Are they delusional, or what?!!!
"Tipper? Hand me that rent check to sign, will ya! And make sure the kids photograph me signing it this time!
Al--if yur good, tonight I'll dress up like Helen Thomas for you sweetie!
Posted on 11/15/2002 10:50:29 PM PST by 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,"
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The in-breds do that all the time when the power is cut off.
Yee Hawwww! Hey Hillary... don't you miss that cee-ment pond at the Whitehouse?
Whooo doggies, inside where no leaves fall in... what'll they think up next?
How long till Chelsea gets pregnant and sits on the porch brushing the flies away?
Yes she was there -- very attractive... With all the screaming that the Freepers were doing, there was no way you could hear Tipper's whales and boom-boxes, at least on that first Saturday. What a wonderful memory.
Are they delusional, or what?!!!
"Tipper? Hand me that rent check to sign, will ya! And make sure the kids photograph me signing it this time!
Al--if yur good, tonight I'll dress up like Helen Thomas for you sweetie!
Pretty soon Tipper is going to start a reading initiative and host a Christmas at Belle Meade special on Tennessee PBS. Gore probably has a little podium in that house from which he makes family announcements and takes questions.
Wouldn't you love to see his office? Heheheh.
Yesss! Christmas at the Gore's! Tonight on ABC...see Tipper fashion ornaments out of her stale corn muffins. See her tips on making door wreaths out of old Xanax prescription bottles!
I can just see the "press conferences" Al holds in the household too. Wow!
ROTFLMAO!!! Thanks for the hillarious commentary and leadership Kristinn. And thanks for the "albagore the big flabby white tuna without taste" ping, nutmeg. Hope to see y'all at some future DC Freeps.
PS: Even West Virginians don't keep refrigerators on the front porch. Cars up on blocks in the yard- yes, fridges- no.
On a hill top, dark and dreary
From a boom box window weary
From a CD of now forgotten Greenpeace lore
Came the sound we'll remember for ever,
"Quoath the beachedwhale, Never Gore"
10. Hardly gets any pleasure participating in his family's staged football games
9. Now goes to Buddhist temples for illegal donations and spiritual guidance
8. Composed novelty song "Bush's States Are Red, And I'm Feeling Blue"
7. During strategy meetings grabs Warren Christopher, sobs "Hold me"
6. Was recently seen passionately kissing the inventor of Prozac
5. Mr. Environment spends his days tossing rusty car batteries into Potomac River
4. Asks George W. Bush if he can borrow old Sparky for the weekend
3. At recent Joe Lieberman speech on religion shouted, "Okay, you're Jewish! We get it!"
2. Just ask Tipper -- lately, the guy's anything but stiff
1. Won't crack a smile, no matter how many lap dances President Clinton buys him
I forced myself to read the story. Liza Mundy really did a good job portraying how utterly bizarre Al and Tipper Gore are. It's hard to even imagine what our country has been spared by having George and Laura Bush in the White House instead of these two head cases.
We noticed on Letterman last night that Gore has had his pointy teeth fixed and that he's obviously gotten full hair extensions. You can see them especially at the hairline on his forehead.
This is of course a rhetorical question. No after action report ever mentioned hearing any sounds emanating from the Vice President's resdence. Nor was it ever mentioned by any of the media who were encamped across the street 24-7.
While the DC Chapter gets to enjoy additional ink on their fame, I personnaly admire the Florida freepers who chased Jesse and refused to allow the Miami Dade folks to conive to steal the election behind closed doors with their chants of "Let them in!" "Them" being the media. Soon after that, the re-recount nonsense stopped. Yes indeed Laura Ingrahm was there to observe and chat with the crowd that had assembled.
The poor-me Al, with the ever-luvin'missus by his side must poll well with the Oprah crowd, LOL!
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