A. Nag on Gore
I haven’t posted in a while, so lemme ease my way back in slowly and simply lead you to this short post over at MyDD.com:
With all of the focus on Al Gore these days as a result of his successful new movie, it was only a matter of time before New York Times reporter Adam Nagourney jumped on the bandwagon and penned a piece on the former two-term Vice President. But judging by the article, which runs in the Sunday Times, Gore was well prepared to combat Nagourney’s often excessive focus on the political horserace over substance.
Jonathan Singer, the blogger behind this post, does a great job of zeroing in on the issues that many of us on the political sidelines find irritating about professional political observers; that is, their cynicism and obsessive focus on the horserace, rather than on the substance of the issues. And, as quoted in the MyDD.com post, Al Gore agrees, as he responds to A. Nag:
"We need to shift gears in corporate America and in our politics and in our economy and in our culture," he said. "Most of all, political scribes have to take off their cynical lenses through which they view every moral challenge as political spin."
Go read the MyDD.com post, and don’t forget to read A. Nag’s article over at NYTimes.com.
