah Girl]

Boy, this writer sure has his knickers in a twist. Same with Joe Conason. Waaaah, it's always someone else's fault. Especially those mean, ruthless Republicans.

[anniegetyourgun]

I can't improve on your commentary, AC...except to say:

IT'S CONFIRMED - AL GORE IS A HEADCASE.

[eastsider]

So, Eric Boehlert thinks that the press was hard on Gore, branding him a liar and costing him the election. Conversely, does he think that the press was easy on Bush, branding him an idiot and handing him the election?

[summer]

The Press vs. Al Gore

How lazy reporting, pack journalism and GOP spin cost him the election

This title was off to me.

Al Gore struck me as being very uninterested in campaigning because he thought GW was such a joke that it was unnecessary to campaign against. Consequently, Gore's campaign was non-existent.

GW, meanwhile, was putting out position after position on a wide variety of issues of great interest to voters, after 8 years of Clinton/Gore getting nowhere on such issues.

Midway through the campaign season, it seemed to me Al Gore suddenly saw the polls and said: "Hey, someone! Anyone -- Karenna! We really DO need a campaign!"

But, by then, it was really too late, and mostly downhill for Al.

Maybe a better title for this article would have been:

Al Gore v Al Gore

How lazy thinking by Al, a bad campaign by Al, and a very late start by Al, cost him the election

[Freemyland]

This author is engaging in more than a bit of revisionism in his recounting of the Kailey Ellis matter. The issue was not that Gore said she "has" to stand rather than she "had" to stand. The issue was that he claimed that the cause of her standing was an educational budget shortfall. My recollection was that there was not enough room the first day (or few days) of school because the classroom was full of new equipment, and not because there were too many students for the room.

[Cuttnhorse]

Geeeeezzz, where to start??? My head is swimming at how selective this Klymer is!!

[summer]

campaign against. = campaign against GW.

[colorado tanker]

Thanks for a good laugh! Algore the victim of press bias! Yep, those conservative Republicans at ABC/NBC/CBS/NYTimes/WashPost done Algore in! LOL!

[KSCITYBOY]

That whole "package shot" thing typifies the shallowness of AL and his whole campaign - Trying to get votes by making soccer moms think Al was hot. What a freakin joke the guy was. Now Al is trying to look scholarly.

[Wondering in Wyoming]

Gore was a liar who served as VP to a bigger liar.
Any wonder the press was sensitive to it?

This reporter seems rather selective in his outrage.
Why isn't he just as worked up at the press' misqoute
of Newt regarding Social Security.
Republicans are still suffering at the polls from that.

[gjenkins]

If AL Gore is honest, then Al Gore is delusional.

[Nachum]

Ah, if the Rolling Stone tokers had printed anything but this kind of article, I would have been disappointed.

I can just see his campaign staff reading this and whining about it while they are between bong hits.

[Landru]

"...the author of this piece is a Salon writer."

*Whoooooshhhhh*

& down the ol' toilet she goessss...

[parsifal]

This sounds like poetic justice to me. Mr. Gore lied to all of us and told us how great he thought Mr. Clinton was. Then, after the election, Mr. Gore does an interview in Vanity Fair where it comes out that he was really PO'ed at Clinton for all his lies and stuff. Live by the lie. . .