I nominate Kurt Vonnegut as Gore's first guest on his new show...

[Tellurian]

Nobody needs to tell Kurt Vonnegut to stop beating around the Bush.

"They're adroit criminals," the 81-year-old literary lion labeled President Bush and his underlings while riding in a taxi with Lowdown's Hudson Morgan to Wednesday night's 27th anniversary party for In These Times, the paleoliberal magazine.

"They're committing war crimes - attacking a country that hasn't attacked us. Pretending it had. And torturing prisoners and filling countless graves with dead Iraqis. But adroit, sure. Al Capone was adroit."

The pop-culture icon added dismissively: "I don't care how Bush does, because I don't believe him. He believes himself, and that's what is quite terrifying."

As for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his deputy Paul Wolfowitz, they're the ones "who allowed this torture to go on, kept it secret since January. These are war crimes," Vonnegut said. "I dealt with prisoners when I was a soldier. We sure didn't torture them - we were well aware of the Geneva Convention. I myself became a prisoner" of the Germans as an Army corporal in Dresden during World War II.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/190934p-165095c.html

He's just what the doctor ordered..

[Orange and Green]

1. Can Malloy be #2?

Please Please Please!!!!

[Tellurian]

4. Maybe a co-host?

Where has Walter Cronkite been hiding?

Initially he was outspoken about the war but has since gone into hiding...

[NMDemDist2]

2. Gore has a new show? I thought he just bought a network n/t

[La Lioness Priyanka]

3. me too

granfalloons....best word ever

[Cleita]

5. How about the other Gore, Gore Vidal another literary giant as well.

He has saved no criticism of this administration that he kept to himself. Both he and Vonnegut would be great.

[Tellurian]

8. Excellent choice!..

I miss seeing these guys!

[Junkdrawer]

6. One of 20th century America's greatest writers, a living national...

treasure, referred to as "The pop-culture icon"? :mad:

[Tellurian]

7. Ok, heres the lowdown on Gore's network/show..and a link

"The network, which focuses on global news, gets its content from the Canadian Broadcasting Corp."

"CBC will continue to provide NWI's programming under the Gore group, but the former vice president says it will focus on providing news by and for young adults"

and the link

[Tellurian]

9. also, Joe Conason...nt