Posted on 11/27/2001 2:13:23 PM PST by Timesink
Contender? That's further than I'm willing to go. :-)
There is too much to comment on. First of all, Gore did not quickly refute the lie about Love Story, the author did!
Secondly, the media, as we all know, adored him, and took emails directly from him or his team about what to say about him! This as reported in the long article in the Wash. Post after the election finally ended.
Raise your hand if you are sick and tired of the distortions of the truth from the liberal media!
As I said, too much to comment on, so I will defer to others to rip this to shreds!
"The young Republican candidate, with "just a bit of swagger for the party faithful," was a "cheerful patriot" with a "sunny disposition" who "jauntily plays to the cameras and crowds." Compare that to a single dispatch from the Gore trail, in which Connolly derided the vice president as "boring" and "programmed to the point of seeming robotic" and mocked his "rarely seen human side."
Well, they were ... all those things. What's the problem? Is the Left angling for outcome-based journalism now - all candidates must be equal?! Horse hockey.
Numerous presidential candidates have lost their home states and, consequentially, the election. Some 20th century examples are McGovern in 1972, Stevenson in 1952 and 1956 and Landon in 1936. Also, two intra-state presidential races: Roosevelt and Dewey in 1944 (NY) and Harding and Cox in 1920 (Ohio).
But ... but ... but (she sputtered), he was a JOURNALIST! For SEVEN years! Verb tenses IS important. (See? :-) )
So is attention to detail. Fast forward: President (ack) Gore: "We will bomb Russia." OOPS! What he REALLY meant was, we will NOT bomb Russia. Case closed. Details are important, not excuses.
Just one more insult to the American people --- for the gipper (or may be Tipper?).
Like all people, the American electorate does not like to read about the candidates daily. But people do watch the debates, and they do not need the spin-meisters to tell them what they saw. In the least, they saw three different Gores in three debates. They saw a machine that spoke to them in a condescending mannaer. When the Saturday Night Live picks up on the "lock box," it is not the spin machine to blame but the man himself.
Good one Marianne, and also, I didn't catch the author's reference to Gore's tearful tribute to his sister who died from evil tobacco or Gore's speech about how he worked in the tobacco fields..."I picked it, packed it, shucked it, yadda, yadda, yadda".
Boehlert is very selective in what he refers to as the main causes of Gore's defeat, when actually it was a combination of all the well known lies and a general appearance of being a big goofy jerk...which he is.
But unlike with Quayle, the algore label fits.
D
Funny.
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