Al Gore on SNL
In case you missed it, Al Gore led off Saturday Night Live this weekend with a mock presidential address (watch the clip at Crooks and Liars). It was pretty funny, well-written and well-delivered. Gore is going to be a forced to be reckoned with if he decides he wants the 2008 nomination.
posted by A.L. at 10:49 PM
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I didn't think the address was all that funny, but my expectations were probably too high. It had some good lines.
I seriously hope Gore runs. Robert Wright once "rigorously proved" that Al Gore was the messiah, or politics's closest equivalent. It went something like this:
Premise 1: Al Gore has intense psychological reasons to do exactly the opposite of George Bush in almost every area.
a) Gore's experience with the presidency began after crafting an anti-Bush platform in 1992, and it worked for him then: he won and the presidential policies were highly popular.
b) Gore again crafted an anti-Bush agenda in 2000, essentially cementing his identity as the not-Bush. It worked well for everyone but little Jewish ladies in Florida that happened to really like Pat Buchannan.
c) Gore has spent the last five years stewing over his loss and mourning what Bush was doing to this country. He must have taken every bad policy by Bush personally, making a mental note that if he were president, he would have done the exact opposite.
Premise 2: Bush's policies make him something just short of the political equivalent of the AntiChrist.
Conclusion: To the extent that Bush is the AntiChrist and Gore is his opposite, then Gore is the Messiah.
Q.E.D. (or, as Wikipedia prefers for such goofy proofs, Q.E.F.)
The "proof" was in an episode of BloggingHeads.TV with Micky Kaus, but I don't remember which one.
I like this comment so much I'm crossposting it at my own blog.
I found Gore's Saturday Night Live speech more satisfying than the Colbert press dinner. It didn't have that embarrasing off-key awkward sourness. Gore was amusing and pointed and cute.
And wouldn't it be great if this speech indicated that
Gore was finally rid of that preaching pedantic style I kept
praying and hoping and wishing he would shed in the summer
and fall of 2000.
For people like Gore and Kerry, awkward no-it-all socially-
awkward stiff people, a good personal coach with day after day
of focus group training, learning what is annoying in
speech and what is not, training to avoid unpleasant phrasings
and accentuations, would be a good thing. Maybe
Gore has been getting that. I hope.
Just think how much better the world would be now if
Al Gore had learned to speak with a hint more of the
straight-talk style that Barak Obama has.
I'm with Disenchanted Dave. It wasn't very funny. It was nice to see Gore "loosen up" a bit, however. I've seen videos of him when he was talking with US and he can be quite engaging.
I still feel he could have clobbered Bush if he hadn't appeared as such a cardboard character. He was stiff in his speaches and debates and didn't seem to be a "regular guy".
OK. I know I overdid the """"""s. So sue me. I have no money.
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