Media Rehab



Vanity Fair has an article coming up that continues the process

of media rehabilitation former Vice President Al Gore has been enjoying of late. In fact, so rehabbed that momentum seems to be
building to a consensus that he may well be the man to beat the logjam of mediocrity and underacheivement that currently plagues the Democratic Party race for the nomination in a year that victory so waits to be plucked. Of course it is easy to forget that the current crop has been picked far before the actual season has started, far before ripeness has arrived.

If one thinks back a few years ( to about the same time he lost the White House while winning the election, not unlike Andrew Jackson to John Quincy Adams ) there was a time when there was a media onslaught against Mr Gore full of mistatements and distortions that had a telling effect both on the country and the world. Instead of the election of an honorable veteran with a large intellectual capacity a close vote enabled the Supreme Court to select a service evading simpleton. Who knows what would have happened if the media attention had been a little closer to reality and a little less based in lazy journalism?

It seems the media is having its mea culpa moment. Perhaps feeling a tad low about their previous shabby treatment the media has of late been much kinder to Mr Gore while seeming to spend some time in an awareness of the part they played in debacle that ensued. All of which

feeds speculation that Vice President Gore may well run for the office denied him in 2000. And that would be a good thing. It is his race for the nomination to win. And with Wes Clark as running mate they would provide an insurmountable obstacle for the GOP to overcome.

For an example media introspection check the link below.

Going After Gore, by Evgenia Peretz: Politics & Power: vanityfair.com