Don't blame Lehrer for Gore not being on the NewsHour--Al refused

[librechik]

somebody tell me why?????

[shance]

1. First off, why don't you provide proof he declined.

Instead of potential rumor mongering.

Thanks.

[librechik]

5. I'm not at liberty to say--but a WELL-PLACED anonymous source

within the NH organization told me. Also, Ed Schultz mentioned on the air that Al refused to go on his show. And somebody else I can't remember right now, though it was after the speech on Monday.

But that doesn't address my question. (If true)Why do you suppose Al wouldn't go on these shows, just for the sake of conversation?

But don't you answer, shance--let somebody who wants a good gossip respond.

[applegrove]

13. I think it was smart to decline. Gore is not letting his speech be usurped

by a few seconds of TV. Speech stands on its own.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

2. Link? Source? Anything at all?

[sasha031]

3. it sounds like when Gore's office said the speech stands alone

he meant it, we were getting so excited thinking he was back, but as he said in the past he is a recovering politician.

[librechik]

6. maybe that's it--I wish he would, tho--That would be an excellent venue

for Al's views.

[Stephanie]

4. Lehrer should have covered the speech anyway

Just like NBC did. It was a newsworthy event.

[librechik]

8. yeah, certainly--I bet they wrestled with that one

becasue so much of the show is boring "policy" stuff, and they get a lot of pressure to have a little less of that and a little more bling--so was it news in the sense that there were bodies or bricks in the street? No, and speeches are so non-exciting visually--but this is IMPORTANT! damn...

[IndyOp]

16. Exactly - I just wanted them to cover the speech -

play clips, have Bob Barr or people from the Liberty Coalition come on and comment...

:kick:

[rodeodance]

7. Gore has not been on any talk shows--so makes sence.

[Auntie Bush]

15. Gore has learned from Bush. Just state your piece then run...no questions

That was smart of him as the media would have spun his answers and that would become the topic of discussion.

[Donkeykick]

9. Well it may have been just about anything...

such as a scheduling conflict, for example. But if you're really interested in why, you could http://www.algore-08.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=142&Itemid=156">contact him and find out.;)

[Stephanie]

10. just because he would not appear is no excuse for not covering the speech

It's not that they didn't have Gore ON, it's that they didn't cover the speech AT ALL. Interviewing him after that speech would be redundant anyway. So WHY DIDN'T THEY COVER THE SPEECH? Still no answer.

[sendero]

11. I agree..

.... you could have edited out any 2 minutes of that speech and it would have been newsworthy.

[applegrove]

12. I think that speech is important enough that it should stand on its

own. And be discussed by Americans. We can all go get it and reread it when we need to.

Gore mentioned in his speech that that is how political discourse used to take place - in the first 150 years.

I think he is right. If he goes around and gets interviewed - then the TV clips take over and become representative of this moment and that speech.

There is enough in there for Americans to go back again and again. And print it off and share it with each other - over the next year.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

14. Because He Doesn't Want To Undermine The Speech.

The speech, the sheer power of it, can stand on its own. If he started making his way around the circuit it would water down the context of the speech and give others cause to say it was just for political maneuvering and to get him in the spotlight blah blah blah.

I think it is a good move on his part to not immediately make his way around the circuit. That way the speech itself has to be the context comments are taken from.

[Cleita]

17. You are right about this. n/t

[librechik]

18. good point--and he seems to be operating more for the sake of history

nowadays--putting himself on the record unedited, as it were.