Howard "The Logical Apologist" Fineman on "Imus in the Morning" today:

The mark of a serious apex predator media whore is that they will never give up on two cherished cliches:
1.) A tedious and calculated revulsion over Bill Clinton's alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky-loaded up with a much lip smacking innuendo as can be tolerated sans nausea.
and
2.) An interminable and adolescent disdain for Former Vice President Albert Gore Jr.

Whenever you hear one or the other, you can safely turn off the radio or switch the TV channel as you will not hear a single sensible thing for the rest of the program...count on it.
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So Howie was on Imus today...trashing Monica and Al and wallowing in all his favorite routines.
He was puffing and blowing hard to scare up some bad news for Senator Kerry. However the best the Newsweek shill could come up with was the former Vice President's speech today in which Gore will call for the resignations of as yet unnamed Bush appointees.
This Fineman oddly construed as a danger to Kerry as it "builds a fire on his left".
?
Um...does Howard in fact read the AP anymore?
Or is Fineman's memory corroded by too many open bars at too many embassy parties?
Does He even know how to read?
I seem to recall that not two weeks ago Candidate Kerry took the "leftist" step of calling for the resignations of Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Richard B. Myers.
This was in response to the Abu Ghraib scandal.
And of course it is just pure leftism that the government be freed of torture apologists.
It seems pretty clear to Humble Elias that far from "building a fire on Kerry's left" Gore is rushing in to grab off a few embers with which to start his own blaze.
More power to him, dump on the bastards Al!
Clearly though, in the torpid depths of Howard Fineman's mind Al Gore's bid to get the boot in, constitutes a danger to Kerry somehow.
Cause' somehow Al Gore is such a pariah to the average voter I guess....or at least he is a pariah to smug overpaid DC pundits with no conscience to speak of.

Ghod what a slack mentality Fineman has....first he postulates a "threat" to Kerry on the left and then he pours over thin and unpromising evidence until he finds some slight bit of nothing he can spin as an ominous situation.

Truly the dawg daze of summer are upon us, and if Howard Fineman is any indication they may well last til' Thanksgiving.