by her shredding of Al Gore and his attempts to come off as credible and human, both feats he cannot achieve despite myriad efforts according to Gibbs. Gibbs attacks Gore’s debate performance in the first debate as one that had people running from the room pulling their hair “He talked too much and smiled too much and sighed too much, and was so in control of his material that he turned his proposals into a bludgeon; more than a few Americans ran screaming from the room at the thought of four years of him” (54). Likewise, Gibbs uses her media access to bludgeon Gore in this article, which is obvious from her critical personal analysis of him. For example, since when has being in control of your material a flaw? In Global Warnings, Romesh Ratnesar argues that foreign policy issues have taken a backseat in importance in the mind
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