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...crowd at the National Geographic Society - a suitably studious setting - saw it as the world's longest campaign ad. Even as Gore's spokesman circulated, repeating the words "He's not running" so frequently it started to sound like a round, no one wanted to believe...
...with all the other would-be candidates' off-year limbering up? Surely he can't JUST want to save the world. Then there's how the movie, when not scaring the audience with the threat of the disappearance of Greenland (hint: not the continental equivalent of the appendix), casts Gore's life into the soft-focus glow most often associated with The Man From a Place Called Hope. His young days on the farm. Triumph over family tragedy. Determination and grace after humiliating defeat. And just as in a campaign ad, Gore carefully paints an unflattering picture of his opponent...
...Then again, that just could be the boxed wine talking. There's nothing as sexy as a tease and Gore probably knows that his dance of the seven veils does more to heighten the movie's profile than the movie could ever do for his. It's about global warming, for goodness' sakes. A significant portion of its visual content consists of charts. It's the concert video only Al Gore could be the star of. Gore's groupies in the Geographic rotunda responded to him in the way high school students greet a returning alum who has surpassed expectations...
...Which is to say, the press corps will take aim the instant Gore presents himself as a target. As it stands now, he has come to specialize at beating critics to the punch, perfecting a wry comic persona that manages to parody and deflect the image of the wooden know-it-all that dogged him in the 2000 campaign. For the May 13 episode of Saturday Night Live, he delivered an Oval Office speech from an alternate future, six years into a Gore administration. Global warming has been reversed, with the unfortunate consequence of precipitating a "war on glaciers...
...Bloggers have yet to whip themselves into a humor-patrolling frenzy over the MSM's lack of attention to Gore's satire - though it was undeniably funnier than Stephen Colbert's White House Correspondents' Association monologue, it had a smaller target: the person who was elected in 2000, not the one who actually sits in the office. It's that twist of history that made the skit so satisfying to liberals, myself among them, who have gnashed their teeth through six long years in George W. Bush's Washington. But the satisfaction one might draw from even a playful vision...