Alterman on Gore:
Al Gore was clearly transformed by the theft of his election victory, even if many in the media tend to treat him as the same whiny fellow to whom they felt so morally superior seven years ago. Gore’s book is, in many ways, an implicit indictment of the corruption of our elites, particularly our media elites, for pretending that what has been going on is just business as usual. (And they will likely read it as such, and attempt to smarm it away.) Sadly, to read this book is to realize that this is just not a man who is planning to run for president anytime soon. He is having too much fun to want to be president. (And putative presidential candidates tend not to quote Habermas, for one.) It’s going to take America a while to catch up to Al Gore, which is unfortunately, our problem — and undoubtedly our children’s — but not his.
