Don't Praise Caesar

Daily Howler: Throw back your heads and laugh out loud as we ''Dems and progressives fight back'': ". . .Might it be better if we “Democrats and progressives stopped trying to build public sympathy for poor abused Saint John McCain? He has an entire mainstream press corps for that and they've been slavishly serving his interests for years, even reciting his slogans for him when he turns up on their programs. When we “Democrats and progressives” finally start to fight back, is there any way we could possibly consider promoting our actual Democratic Party heroes? Could we possibly consider informing the public about those who have served on our team?

We think, of course, of the man who was actually savaged and slandered during Campaign 2000. Let us help you recall what James Hansen recently said about that endlessly slandered individual (see THE DAILY HOWLER, 7/27/06). Hansen is one of the world's top climate scientists. Last month, he reviewed An Inconvenient Truth in The New York Review of Books:

HANSEN (7/13/06): I did not hear from [Al] Gore for more than a decade, until January of this year, when he asked me to critically assess his slide show. When we met, he said that he “wanted to apologize,” but, without letting him explain what he was apologizing for, I said, 'Your insight was better than mine. . .'”"