Al Gore reads truthout and truthout makes the New Yorker

[WilliamPitt]

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040913fa_fact

THE WILDERNESS CAMPAIGN
by DAVID REMNICK
Al Gore lives on a street in Nashville.

(snip)

Gore kept an open laptop at hand as we ate. (He and Tipper have matching Apple G4s. “What did you expect?” she said. “I live with the man who invented the Internet.”) He bookmarks the Internet to some of the more expected outlets—the Times, the Washington Post, Google News—but also to left-leaning sites like mediawhoresonline.com and truthout.com. From his reading, online and elsewhere, he has grown more convinced that, in the wake of the Goldwater collapse, in 1964, and the anti-Vietnam War movement, American conservatives were determined to “play a long game” and organize themselves, ideologically, financially, and intellectually, to win national elections and carry out a conservative revolution.

...more...

[NMDemDist2]

1. congrats will n/t

[JI7]

2. i want to hear gore say "mediawhoresonline"

[LTR]

3. Well, that's all fine and dandy, but...

...does he read DU?

I mean, MWO hasn't updated their site in roughly six months.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

4. Great news, Will...

But I have one question:

He spent much time in the belly of the beast, and was one of their most notable victims. What took him so long?

Next: what is his screen name here? :D

[blondeatlast]

7. We should start a pool, with a donation to Kerry as his incentive.

I can eliminate Zombywoof, Will Pitt, and Sal316, who are the only DUers I know personally.

[Cheswick2.0]

11. I'm not Al

so you can eliminate me.

[blondeatlast]

15. Don't count me out...

:evilgrin:

[sallyseven]

5. Once Kerry is in as president

it is in our best interest to take back the house. Get a really good democratic base and make sure that we don't let petty bickering destroy us. We should listen to each other and then try to accommodate all perspective but present a strong united front. They won'/t be able to touch us and that sob gingrich, or someone like him cannot rear his ugly head.

[Longhorn]

6. That's great, Will!

Another reason to admire President Gore!

[Dudley_DUright]

8. All the smartest people

read truthout. Keep it coming Will, you are making a positive impact.

[ochazuke]

9. If Al Gore is secretly posting to DU, what would his handle be?

netgod1 perhaps? netmommy? Or perhaps a more accurate "initiativetaker".

No? lovestoryfodder?

One thing about Al Gore: he likes self-depricating humor.

[realFedUp]

10. Al-Hasit

could be disguised in a burka....

[RichardRay]

14. According to Al Gore himself (self-deprecating)

Supposedly Al Gore once told a joke that went:

'Al Gore is so boring that his Secret Service nickname is... Al Gore.'

Just for that I love the man.

Richard Ray - Jackson Hole, WY

[Seabiscuit]

16. When I see someone posting as

"lockbox" I'll know it's Al. :)

[Cha]

12. Congratulations to Truthout.org for making the New Yorker!

I'll bet Al Gore reads DU, too! Who wouldn't ..who
is politically savvy?

Too Bad mediawhoresonline.com is "Out to Pasture"!


"Gore is beginning to make serious money. He is a board member for Apple and a senior adviser to Google, which just went through its I.P.O. He has also been working on creating a cable-television station and developing a financial enterprise."

Hope Gore gets that cable-television station up and going soon.

[jefferson_dem]

13. Congrats to TruthOut! But hasn't mediawhoresonlinie been "out to pasture"

for several months now? Here's hoping it's back on-line soon.

[kentuck]

17. Good analysis of George w Bush....

<snip>
"“I wasn’t surprised by Bush’s economic policies, but I was surprised by the foreign policy, and I think he was, too,” Gore told me. “The real distinction of this Presidency is that, at its core, he is a very weak man. He projects himself as incredibly strong, but behind closed doors he is incapable of saying no to his biggest financial supporters and his coalition in the Oval Office. He’s been shockingly malleable to Cheney and Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz and the whole New American Century bunch. He was rolled in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. He was too weak to resist it.

“I’m not of the school that questions his intelligence,” Gore went on. “There are different kinds of intelligence, and it’s arrogant for a person with one kind of intelligence to question someone with another kind. He certainly is a master at some things, and he has a following. He seeks strength in simplicity. But, in today’s world, that’s often a problem. I don’t think that he’s weak intellectually. I think that he is incurious. It’s astonishing to me that he’d spend an hour with his incoming Secretary of the Treasury and not ask him a single question. But I think his weakness is a moral weakness. I think he is a bully, and, like all bullies, he’s a coward when confronted with a force that he’s fearful of. His reaction to the extravagant and unbelievably selfish wish list of the wealthy interest groups that put him in the White House is obsequious. The degree of obsequiousness that is involved in saying ‘yes, yes, yes, yes, yes’ to whatever these people want, no matter the damage and harm done to the nation as a whole—that can come only from genuine moral cowardice. I don’t see any other explanation for it, because it’s not a question of principle. The only common denominator is each of the groups has a lot of money that they’re willing to put in service to his political fortunes and their ferocious and unyielding pursuit of public policies that benefit them at the expense of the nation.”

[cally]

19. Amazing analysis of *

and congrats to Truthout!!

[sventvkg]

18. That's one of the best articles on Gore I have ever read...

Thanks Will.

[kath]

20. Oh, man, parts of that article were so very, very painful to read.

I had to stop several times and put my head in my hands and shut my eyes for awhile before I could resume reading.

I can't even begin to fathom even one-thousandth of the pain and agony that Al and his family must feel regarding Selection 2000.

<lump in throat and awful pit in my stomach>