October 14th-
1) Gore wins Nobel Peace Prize, this piece of news is at the very top of global headlines.
2) Log on to google news from Singapore. Scan USA political news.
3) On the first search page I see this headline-"
"Al Gore believes Hillary Clinton is unstoppable"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/14/wgore114.xml
4) Immediately click the link, it would be big news if Al Gore won the Nobel piece price and then walked into a press conference and said "Hillary clinton is unstoppable! I am definitely not running for president"
5) The actual article is below. Misleading headline atop an article that doesn't really have any news. Basically an aide remarked that Hillary is looking strong these days without categorically stating that her strength is keeping Gore out of the race. The Telegraph twisted this around to get some traffic to thier site.
6) News posts like these are the SPAM of mainstream media. It is nonsense! I posted some comments on the article and will check later to see the moderator approves.
7) This is ridiculous. The reason Gore is not running is that he is doing important things for a cause he deeply believes in. Why stop now when he finally has the world's ear? Gore has been running around talking about the environment for something like 25 years in the face of a lot of ridicule and deep political set-backs! When I was in school the conventional wisdom was Gore was a flake (my econ professor co-authored "appocalypse not". This has completely turned around.
8) Gore is not running because he doesnt have a secret army of campaign workers numbering the thousands hidden for deployment in front end loaded hyper fast primary race. If he did have something like this, where would you hide it? Narnia? Middle Earth? The north pole>
How about this for a Telegraph story lead:
"Santa's helpers working secretly with Gore-Magical late entry to Dem Primary imminent!"
Followed by this byline
-"Aides say secret Gore-Santa meetings took place in March 2006, Santa's elves secretly deployed on top secret campaign effort"
Jeez-MSM making news again!
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