Silent Al

Some folks were finding it hard to understand why the Gulf Oil Spill went on for more than 50 days without a word from Al Gore, high priest of environmentalism.  The reason may have become clear yesterday:

"He is anti-media right now," says Donna Brazile, a Democratic strategist from the Gulf Coast who managed Gore’s 2000 campaign. "I doubt he will become a spokesperson for our cause."

That is Brazile’s theory about Mr. Environment’s silence. She is wrong.

He is silent on this issue for the same reason that Teddy Kennedy couldn’t join the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas fight: The equivalency to Teddy’s womanizing is that Mr. Gore has been in a two-year affair with Laurie David, also an environmentalist, and it would be, uh, unseemly.

This makes perfect sense to me. With Mr. David’s money, the former Mrs. David made whopping contributions to Democratic causes, and she did care about environmental issues. (She was also involved with the Gore documentary.) She is hot-looking, as they say, and she was also looking-looking. (Her previous amour was said to be either the contractor or the gardener at their summer home.) Tipper was not only high-maintenance, but Albert has been flying around the globe for the past two years.

The marriage-watching commentariat says this is typical Boomer stuff. Now that people may expect to live until 90 (oy) they’ve decided they will get things the way they want them for some portion of the back nine.

Love is blind. How else can you explain Laurie David's infatuation with The Goreacle.