Hey, WaPo, you have something on your chin

Well, if I were a Democrat, I’d probably think this is a wonderful piece that Peter Baker wrote this morning in the Washington Post entitled “Feats Divide Pair Linked by Election” comparing the paths of President Bush and Al Gore over the last seven years. But I’m not a Democrat - I’m human – and so this is just fawning drivel masquerading as front page news;

What a difference seven years makes. The winner of that struggle went on to capture the White House and to become a wartime leader now heading toward the final year of a struggling presidency. The loser went on to reinvent himself from cautious politician to hero of the activist left now honored as a man of peace.

For the Gore camp, it was a day of resurrection, a day to salve the wounds of history and to write another narrative that they hope will be as enduring as Florida. “We finally have their respective legacies,” said Rep. Rahm Emanuel (Ill.), chairman of the House Democratic Caucus and a veteran of the Clinton-Gore White House. “Bush earned the Iraq war, and Al Gore earned the Nobel Prize. Who knew Al Gore would one day thank the Supreme Court for their judgment?

“A day of resurrection”? I don’t know how many Democrats I heard say, on September 12th, 2001 that they were suddenly glad that Al Gore wasn’t the President. How the Hell do you get resurrected above that? Does anyone at the Washington Post or in the Democrat caucus really think that Gore is happier with his Nobel Prize than he would have been in the Presidency?

I’ll tell ya, I’m happier that he got the Nobel Prize than I would be if he was President – but Gore isn’t. He thinks he deserved the Presidency, he tried to undermine the electoral process to get it. It wasn’t so hard to undermine the Nobel Committee.

We deserve a Nobel Peace prize for not choking Gore after having to listen to his whining about losing for the last seven years.

Perhaps Ari Fleischer said it best, in the Post article;

“I’m sure the president, and many Republicans, roll their eyes about how political the Nobel Peace Prize is becoming,” said former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer. “For Al Gore, it’s a high honor. But for what’s probably a growing group of Americans, the Nobel Peace Prize comes coated with some strong political veneer.”

Imagine, people might actually be thinking that the Nobel Committee isn’t the high and mighty arbiter of what’s important to the rest of the people in the world.

Newsbusters’ Brent Baker reports similar knob-slobbering at the Big Three networks last night.

Thank goodness that Michael Goldfarb reads “The Plank” so I don’t have to.

Category: Media, Society