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Time's Deification of Al Gore Lowell Ponte This week's Time Magazine cover pictures Al Gore in profile — his left profile, of course. The camera's unblinking eye reveals two bumps below his sideburn, perhaps alien controller implants installed before Gore issued forth from the robot factory. This photograph and Time's article depict Gore more like an ancient Egyptian pharaoh, a "god king" possessing divine knowledge and powers, than as a politician tempted to run again for president. Time's Eric Pooley puff piece "The Last Temptation of Al Gore" echoes the famous Nikos Kazantzakis novel "The Last Temptation of Christ." This implicit deification of Mr. Gore appears to be Time's attempt to pave his path to a 2008 presidential run. Time Magazine loves to play kingmaker. Its four cover stories glorifying an obscure liberal governor of Georgia vaulted Jimmy Carter to national prominence and in 1976 to the White House. Mr. Carter this week made national news by calling George W. Bush the worst president in history, a title usually hung around the neck of Carter himself — a title that this goober farmer and descendant of slaveowners is desperate to pin on others as a way to remove it from his own legacy. Chances are, however, that Mr. Jimmy will continue to hold this dis-honorific because he set a very high bar for other bad presidents to clear.
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President Carter, let's never forget, back-stabbed and toppled America's most important ally in the Middle East, the Shah of Iran, thereby creating a terrorist-supporting Islamist dictatorship and inspiring generations of Islamist fanatics such as Osama bin Laden. Carter, more than any other American, is responsible for the terrorist attacks of 9/11. But instead of denouncing the political ideology of Islamism, the former president's latest book was a vile anti-Semitic screed blaming Israel for most violence in the Middle East. And Mr. Carter's incompetence unleashed national malaise and an inflation that stole half the purchasing power of every American's life savings. Time Magazine helped create the Carter disaster. And now Time Magazine apparently wants to elect Al Gore as president, in the same way it elected Jimmy Carter. Time will need lots of "re-framing," smoke, mirrors, and omissions to concoct an appetizing new image for this distasteful, dishonest politician. (Like Carter, Gore might be given a Noble Peace Prize to spite conservative Americans, thereby fulfilling the liberal "West Wing" fictional fantasy of a perfect secular-but-semi-divine president. Gore flunked out of Vanderbilt Divinity School and has a god complex.) Al Gore was saintly after narrowly losing the 2000 election, implies Pooley. Gore awoke every day "believing the Supreme Court was dead wrong to shut down the Florida recount but never talking about it publicly because he didn't want Americans to lose faith in their system."
Gosh, the Democratic standard-bearer Al Gore I remember is nothing like Pooley's enobling description. As I recall, Mr. Gore in the most partisan way imaginable intervened with the Florida Supreme Court — whose every member had been appointed by Democratic governors. Gore's legal operatives persuaded this court to exceed its constitutional authority by ordering a recount — and not of the whole state but only of Democrat-majority districts in southern and central Florida where Democrat officials controlled the recount. When this recount failed to turn enough dangling chads and other dubious ballots into a Gore victory, the Florida high court's Democrats then mandated more recounting. They appeared ready to order recounts until Gore won. Hundreds of Gore-backing lawyers inundated the state. Their favorite tactic was to demand that any absentee ballot by a member of the U.S. military — disproportionately Republican voters — be disqualified and tossed out on any and every obscure technicality. This undemocratic, self-serving and high-handed attempt to overturn an election was hardly the work of an Al Gore who "didn't want Americans to lose faith in their system." It was a sleazy attempt to steal a national presidential election by transparently partisan ballot manipulation. In 2000, Gore won half a million more votes than George W. Bush, but had then-Texas Gov. Bush bothered to campaign in his home state, he almost certainly would have generated another half million needless votes. Presidential candidates run in 51 separate state (and District of Columbia) elections, out of which are apportioned votes in the Electoral College. Mr. Bush easily carried Texas in 2000. Mr. Gore lost not because of Florida, but because he failed to carry his own home state of Tennessee, where the people who know him best voted against him. Apparently not enough of the one million aliens (including 10,000 convicted felons), Gore rushed into citizenship so they could vote Democratic in 1996 moved to Tennessee. Both Prince Al Gore and his Senator father owed their careers to oil baron Armand Hammer of Occidental Petroleum, who gave the Gores millions. Hammer also carried millions, he later admitted, in suitcases from Moscow to fund the Communist Party USA his father co-founded. The Gores' politics were very much to Hammer's liking. And Al Gore Jr., repaid Hammer's generosity. As vice president, Gore saw to it that the military's Elk Hills Oil Reserve (also known as Teapot Dome, the corrupt misallocation of which caused a huge scandal involving Republican President Warren Harding's administration) was leased to Occidental Petroleum for only $100 per acre. The liberal media reported no scandal about Democrat Gore's sweetheart deal for his biggest bankroller. This week's Time also carries an excerpt from Gore's surreal new book "The Assault on Reason": "It is simply no longer possible," Gore writes, "to ignore the strangeness of our public discourse." Gore is strangeness incarnate. He decries our lack of thought and dialogue, but on global warming Gore refuses to debate his critics such as MIT atmospheric scientist Richard Lindzen. "The debate is over," Gore now proclaims as he smears and tries to silence the 17,000 scientists who disagree. As vice president, non-scientist Gore had government scientists fired who disagreed with his climate alarmism, as last July's NewsMax Magazine cover story by Marc Morano and me documented. Gore graced that magazine cover, too.
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