Holman Jenkins finds it strange that Al Gore is the protector of Steve Jobs:
We can only wonder what Al Gore is making of his experience as the No. 1 defender of today’s No. 1 backdating miscreant.
Mr. Gore, an Apple director, was a member of the
special two-man committee that investigated and exonerated Steve Jobs
in the backdating matter. By now, we presume he is well-versed in what
backdating is and isn’t. But how easily Mr. Gore — the scourge of Big
Pharma, etc. — could have been the one braying about greed, CEO theft,
the defrauding of shareholders.
I didn’t know that Gore was half of the committee. It puts this moment from yesterday’s keynote address into a whole new light:
10:23am – "I can double-tap and it’ll zoom in — I can make this text
bigger if I want to, and there it is. Isn’t this cool? There is the New
York Times. Unbelievable. You can look at multiple web pages as well, I
just push this button in the corner, shrinks it down, and I can add a
new page. Let’s go to Amazon. I like looking at what DVDs are selling
– I like especially when Disney DVDs are on top."10:24am
- Page is loading, albeit a bit slowly. "And here we are, and there’s a
section over here, and these are the top sellers. Oh look, Al’s "An
Inconvenient Truth" is number one. Now I can go back to the NYT if I
want, I can get rid of these by just hitting the X." Looks a bit like
the UIQ browser, but much more slick.
When he just happened to check out DVD’s and just happened to find Al’s DVD (love that first name basis!), I thought he was pandering to the environmentalist in all of us to show how he’s a good guy. But no. It’s was a little thank you to Al. I wonder if Gore was happy to see his DVD touted or whether he cringed.
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I'd bet the guy who used to be "the next U.S. president" loved it.
Gore has been on the board of Apple for some years now. Everybody in the Moscone Center knew of the relationship between Jobs and Gore.
In another demo on their web page, they show the lead NY Times story which is something about the Democrats taking over the House with a picture of Pelosi and her hand raised high.
Coincidence? I think not.
python,
As long as we're being conspiratorial:
If you have Mac OS X, run the Dictionary application and look up stovepipe. Note the usage example.
I don't have a Mac in front of me right now, but as I recall it says something about "neocons stovepiping lies to the White House" (close to the exact words, I think).
I forgot the dictionary was included in OS X. Thanks for the reminder. The exact entry is:
"verb [ trans. ] transmit (information) directly through levels of a hierarchy : neocons who stovepiped lies straight up to the White House."
The dictionary is the Oxford American Dictionary.
So Algore and Rush Limbaugh are both Mac guys. . .
Al Gore never cringes. He swells.