Sanctimonious Pandering Ass Update

It's one thing when artists and performers like the Dixie Chicks bemoan US policy on foreign soil. It's altogether different when Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton do. And when Algore resurfaces from the buffet line and spouts off in this manner, it's down right outrageous.

Former Vice President Al Gore told a mainly Saudi audience on Sunday that the U.S. government committed "terrible abuses" against Arabs after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and that most Americans did not support such treatment. Gore said Arabs had been "indiscriminately rounded up" and held in "unforgivable" conditions. The former vice president said the Bush administration was playing into al-Qaida's hands by routinely blocking Saudi visa applications.

"The thoughtless way in which visas are now handled, that is a mistake," Gore said during the Jiddah Economic Forum. "The worst thing we can possibly do is to cut off the channels of friendship and mutual understanding between Saudi Arabia and the United States."

Gore told the largely Saudi audience, many of them educated at U.S. universities, that Arabs in the United States had been "indiscriminately rounded up, often on minor charges of overstaying a visa or not having a green card in proper order, and held in conditions that were just unforgivable."

Journalists forced to cover the discarded Dem politician beat should keep this paragraph handy.

[Gore/Kerry/Carter/Dukakis/Kennedy] told the largely [interest group] audience that many [interest group members] in the United States had been [hyperbole here]. (Eds note, if possible try to squeeze in the phrase "worked hard and played by the rules."}