I applaud Mr. Lehmann for being the first reviewer Ive seen for pointing out the obvious point that Mr. Gore has a lot of reasons to be mad at a national media that ridiculed and slandered him repeatedly in the lead up to the 2000 election. And I agree that those voters who bought into the MSMs scripting and name calling hold an eternal responsibility in helping elect our current failed and clueless President. But, I don't think that lets off the hook those in the press who helped delude the Nation into thinking that the electoral choice was between a friendly prep-Texan late bloomer and a pathologically ambitous liar and "serial exagerator" who was delusional enough to believe that HE invented the internet...(As if that was ever possible for one man to do...which, by itself, implied that anyone who claimed he did, ie candidate Gore - HAD to be seriously and laughingly loco) That was the press script. Basically the entire pundit and press corps bought that lie and line....and afterall, they are "experts" (political punditry being one of the few fields where one can be defined an "expert" just because one says one is)...how can we expect the average reader, viewer or voter to see through all that silly and phony bs if our own press corps is helping to spread that damaging, stupid and false message. Its time for those in the media to stop blaming others for their faults and its effect. To me, it wasnt the stars or the voters who will carry the eternal blame for what happened in 2000, it is those pampered and silly fools in the political media who did not do their jobs and instead clowned and made a disgrace of our national dialogue. Our founding fathers would be ashamed. I suggest all readers go to www.dailyhowler.com and read about what really happened back then and now and understand that the same scripts that were used to damage Gore in 2000 are being prepared to ridicule and damage whoever our nominee will be in 2008.
I applaud Mr. Lehmann for being the first reviewer Ive seen for pointing out the obvious point that Mr. Gore has a lot of reasons to be mad at a national media that ridiculed and slandered him repeatedly in the lead up to the 2000 election. And I agree that those voters who bought into the MSMs scripting and name calling hold an eternal responsibility in helping elect our current failed and clueless President. But, I don't think that lets off the hook those in the press who helped delude the Nation into thinking that the electoral choice was between a friendly prep-Texan late bloomer and a pathologically ambitous liar and "serial exagerator" who was delusional enough to believe that HE invented the internet...(As if that was ever possible for one man to do...which, by itself, implied that anyone who claimed he did, ie candidate Gore - HAD to be seriously and laughingly loco) That was the press script. Basically the entire pundit and press corps bought that lie and line....and afterall, they are "experts" (political punditry being one of the few fields where one can be defined an "expert" just because one says one is)...how can we expect the average reader, viewer or voter to see through all that silly and phony bs if our own press corps is helping to spread that damaging, stupid and false message. Its time for those in the media to stop blaming others for their faults and its effect. To me, it wasnt the stars or the voters who will carry the eternal blame for what happened in 2000, it is those pampered and silly fools in the political media who did not do their jobs and instead clowned and made a disgrace of our national dialogue. Our founding fathers would be ashamed. I suggest all readers go to www.dailyhowler.com and read about what really happened back then and now and understand that the same scripts that were used to damage Gore in 2000 are being prepared to ridicule and damage whoever our nominee will be in 2008.