That remark is “Consider the Source”, coming from the source: The White House. Yeah. Consider the source of “Consider the source”. You’re the “dark side” of politics. Consider that. You’re the lying lyars. Yeah, that’s something to consider. Consider that Al Gore has more brains than your whole staff. Consider that.
Gore Unleashes Fury on Democrats’ Behalf
When Gore delivered his latest-in-a-series slam at the Republicans last week, faulting Vice President Dick Cheney for “sleazy and despicable” criticism of the Democrats, a White House spokesman dismissively responded: “Consider the source.”
Republicans, however, say Gore’s passion on the campaign path has reached an unhealthy fever pitch that could do Democrats more harm than good.
Only to the un-offended. Only to those who are most assuredly NOT offended and outraged bythe shameful selling of our safeties, our democracy, and our right to know. Because the fact is, this administration is outlandish, it is EVIL, and it must be stopped.
And actually, it only “does more harm” when the conservative pundits bloviate about how Gore has somehow “gone nuts.” They continue to make stuff up about him.
Take, for instance, what they did to him after he made some speeches a few months ago:
“Gore on War” Parts 1-4:
http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh060204.shtml
http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh060304.shtml
http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh060404.shtml
http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh060504.shtml
Bob Somerby at The Daily Howler rocks it.
Eric,
I’ve been a Gore fan since reading Earth in the Balance. It;s funny, I never noticed anything awkward at all in Gore’s speeches until 2000, when all the political ire started getting flung about. No dount this was due to the prescence of Fox News in the coverage mix.
Gore runs circles around the profundity in any recent Republican speeches I’ve heard since the Gerald Ford days. (I found it hard to stomach Reagan, knowing the savagery that went on in El Salvador, and his drastic social programs cuts – I was in Seminary the first time when he got elected, and many of us were afraid of what might be unleashed in his years.)
I read somewhere recently how GOre would devour the raw intelligence data about Al-Quieda, and cannot help but think that we may well have prevented 9/11 had he won that election (well, had he been appointed president). He may have had a tough time with the House and Congress, but who knows what could have been prevented.
I hope to hear more good things and hear of great achivements from Barak Obama in the future, who impressed the heck out of me with his speech at the DNC.
Gore was one I had high hopes for as President , knowing his faith, his intellect, and his experience. I’ll take his slow, almost (I can see how people read him as “condescending sounding”, and yet Bush is so annoying how he speaks to the least common denominator, and it angers me that he is applauded for his “plain talk: which is really doublespeak, dumb-downed (for which he is aptly suited for the part”. I agree with Gore when he said in the article that Bush is a coward , and easily “sucked in”. I was afraid of that crew the moment I heard all the names of the neocons he chose for this cabinet. Powell has turned out to be not one of them, as they have all removed their masks and Powell has watched in horror, but mostly silent. I learned of his reservations and conflict in Bush At War and PLan of Attack, and to a certain extent in “Against All Enemies” (Richard Clarke) and “The Price of Loyalty” (Ron Suskind, on Paul O’Neill)
Dale