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...Shrum campaign occasionally offers Kennedy-esque imagery (Kerry’s “we need to go to the moon here on Earth”), often involves unsubtle negativity (Gore??s 2000 ads featuring pollution almost emanating from Bush’s head), but always—always—delivers some variant of the “fighter” message. Call it repetitive, brilliant, leftist or anything else—but realize that Shrum’s narrative has never won a presidential election. This is not to say that populism is a mistake; Shrum...
...Seeking to give current events the narrative clarity of a history book, journalists are quick to impose patterns and generalizations to help them tell a story. Often, the media adapt the facts to fit their narrative, rather than the other way around. Take the story of Al Gore??s famous “exaggerations,” first reported in The New York Times and Washington Post. That strange beast, the press, had determined early on in 2000 that Gore??s narrative would be about dishonesty. The story was perfect: Clinton lied, Gore lies. So, when...
Lieberman said he was still “grateful for the opportunity” to have run with Gore, but added that he wished that he had heard of Gore??s endorsement “from a source other than the media...
It’s the waffly, spineless centrists—not Dean—who would be hung out to dry by the Rove machine, and Gore??s endorsement reflects a recognition of that reality. He would know: His dull, centrist campaign, aimed at the swing voters upon whom the DLC is forever fixated, turned off three and a half million liberals, who flocked to Ralph Nader and handed the election to Bush. Are many on the left going to bother to schlep to the polls to vote for a Democrat who kowtowed to the President...
...Although this is only speculation,” he added, “He is trying to capitalize on some ironic momentum from former Vice President Gore??s endorsement of Howard Dean...