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[Uncle Joe]

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"BURNS (10/13/07): It has been a remarkable week for Al Gore. As the expression goes, you can't buy publicity like this. The week didn't start out well, as a judge in England ruled his film about global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, was full of errors and students must be told about them, all nine of them—errors, not students, that is—before they can watch the film. The week ended with a draft-Gore-for-president movement gaining momentum. And the announcement that Gore had won the Nobel Peace Prize.

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GABLER: People will hate him no matter what he does, deny the science of global warming no matter how much it's proven to be the case.

BURNS: This is going to lengthen the debate and the argument and make it front and center

GABLER: To me, what is interesting is last month Vanity Fair had a piece talking about the war against Gore, how the media—not the right-wing media; she wasn't talking about Rush Limbaugh and Fox News, she was talking about Frank Rich and Maureen Dowd and Ceci Connolly—and how they went after Gore to destroy him. And that is something that's very, very interesting. The media needs to pay penance for that, for what they did to Al Gore and the country as a result.

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In the end, this story isn’t about Paul Krugman (great as he has been, great as he will be). It isn’t about Gabler or Hall or Lyons or Chait or The Daily Howler. It isn’t even about Al Gore—although anyone with a sense of justice would want to see his full story told. This story is about the American public—their right to know the basic facts about the way their “press corps” works. Before the week has ended, we’ll spell out a few more things the public ought to be told about their modern, plutocratic press corps. But the mainstream press has worked, for eight years, to hide the facts about Campaign 2000. These facts are known in L.A. and Little Rock. But in the end, these facts must be told in DC and New York—at the top of our national press corps."

[Mabus]

1. "The media needs to pay penance..."

and this, in a nutshell, is why the media doesn't want Gore to run and they are doing every thing they can to quash it.

They shouldn't just pay penance, they should be taken out and flogged!

[Uncle Joe]

3. I believe it was a betrayal against the people.

If you're hiring someone for the most powerful critical job the in land that could put you, your family and all your friends lives at risk, why on Earth would you relentlessly slander the best and brightest applicant and enable a corrupt incompetent to power!?

[Mabus]

10. For personal reasons

I've always felt that one reason the press corps didn't like Gore was because he's clean. Gore isn't a skirt chaser and Gore isn't someone who likes to play their games. Gore's dad was a pol during the time when there was a pretty clear separation between the political life and the personal one. There's the public persona and a private persona. The press wanted to (and still do) make the personal public, when Gore refused to do that they labeled him wooden and turned on him.

[Admiral Loinpresser]

2. Hell yeah!!!!!

Tell it, Uncle Joe. Someday the missus and I really want to meet you!

[Uncle Joe]

4. I'm looking forward to it, Admiral.

:hi:

[Uncle Joe]

5. Final kick for the evening crowd. n/t

[rosesaylavee]

6. Kickity for missing this earlier today.

I think Gore has been getting good press - love the vanity fair and rolling stone articles this year. Mo Dowd is a waste of newsprint and the others will all fade into the twilight after their deaths. Gore will be legend in a hundred years.

[mopinko]

7. from you lips to

the ears of anyone who will flippin' listen.

[rosesaylavee]

8. seems both of us missed the speech this evening.

Wonder what he said. Looked at Mapquest to see where that hotel was - it would have been a mile hike from where I work in the wrong direction from the train. too tired to stay tonight.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

9. Excellent!

off to read the whole thing KICK!

[TheDoorbellRang]

11. Seems the press really can't stand to be criticized

If Gore runs and they try the same crap they pulled in 2000, this time they'll have the bloggers calling them on it, along with Stewart and Colbert. If Gore runs, there'd probably be a lot of opeds on line about the p*ss poor job they did back then, which they just might feel secretly so ashamed of they'd just like everyone to forget. Ha!

Thanks for the post, Uncle Joe. K&R

[Uncle Joe]

12. I believe

should they try that again, their credibility will truly be in the toilet with the general populace.

And thanks for the reply, TheDoorbellRang

[BrklynLib at work]

13. Dana Milbank IS pissy moron, and I cannot understand why Olbermann has him on every night.

[Samantha]

14. Nonetheless I saw him at Al Gore's book signing for

An Inconvenient Truth. He was standing there talking to Ralph Nader. As someone who has been a longstanding Al Gore fan, I really couldn't believe they would have the nerve to show up there. Show's you how much I know.

[BrklynLib at work]

15. Some people have more nerve than brains.

[Toots]

16. Some people actually know Nader had nothing to do with the Extreme Court halting the count

There is a hatred here for Nader that is completely and totally irrational. It is not felt by normal Americans..

[Samantha]

18. And some people actually knew in 2000 there WAS a difference

between Gore and Bush,despite Nader's representations to that effect. I don't hate Ralph Nader. I simply do not respect the man.

[Uncle Joe]

17. Here is today's update re" Krugman, Tomasky," etc.

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"IN SEARCH OF THE HISSING AND JEERING: For our first report on the hissing and jeering, see THE DAILY HOWLER, 11/3/99.

Soon, a confirmation appeared. See THE DAILY HOWLER, 11/11/99.

A few weeks later, Jake made it three. See THE DAILY HOWLER, 12/14/99. (We’d been alerted by a reader in Kansas.)

It’s an amazing story, and it hasn’t been told near enough. Very few citizens have ever heard it—have ever heard about the night when their mainstream press corps, with its famed “liberal bias,” hissed and jeered the Democratic front-runner (them made up complete horse-shit about him). Average people deserve to be told about that—but big career writers just don’t enjoy telling them. Three cheers for Waldman for telling the tale. That story deserves to live on.

NEXT WEEK: Why not! Howler history! We’ll offer a long post about the blatant lying the “press corps” did on the weekend after they jeered."

[Gabi Hayes]

19. anyone who thinks the M$M will play the Gore narrative any differently

in 2008 (if he runs) than they did in 99-00 will have to give me some reasons for their rationale

why would things change? bloggers are more plentiful, certainly, than they were then, but what difference did they make in 04?

reality exists for most news consumers on the telescreen, not the computer screen

that's why Giuliani will win the nomination, and why the pugs/media are making Hillary's seem inevitable. that's the match they want

I could be wrong...hope I am, but I doubt it. the gleeful venom with which the media have repeated the most fulsome BS about Gore over the last few years shows that their distaste for him hasn't abated one bit