W. Post.: Tipper Played Whale Sounds to Drown Out Protesters, Bill Had Fridge on Porch of N.Y. Manse

The Washington Post Magazine ^ | Wednesday, November 13, 2002 | Liza Munday, with comments by Kristinn

[kristinn]

Buried in a lengthy Washington Post Magazine profile of former Vice President Al Gore, reporter Liza Munday lets loose with snarky and sublime observations about the man who woulda, coulda, shoulda been President and the man he served under who really shouldn't have been.

Almost like ABC News, which cut the Gore family's reactions to the daily protests outside the Vice President's official residence on Embassy Row in Washington, D.C., Mundy gives scant mention to the Gores' reaction to the protesters:

Much of this time, Gore directed the engagement while secluded in the vice president's house at the Naval Observatory, talking on the phone and e-mailing on his hand-held wireless. He was surrounded by Tipper and their four children--the adult children, Karenna, Kristin and Sarah, had converged on the house, and Albert, the teenager, was still in high school--who alternately played cards, worried, hoped and tried to distract one another. Outside, protesters were shouting things like "Get out of Cheney's house!" Tipper pushed boomboxes to the windows, pointed them at the hecklers, and played whale sounds and nature noises. "What are we going to do?" she says now. "Leave?"

To Mundy, playing whale sounds to drown out the real world must seem like a natural reaction for a liberal when the peasants are at the gates demanding their country back from those who betrayed her.

Further on in the article, Mundy relates the perils of "Pauline" Gore as he makes his way back to the states from Austria after the terrorist attacks of September 11.

Like a whipped puppy, Gore finds his way back to the home of his former abusive master, Bill Clinton. Mundy picks up the sordid, trashy tale:

While he and the aide were driving, Bill Clinton called. He'd been flown to the United States on military transport, and was now at home in New York. Bush was sending a plane to take him to National Cathedral. Why didn't Gore drive to Chappaqua and fly down with him? Clinton gave him directions to get to the house, so that's where Gore went, arriving in the middle of the night. Clinton had waited up. He was doing some renovating, with the result that there was a refrigerator on the front porch. "Al arrives at about 3:30 in the morning, sees the refrigerator on the porch, and the first thing he says is, 'I see you've managed to bring a little bit of Arkansas to New York,' " Clinton recalled in a statement for this article. "And I knew that after all he'd been through, he hadn't lost his sense of humor."

Sense of humor, my a$$, if Al thought more of the good folks in Arkansas (let alone his home state of Tennessee) he woulda, coulda, shoulda been President now.

Instead, he's a circus freak. The subject of piffling profiles by the likes Barbara Walters and Liza Mundy.

Those sounds in the distance Al Gore hears aren't the throngs of voters pleading for him to run again, they're the sounds of front porch refrigerators and beached whales crying, "Never Gore, never Gore,"

[Doctor Raoul]

What did Laura have to say?

[RichInOC]

Come on now. Tipper might be a bit chubby, but she's a lot better looking than Helen Thomas. That's just mean. [grin]

[Republic]

Oh my gosh-I had forgotten the rape question posed to Gore during the campaign, as well.

to gore, RAPE = A MERE PERSONAL FAILURE, like say, forgetting to brush your teeth in the morning.

As in 'oh well, boys will be boys, forgive and forget, just look at all the good they do.....'

But I guess when a man recognizes 'no higher ruling authority', and I suspect literally in this man's case, it follows that such a person would have no REAL objection in working for a rapist.

[Texas Eagle]

Al, you should have just made love to Tipper by an open window...

I believe they refer to it as "spawning".

[pray4liberty]

Maybe Al wishes he'd voted for impeachment when he had the chance.

[technoCon]

Quoth the freeper, Never Gore!

[Atchafalaya]

I'd like him to count the points on my tirty point buck!!!!

[Atchafalaya]

I felt the same the last time I thought I had to do a windy but made a mousse; earth tone though!

[Atchafalaya]

Thank God for $.19/lb leg quarters; ya'll come down now ye'hear.

[SkyPilot]

Or how about Gore's responsibility for waiving background checks on over one million immigrants awaiting naturalization so that they could vote (dimo, of course) in the '96 election?

Thanks--forgot that one.

I recall reading about this scandal as it was happening. There were 3 GOP Congressman who were blowing the whistle on what the Dems were up to: get thousand of illegals citizenship (even though many were criminals) so the Dirtycrats could get votes.

I thought at the time: "Well, the lids off now. There is no way Clinton and Gore can get away with this now!"

How wrong I was. Actually, I wasn't naive---I just thought that corruption of this degree could not happen in America.

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

I keep thinking that at the next Gore Freep we should get a track of whale sounds and play it at him -- just for old times' sake

Excellent! Sorry you couldn't make it to the meet. As a result, you were volunteered for multiple tasks.

[wingnuts'nbolts]

Soon to be extinct sounds of the combustion engine if Gore ever becomes President.

[FreeTheHostages]

"As a result, you were volunteered for multiple tasks."

S'Ok! Got to use my energy somewhere . . . . :)

She who is STILL stuck at work TODAY!!,

[lewislynn]

He was doing some renovating, with the result that there was a refrigerator on the front porch.

I suppose 'he was detailing his car' would explain the old car seats on the front porch in front of a TV too.