Thanks, kristinn. DC Freepers are leaving a legacy our military heroes honor and our mainstream press abhors. Good job.
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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Well, that's perfectly reasonable. If you're an android dimo.
Not to impune Laura, but this post made me think about how, 20-30 years hence, if one were to add up the numbers who said "I was there!" the total would come to 2-3 million! LOL!
No, she was trying to summon/invoke Congressman Nadler.
I can imagine Al in his smoking jacket and slippers, pretending to read national security briefs while Tipper sets the table for pretend guests of state. Wonder if Sox escaped from clinton and is hanging from the curtains in the living room. LOL!
LOL. I was going to post this one with the title: "Tipper communicating with her fellow whales in the Cement Pond!"
Makes me proud to be a member of the FR family.
Thanks, kristinn. DC Freepers are leaving a legacy our military heroes honor and our mainstream press abhors. Good job.
We also had a meeting in the ladies room and I learned that she admires Jeb Bush.
LI is personable and funny, and she clerked for Clarence Thomas at the Supremes which she mentioned at FRIVA. FRIVA was great. More people should go next year.
Re: Florida, thank God Florida was on voter fraud high alert this election but there was no room for the dems to cheat. The margin was too far apart. Florida is almost totally Republican represented now. We had so many FR's getting out the vote or who volunteered as poll watchers. We did intel too that came in handy after Janet was given the boot.
Although it was great that President Bush dropped by, Jeb won the election on his own merits with the help of thousands of volunteers who worked tirelessly for almost a year covering all the bases.
A fridge on the porch is an excellent idea. Eliminates the need to get up off the rocking chair every ten minutes for another beer. Yeah, bringing an ice chest outside would also work, but it's not quite as convenient.
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MTR: "Makes me proud to be a member of the FR family."
I've pinged Gene McDonald (FReeper, "SeekingTheTruth") to this thread to comment about the Jesse Jackass incident in West Palm Beach. He was the one who was instrumental in routing him out of our State, when he grabbed his bullhorn and, along with some other Florida FReepers, got right in front of the platform and shouted him down before he could even get started.
Many of us also protested in Deland (Volusia County - (where, even though my hair was a different color by then, one of the camera guys from a Daytona Beach TV station remembered me from two years previous to that when we FReepers protested a Clinton/DemocRAT rally in DB with our banner plane flying over. LOL).
Then we went to Sanford, Fl. (Seminole County) to protest in front of the Courthouse the day the judge moved the whole mess to Tallahassee.
As soon as it was transferred to Tallahassee, many of us (I've pinged some of them if they want to comment) spent the weekend up there protesting in front of the Capital. My sister videotaped it all for me from the C-Span coverage. LOL
I went down that far and waved at the traffic wearing the Al Gore mask, prison strip costume and "Sore Loserman" sign. That was to get driver's attention so they'd be prepared to take in the protest up the road. So they'd be able to join in one way or the other.
Lot's of libs didn't get that I wasn't on their side because I was wearing the Gore mask. They'd start off smiling and waving and then sputter and give the finger when they realzed the sign was "Sore Loserman".
Well dresses\d Sabb driving, , bejeweled, beauty palored, society matrons busting a gut trying to release all their anger through one little finger.
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