Recently I wrote a diary (?rant) where I likened Al Gore's 'Obama fail' to the continuing line of liberals who are "disappointed" with Obama. I likened it to a dog whistle.
I did something that I decry in others: I didn't read the article and I did not have the facts.
Thus I was wrong in believing the media chorus that Gore called Obama a failure. I was wrong in writing a diary without the facts.
As many others have pointed out, most of what Gore had to say was about media itself. It is strange that out of a 4000 word essay, the proximity of Obama and fail is what media chose to hype. Wolf Blitzer went so far as to breathlessly suggest that this was an opening salvo of a another Gore run for president.
I still say that liberals need to quit this patronizing talk of 'disappointment'. As someone said in another diary, it comes off as if the president was the nephew with all this potential, who slid into a life of drugs. Disagree vehemently with his policies, but please stop promoting the meme. There was a time, on this site, that we all railed against Bush: we knew he was wrong, misinformed and worse. We were angry, incensed. No one ever used 'disappointment' and Bush in the same sentence.
Democrats, liberals and progressives are going down some well paved roads yet again. We continue to speak in the language and framing of the Right, placing us at a disadvantage before we speak of facts. We seem to think that having none is better than having some, if we can't have it all. And we have not stood up for this President, when he is right.(He has been right on many things.)
Mr. Gore, I apologize.