W’s Brave Old World: ‘New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd – who made endless fun
of Al Gore for his earth-tone sweaters, his Palm Pilot and his
connection to the book Love Story – isn’t one for making apologies.
But she’s come close to admitting that her election-year ridicule of
Gore might have helped put a dimwitted reactionary in the White
House.

“Forgive me, Al Gore,” Dowd wrote in a column on Bush’s drive to turn back the
clock on the environment and foreign policy. “I’m going hungry for a shred of
modernity.” With her second thoughts about making a mockery of Al Gore and his itnerest in the future, Dowd might not be alone.’ The Consortium