Peretz on NRO: OK, I'M A GORE FLACK

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http://www.tnr.com/blog/theplank?pid=23042

I confess: I did buy five copies of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. But that doesn't explain why the book is on nearly every one of the important best-seller lists in the country. This coming Sunday, it's number one on The New York Times paperback best-seller list. Last week, it was already number one on the best-seller lists of The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Denver Post. Book Sense, the weekly report of the Independent Book Sellers Association, also has it in the top place.

Do I think this should worry Hillary Clinton? Yes. Not because she hasn't written a book that was on the best-seller list. She may have even written two: It Takes a Village and Living History. But let's face facts. In contrast to Gore's writing his own three books, she didn't really write any of hers herself. And, frankly, they are not serious books anyway, although It Takes a Village is a warm and fuzzy volume purporting to be about children's policy. All you have to do is to take a look at her website to see how scattered her steely mind really is. Of course, she has long ago given up on one of her earliest and most sophomoric themes in the White House, "the politics of meaning," whatever that means, and left it to its creator, Rabbi Michael Lerner, who has also by now deserted it and gone on to a career of declaring peace with the Palestinians via any Palestinian, Arafat, Abbas, Haniyah, you name him, conditions and raw facts notwithstanding.

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[Dogmudgeon]

1. Ah, the musteline touch of Martin Peretz

I couldn't tell if he was for or against Al Gore, or whether it was really an anti-Hillary article in disguise. But Marty Peretz has been the Smartest Boy In The Fourth Grade since he was in ... the fourth grade.

Meanwhile, a second (and oh-so infortuitous click) sent me to ...

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