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Your interview of Al Gore last year begin rather abruptly: GWEN IFILL: Mr. Vice President, welcome. AL GORE, former vice president of the United States: Thank you. GWEN IFILL: The book reads as a screed. It's an attack on media, on politics, and mostly against George W. Bush. Is that what you intended? What specifically in the book in your view reduced it to the level of a screed? Looking through it on line I find quotes such as: "To the extent that money and the clever use of electronic mass media could be used to manipulate the outcome of elections, the role of reason began to diminish." Here is an excerpt from Time: "It is too easy—and too partisan—to simply place the blame [for what is wrong with our democracy] on the policies of President George W. Bush." Does this read as more of a screed than PBS guest Pat Buchanan's work?