Given what we now know about Matt Lauer and his creepy office with an automatic door lock, his August 21, 2000 TodayIn retrospect, the interview with Al Gore seems stranger. It was 22 years ago this week that the now-disgraced ex-NBC host obsessed over “the kiss” between the Vice President and his then-wife Tipper Gore at the 2000 Democratic National Convention: “You really planted one on Mrs. Gore.” Lauer was interested in the kiss. I was very interested.
He gushed, “After watching that kiss, I know how you survived 30 years, Mr. Vice President. Bravo!” (The couple would separate in 2010.)
Here’s the kiss topic Lauer kept coming back to:
“Let’s talk about what they are now calling, Mr. Vice President, ‘The Kiss’. You heard about ‘The Catch’ in that football game, this is ‘The Kiss.’ You really planted one on Mrs. Gore at the beginning of your speech there. What were you thinking?”
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“Were you trying to tell the American people that you’re really a kind of emotional guy?”
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“Well, after watching that kiss I know how you survived 30 years, Mr. Vice President. Way to go! It’s nice talking to you.”
Lauer’s creepiness aside, this is another example of the media falling in love with Democratic power couples. The three networks all gushed about Barack Obama kissing his spouse at an Olympic basketball tournament on July 17th 2012. Then-CBS This Morning guest anchor Norah O’Donnell thrilled, “Whoo-hoo-hoo! Hot in here!”
Then-Good Morning America news reader Josh Elliott cheered on the President’s ability to kiss his wife in public: “[Obama] is showing the world he’s got a little game off the court as well!” On the Today show, Al Roker raved, “Mr. President, get a stadium!” In 2007, the hosts of Good morning America rhapsodized over John Edwards and Elizabeth Edwards renewing their wedding vows at Wendy’s. (John would eventually cheat and divorce Elizabeth.
Journalists love prominent Democrats more than anything else.
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