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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (24745)	2/2/2002 11:07:22 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24894

Mornin' GZ...go back and read his article anyhow....I think he thinks just like you (and I do) too....there are parts of the article that are really funny....it will cheer you up on this Sat AM...

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (24745)	2/2/2002 11:20:57 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24894

He also had this to say about Al Gore....(be careful with your coffee here....) mediaresearch.org The networks and major national papers didn’t bother to send anyone to Carthage to check out what really happened between Al Gore and his tenants, but The Weekly Standard did. The magazine’s Matt Labash learned that the Mayberry family make out their rent check directly to "Al Gore" and he discovered some less than flattering traits of the family, including how the mother first married at age 13 and while the father is on disability for heart failure he chain smokes. It’s a pretty entertaining article about life in place where a front yard packed with old cars is the norm. "Sanctimonious Slumlord" announced the headline over the cover story for the June 19 issue. The subhead: "Al Gore's treatment of his Tennessee tenants gives new meaning to ‘compassionate liberalism’." In italics, the Weekly Standard set off this 1998 lecture from Gore: "There is a difference between talking about compassion and actually putting your highest ideals into practice." A brief excerpt from Labash’s piece: Not that Gore was meddlesome. Though Tracy makes her checks out directly to "Al Gore," and while the Mayberrys' house sits only 150 yards or so from that of Carthage's Washington, D.C.-bred native son, Gore has been extremely hands off. So hands off, in fact, that when Tracy complained to Gore's property managers that the plaster was coming off the walls, the linoleum was peeling off the kitchen floor, the basin of the bathroom sink was a constipated sludge puddle, the guts of one toilet tank had to be held together with Sunbeam bread bag twisties, and both bathroom toilets overflowed -- when they flushed at all -- (making the whole house smell, in Charles's formulation, "like sheee-it"), the managers managed not to fix anything at all." END Excerpt To read the entirety of Labash’s account, including how he aided in the pursuit of a cockroach inside the house, go to: weeklystandard.com If you spend the $3.95 for a hard copy of the magazine you’ll also get color photos of the family and the house.