Regular PTBC readers know that I mockingly call Al Gore “the Prophet Al Gore” at every opportunity. It’s supposed to be “ironic”. “Sarcasm”. “Cynicism”. “A joke”. A play on his stature given by liberals and their media and sundry Kyoto/environut religion followers.
But TIME magazine’s cover and lead story’s headline is: “The Last Temptation of Al Gore”. Yup. Not Christ, but Al Gore. And in their story, they go ahead and call him the “prophet”. Seriously.
It’s an Al Gore-o-gasm
Read how this fair and balanced four-page “news” story starts out. (TIME magazine also devotes huge space to providing an excerpt to “the prophet’s” book; and with stories like this, they took the mystery out of whether or not they want to push the bajeezus out of that book’s sales, and whether or not they have an agenda):
Let’s say you were dreaming up the perfect stealth candidate for 2008, a Democrat who could step into the presidential race when the party confronts its inevitable doubts about the front runners. You would want a candidate with the grass-roots appeal of Barack Obama—someone with a message that transcends politics, someone who spoke out loud and clear and early against the war in Iraq. But you would also want a candidate with the operational toughness of Hillary Clinton—someone with experience and credibility on the world stage.
In other words, you would want someone like Al Gore—the improbably charismatic, Academy Award–winning, Nobel Prize–nominated environmental prophet with an army of followers and huge reserves of political and cultural capital at his command. There’s only one problem. The former Vice President just doesn’t seem interested. He says he has “fallen out of love with politics,” …
However, to be fair, and oh-so-balanced, this issue of Time also has a story on conservative Republican Mitt Romney.
So there you go. He’s a bastard, but they’re covering hiim. That’s fair.
A while back this was their cover.
See they’re fair and balanced. Nothing to see here, folks.
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