Gore Called It on Iraq

Some of you may recall that Gore warned us about Bush’s rush to war.

“I believe this proposed foreshortening of deliberation in the Congress robs the country of the time it needs for careful analysis of exactly what may lie before us. Such consideration is all the more important because the administration has failed thus far to lay out an assessment of how it thinks the course of a war will run – even while it has given free run to persons both within and close to the administration to suggest at every opportunity that this will be a pretty easy matter. And it may well be, but the administration has not said much of anything to clarify its idea of what would follow regime change or the degree of engagement that it is prepared to accept for the United States in Iraq in the months and years after a regime change has taken place.”

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Gore Called It on Iraq

Some of you may recall that Gore warned us about Bush’s rush to war.

“I believe this proposed foreshortening of deliberation in the Congress robs the country of the time it needs for careful analysis of exactly what may lie before us. Such consideration is all the more important because the administration has failed thus far to lay out an assessment of how it thinks the course of a war will run – even while it has given free run to persons both within and close to the administration to suggest at every opportunity that this will be a pretty easy matter. And it may well be, but the administration has not said much of anything to clarify its idea of what would follow regime change or the degree of engagement that it is prepared to accept for the United States in Iraq in the months and years after a regime change has taken place.”

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It’s Fashionable Now to Praise Gore

Richard Cohen writes in Tuesday’s Washington Post.

“Gore would not have taken the United States to war in Iraq. He would have finished the job in Afghanistan — it was al-Qaeda and its Taliban enablers who were responsible for the attacks on us on Sept. 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein, no matter how vile he might have been. Gore would not have dealt with the Iranians and the North Koreans in such a juvenile fashion — axis of evil, after all — and all over the world, wherever you and I went, we would not detect such anger toward America.”

Cohen fails to mention in his laudatory piece on Gore that it was Cohen himself who back in the 2000 campaign falsely caricatured Gore as an “exaggerator.” It’s thanks to Cohen and others like him that the US is in the mess it’s in today. But Cohen will never admit that, unlike cartoonist, Tom Toles, who nails it pretty much on the head above.

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It’s Fashionable Now to Praise Gore

Richard Cohen writes in Tuesday’s Washington Post.

“Gore would not have taken the United States to war in Iraq. He would have finished the job in Afghanistan — it was al-Qaeda and its Taliban enablers who were responsible for the attacks on us on Sept. 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein, no matter how vile he might have been. Gore would not have dealt with the Iranians and the North Koreans in such a juvenile fashion — axis of evil, after all — and all over the world, wherever you and I went, we would not detect such anger toward America.”

Cohen fails to mention in his laudatory piece on Gore that it was Cohen himself who back in the 2000 campaign falsely caricatured Gore as an “exaggerator.” It’s thanks to Cohen and others like him that the US is in the mess it’s in today. But Cohen will never admit that, unlike cartoonist, Tom Toles, who nails it pretty much on the head above.

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Dowd Caught Editing Gore’s Remarks for "Effect"

You’d have to see it to believe it, folks. There is no cheap, dishonest trick, these media types won’t use to try to smear Gore. Here,
Greg Sargent shows just how sleazy Maureen Dowd can be. Makes one wonder if she quoted Geffen correctly, eh?

Speaking of Dowd’s trickery, Sargent writes, “But wait — watch those hands…they move awful quick. Let’s go back and take a look at the full and original New York magazine passage Dowd quoted from. . . “

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Dowd Caught Editing Gore’s Remarks for "Effect"

You’d have to see it to believe it, folks. There is no cheap, dishonest trick, these media types won’t use to try to smear Gore. Here,
Greg Sargent shows just how sleazy Maureen Dowd can be. Makes one wonder if she quoted Geffen correctly, eh?

Speaking of Dowd’s trickery, Sargent writes, “But wait — watch those hands…they move awful quick. Let’s go back and take a look at the full and original New York magazine passage Dowd quoted from. . . “

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Gore Smearing Continues Unabated

When stories about Gore’s huge electric bill hit the news, I did like any good reporter would do, and asked to see the records. I called the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, and asked them to fax copies of the Nashville Electric Service records on Gore’s energy usage.

“Actually, we don’t have those records,” the person answering the phone told me, “But if you call NES, they’ll give them to you over the phone. All you have to do is tell them the address.”

I called Nashville Electric Service, and they told me they could not release any such information. No wonder the TN Center for Policy Research didn’t have copies of the records to fax me.

I wonder why no other reporter asked the basic question I did – “Let’s see the records.”

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Gore Smearing Continues Unabated

When stories about Gore’s huge electric bill hit the news, I did like any good reporter would do, and asked to see the records. I called the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, and asked them to fax copies of the Nashville Electric Service records on Gore’s energy usage.

“Actually, we don’t have those records,” the person answering the phone told me, “But if you call NES, they’ll give them to you over the phone. All you have to do is tell them the address.”

I called Nashville Electric Service, and they told me they could not release any such information. No wonder the TN Center for Policy Research didn’t have copies of the records to fax me.

I wonder why no other reporter asked the basic question I did – “Let’s see the records.”

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Obama’s Clothes

Remember when the rightwing media made a big deal of Gore’s choice of clothing? Color of his suits? Number of buttons, etc.?

They’re at it again; this time with Barack Obama. There is no place so low our rightwing media will not stoop in an attempt to trivialize or smear a good Democrat.

This actually aired on CNN. I kid you not.

GREENFIELD (voice-over): The senator was in New Hampshire over the weekend, sporting what’s getting to be the classic Obama look. Call it business casual, a jacket, a collared shirt, but no tie.

[...]

Ask yourself, is there any other major public figure who dresses the way he does? Why, yes. It is Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who, unlike most of his predecessors, seems to have skipped through enough copies of “GQ” to find the jacket-and-no-tie look agreeable.

And maybe that’s not the comparison a possible presidential contender really wants to evoke.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

GREENFIELD: Now, it is one thing to have a last name that sounds like Osama and a middle name, Hussein, that is probably less than helpful. But an outfit that reminds people of a charter member of the axis of evil, why, this could leave his presidential hopes hanging by a thread. Or is that threads?

Obama’s Clothes

Remember when the rightwing media made a big deal of Gore’s choice of clothing? Color of his suits? Number of buttons, etc.?

They’re at it again; this time with Barack Obama. There is no place so low our rightwing media will not stoop in an attempt to trivialize or smear a good Democrat.

This actually aired on CNN. I kid you not.

GREENFIELD (voice-over): The senator was in New Hampshire over the weekend, sporting what’s getting to be the classic Obama look. Call it business casual, a jacket, a collared shirt, but no tie.

[...]

Ask yourself, is there any other major public figure who dresses the way he does? Why, yes. It is Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who, unlike most of his predecessors, seems to have skipped through enough copies of “GQ” to find the jacket-and-no-tie look agreeable.

And maybe that’s not the comparison a possible presidential contender really wants to evoke.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

GREENFIELD: Now, it is one thing to have a last name that sounds like Osama and a middle name, Hussein, that is probably less than helpful. But an outfit that reminds people of a charter member of the axis of evil, why, this could leave his presidential hopes hanging by a thread. Or is that threads?