[kristinn]

Leno asked Gore about his comments about right-wing media.

Gore says there is a part of the media that is hardcore right-wing Republican that generates stories that gets picked up by the rest of the media.

Leno hammers away on the Wellstone memorial and how it turned into a "fundraiser." Gore agrees that it backfired, blames the "third speaker" (the son?)

[Gunder]

I have to chuckle when I hear Gore criticize the Bush administration for the way they've handled -- or not handled -- the war on terrorism. Whether it's been a success or not -- and I think, for the most part, it's been a resounding success -- is there any sane American who would rather have Gore sitting in the Oval Office right now?

[Senator Pardek]

He was talking about that guy who was saying that folks in Minnesota must vote for Fritz (I forget his name/position). He's the scapegoat.

[kristinn]

Al still pushing the idea that we should finish off bin Laden before we go after Saddam. Glad he wasn't around during WWII.

Jay graciously pimps the books for Al. Gore rambles on about "new" families.

Gore to stay for the next segment with a couple that has been married 75 years.

[lavrenti]

You know, his comments about the media remind me of the bizarre press conference when Clinton's press people threw together that paranoid document "proving" that certain "dark forces" in right-wing media were generating news stories intended to destroy the Clinton administration.

Rather weird the supposed adults in the Democrook party have picked up that line. I wonder then, who is jerking their chains?

[Lancey Howard]

Gore said "most of the media plays things right down the middle", but the "right wing" element manages to work stuff in that "gets picked up" by the mainstream media.

"Right down the middle"? The New York Times? The Washington Post? The LA Times? The Atlanta Journal-Constitution? The Philadelphia Inquirer? Right down the middle???

Hey Gore, you freakin' scumbag liar - - want to review the last 50 years of political endorsements by all these "right down the middle" newspapers? Or do you want to talk about Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, and Peter Jennings?

At least Leno had the decency to (mildly) counter that Hollywood is "liberal". (Though he almost choked when he made that admission, and said something about a "small group".)

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Gore says there is a part of the media that is hardcore right-wing Republican that generates stories that gets picked up by the rest of the media.

Therein lies the next sinister plot of the crocodile-brain dimos. They have to eliminate talk-radio and FOX in order to stifle what remains of free speech in this country.