Gored, Part IV

If Moveon.org is the most irritating liberal artifact of the nineties, the most cloying trope of the two-thousands has to be the liberal bleat that Algore was defeated by the fiat of an "activist, conservative Supreme Court".

George Will bludgeons that notion, as well as Algore's recent attempts to reconstruct history.

Barbara Walters recently asked him if there were times during the 36 days of Florida turmoil when he thought he was going to be president. He answered:

''Yes. Specifically, when the Florida Supreme Court ruled that they would have to actually count all the ballots. That's all I asked for. Count all the ballots. I asked them to count them statewide. They were focusing in on four counties but they should've been counted statewide as well.'' (Emphasis added)

Well. Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts. Gore's historical fiction demands refutation.

Will goes on to do just that. Gore never asked for a statewide recount, and it wasn't the US Supremes that were the judicial activists - it was Florida's, which 'breezily dismissed the Legislature's deadlines for counting votes and certifying results as ``hypertechnical reliance upon statutory provisions.'"

I want to print the whole article and carry it with me for every time I run into another halfwit who parrots that trope...

(Via Powerline)

Posted by Mitch at November 21, 2002 11:57 AM