Like a drunken teenager who discovers a shotgun in the closet, Dana Milbank (in today's Washington Post) has fired a volley of potshots in the general direction of Al Gore, who testified yesterday before two committees of the Senate.
With a stunning lack of originality, Milbank refers to Gore as "The Goracle" -- EIGHTEEN TIMES in a single column.
Because Gore dares to anticipate a future that Milbank evidently does not foresee, he describes Gore's predictions with words like "premonition" and "prophecy" and "riddle" and "vision," and he ridicules the lawmakers who have finally begun to take Gore seriously.
Milbank attributes Gore's Noble Prize and global prestige to his ability to "scare the bejesus" out of an audience. Milbank finds humor in the fact that an authority on global warming spoke while there was ice on the ground outside, and that Gore sweated under the hot lights of the hearing room.
With childish glee, Milbank castigates Gore for presenting charts with scientific information and color-coded maps.
Maybe someone at DK can explain why WaPo employs a clown like Milbank. He should be in charge of the Flat Earth Society, and perhaps aspire to one day rising to the level of writing copy for Rush Limbaugh.
Maybe Daily Kos could start accepting nominations for Dumbest Political Commentary of the Year. It would be interesting to see if anybody could top Milbank's contribution today.