The Gong Show Making Gore Go Away
By EDWARD ZEHR
Pelt him with adverse court decisions, whistle him down, turn off the lights, leave the theater -- nothing seems to
discourage the relentless tap dancer from continuing his endless, mind-numbing routine, sustained by a
hand-clapping, foot-stomping claque of mainstream media admirers. Thus far they have spun every plot twist to Al
Gore's advantage, predicting that court decisions would turn out in his favor only to have them come down
disastrously against him. Undaunted by their blunders, the mainstream newsies move right along to the next case,
gushing with undiluted optimism. First they assured us that the U.S. Supreme Court would have no interest
whatever in reviewing a decision by the SCOFLA (Supreme Court of Florida) which rewrote that state's election
law and legislated a new date for certifying the election results from the bench while mumbling vague incantations
about the "supremacy" of the state's constitution. When the Supremes nevertheless took up the case for review,
the newsies proceeded to march squads of ivy league law perfessers past us who were all of the opinion that the
USSC wouldn't dream of reversing a decision of the SCOFLA and, in any event, the failure of the Gore team to
overcome Bush's Florida lead in the abortive and sporadic hand counts that followed the decision by the Seven
Dwarfs of the SCOFLA would probably lead the high court to conclude that a review of their decision is
unnecessary after all. Thus, when the USSC handed down a ruling last Monday that vacated the decision of the
state supreme court the chattering class were momentarily at a loss for words.
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