Former Vice President Al Gore (seen above during a skit when he hosted Saturday Night Live), is out on a book tour to support The Assault on Reason, criticized the "destruction of the boundary between news and entertainment" on Friday.
This is a great move and the public will buy it. While Newt Gingrich and Fred Thompson are taking on a slower-paced version of the same strategy by giving enough serious speeches and appearances in the hopes of being pushed into the race by supporters, Al Gore is playing it masterfully, to date.
He's saving money by not having to do the ad spends and other obligatory Iowa/New Hampshire ass kissing that the other announced candidates are doing. With the increasingly-compressed primary season next year, the time and money spent in I/NH should bring back lower electoral dividends than they ever have in the past.
Rather, he's opting for free, or actually profitable press, since he's out pitching his movie and book. On top of that, he can build an illusion of taking the high road, of speaking out because he loves the country and the planet, not because he has something like the Office of the President to personally gain by doing so.
Let Obama and the Junior Senator from New York duke it out while he reaps all the benefits of not having to engage them directly as a candidate.
Bring it on!
This is a great move and the public will buy it. While Newt Gingrich and Fred Thompson are taking on a slower-paced version of the same strategy by giving enough serious speeches and appearances in the hopes of being pushed into the race by supporters, Al Gore is playing it masterfully, to date.
He's saving money by not having to do the ad spends and other obligatory Iowa/New Hampshire ass kissing that the other announced candidates are doing. With the increasingly-compressed primary season next year, the time and money spent in I/NH should bring back lower electoral dividends than they ever have in the past.
Rather, he's opting for free, or actually profitable press, since he's out pitching his movie and book. On top of that, he can build an illusion of taking the high road, of speaking out because he loves the country and the planet, not because he has something like the Office of the President to personally gain by doing so.
Let Obama and the Junior Senator from New York duke it out while he reaps all the benefits of not having to engage them directly as a candidate.
Bring it on!
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