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...MI: As I think people are starting to notice, he's a lot funnier than you might think when you look at him. I've noticed that with children of politicians (you know Gore's daddy was a senator), they're just so long in the public eye and started so young that they tend to have a real public face. And Gore has, of course, the public face of an utterly humorless young Baptist minister...
...MI: I do think that part of one's education should be going to school somewhere other than where you were raised. Just because I think it helps broaden your mind...
...MI: One of my great heroes in journalism is Bob Sherrill. I always read Sherrill pieces. They're usually to be found in obscure publications like the Nation. I like both the Brits who write for the Nation. I frequently don't agree with them, but I think they're both wonderful writers, Cockburn and Hitchens...
...MI: I read Safire. I like to read him. I have a lot of respect for him because he does his own reporting. A lot of columnists just suck their thumbs. Baker and Safire I think are the only ones I read regularly. I read Kinsley in the New Republic...
...MI: I really like Goodman's stuff. But there's an extent to which--and of course I like Anna's stuff too--I'm more of a reporter. I cover politics. And it seems to me I'm still frequently in the gritty maw of it all. I guess at this point I'm a certified thumb sucker--I still think of myself as a reporter...