Same Ol’ Gore

IN case you haven’t heard, there’s a “new Al Gore” in town. Time magazine’s Ana Marie Cox dubs him a “rock star.” Frank Rich, The New Republic, the Washington Post, The American Prospect, and the rest of the liberal media establishment have similarly prostrated themselves before the new Al Gore. The Gore boomlet coincides, unsurprisingly, with the release of his new film, An Inconvenient Truth, which countless liberals have hailed as the Silent Spring of global warming.

Arianna Huffington, whose gifts for prostration are legendary, penned a dispatch from Cannes, where Gore was promoting his movie. Amid her gushing, she reported that Gore told her that this was his second trip to Cannes. “The first,” he said, “was when I was fifteen years old and came here for the summer to study the existentialists-Sartre, Camus . . . We were not allowed to speak anything but French!” “Which,” surmised Huffington, “may explain his pitch-perfect French accent.”

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IN case you haven’t heard, there’s a “new Al Gore” in town. Time magazine’s Ana Marie Cox dubs him a “rock star.” Frank Rich, The New Republic, the Washington Post, The American Prospect, and the rest of the liberal media establishment have similarly prostrated themselves before the new Al Gore. The Gore boomlet coincides, unsurprisingly, with the release of his new film, An Inconvenient Truth, which countless liberals have hailed as the Silent Spring of global warming.

Arianna Huffington, whose gifts for prostration are legendary, penned a dispatch from Cannes, where Gore was promoting his movie. Amid her gushing, she reported that Gore told her that this was his second trip to Cannes. “The first,” he said, “was when I was fifteen years old and came here for the summer to study the existentialists-Sartre, Camus . . . We were not allowed to speak anything but French!” “Which,” surmised Huffington, “may explain his pitch-perfect French accent.”