Word: pressing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...overachievers, he is arrogant and a little insecure, but people had always called him Dudley Do-Right, and it never occurred to him that could change. Six months later, during the furor over his campaign fund-raising adventures, the same belief in his goodness led Gore to call a press conference and repeat "no controlling legal authority" seven times--and with that, his ugly new image was set in stone...
...Karenna who makes herself most available to the press. She has taken on a public role, heading Gorenet, an effort to reach young voters, and speaking on behalf of her father, offering up anecdotes of Al the Dad to humanize him. She is an expert at casting new spin on his political vulnerabilities. Asked on television what was the best advice her father ever gave her, she says her father taught her to stick by a friend in trouble--a tale that adds a family-values patina to Gore's stand by a President in big trouble...
...father a sense of how things are playing in the real world. In March Gore created a fire storm when he broke with the White House to support permanent residency for Elian Gonzalez, a move seen as pandering to Florida's Cuban vote. At first the campaign stonewalled the press, hoping the problem would "just go away," as a top adviser put it. "[Karenna] said, 'You need to explain this.'" About a week later, Gore went on the Today show. Though it failed to undo the damage, it did take some of the bite out of the daily coverage...
...with the behind-the-scenes maneuvering that went on around strategy and issues, following Holbrooke and media guru Bob Squier around, according to Tipper, "like a puppy dog." Karenna's interest, particularly in controlling the message, was also a reaction against how her parents' battles were portrayed in the press. The day after Gore's withdrawal from the 1988 race, Karenna's crying face was the cover of a D.C. political paper. But that, she says, was nothing compared with the tears she had shed three years before, when Tipper drew scorn from libertarians and artists for her campaign...
...their own. Karenna, for instance, pushed to bring in Naomi Wolf, the feminist writer who advocates, among other things, teaching children the value of masturbation. Wolf's $15,000-a-month salary and memos pushing Gore to be an "alpha male" left the candidate withered by weeks of derisive press just as Bill Bradley started to make his big break in New Hampshire...