Will We See Gore TV?
Only is it run as a vanity project. If there were a real demand for such a channel, it would already exist. John Podhoretz has some ideas as to what the schedule might look like.
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Al Gore considers starting liberal TV network-- news item
June 19, 2003 --
* Morning Farm Report: 5:30 a.m.
Al Gore explains how he grew up tobacco-farming "with my own hands, all my life, I've put it in the plant beds and transferred it. I've hoed it. I've suckered it."
* Gore Morning America: 7 a.m.
Former EPA chief Carol Browner on how environmental poisons seeping through the aquifer in Palm Beach Country, Fla., caused voters to misread their butterfly ballots; political roundtable with Alec Baldwin, Rob Reiner, Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon.
* Live with Al and Tipper: 9 a.m.
"Win a Dream Date with Noam Chomsky." Also, Wild Wild Travel Trivia Question: Where were the funerals of foreign leaders Al Gore attended as vice president?
* The Re-View: 10 a.m. Hosts Karenna Gore Schiff, Donna Brazile, Naomi Wolf and Susan Sontag welcome guest Jeffrey Toobin to discuss "Too Close to Call," his book on the mammoth injustice done to Al Gore in 2000.
* You've Got Alpha Mail: 11 a.m.
Al pumps iron with trainer Jake Steinfeld while explaining that he really never said he invented the Internet.
* Eyewitness News with Al Franken: 12 noon
* The Middle-Aged and the Restless:
1 p.m. - Soap Opera
* Judge Ruthy: 3 p.m.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg hears Bush v. Gore
* Dr. Phil: 4 p.m. How to get over a difficult defeat.
* Live at Five with Eric Alterman:
5 p.m.
* Evening News with Sidney Blumenthal: 6:30 p.m.
* Money Matters with Paul Krugman: 7 p.m. Today: How the Bush Administration Lied
Tomorrow: How the Bush Administration Lied
* CSI: Supreme Court: 8 p.m.
The sleuths uncover a vast conspiracy inside the hallowed halls of America's highest court. Special guest star: Michael Moore.
* Law and Order: Special Political Victims Unit: 9 p.m. The detectives arrest the conservative members of the Supreme Court. Justice Breyer: Ashton Kutcher.
* Survivor: Palm Beach County:
10 p.m. The Red Tribe uses underhanded tactics to defeat the Blue Tribe.
* Al Franken Tonite: 11:30 p.m.
Al welcomes guests Janeane Garofalo, Bill Maher and musical group Radiohead, who will sing songs from their new album "Hail to the Thief" after Tipper apologizes to them for criticizing dirty lyrics. |
