The vice president carved time out of his busy schedule last week to call up the Washington Post and lodge what can only be described as a pre- Copernican complaint.
As the Post reported, Gore called executive editor Leonard Downie Jr. because "I thought about it and thought about it, and I decided I just had to call because you've printed a picture of the Earth upside down" on the front page.
"Well, nobody else has called," Downie responded, but thanks anyway. And Downie then thought to himself, after hanging up, What does he mean by " upside down"? Upside down to whom?
Truly, Al Gore gives new meaning to the term reactionary liberalism.