The Media "Elites" War on Gore

Eric Boehlert writes...

"But this week, just as Gore's star rose with the release of his widely acclaimed movie, "An Inconvenient Truth," the press' utterly predictable backlash swung into action, proving that any attempt to erase 2000 from your memory is pointless because the Beltway press class' disdain for Gore knows no bounds and carries no expiration date. That's why one so-called liberal newspaper was busy this week publishing a right-wing attack against Gore over trivial matters like what exactly he did--and where he was--during the summer he turned 15. (I kid you not.) Chris Matthews was inviting guests on his show, and lauding them, for writing Gore "is one slice short of a loaf." PBS' Gwen Ifil was asking one Gore profiler if the former VP doesn't come off as "holier than thou." And MSNBC's Don Imus was ridiculing Gore as "the phoniest bastard on the planet--a horrid human being..."

One of the serious questions history has to answer is WHY the American Media became lapdogs to the Republican party. Was it media consolidation in the hands of pro-Republican corporations or did we just raise a generation of smug, know-it-all, "reality, WHAT reality?" wankers who came to inhabit the organs of official discourse?

History? We're waiting?