One Variable Not to Consider

I acknowledge that there are good reasons not to support Al Gore in the ’08 primaries, and the question is looking increasingly moot anyway. I would like to think, however, that one question–how much weight should be put on the fact that the media hates Gore–has now been answered. Given that our beloved vacuous media Heathers have now taken to discussing such troubling issues as Obama’s terrorist-loving middle and last names and his authoritarian-loving suits, I think that the weight put on this factor should be roughly “nothing.” I mean, again, let’s consider this from MoDo:

There were already a few top Democrats scoffing at the idea that a man whose surname sounded like a Middle East terrorist could get elected president. Now it turns out that his middle name sounds like a Middle East dictator. So with one moniker, he evokes both maniacal villains of the Bush administration. And to top it off, as Jennifer Senior noted in New York magazine, Barack rhymes with Iraq.

A classic, right down to the unnamed and probably apocryphal “a few top Democrats.” I mean, seriously, do you think there’s any way of appeasing people who will write stuff like this? Trying to come up with a candidate immune from such attacks is just a waste of everyone’s time.