Thank goodness the Nobel Peace prize isn’t awarded for familial fashion. Oh, Mrs. Gore!

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Al Gore reveals in a new Vanity Fair article the effect he believes the press had on the 2000 presidential election, telling editor Evgenia Peretz that he won’t blame the media for his loss and that he should have spoken more clearly to America.

“Modern politics seems to require and reward some capacities that I don’t think I have in abundance … such as a tolerance for … spin rather than an honest discussion of substance,” Gore says in the article. “Apparently, it comes easily for some people, but not for me.”

When questioned about the debate coverage, Gore tells Peretz, “The sighs, the sighs, the sighs … Within 18 hours, they had turned perception around to where the entire story was about me sighing. And that’s scary. That’s scary.” Read more…

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