Pynchon mention by Al Gore

[Bruce Appelbaum]

The reference to TRP is on page 121 of Gore's latest book.


Bruce

"Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?"
--- Groucho Marx



On May 29, 2007, at 11:22 AM, Matthew Ryan wrote:

> It's from GR's "proverbs for paranoids":
> "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to  
> worry about answers."
>
>
> On 5/29/07, Daniel Harper <daniel.e.harper at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's the second hit for "al gore charlie rose" on Google Video.
>
> About forty-four minutes in, he quotes TRP as saying "if you can  
> get them to ask the right questions you don't have to worry about  
> getting the right answers." I'm not familiar with the quote,  
> probably in a part of GR that I haven't read. It also appears to be  
> a very loose attribution rather than a direct quotation.
>
> It's a great interview. Love seeing someone so prominently in the  
> public eye talking about the clear need for reason in our modern- 
> day political process, and in the general way that we discuss  
> social issues.
>
> I don't agree with all of his positions from 2000, and think he's a  
> bit conservative for my taste... but I'd vote for him in a second  
> in 2008. Nobody else on the public stage even comes close in my book.
>
> --Daniel
>
>
> On 5/29/07, Bryan Snyder <wilsonistrey at gmail.com > wrote:
> Whoa... really.  I'll be looking tomorrow...
>
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>
> anyone catch al gore mentioning TRP in his interview this week with
> Charlie Rose?  I did a search through my 3129 unread messages from the
> mailing list and no mention of gore.  or al gore for that matter - no
> wonder I don't read these messages - not enough gore!  I'll just go  
> back
> to watching TV now.
>
> bob
>
>
>

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