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[Hillary's] most excited constituency seems to be the right-wing pundits who still hope to make a killing with books excoriating her. At least eight fresh titles are listed at Amazon.com, including my own personal favorite, "Liberal Fascism: The Totalitarian Temptation From Mussolini to Hillary Clinton."
-- Frank Rich, "The Cannes Landslide for Al Gore" in The NY Times
This column is actually more about the Gore boomlet that has the political media abuzz these days, and it may be telling that the most exciting quote is about Hillary. And Mr. Rich does bring out how even "An Inconvenient Truth" carries some of the weaknesses of Gore that should give his new fans some concern:
The movie contains no other voices that might upstage him, not even those of scientists supporting his argument. It is instead larded with sycophantic audiences, as meticulously multicultural as any Benetton ad, who dote on every word and laugh at every joke, like the studio audience at "Live With Regis and Kelly."
Of course, we should not be scandalized that a political player such as Al Gore should be, gasp, political. But that's just it. Contrary to some of the excitement over the man these days, Gore is at heart a politician and not a messiah come to save us from ourselves, carrying a film instead of clay tablets.
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[Hillary's] most excited constituency seems to be the right-wing pundits who still hope to make a killing with books excoriating her. At least eight fresh titles are listed at Amazon.com, including my own personal favorite, "Liberal Fascism: The Totalitarian Temptation From Mussolini to Hillary Clinton."
-- Frank Rich, "The Cannes Landslide for Al Gore" in The NY Times
This column is actually more about the Gore boomlet that has the political media abuzz these days, and it may be telling that the most exciting quote is about Hillary. And Mr. Rich does bring out how even "An Inconvenient Truth" carries some of the weaknesses of Gore that should give his new fans some concern:
The movie contains no other voices that might upstage him, not even those of scientists supporting his argument. It is instead larded with sycophantic audiences, as meticulously multicultural as any Benetton ad, who dote on every word and laugh at every joke, like the studio audience at "Live With Regis and Kelly."
Of course, we should not be scandalized that a political player such as Al Gore should be, gasp, political. But that's just it. Contrary to some of the excitement over the man these days, Gore is at heart a politician and not a messiah come to save us from ourselves, carrying a film instead of clay tablets.
