Too Much Free Speech Going On Out There

Al Gore thinks that there are too many voices on the internet and on the radio. Those who disagree with him are "digital brownshirts."

"[E}very day they unleash squadrons of digital brownshirts to harass and hector any journalist who is critical of the President."

And while most other observers agreed that news coverage of Katrina was scandalously bad, Al Gore liked it, and worse, he misses it.

"In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, there was - at least for a short time - a quality of vividness and clarity of focus in our public discourse that reminded some Americans - including some journalists - that vividness and clarity used to be more common in the way we talk with one another about the problems and choices that we face. But then, like a passing summer storm, the moment faded."

God was looking out for us when he helped George Bush win in 2000.