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

[Howlin]

One month after formally kicking off his presidential campaign, Vice President Al Gore paddled down the Connecticut River in New Hampshire on July 22nd, 1999...

Okay, who's got it?

[Ditto]

[Cuttnhorse]

I think I read the article carefully but failed to see any mention of Budhest Temple fund raisers, and "Bill Clinton is the most ethical president in history" quote.
Bohlert is going to have a tough time convincing anyone that the press cost Gore the election. The press was the only reason he managed to keep in the race.

ps...Alberta's Child...how's Ian Tyson doing...is he still playing music around Longview??

[Diogenesis]

"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."

ROTFLOL, as are many FReepers who actually used the internet,
going back to the late '60s.

[11th Earl of Mar]

Ha, ha.

I suppose the author had no problem with Bush being branded as a person born of big oil money... while Al Gore is sitting on a big Occidental oil trust fund.

And Bush's "drug problem"? The media forgot to mention Gore's drug habit in the 70's.

[d14truth]

I just knew the loss of the presidency couldn't have been Al's fault. He isn't that capable. {;~)

[Mia T]

Perhaps Rolling Stone, itself, delivered gore's coup de grâce...

 

 

 

 

"'Al has a way of looking at you like his eyes are kind of burning,' said Nashville Tennessean reporter John Warnecke.You would get that when you mentioned his dad'.

Asked in a 1987 interview about relations between father and son, Tipper Gore said:'You remember Oedipus? She quickly added that she was kidding, sort of. 'You had a very powerful father - a hero to many people - and a son coming to maturity and learning to find his own dignity.'"

Inventing Al Gore by Bill Turque, p. 30

 

 

 

[michigander]

Looking for this?

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Connecticut River is raised 8 inches for Gore "rowboat" photo-op; "Environmentalist" Veep wastes 4 billion gallons, worth $7.1 million

WASHINGTON (July 23) - What's it take to float Vice President Al Gore's boat? 4 billions of water, that's what - at a cost of more than $7.1 million. All for a good cause, however (at least according to the "environmentalist" Vice President), since it provided Gore a photo-opportunity to highlight a $100,000 grant to the Connecticut River Joint Commission.

According to The Washington Times and The Associated Press, the Secret Service and the Connecticut River Joint Commission directed Pacific Gas & Electric to unleash approximately 4 billion gallons of water yesterday into the Connecticut River so Gore's rowboat wouldn't get stuck during a 4-mile photo opportunity. The release of the 4 billion gallons from a dam upstream raised the level of the river by 8 to 10 inches, and has drawn the ire of environmental officials in the region.

"They won't release the water for the fish when we ask them to, but somehow they find themselves able to release it for a politician," said Vermont Department of Natural Resources Director John Kassel in The Times. Kassel, who accompanied Gore on the trip, said that "the only reason they did this was to make sure the Vice President's canoe didn't get stuck."

"It was a bit artificial, to be honest with you," Kassel told The Times. "But the river was pretty dry and no one wanted the canoes to be dragging on the bottom. Vice President Gore's people were concerned that we not raise the level too high, either, because they didn't want it to be dangerous."

"So much for the environmentalist Vice President," remarked Republican National Committee Chairman Jim Nicholson. Citing Gore's book, "Earth in the Balance," Nicholson recalled that Gore "once lectured us that 'increasing per capita use' of fresh water, combined with 'global climate change,' could lead to 'poverty, hunger, and disease,' 'revolutionary political disorder,' and 'wars fought over natural resources like fresh water.'" ("Earth in the Balance," pp. 111, 113, 279) According to revised federal standards contained in the 1992 National Energy Policy Act and supported by the Clinton-Gore administration, toilets manufactured after 1994 must have a maximum capacity of 1.6 gallons. Under those standards, Nicholson jokingly noted, Gore's 4 billion gallon photo-opportunity wasted the equivalent of 2.5 billion toilet flushes, or 2,110 flushes for each of New Hampshire's 1,185,000 residents. According to water usage rates published by the Pennichuck Water Works, Inc., which serves the region, the value of the 4 billion gallons wasted was approximately $7.1 million, Nicholson said.

[Young Werther]

Boo Hoo!

There is a bright side, however. Algore invented the concession speech so who better.....

Hee Hee!!!

[Alberta's Child]

Ian had four dates at East Longview Hall in late October. I went down there with a friend of mine in an unsuccessful attempt to find some last-minute tickets, but we had a good time anyway. Dinner at Memories Inn in Longview, a couple of beers on the windswept prairie outside the hall, and a surreal Alberta night to boot.

[stands2reason]

Bush was free to botch facts about central policy issues and the press wouldn't question his intelligence.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!

oh...must breathe...*agh* *cough*

[Howlin]

Bush was free to botch facts about central policy issues and the press wouldn't question his intelligence.

Yeah, right. This guy must have been watching a different election than the one I saw.

This whole article is one big spin.

[My Favorite Headache]

Time for that official symbol of the democratic party to be placed in this thread. As well as the obligatory picture of Laurie Dhue for no other reason other than the fact that she belongs having a picture in every thread on FR.

[Tymesup]

"I think I read the article carefully but failed to see any mention of Budhest Temple fund raisers, and "Bill Clinton is the most ethical president in history" quote. "

Thanks for posting these. Let me add Gore's denial of the Juanita Broadrick story and his missing emails.

[lowbridge]

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:

You can't fool me with that new photograph....

...there aint no such person as Al Gore.

I'm sorry to disillusion all the young little liberals out there, but that's the way it is. Don't sit up on election night, hoping for a miracle chad to be placed in your ballot box that you hung on the mantelpiece with care, because you aint gonna get it

[ChadGore]

The story leaves out one very important fact.

Gore is a tool.

[LisaFab]

I was actually amazed by the somewhat fair coverage W received during the campaign, and then I thought....even the press pimps needed a shower after their shameless eight-year offensive on behalf of i42.

[Howlin]

Isn't that insulting? Do you suppose this is how these people manage to convince themselves they that are always right?

They must live in a parallel universe!

[tgiles]

Gore's history of fabrication ran far longer than a one year election cycle.

Anyone who thinks honesty and straightforwardness are not desirable traits in a leader must be, er... a ___________. (fill in the blank!)