A movie star showed up to testify before Congress -- a movie star named Al Gore” and hailed: “He was once called 'Mr. Stiff.' Now he's known as 'The Goreacle,' the new Al Gore.” With “Gore 2.0" on screen, Couric set up the subsequent tribute by asserting that “no one's getting more attention than the latest edition of Al Gore.” A year later, in July of 2008, Couric heralded: “Al Gore laid down a green gauntlet today.” And she couldn't resist reminding viewers that Gore's “environmental work earned him a Nobel prize” before she helpfully cued him up on energy policy: "
It really is multi-tiered, isn't it? I mean, it's a national security issue, it's an environmental issue." Couric soon moved on to pushing Gore about accepting the VP slot or at least “being, say, an environmental czar” in Obama's administration.
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