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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

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,"

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Arkansas; US: District of Columbia; US: New York; US: Tennessee
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To: Heff
Last night (Friday night) on the Laura Ingraham Show she said the same thing. She actually said she was among the crowd.
41 posted on 11/16/2002 6:27:37 AM PST by hardhead
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To: ChadGore
Clinton had a refridgerator on his front porch!

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?

42 posted on 11/16/2002 6:29:32 AM PST by johnny7
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To: hardhead
Last night (Friday night) on the Laura Ingraham Show she said the same thing. She actually said she was among the crowd.

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.

43 posted on 11/16/2002 6:34:54 AM PST by ReleaseTheHounds
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To: kristinn
There is nothing more satisfying then finding out that all of our chanting and yelling was being heard inside the house. FReepers helped contribute in some small way to Al and Tipper's mental instability. :-)
44 posted on 11/16/2002 6:38:05 AM PST by mr.sarcastic
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To: kristinn; gorebegone; Always Right; nutmeg; Heff; Route66; Quilla; anniegetyourgun; Miss Marple; ...
Check this out:

This is the real White House…..

This is the house the Gore’s just bought and moved in to……

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!

45 posted on 11/16/2002 6:42:25 AM PST by SkyPilot
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To: SkyPilot
LOL! I saw that posted the other day...I am glad you brought it back!

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.

46 posted on 11/16/2002 6:46:37 AM PST by Miss Marple
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To: SkyPilot
I notice the American Flag is missing from Gore's house. Maybe we should sent them a flag from Chad so they can fly that one.
47 posted on 11/16/2002 6:49:05 AM PST by Always Right
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To: kristinn
The sounds were just Tipper bathing.
48 posted on 11/16/2002 6:49:55 AM PST by The Turbanator
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To: Miss Marple
LMBO!

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!

49 posted on 11/16/2002 6:51:36 AM PST by SkyPilot
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To: kristinn
Was Tipper playing whale sounds or making whale sounds?
50 posted on 11/16/2002 6:54:51 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: kristinn
Other popular cuts from Gore's Nature Sounds CD:

Flatulent Warthogs on Africa Savannah
American Bison in Rut
Death Throes of Wildebeast in Clutches of Felis leo
Amazon Mosquito Swarm
Melody of Bat Droppings Striking Cave Floor


Ain't nature grand?
51 posted on 11/16/2002 6:56:54 AM PST by gitmo
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To: SkyPilot
How about - such awful writing that I would flunk the guy in college English.
52 posted on 11/16/2002 7:03:53 AM PST by Chemnitz
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To: nutmeg; kristinn
RE: Al re-counting his "thirty shrimp."

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.

53 posted on 11/16/2002 7:04:53 AM PST by RFP
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To: jocon307
....beached whales crying, "Never Gore, never Gore,"....

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"

54 posted on 11/16/2002 7:13:24 AM PST by bert
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To: kristinn
Top Ten Signs Al Gore Is Depressed

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

55 posted on 11/16/2002 7:26:38 AM PST by friendly
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To: kristinn
Good heavens, I just got my Sunday Post magazine. The cover picture of Gore has to be one of the creepiest I have ever seen! Just frightening.

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.

56 posted on 11/16/2002 7:40:58 AM PST by Dems_R_Losers
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To: Jay Howard Smith
You were the first person to ever post to me. I think it was probably in July '97. Scared me to death!

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.

57 posted on 11/16/2002 7:56:47 AM PST by Jackie
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To: kristinn
Is anyone else wondering why the sudden, renewed interest in Al ?? Magazine articles, TV specials, Letterman show ?? All sympathetic, bringing up the whole "lost" (or was it really lost ? stolen? decided by the BIASED court?) election (selection) and how well Al (and his attractive family -- except for Jr.) handled the crushing blow. All this talk about "gay" families, Hispanic families, the "workin' folks"...20/20 last night was a 30-minute campaign commercial -- Looks like the DNC has decided that "he's their man".
58 posted on 11/16/2002 8:07:58 AM PST by twyn1
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To: Diago; hellinahandcart; kristinn
In other words, are they LYING about this too?

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.

59 posted on 11/16/2002 8:58:22 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine's brother
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To: twyn1
It's a PR blitz to get Al Gore back in front of the 'Rat pretenders. The books are a publicity device timed to get media exposure as Gore decides whether to run again.

The poor-me Al, with the ever-luvin'missus by his side must poll well with the Oprah crowd, LOL!

60 posted on 11/16/2002 8:59:04 AM PST by kristinn
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