These kinds of articles tend to make me angry.  The media creates stories now using one of three templates:  a) resurrecting a stalled career, b) piling on a person whom we're encouraged to hate or c)  revealing a beloved hero's feet of clay.  

If Al Gore had lost money, there would be articles about what a lousy business man he is and thank God he wasn't President.  "Whew, we dodged a bullet."  If he lost money, it would have been held up as a failure of Liberal economic policies. 

There is no winning for anyone in the media spotlight.  Eventually, they will be fodder for an "Aren't they a hypocrite?" article.   

If Gore had devoted his life to prayer and joined a monastery, there would be articles about how he wasn't able to cope with losing the election and it drove him nuts and he became a hermit.   

Gore made a lot of money ... Okay.  Did he do it legally?  Why is this a story?  Because the media needs to get a little juice by making insinuations that what he did was illegal or making the "point" that "See? Democrats are just as dirty-dealing and low-down as Republicans."  

The bottom line is, the world according to the media, thoroughly stinks now and always has and always will.  No success can be legitimately celebrated, no demise is fully deserved or permanent, all actions by people in power are questionable, and everyone, in politics, left, right or center is scum.  I'm sick of the media's modus operandi.

Apologies for the mini-rant.