That's from today's Washington Post. Alas it's in the Washington Post Express (the free edition distributed at Metro stations and and locations throughout DC), and misidentifies which part of the Gore legacy I was actually discussing...
Still, who can complain about minor details like that when it looks so damn good in tabloid style print.
Update: Perhaps they had me confused with Ray Siller, the former head writer for Johnny Carson, who recently had plenty to say about Gore's new cable channel.
When he heard about Al Gore launching a cable channel, Current, on Aug. 1, the one-liners started flowing. Siller told pals at Zocalo: "Gore figures if the ratings suck, he can always demand a recount . . . He's targeting that elusive 57-year-old anal-retentive, sour grapes, fat loser demographic."
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Beautiful....... (Below threshold)1. Posted by mesablue | July 27, 2005 4:40 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Beautiful....
1. Posted by mesablue | July 27, 2005 4:40 PM |
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Posted on July 27, 2005 16:40
2. Posted by joe | July 27, 2005 4:41 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Imagine, MSM media getting details wrong! Amazing with all their staff and professionalism.........
2. Posted by joe | July 27, 2005 4:41 PM |
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Posted on July 27, 2005 16:41
3. Posted by OC Chuck | July 27, 2005 4:48 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Wow! Headline above the fold! You are established MSM now!
Oops, sorry for the insult.
3. Posted by OC Chuck | July 27, 2005 4:48 PM |
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Posted on July 27, 2005 16:48
4. Posted by kbiel | July 27, 2005 5:10 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Alas it's in the Washington Post Express (the free edition distributed at Metro stations and and locations throughout DC)
Which means that your quote will have wider circulation since the paid-for fish wraps circulation numbers are failing.
Somewhat OT, is anybody else noticing that the dead tree media are giving away more and more papers for free? I subscribe to the Dallas Morning News for Sunday only, but, in recent months, I have been finding the paper on my lawn Mondays and Tuesdays also. Getting kind of desparate aren't they?
4. Posted by kbiel | July 27, 2005 5:10 PM |
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Posted on July 27, 2005 17:10
5. Posted by bRight & Early | July 27, 2005 5:19 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Just wondering if there isn't a comma missing from the Siller quote in the update. Should it be sour grapes, fat loser demographic as written, or sour grapes, fat, (comma) loser demographic?
;-)
5. Posted by bRight & Early | July 27, 2005 5:19 PM |
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Posted on July 27, 2005 17:19
6. Posted by bullwinkle | July 27, 2005 5:32 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Wow! Someday Wizbanged might become part the language like Googled has. Hey, it could happen, it's unlikey as hell, but it could happen.
6. Posted by bullwinkle | July 27, 2005 5:32 PM |
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Posted on July 27, 2005 17:32
7. Posted by Peter F. | July 27, 2005 5:38 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Congrats to our host!
bRight & Early:
Grammatically speaking, "sour grapes", "fat loser" "anal-retentive" and so on, are all compound modifiers of the noun "demographic" and, therefore, should all contain hyphens (i.e., sour-grapes) per AP style guide. Being anal, there should also be a comma after "elusive".
But in short: Who the hell cares? It's a damn funny description of Gore's potential audience. :-)
Sorry, I guess it's the grammarian troll in me. :-) No offense intended.
7. Posted by Peter F. | July 27, 2005 5:38 PM |
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Posted on July 27, 2005 17:38
8. Posted by John | July 27, 2005 9:22 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Could you make your blog look like that? It's a bit over the top, but the general style is kinda neat.
8. Posted by John | July 27, 2005 9:22 PM |
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Posted on July 27, 2005 21:22
9. Posted by -S- | July 28, 2005 8:19 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
What OC Chuck wrote (^^).
About the WAPO look (someone mentions it), those giant leading quote marks look like two sixes, and/or well, clubs. I'd find some other graphic emphasis other than giant yellow "hey, we're clubbing cowards over here" blaring annoyance at the top o' any page.
A lot of times, people just enlarge type elements and think that's design. It isn't.
9. Posted by -S- | July 28, 2005 8:19 AM |
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Posted on July 28, 2005 08:19
10. Posted by -S- | July 28, 2005 8:20 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
And that's (^^) my clean description, as to the dubdubs.
10. Posted by -S- | July 28, 2005 8:20 AM |
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Posted on July 28, 2005 08:20
11. Posted by joker | July 28, 2005 10:35 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
of Al Gore never said he invented the internet. But hey liars will lie. You guys have too much time on your hands.
11. Posted by joker | July 28, 2005 10:35 AM |
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Posted on July 28, 2005 10:35
12. Posted by mesablue | July 28, 2005 1:02 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Joker,
Or is it Joser? You are a little late to the party.
And yes, liars will lie -- "seared, seared into my memory".
12. Posted by mesablue | July 28, 2005 1:02 PM |
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Posted on July 28, 2005 13:02
13. Posted by moseby | July 29, 2005 11:23 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I hear that the new channel will have a Steve-Irwin-Crocodile-Hunter-like show about millipedes, earwigs, al gore, salamanders, pillbugs and other such creatures that live under rocks.
"Lookit 'at one...a rotundus goreus...eating those shadfly eggs...a REAL BEAUTY ain't 'e?"
13. Posted by moseby | July 29, 2005 11:23 AM |
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Posted on July 29, 2005 11:23