Pity the poor bookers. In the TV world, bookers are the desperate souls sent by unreasonably demanding producers to engage in the cutthroat competition for primo guests on news or talk shows. In this case, they're prima: Laura Ling and Euna Lee. ...
On Tuesday morning, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs released a statement calling former President Bill Clinton's trip to North Korea a "solely private mission," saying, "While this solely private mission to secure the release of two Americans is on the ground, we will have no comment. We do ...
It was not Cindy Sheehan -- or Abu Graib -- or Hurricane Katrina -- that first exposed the once seemingly-Teflon George W. Bush's many vulnerabilities to the public, driving his popularity ratings to the basement, never again to return. Instead, the seminal moment when came with the arrival of an ...
Al Gore's first book, Earth in the Balance, scored him the vice presidency.His second book, An Inconvenient Truth, garnered him a movie tie-in, an Oscar, and a Nobel Peace Prize.So why on this pollution-scarred earth would he stop there? He is, of course, now writing a third book, which will ...
When Barack Obama entered the Capitol on Inauguration Day to enact his first piece of legislation, he let his liberal mind guide his body as he signed his name.In other words, he used his left hand..."That's right. I'm a lefty. Get used to it," the southpaw president joked at the time. Obama isn't ...
Via Politico comes word that Al Gore, the man who won the popular vote for the presidency in 2000, is not interested in an Obama Administration cabinet post:When Obama and Joe Biden sit down with Al Gore at noon Tuesday in Chicago, they'll be talking issues--not making the pitch for the former ...
That is the question, and Barack Obama, who introduced Bill Richardson as his pick for Secretary of Commerce yesterday, has an answer. Compare and contrast:Before and After: The president-elect thinks Richardson should never have shaved it off:"I think it was a mistake for him to get rid of it," the ...
Former Vice-President turned environmental activist Al Gore issued a challenge to politicians and policy makers yesterday. Gore wants the United States to commit to producing 100% of its electric power from renewable sources, like wind, solar, clean coal, and geothermal energy, within 10 years. Gore ...
Al Gore came out for Barack Obama last night at a giant rally in Detroit. Some estimates had the crowd at 20,000. The former vice president gave a fairly rousing speech that threatened to overshadow Obama's (where were these oratorical skills back when he was running for president?). Watch for ...
Al finally gets off the pot... Just when I thought it was going to be a slow campaign news day, I just heard a report on MSNBC that Al Gore will be endorsing Obama tonight, in person, at a rally in Detroit. The report also states that Gore will request contributors to his Web site, algore.com, so ...

