Al Gore

Source: NY Times 5/24 The Arts - "Warning of Calamities With A Scholarly Tone" By A.O. Scott

Al Gore never seems to get a break in the news. The Times is no exception. If they report on anything Al Gore does or says, or in this case creates ,they make some kind of snide remark discrediting him and his views. It's even in a review of "An Inconvenient Truth" a new film about the dangers of climate change. Here is one line describing how he is usually perceived...."Mr Gore as a stiff, humorlless speaker, someone to make fun of rather than take seriously" or "more professor than politician" who if he was not the "used to be the next president of the United States of America" " he might have settled down to tenure and a Volvo (or maybe a Pruis) in some leafy academic grove." or a "matter-of-fact scholarly tone" Eventually, after coloring a reader's mind with this high schoolish condescending commentary A.O. Scott plugs the documentary having warned viewers that they will have to put up with the (not meaning to be entertaining) Al Gore. This is really anti-intellectual and just plain uncharitable. We all know an Al Gore.