Some Background on this Al Gore Guy, Who Just Won the Nobel Prize...

Some reason stories over the years about Al Gore, who has been awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize and has generally (though not always) been roundly booed in our print and web pages:

Free Speech for People Who Think Like Me: Al Gore, besserwisser chicken hypnotist (June 12, 2007)

Al Gore: Power Hungry (February 26, 2007)

An Inconvenient Truth: Gore as climate exaggerator (June 16, 2006)

Whose Media Is Gored?: Where Al Gore's TV channel went wrong (August 9, 2005)

Ironic Processing (November 2000)

Albert Agonistes: What Gore's winning storyline tells us about politicians (June 2000)

Source Code: Al Gore says he invented the Internet. What does he mean? (May 1999)

That's Fog Coming From Al Gore's Smoke-Free Guns: When Politicians Claim to Speak With Conviction, Voters Should Be Especially Wary. (August 1996)

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