As Somerby points out in the Daily Howler with regard to Gore:
Mike Tomasky (September 2007): Most of the press coverage of Gore was either untrue (that he'd lied in a debate about an incident involving then FEMA director James Lee Witt) or childish and infuriating (that he sighed too much), while George Bush got away with the claim that he would govern as a moderate "compassionate conservative."
Ezra Klein (April 2006): address was the keynote for the We Media conference, held at the Associated Press headquarters in New York last October and attended by an audience that included both old media luminaries and new media innovators. In attendance were Tom Curley, president of the AP, Andrew Heyward, president of CBS News, and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, all leading lights of a media establishment that, five years earlier, had deputized itself judge, jury, and executioner for Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign, spinning each day’s events to portray the stolid, capable vice president as a wild exaggerator, ideological chameleon, and total, unforgivable bore.
Josh Marshall (August 2002): I think deep down most reporters just have contempt for Al Gore. I don’t even think it’s dislike. It’s more like a disdain and contempt...
This was —you know, a year and a half before the <2000> election, I think you could say this. This wasn’t something that happened because he ran a bad campaign. If he did, it was something that predated it.
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