More Gore

David Sarasohn, a columnist for The Oregonian, reviews Al Gore's movie today, and with it, Al Gore.

The two stars of the movie are Gore and the planet, and if Gore still occasionally looks stiff, the planet seems to be melting.

I don't understand this. To me Gore did not appear "stiff" in this movie, in any way whatsoever. He came across as an thinking, intellectual, feeling, concerned person who had experienced life's up-and-downs in spades. He didn't come across as some kind of Clintonian wonk. So what does "stiff" mean here? Maybe it merely means "intellectual," and if it does it only proves that (a) Sarasohn cannot see past the stereotypes newspapers such as his have painted, and (2) Sarasohn has no appreciation for intellectuals or intellectual argument. And maybe that is half the problem with the perception of global warming.

Gore was not stiff in the least. I'm tired of reading stereotypes.

On the other hand, Sarasohn's ending is not bad (even if it does again prove that Sarasohn is too wrapped up in journalistic stereotypes):

Gore lost to George W. Bush, you may remember, because of what political reporters called a feeling that Bush would be more fun to have a beer with.

Gore's revenge is to return with a movie showing how badly we're going to need one.