Remember after he "lost', all the big News shows constantly had Al Gore on

[edhopper]

as the voice of Washington politics.
Neither do I.

[Va Lefty]

1. Yeah...

John Kerry too

[ClearPresentDanger]

2. Bill Maher came right out and said it a couple of shows back,

"Liberals aren't allowed on TV."

[BuddyBoy]

4. Then who is the gentleman sitting on the right?

"Liberals aren't allowed on TV."

[Cirque du So-What]

6. Care to enumerate some of his 'liberal credentials' for us?

All I see is a corporate tool.

[SammyWinstonJack]

10. +1 nt

[BuddyBoy]

12. Prestige by association with President Clinton. HE was known ...

as a liberal, wasn't he? I recall seeing people on the TeeVee saying he was, and they wouldn't say that if it wasn't true.

[Cirque du So-What]

17. Bill Clinton is no liberal

I recommend that you actually look up the definition of 'liberal.' Of course, if you want to keep embarrassing yourself, who am I to stop you?

[ClearPresentDanger]

18. It's not TV, it's HBO

says so right in their ads

[rurallib]

19. honestly, do you think a reactionary company like Disney would have

a liberal host anything even remotely concerned with news? Really?
Have you ever listened to Stephanopoulis?
Come back when Phil Donohue is doing This Week.

[malletgirl02]

5. You are right

Something similar happen to the protest against the Iraq war. the media either down played the protest or didn't show the protests at all. Compare this to the right wing protesters at the health care reform town halls today. They are all over the news.

[malaise]

7. It's much worse than that

Liberals have been proven correct re the Bush lies leading up to the Iraq war but M$Greedia ignored them. Meanwhile M$Greedia is now spewing proven lies about health care as if they have some validity.

[Papa Boule]

3. K&R!

[Motown_Johnny]

McCain has nothing else.. stick a fork in the old guy. He is done. Gore and Kerry still contribute

and will continue to contribute for decades

[liberalmuse]

8. Well, after all, the Presidency was rightfully McCain/Palin's...

and Obama had some nerve stealing it by getting more votes. McCain/Palin act as if they've somehow won, and I'm sick to death of the media catering to every bit of nonsense that falls out of their mouths. Then again, if the media didn't cater to nonsense, they'd actually have to report the facts, and we can't have that in a society where the population are nothing more than corporate slaves.

Man, I'd better put more sugar in my coffee this morning.

[UpInArms]

9. I was thinking that exact thought just a little while ago

I just don't recall Gore getting to be on every channel criticizing Dimson about his trillion dollar tax cuts for the rich or the abomination of the Medicare overhaul -

or criticizing the war - no one got to get out there and say -

911 happened on George's shift and all criticism was squelched -

This crap on our airwaves has got to stop.

[lunatica]

11. To be nitpicky here, Al Gore left politics

Although I'm pretty sure they might have marginalized him anyway. It's to our benefit that he left politics too because he went straight into being the powerhouse he's become on global warming. He'll be more responsible for saving the planet than all the Presidents and politicians combined. That is, of course, if any of them gets wise.

What good is all the health care in the world if global climate change will eventually kill most of humanity off anyway? The issue is getting a pitiful little pint of blood to help it when it needs major triage with all the stops removed. If Obama wants to create jobs, go massively green now. Pour billions into the Green industry and into Green research and see if real jobs that last aren't created. Give existing companies billions to convert to Green. Like the auto industry. Forget about getting better mileage on oil. Go fucking Green.

[BuddyBoy]

13. In fairness, I think the OP was referring to the period shortyly ...

after the election, not nine years later.

[lunatica]

14. It's fair to point out that Gore left politics immediately

He dropped out of the political world and he may have been asked to go on the shows for all we know. He did make a series of very powerful speeches which were caught and disseminated by organizations like MoveOn. One of them was his anti-war with Iraq speech just a couple of months before Bush declared it. Another one was on the media's failures.

The media ignored him yet he managed to be heard by Americans anyway. MoveOn has a huge base, and it was bigger then.

[edhopper]

15. I remember that speech.

And I also remember the MSM parroting the "has Al Gore gone crazy" talk from the right.
More evidence for my point. Any one in the media talking about Palin going off the deep end?

[lunatica]

16. Don't get me wrong. You're right in my opinion which

is why I was saying 'To be nitpicky..."

I prefer to concentrate on the positive things that can come out of very painful personal defeats. It's the story of the Hero's journey. Al Gore is a true hero.

The media? Not so much.