From Gore the phony to Gore the warrior

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

Everyone really should read this post by The Daily Howler. Say what you will about that guy, he has the Gore 2000 story down to a "t". One thing people seem to forget is that the American people believed Gore had cleaned Bush's clock in ALL of the debates. The first one was a convincing win, by about 15 points, yet only some in the conservative press acknowledged it. The mainstream press theme was how "mean" he had been, and full of boring policy stuff -- meaningful "who would you like to drink a beer with?" stuff." It was the press after each crushing win that tore him down, but Somerby is right: liberals like Arianna and the guy who just wrote the long article in The New Yorker will never admit it. Instead, as they start trying to eat crow without exposing their own massive misjudgments -- and Somerby is right about this, too: those misjudgments by people like Huffington and Dowd put Bush in the White House -- they will insist that Gore has changed, not them.

Back then, the press focused on beer-drinking as a qualification for the Presidency. Today, in the New York Times -- in the G-D New York Times -- they are digging into Hillary's marriage. You really begin to wonder what Medill, Columbia and Missouri J-schools are teaching these people. Maybe we need to start blaming the professors there.