CBS 60 Minutes: fawning coverage of Gore

Stahl just can’t get close enough to her hero

On Sunday’s 60 Minutes, Lesley Stahl delivered a fawning piece on Al Gore’s environmental crusade, teasing: “Since he lost the election, Al Gore has become a certified celebrity, a popular prophet of global warming.” In the introduction to the subsequent segment, she proclaimed: “When Al Gore ran for President in 2000, he was often ridiculed as inauthentic and wooden. Today, he is passionate and animated, a man transformed.” Stahl began the interview by asking Gore about the Democratic presidential race and the possibility of him brokering a deal between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. However, as Stahl observed: “He’s not ruling it out, but he says he already has a job — as he puts it, P.R. agent for the planet.”

I’m not at all surprised to see Lesley Stahl’s obsequious fawning and her worshipful recounting of just how wonderful she believes the Goracle to be. CBS has a multi-decadal history of pandering to the left and the green movement. I just wish that they would once and for all quit pretending that they are still producing “news” in their programs. They are a no different than any other wing of the Democratic or Green Parties, or any department in a Greenpeace’s office.

The last thing that CBS could ever be accused of is producing objective journalism.

I’m also not surprised that Gore is now trying to sell himself as the “PR agent for the planet.” Where else could one go after inventing the Internet? It must be truly hellish to have to deal with Gore now. The guy’s head is so inflated with his own PR that its a wonder he can lift it off his pillow in the morning. How he fits that head through the average doorway is beyond me.