Al Gore Needs Some Happy Drugs
FORMER VEEP SAYS HE’S IMPATIENT, BAD AT POLITICS
FITSNews - May 25, 2007 - We’ve always liked Al Gore. He invented the Internet, after all, which is pretty much the only thing we’ve got going for us these days. He even told us one time that if we’d be his bodyguards, he could be our long lost pal. Then he told us he wanted to call us Betty, and said “Betty when you call me, you can call me Al.” True story. Anyway, that’s why we were sad when we read today’s fallout from an LA Times story featuring this quote from the former Vice President:
“I don’t think I’m particularity good at politics,” he confessed in the interview at the Four Seasons. “There are a lot of things about politics as it currently exists that I don’t think I’m necessarily very skilled at. I’m not being falsely self-critical. I just find that I have less patience and tolerance for the contrivances and artifices that seem to succeed in the current political environment. The balance has shifted in American politics to reward an emphasis on means rather than ends, toward manipulation rather than reasoned discussion.”
Jeez, Al. And we thought John McCain’s conference call music was going to make us slit our wrists. Gore is of course correct in his assessment that politics these days is bullsh*t, but we hear there are some drugs out there that could probably clear that cynicism right up. Speaking of which, we had a cynic on our rear ends for a long time until we discovered a great topical creme that magically dissolved it. Boy were we relieved!
Comments
By GKP on May 25th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
Al Gore today:
“There are a lot of things about politics as it currently exists that I don’t think I’m necessarily very skilled at… I have less patience and tolerance for the contrivances and artifices that seem to succeed (today).”
Al Gore, May 2006, in Grist Magazine, regarding challenges to “factual” allegations made in his movie “An Inconvenient Truth”:
“I believe it is appropriate to have an overrepresentation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience.”
Overrepresentation (is that even a word?) of factual presentations….I’m sorry…is that longhand for “lies” or am I missing something.
Sounds to me like he is pretty good at the “contrivances and artifices” stuff.
Run Al, Run. The Internet needs you.
By Newspaper Hack on May 26th, 2007 at 1:14 am
Overrepresentation of the facts is still closer to the truth than the bill of goods we were sold on Iraq. There was the WMD thing, then the Hussein thing, then the “making the world safe for democracy” thing. It’s like OJ and his defense. If one lie doesn’t work, there’s always another to pull out and give a shot.
Regardless – yes, Al Gore is not good at politics. It takes a truely awful politician to lose an election that he won, even while fucking it up the whole way. I mean, seriously. One day it was business Al, then casual Al, then he sucked on Tipper’s face for good measure. If you could just tell me that 2000 was an alcohol-fueled nightmare, I’d be much happier, especially considering that Alabama went from preseason No. 3 to 3-8 that year.