Gore, Klein, Drum, Somerby
Bob Somerby is almost unreadably hysterical.
In today’s dispatch Somerby cites Ezra Klein’s Ezra new article on Al Gore and Kevin Drum’s link to said article, both of which are extremely pro-Gore in tone, and gets angry at them for…. I’m not quite sure what.
The thrust of Klein’s article (which is worth reading in full) is that Al Gore has reinvented himself by circumventing the mainstream media that fans like Somerby believe sank him in 2000. Somerby’s problem with Klein and Drum is, apparently, that they don’t see those same media problems as precluding a 2008 Gore campaign. But that’s the exact issue they were trying to explore!
In Somerby’s mind, it seems you can’t write anything about Al Gore that goes beyond “The media suck the media suck the media suck the media suck the media suck!!!!!!!!!!111one”
For my part, I agree with Drum that Gore might be the Democrats’ best candidate in 2008. I wouldn’t vote for him in 2000 because, among other things, he’d spent the last eight years in an administration that saw fit to bomb a different country every week. But in 2002 – when doing so got you called a radical and a traitor – he got on the right side of American foreign policy. Hillary Clinton didn’t.