Megalomania

I'm not mad at Al Gore, I really don't think most people are mad at him anymore. The problem is that he is mad at everyone else.

In a March 1999 interview with Wolf Blitzer, Gore said, "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet." While this statement is vague and ambiguous it can not directly be concluded that Al Gore ever actually said he invented the Internet. During the 2000 election the George Bush campaign team concocted a scenario in which Gore claims that he invented the Internet. Funny? Yes. True? Maybe.

With the creation of the Internet behind him Gore is moving on to bigger and better things, namely Current TV. Watch out Rupert Murdoch and Ted Turner, here comes Al Gore and he is looking to add media mogul to his résumé.

Here is what Gore said in an April press conference about his new channel, "We have no intention of being a Democratic channel, a liberal channel... That's not what we're all about. We are about empowering this generation of young people in the 18-to-34 population to engage in a dialogue of democracy and to tell their stories of what's going on in their lives, in the dominent medium of our time." Conservative groups across the nation are already predicting a flop.

Conventional television is a dying medium, hopefully Gore and his team of media experts, if they exist, have a few tricks up their sleeves.

Good luck Al.