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

New York Observer ^ | Josh Benson

[SerpentDove]

>>I don't get the new Dim straegy to attack Rush Limbaugh and the so-called "right wing" press.<<

Reminds me of the early days in the Clinton administration...where did I hear this?...Blumenthal or Carville or some other Clinton bootlicker went into his office, and Clinton was in a blue funk over "that damn Rush Limbaugh."

I love it. They hate Rush because they hate truth and light being cast on them.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

It’s possible that no amount of criticism will keep Mr. Gore out of the race, but there’s little question that "Gore fatigue" already has become a rallying point for his potential opponents. "At this point, people are uniformly looking for a different face and a different agenda, an agenda that requires a backbone," Vermont Governor Howard Dean, a potential Democratic contender, told The Observer.

Bump for GORE FATIGUE, and for Gore, a truly unlikable phony.

[SerpentDove]

>>A well-planned, orchestrated attack by the Democrats (probably hatched by the rajun cajun)<<

Orchestrated, I'll grant you. Well-planned? No.

Brought to you by the same Demonrat strategists who headed up "Election 2002."

[mdcen]

Thank you for that definition of the word Zeitgeist. "Spirit of the times", my interpretation.

Actually, I was sitting here reading this post and I turned to my bookshelf to find my American Heritage Dictionary (1982 Second College Addition) and lo and behold there were dogears on the pages for Zeitgeist, Narcissism and Nihilism. Postmodernism wasn't listed because we were still in the Modernist era in 1982, I suppose. I must have been studying these words back in my college days(in 1982 I was entering my eleventh year of higher education due to the fact that I had a family to support, a job to keep and couldn't go full time unlike one of the more priviledged ones in our country. But thanks to the GI bill I was being supported in this effort by circumstance in which I would like to thank all of you who pay taxes. Thank you!)

I was wondering what ALgore means by these words. Is he willing to invoke zeitgeist("spirit of the times")to justify his support of the "bent one" during the Lewinsky events? Was it just the "thing to do"? After all, everyone was doing it. Was it nihilism ("the doctrine that all values are baseless" AHD page 842) or narcissism (excepts AHD "excessive love or admiration of oneself" and/or "stage of development in which one's own body is the object of erotic interest"? Was this it? I can't wait for George Will to take him up on the offer to give an interview on the topic of "Postmodernism and the role of Narcissism, Nihilism and Zeitgeist is present day politics". O GOD, someone slap me before I die of laughter.

I could go on but surely my fellow freepers can have a little fun with this.

[rvoitier]

After reading the article it makes ya wanna bring out the "Is it Gore or Unabomber" questionaire again.

[SerpentDove]

>>I bet Algore regrets the day he invented the Internet.<<

That's the best line I will read all day, and it's still early! Thanks.

[nicmarlo]

Me thinks that he has has just revealed the standard operating procedure for the DNC, the major networks, and CNN.

I think you're right.

[Inkie]

He really is a dope. Can't he distinguish between talk show hosts, who never purport to be objective, and the mainstream networks, which tell us they are giving us news objectively but subliminally imbue every word with their left-leaning opinions? On talk radio, what you hear is what you get. On mainsteam networks, viewer beware.

[rvoitier]

"...inside the building..."

Is that next to the lockbox, Al?

[rvoitier]

Doesn't he deliver the office mail on "Just Shoot Me"?

[Paul Atreides]

[weegee]

is there any site to find footage of anchor's coverage of key moments in 2000 elections?

I'd like to know one if it exists. I taped Rather Biased on CBS (and left the tape rolling so I could see how it turned out, I just couldn't go to sleep not knowing that Bush had won). I watched other channels while I taped CBS and saw Katie Couric holding back the tears. There may be some threads on FR from election night that give some play by play of the broadcasts. Even this year I caught some people saying "That's another one for us".

[Mo1]

…. Most of the media [has] been slow to recognize the pervasive impact of this fifth column in their ranks—

The fifth column ???

Bawahahahahaha ... KEEP TALKING AL!!!

[weegee]

"It’s the combination of narcissism and nihilism that really defines postmodernism"

It was very postmodern of the Clintons to have a White House Christmas tree decorated with syringes and condoms.

[weegee]

You mean it cracked 2000? The Teamsters and AFL-CIO must be buying truckloads of the things.

I'd look at it from the other angle if I were you. What 500 books did they ban to accomplish this feat?

[ampat]

Gore shouldn't candy-coat his "fifth column" comments. Call it what it is: America and Americans.

[NorCoGOP]

Fox spokesman Rob Zimmerman said, "We won’t dignify this with a response."

Better idea:

Fox spokesman Rob Zimmerman said, "Who's Al Gore?"

[dirtboy]

"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, and some of them are financed by wealthy ultra-conservative billionaires who make political deals with Republican administrations and the rest of the media …. 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."

How AlGore can say this with a straight face is beyond my understanding. The libs have almost complete control of broadcast and print media. They have their own billionaires, such as Ted Turner, using their media outlets to push lib agendas - but if conservative elements do the same, it's suddenly something to take notice of? What a crock.

[Mo1]

How AlGore can say this with a straight face is beyond my understanding. The libs have almost complete control of broadcast and print media.

Well it seems Geraldine Ferraro agrees with Al .. she was just on Fox News claiming that conservative media did in her and Mondale in 1984.

I guess she forgot Fox wasn't around then .. come to think of it .. was Rush big then ??

[Tall_Texan]

Al, you've got to stop hanging around Sidney Blumenthal!

Now, that's a name I haven't heard in a while. Where is that guy?

Probably still slapping around his wife.
(obscure Drudge reference)