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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On them playing sounds, I didn't hear any. Did anyone?
Like all bullies, Jesse ran when stood up to.
I can imagine Orson Welles reciting it, "Quoth the beachedwhale, Never Gore."
Hmmm...I guess I could be considered part of the Oprah crowd (soccer-mom age, upper-middle class suburb, etc.) but Al Gore gives me the shivering creeps, esp. when he smiles -- they're going to have to do something about that in order to appeal more to women -- and that "kiss Tipper passionately" move was enough to gag me -- too overboard, too fake, too gross ! As for having "sex appeal" or "it" -- trust me -- Al is WAY behind "W" on that score...esp. after we heard about the "enhanced" package (ROFL! - what a dork)
Living in a government mansion does fill one with a sense of royalty, I suppose. Especially one that has deer running on the grounds.
LOL, that would be hysterical! :-D
Saturday BTTT
And don't forget how the ungrateful clinton repayed President Bush for the free ride back to the US (from Australia) on 9-12 -- while civilian air travel was still shut down. He immediately showed up in downtown NYC, purposefully trying to upstage GW, who was busy pulling the FedGov together to deal with the crisis. What a classless dolt.
I heard him. Have it on audio tape --- and also the FReeper who called in to tell him that she was one of the ones who was outside Cheney's house. I didn't get her name, though.
Gee. Golly gee. Let's think of a few, shall we?
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? This while a report lay on clinton's desk describing how al-queda was trying to infiltrate the US to commit terrorist acts.
Eventual background checks revealed that over 100,000 of these "new citizens" were found to have had a criminal history. How many al-queda were granted US citizenship in the interest of obtaining clinton-gore-dimocrat votes? Hopefully, history will reveal at least some of the truth about this treasonous crime.
Maybe she was trying to call on her fellow whales for support.
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