Who volunteers to captain the Titanic …

… after it’s hit the iceberg?

That’s how John Oliver summed up the possibility of Al Gore running for president on The Daily Show last night:

Actually, there are signs that Al Gore is already running for president. Check out these three very short videos of Gore on his on CurrentTV website since he awarded the Nobel Peace Prize:

They are commercial-length, no-bullshit progressive views on the three top issues of the day. (Well three of the top four. We know where he stands on the fourth.)

They have all the production value of a dorm-room, videocam rant. Nothing you would see on TV. But just exactly the kind of thing that plays well in this new medium we call the Internet.

Thom Hartman speculated today that we are perhaps seeing the first candidacy that will rely on the Internet and bypass the mainstream media (MSM). Just as radio replaced print in campaigns decades ago, and later TV replaced radio, Gore again sees the future and is reaching out directly without having to go through the MSM filter.

It’s not like the MSM ever did him any favors with their coverage. See Going After Gore in the latest Vanity Fair for a great article on how the media got it all wrong on the ‘discovering the Love Canal’ and ‘inventing the Internet’ memes they created.

Through the Internet, he’s going to hoist the MSM on their own petard.

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  1. I would be thrilled for Gore to run. He seems to be a sneak in the back door candidate. This race has been going on for well over a year now and is wearing thin on many people probably, I think Al sweeping in and taking it might work. Many people like him from An Inconvenient Truth and he has sort of become apolitical in recent years, they may forget 2000.

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