Al Gore, 60 Minutes and a Time Machine

Last evening's episode of 60 Minutes featured an interview by Lesley Stahl with Al Gore and his New Campaign. Point of interest to me, the monkey, was the reference Ms. Stahl made to Mr. Gore's birthday, which is by the way is today, March 31st.

From 60 Minutes:

"Tomorrow is your 60th birthday," Stahl remarked during her interview with Gore. "Sorry, didn't want to be the one, to be the first to tell ya. Have you completely, totally put the idea of the presidency behind you once and for all?"

"Well, first of all, 60 is the new 59. So, this is a new world that we're in," Gore replied.

Cute, huh?

Why, you ask, is this interesting? Are we to assume that this portion of the interview took place on Sunday March 30th? Given the gloomy weather in the Nashville area yesterday and the shots of Mr. Gore and Ms. Stahl walking the Gore homestead in big blue skies, I find it hard to believe that the shoot, editing and airing of this segment all took place on Sunday.

BUT and a big one at that, to frame a time sensitive question based on the air date is a bit disturbing, at least to me. Perhaps the question was prefaced like this:

Stahl; Al, listen honey, this is airing the day before your birthday so I'm going to comment on your big day. So you need to play along and step into this Time Machine for me alright?

Gore: Uh? Well...

Stahl: You want to look good right?

Tipper: That would be lying and lying is bad, just like filthy rock music and Prince with his big purple...

Stahl: Tipper, the PMRC was a long time ago and Zappa is dead, shut up! Ugh! We're talking about the script here, OK?

Stahl: Al?

Gore: Yes, dear. I'll do it, for the planet.

Just a small dose of how the media manipulates what is presented to us daily. Sadly, An Inconvenient Truth for us all.

It's there, you just need to look for it.