The joke's on you, Al
Thursday, 7 December 2000 19:37 (ET)
Commentary: The joke's on you, Al
By MARTIN SIEFF, UPI Senior News Analyst
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 (UPI) - Memo to Albert Gore, Vice President of the
United States:
Dear Mr. Vice President, I don't know how to break this news to you, but
The Universe thinks you're a cosmic joke.
The New York Times opinion page of Wednesday must be especially galling
for you. In that most dignified and Olympian theater of U.S. journalistic
and political expression, Maureen Dowd, perhaps the funniest political
columnist writing today, compared you to Captain Ahab, madly dashing around
the world chasing the Great White Whale in the classic novel "Moby Dick."
And on the same page, distinguished literary critic Harold Bloom compares
you to the pompous and dignified Malvolio, "the unctuous yet defenseless
victim of a sublime practical joke."
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