Al Gore in Recovery: On Step Nine
Al Gore says that he's a "recovering politician" and that his new television channel, Current, is "not intended to be partisan in any way." Okee-dokee. The AP blurb goes on: Gore said it will engage young people in the "dialogue of democracy."
Let's see if we can spot the Republican in the Current lineup: Laura Ling, Kim Vaccaro, Conor Knighton, Josh Soskin, Nzingha Shakur, Heather Powell, Robin Sloan, and Gotham Chopra, spawn of Deepak. Um, no, I don't know any of these people but I'll give you a shiny new nickel if you can prove any of them didn't vote for, support, lick the boots of or march in a parade for Bill Clinton and or Al Gore. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
The 'dialogue of democracy' that old Al is talking about is the fact that Current is soliciting contributions from amateurs to flesh out its video offerings. According to this article in Wired News people may submit content through the Current web site and if accepted will get $250 for their efforts and a chance to win a $15,000 'video challenge.
Reporting from a Republican dominated event in the conservative city of "San Francisco attended by several thousand hipsters, including actors Sean Penn and Leonardo DiCaprio, hip-hop stars Mos Def and Talib Kweli, Crown City Rockers, Michael Franti and Spearhead," the first non-partisan [video challenge] "winner, announced at Monday's party, was Campaign Ad, a dramatization exposing the practice of deliberately misleading election campaign commercials." Hmm, I wonder which party is the one being criticized for 'deliberately misleading' commercials?
"When challenged by a reporter about his claim of non-partisanship considering the staff of Current contains not one human that would feel out of place at a Moveon.org Jello wrestling event, Gore replied, 'Who ya' gonna' believe, me, or your lying eyes?'"
OK, I just made that last part up because I really wanted to use the 'lying eyes' line.
