If you are arguing that Gore’s infrequent speeches with mild comments on current policy are equivalent to what cheney and liz are doing, then you got nothin. Okay?
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The original point was that the White House Press Corps, and specifically Chip Reid, thinks they need to enforce a standard of “decorum” in order to protect Dick Cheney from criticism. Your original response was about the PRESS CORPS, remember? I called bullsh!t on that and apparently you don’t have an argument so you resort to the typical rightwing red herrings and irrelevancies. I’m willing to engage but I’m not going to go off on a big red herring hunt so you can score an irrelevant point.

Remember, lefties
I’m not running for office
Your polls make me laugh
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Hello, Jon Stewart
You cried on September 12
But haven’t since: Why?
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I’m bald and morose
I don’t look good in swim trunks
Eight years, no attacks
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Every time I sneer
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed faints
Try that one, Barack
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http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/05/introducing_the_cheneyku.asp

“Contra Costa Times, 1/10/02: “While praising President Bush for his leadership in the war effort, he went on to say that the economy was another matter. ‘I’m not here to make a political speech, but I am concerned,’ Gore said.”

Boston Globe, 4/14/2002: “‘They are wrong to vilify honorable men and women who oppose their right-wing domestic agenda and oppose a blatantly dishonest budget,’ Gore said. ‘They are wrong to imply that those who stand up to them are somehow unpatriotic.’” (Headline — “Combative Gore Lashes Out At Administration Policies In Fla. Speech, He Hits Bush For ‘Radical Agenda’”) [Note: So much for his assertion today that his early criticsm of the Bush Administration focused on policy.]

USA Today, 4/15/2002: “Gore’s speech was the emotional peak of the convention. With practiced skill, humor and a passion some delegates said they did not see during the campaign, Gore denounced virtually every element of Bush’s domestic policy.” (Headline — “Gore’s fiery speech raises questions of plans”)

NY Times, 4/23/2002: “Sounding very much like the candidate he was and may become again, Al Gore said today that the environment was a moral issue and the Bush administration was giving ‘policy payoffs to polluters.’ ‘Our environment is under siege,’ Mr. Gore , the former vice president, said in an Earth Day speech here to 400 students at Vanderbilt University. ‘The Bush administration has chosen to serve the special interests instead of the public interests and subsidize the obsolete failed approaches of the past instead of the exciting new solutions of the future. Instead of ensuring that our water is clean to drink, they thought that maybe there wasn’t enough arsenic in the drinking water.’”

LA Times, 6/30/2002: “In a speech Saturday night to local Democrats, Gore attacked Bush’s economic policies as “a total catastrophe.” He also noted that in the war on terrorism, the U.S. has yet to catch Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, and he denounced the White House for “trying to use the war for political purposes.’” [I guess that's just more pure criticsm of policy ... .]

http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/05/al_gore_hypocritically_attacks.asp

Did I say two years? I meant a little less than a year:

“But is Cheney breaking a long tradition of former vice president’s who fade away into self-imposed silence? Consider his immediate predecessor, Al Gore. After losing the recount in the 2000 presidential election, Gore famously grew a beard, added a few pounds and stayed out of the limelight for a while. But his low profile didn’t last long.

During President Bush’s second year in office, Gore emerged as the most forceful Democratic critic of the buildup to war in Iraq. In SEPTEMBER 2002, a month before Illinois state Sen. Barack Obama spoke out against the war, Gore delivered a blistering speech against the resolution that authorized the war against Iraq.

Gore’s criticism of Bush came a little later than Cheney’s criticism of Obama, but it was no less severe.

Gore’s September 2002 speech accused Bush of playing politics with national security and declared that Bush had “squandered” the goodwill the rest of the world felt toward the United States just as he had squandered the budget surpluses left by the Clinton administration.”

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=7564277&page=1

http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/05/al_gore_hypocritically_attacks.asp

Are you retarded? What planet are you living on, you delusional moron?