In all my years of Today-watching, I'm not sure I've ever seen anything quite like the display Matt Lauer put on this morning. In beseeching Al Gore to run for president, Lauer literally portrayed him as the planet's potential savior.Posted on 12/06/2006 5:51:03 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
In all my years of Today-watching, I'm not sure I've ever seen anything quite like the display Matt Lauer put on this morning. In beseeching Al Gore to run for president, Lauer literally portrayed him as the planet's potential savior.
"If you were to run for president, you could take this issue to the next level, even if just during a campaign. And if you were fortunate enough to win the presidency, you would sit in the most powerful office in the free world with a real chance to make . . . " Matt stopped himself at the enormity of the prospect before exclaiming "you could be in a position to save the planet!"
View video here.
So stunning was Lauer's sycophancy that it induced an embarrassed chuckle from Gore himself. Al collected himself and let Matt know that he "appreciate[d] the impulse behind the question," but also stated that he is not planning to run. Matt wouldn't take no for an answer: "but as someone who feels as passionately about the subject as you do, and your documentary is evidence of that, why pass up the opportunity to have that world stage again? Because although you're a former vice-president being a sitting president would give you a much higher and more powerful platform."
Al again thanked Matt for his endorsement: "I appreciate that very much."
Matt gave it one last try at interview's end: "What are the chances that someone reaches out to you, makes a phone call, and gets you to up-end this race?"
Matt Lauer, folks - keeping hope alive.
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Al-to-the-rescue ping. Must see video of Lauer begging Gore to run.
LOL...Lauer got the "vapors"
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Who is Matt Lauer and what is the Today Show?
I think he would have gotten Al to say "yes" if he had just double-dong-dared him to run.
I would have puked if I had heard that.
If someone needs "a phone call" to be convinced to run for President, it isn't going to happen. The egomaniacs with any realistic shot in the major parties sure don't need any convincing.
Personally, I'd like to see Gore run. He may be a better choice on the Dem side than any of the other hopefuls. And it would serve the useful function of getting him to shut up. If he can't even get a Dem Congress to adopt Kyoto (which he won't), then greenhouse gas will quickly become a nonissue.
2 clowns that flunked 8th grade science, cheering each other on........
Good grief, it sounds like Lauer is going off the deep end. Thanks for the report.
Thanks for the help.
Matt Lauer puts on his presidential knee-pads.....
I want Algore in the race just for the fireworks between him and Her Heinousness...
"double-dong-dared"
You been watching too many porn movies?
If Al wins the presidency, someone's going to have to widen the doorways.
Help us, Gore-be Nut Galore-be, you're our only hope (click)
Geez.... sounds like poor Matt was creaming his pants! Over Al Gore no less! How pathetic the MSM is. Is there not one voice for objectivity and truth anywhere in the entire structure?
"... if he had just double-dong-dared him to run."
Wasn't there a Rolling Stone cover on that?
I hate to admit it, but I saw him on Oprah yesterday. She didn't call him the saviour. She called him Noah. It was real sickening.
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