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Tom Friedman gushes: Who will be the next Al Gore?
When I last blogged about Tom Friedman, he was yearning for a 9/10 president in a post-9/11 world. Today, we find him giddy with excitement over the Goracle’s Nobel Peace prize win last Friday. Friedman opines (emphasis added):
Seeing Al Gore so deservedly share the Nobel Peace Prize, it is impossible not to note the contrast in his leadership and that of George W. Bush.
Mr. Gore and Mr. Bush each faced a crucible moment. For Mr. Gore, it was winning the popular vote and having the election taken away from him by a Republican-dominated Supreme Court. For Mr. Bush, it was the shocking terrorist attack on 9/11.
Funny how the court is “Republican-dominated” when it rules against liberals, but is fair and balanced when it makes a ruling that liberals favor.
Continuing:
Mr. Gore lost the presidency, but in the dignity and grace with which he gave up his legal fight, he united America. Then, faced with what to do with the rest of his life, he took up a personal crusade to combat climate change, even though the odds were stacked against him, his soapbox was small, his audiences were measured in hundreds, and his critics were legion. Nevertheless, Mr. Gore stuck with it and over time has played a central role in building a global consensus for action on this issue.
He united America? Gimme a break! Al Gore was responsible for dragging that election out for weeks, and as a result, the cries of “stolen election” were and still are the catalyst for so much for so much of the Bush-hatred we see today- from the likes of liberals like, well, Tom Friedman. Matt Ortega takes on Friedman’s revisionist history on the election here, while Jules Crittenden tackles some other Friedman fantasies here.
Judging by the quality – or rather, lack thereof – of the NYT’s opinion section, especially as of late, it’s no wonder sales of Times Select were so low that they made the opinion pages free again.
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I’m glad I wasn’t drinking anything before I got to that part about dignity and grace and uniting America–that line was a keyboard wrecker if ever I saw one.
What is so dignified and graceful and unifying about conceding the election, retracting the concession almost immediately, and then dragging the whole country through weeks of recount after recount in various ways in hopes that sooner or later he’ll get the result he wants?
Does Friedman inhabit the same universe as the rest of us? He must be in that one where Kirk is evil and Spock has a beard.
Therein lies the question! To the left, that was dignified and graceful just like Clinton was one of the best, if not THE best, president we’ve ever had. There is no concept of reality whatsoever, and that’s the way they like it. The really scary thing is that it’s getting even worse with each passing day.
Also the Supreme court didn’t ‘hand over’ the Presidency to GW. The Florida Democrat party handed the Presidency over to GW. They are the one’s who couldn’t get their stuffing together and create a ballot that was easy to read and could be readily punched. How many generations used the butterfly punch ballot prior to this one election??? How many recounts did GW win before the Supremes had to step in and say enough is enough??? These useful idiots like Friedman are so deceived that they are no longer making any sense. Originally the Supremes voted was 7 to 2, with 2 of the lib justices deciding to change their vote later on. These guys are full of BS I can’t believe that people swallow this tripe. – Lorica
Who will be the next Al Gore? Why I hope that it’s Hillary Clinton, and that she follows Mr Gore’s path precisely, by winning a Nobel Prize but losing a presidential election!
With Mr Gore in 2007, and Jimmy Carter in 2002, do you suppose that the Nobel Peace Prize is the consolation awatd for losing a presidential election?
Face it guys, thes loons will never get over that the election WAS NOT STOLEN. We have to hear this bumbling crap daily and like NC Cop says its getting worse every day.
You too can sound as ridiculous as Al Gore with one of these!
This is a great piece by Gutfeld on the whole nobel peace prize fiasco.
Congratulations on Not Winning the Nobel Prize