Al Gore and the Media Cunts

It's been 7 years, and I still get this rush of adrenal rage when I think about the presidential election of 2000. It's just one of those turning points in history that alternate future sci-fi novels are written about.

I just finished an article in Vanity Fair where they reviewed the whole media debacle surrounding Al Gore's treatment and got a few comments from Gore himself. While I was reading, I actually got angry enough to make my hands shake a little bit. I have a pretty vivid inner eye, and I could actually picture hitting Maureen Dowd in the face. The feel of her nose smooshing against my fist. The slap-a-steak sound. Visceral crazy-person adrenal energy going through me. I've just never understood how I, as just a regular old everyday joe, with only the powers of the Internet on my side understood the basics of the election better than people who have actually trained to observe and report and research. It blows my mind to this day.

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