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"He made a complicated and controversial issue understandable," was the praise for Gore by CBS' John Blackstone while NBC's Anne Thompson repeated the Nobel Committee's citation as the "person who has done the most to make the world aware of what needs to be done to stop climate change." Thompson pointed out that Gore had been a student of the Harvard professor who originally identified the greenhouse effect back in the 1960s. "Politics is Gore's profession--his passion is the environment." He was identified with the issue when he ran as Bill Clinton's Vice President in 1988--both ABC's David Wright (subscription required) and NBC's Thompson ran clips of then-President George Bush teasing Gore as "Ozone Man"--and Gore was on Clinton's negotiating team for the Kyoto Treaty, which attempted to reduce greenhouse emissions.
ABC's Wright speculated that Nobel laurels "must be sweet vindication" for the man who famously styles himself as one who "used to be the next President of the United States." Gore made a brief speech to accept the prize and then turned down reporters' questions. "Of course," observed CBS' Blackstone, "the only question reporters really wanted to ask is: 'Will you run for President?'" A pair of Sunday morning talkshow hosts answered on his behalf. "I think Al Gore has made up his mind he does not want to run," opined Bob Schieffer of CBS' Face the Nation. "The odds are about 1000-1 against Gore running," calculated George Stephanopoulos (no link) of ABC's This Week.
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