Is Frank Rich reliable? Made up Al Gore "Love Story" lie & attacked Gore for anti-Iraq War speech.

[Karmadillo]

http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh060906.shtml

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The mailer asked an excellent question: Why has a “liberal” like Rich been so tough on Gore through the years? Why did he invent Love Story in 1997? Throughout the course of Campaign 2000, why did he keep pretending that Bush and Gore were a perfectly-matched pair of bumblers? When Gore spoke out on Iraq in 2002, why did Rich attack him again (inventing his facts as he went)? And in his new column, just two weeks ago, why did he nit-pick those ludicrous complaints about Gore? For example, why did he pretend—in that pathetic example—that Gore “waffled” on creationism in 1999? For the most part, readers have no way to evaluate such claims. Why does Rich just keep making them up?

Below, we’ll post our reply to the mailer. But make no mistake: In part, Rich does this because he can—because he knows that the Franke-Rutas are there to enable his conduct. Cartoonists know what happened with Gore. Film critics know what happened too. Everyone knows it—except Franke-Ruta! In her column, Franke-Ruta neatly avoids the most basic facts of our recent shared history. To this day, she still pretends that she doesn’t know who dropped those “hostile frames” on Gore. This is how young writers build fine careers. But it’s also how Democrats lose elections, and in this case, it also explains how the US marched off to Iraq. At some point, you’d think the Franke-Rutas would be shamed into telling the truth. At some point, you’d think these young scribes would be shamed into saying what happened.


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