I suppose it’s a measure of just how badly BushCo is starting to scare people that Al Gore’s speech received surprisingly robust coverage.
ABC News: Gore Says Bush Wiretapping Could Be Impeachable Offense
New York Times: Gore Is Sharply Critical of Bush Policy on Surveillance
CNN: Gore: Resist Bush’s ‘excessive power grab’
Financial Times: Gore Says Bush Broke Law in Wiretapping
Washington Post: Gore Assails Domestic Wiretapping Program
Reuters: Gore calls for special counsel on eavesdropping
USA Today: Gore assails domestic wiretapping program
Looks like the typical response from the freepers:
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2006-01-17T023949Z_01_L17297248_RTRUKOC_0_US-SECURITY-WMD.xml&archived=False
Gore: Bush broke law with domestic wiretapping…
Former Vice President Al Gore called on Congress and the public to resist what he called “a gross an…
Here are the RNC talking points. I already see them turning up.
[...] Additional commentary at Digby’s Hullabaloo, The Left Coaster, and Susie was there and highlights tomorrow’s headlines, in which the media finally shows up for the bashing. Seems the much needed blast of new blood is being injected by the people’s president that never was? The “right blogosphere” is quick to juxtapose Gore’s rage against his policies as a VP, but libertarians tend to be on Al’s side when it comes to guarding against Constitutional transgressions. [...]
Yeah, but he said he invented the Internets and inspired Love Story, and his mother dresses him funny. And he had a beard for awhile. So….
Hey! Look! Iran’s trying to make nookular weapons!
Screw the freepers. Kill the messenger is their most imaginative trick.
Zee worm has turned on this carcass…
Soon, they’ll be eating each other…
ALIIIIIVE! ! !
[...] “Where was this Gore when we needed him?” queried a journalist seated next to The Tribune’s Frank James, according to his glowing review in the Trib Washington Bureau’s The Swamp blog. At any rate, it appears that Gore will not stand down. Additional commentary at Digby’s Hullabaloo, The Left Coaster, and Susie was there and highlights tomorrow’s headlines, in which the media finally shows up for the bashing. Seems the much needed blast of new blood is being injected by the people’s president that never was? The “right blogosphere” is quick to juxtapose Gore’s rage against his policies as a VP, but libertarians tend to be on Al’s side when it comes to guarding against Constitutional transgressions. Â [...]