Gore’s TV War: He Lobs Salvo At Fox News

NY Observer ^ | 11/27/02 | Josh Benson

[Demosthenes]

So he's basically accusing the Republicans of utilizing a technique that the Democrats developed and perfected?

This guy is such a raging puss it's no wonder he lost. He's a she.

[fleur-de-lis]

If GWB's popularity is still 65%-70% in 2004, the Dems will let Gore run only because no one else wants to waste their shot at the Presidency. Gore will lose miserably.

[Always Right]

"The media is kind of weird these days on politics, and there are some major institutional voices that are, truthfully speaking, part and parcel of the Republican Party," said Mr. Gore in an interview with The Observer. "Fox News Network, The Washington Times, Rush Limbaugh—there’s a bunch of them....

It's terrible that Republican ideas finally have a chance to compete in the market place of ideas. For so long only the Dems had the only voice (NY Times, LA Times, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, PBS, NPR). Now with the horrible Republicans finally getting some air-time and the people actually like it. People are choosing to hear the GOP side of the story for once in their lifes.

[blondee123]

You know, the more I read that this idiot has said, the more i realize we would all be dead if he were president!! This guy changes his story on every show he's on. He doesn't seem to be able to put together one rational thought! Think he's losing it????

[liberateUS]

Isn't it amazing that Americans like hearing something other than Democrat spin networks, and they are showing it at the polls. All we ever needed were media outlets that didn't filter or ignore our message.

[goldstategop]

Algore is whining and whimpering because the American people can now say their piece and bang away with their views unfiltered and uncensored. That's what bothers him and other liberals, that the days when the liberal media set the agenda - are gone.

For the benefit of younger FR posters, I can relate to the days when I tried to post a letter to my local newspaper and most of the time it simply wasn't published. When it was, the editors would leave important points I wanted to make on the cutting room floor. So no one heard the real me. That's changed with the Internet and with the rise of Free Republic - here is a community of people with views like your own so you don't have to wonder anymore if you're the only one who feels and thinks the way you do and you get the opportunity to say what you want without any one cutting it to fit the space of a column or whatever. I apologize for the length of my rant but only because I felt it was necessary to get this point across which is basically that its about time we conservatives have a place at the table of democracy.

And contrary to Algore's assertion we're a Republican National Committee echo chamber, I don't take my cues from the RNC or the President or any one else. I always say what I feel and think is right and I am first and foremost an American and only then am I a Republican. For me, my country comes before my party. For Gore and his fellow Democrats today its all about putting partisan advantage ahead of the former, which is why they wish to shut us up. There was a time in my life when I was proud to have been a liberal and a Democrat. Today if I no longer feel that way and like most Americans have come to see things the way they ought to be, its due in no small part to the fact that its my party and its values that have deserted me, not the other way around.

It's taken some bandwidth to tell the Gorebatross all this but it had to be said for in his criticism of conservative media emerging in this country today, the truth he's apparently incapable of coming to terms with about their phenomenal growth is that its linked not to the American people being puppets of the RNC or following orders from the Bush White House, but simply as a consequence of the fact the New Media is finally reflecting what people want to learn and hear. No wonder Algore has lost it and his inability to comprehend how the country's changing is exactly why he will never be President. Hey Al, deal with it.

[patriciaruth]

" Most of the media [has] been slow to recognize the pervasive impact of this fifth column in their ranks—that is, day after day, injecting the daily Republican talking points into the definition of what’s objective as stated by the news media as a whole." --Al Gore.

ROTFLOL!!!!!!!

He's complaining about the First Amendment!!!

[goldstategop]

With Constitutionally Forcible Rape and similar expressions and now the mandated Five Minute Hate, its hard to believe these people once stood for free speech. I guess what they really mean is Democratic Speech, all the time. Y'now, Algore thinks we're stupid, when the truth is we're catching on. Granted we've made fun of him but how has satire ever hurt any one? If he were half human he'd enjoy it himself and show humility in the face of his critics. The Algore we're seeing is a thin-skinned blowhard that has criticism get to him. He's really that vain. One can only conclude that only does he have no principles, the only reason he's even running for President is to massage his wounded ego and to address the perception he's life's loser. Sorry Al but your criticism of the New Media is not only turning people off, its confirming their worst impressions about you. Oh and for the record that 19% approval rating didn't come courtesy of Rush Limbaugh or the FOX NEWS Channel. I think its high time the Gorebatross put on a dunce cap and go sit in the corner and think again - hard.

[PaulJ]

"Most of the media [has] been slow to recognize the pervasive impact of this fifth column in their ranks—that is, day after day, injecting the daily Republican talking points into the definition of what’s objective as stated by the news media as a whole."

This is the most telling remark. According to Algore, the definition of objectivity is defined by the mainstream media. In other words, liberals in the media define what is objective or not and they have decided reporting all the facts (Fox) or opining from the right (Rush) is not objective. Only giving the Left's view of things is objective.You wish Albert.

[LurkedLongEnough]

Um, Al, the pendulum is now starting to swing the "other way". Your lame, worn bleets won't distract thinking people from Judy Woodruff's (CNN) statement "We Won" on Election eve 2000. It's just too sweet to see you "blaming" your own meida squads for your own failure.

Go back to your project critiqued by the GAO in FAA - Controls Over Airport Identification Media. It still needs work.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

some of them are financed by wealthy ultra-conservative billionaires

I take it, Al, that the others financed by impoverished ultra-conservative billionaires?

[goldstategop]

Bwahahaha. Yeah right and I'm Richard Scaife.

[Mason]

I love it. First, he complains conservative media is a "Fifth Column." (That's a brilliant strategy, by the way, which the Clintons perfected: Just redirect criticisms against you toward your critics, with a vicious inference of treason)

Then, when he's arguing how he might build support *within* the Democratic party, he acknowledges he'll have to go to the "political-journalistic" community.

So which is it Al? Are the media Democratic or not? "Well, yes, they are and that's a good thing."

[RWG]

some of them are financed by wealthy ultra-conservative billionaires...same line used by clinton to explain scandals.

[GailA]

I haven’t been very good about calling all of the insiders over the last two years, and maybe some of them have a beef with me because of that. I know they have been courted assiduously by some of the others who are considering a run for the White House, and it may be that some of them have already signed up with other people. If I do decide to run again, I think there’s a lot of support, but I’d also have to work really hard to get a bunch of them committed back to me."

Algorebatross hasn't mended fences within the party it seems..well he still AIN'T mended them at HOME in TENNESSEE either. In this last election the RAT running for gov law breaking, media elected, weasel phil bredesen SHUNNED Algorebatross as did all but THREE State canidates. One won, two lost.

Al Baby you are BAD NEWS, keep spewing your hate in that shrill whinny voice. The more you spew the more "real" you comes out.

[John Lenin]

[Leisler]

I always knew Gore was a idiot, now the picture is futher developed as a fashist idiot.

[giznort]

"The media is kind of weird these days on politics"...translated...."You mean that they can actually present non-biased news that doesn't support the radical left?"

The NEW Al Gore. No thank you. Didn't like the old one either. Just go away. Now.

[JoeGar]

Gore has been marginalized by all but himself.