"Going After Gore"

We almost missed this one. Evgenia Peretz has a great article in the October Vanity Fair. It nicely point out the concerted efforts of the "mainstream media" to reduce Al Gore to a punch line in the 2000 race, apparently thinking as Dana Milbank and others have put it, that Dumbya was someone they would "rather have a beer with." Tweety, Ceci Connolly of the WaPo (which in its coverage of Gore's Nobel Prize, continues the campaign to denigrate what Gore has accomplished), and the execrable Maureen Dowd(y) of the New York Times: with "liberal media" like this, who needs Rupert Murdoch?! The article is long, but fascinating. Many of these "press corps" nimrods (called the "Kool Kids of Beltway High") are the same ones parroting the RNC press releases about John Edwards' hair cut, Hillary Clinton's "cackle," etc. It never ends with these pus bags.