For disciples of Gore, his reaction was truly an embarrassment, or
should have been. It was basically no reaction at all, except to wriggle
out of
tough
questions as quickly as possible and return, unrepentant, to his book-promoting talking points.
Letterman, Lauer, and later Jon Stewart tried to elicit some kind of
admission from Gore that what he was doing was in some way — any way —
hypocritical.
No way.
Lauer even quoted an excerpt from “The Future,” in which Gore voiced
outrage that “virtually every news and political commentary program on
television is sponsored in part by oil, coal, and
gas companies.”
When pressed about how he himself could accept a half-billion dollars
for his television network from one of these same oil and gas
conglomerates when they, according to Gore, are the Great Satan
threatening the integrity of broadcast journalism, he said
matter-of-factly: “I get the criticism. I just disagree with it.”
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