Saturday, May 1, 2010

Citizen Gore

When I read that Al and Tipper Gore had bought a house in California for almost nine million dollars, the first thing that popped into my mind was this well-known film scene.

4 comments:

RebeccaH said...

Funny you should mention that...

Paco said...

What the hell! Iowahawk beat me to the analogy!

JeffS said...

Iowahawk posted one word on Tim Blair's post regarding Gorezilla's new abode:

"Rosebud....."

Paco said...

It is significant that this Citizen Kane idea is occurring to people simultaneously. Makes perfect sense. Kane started out as an idealist and then became nothing but an unscrupulous fat cat, embittered by the fact that, in the end, he couldn't compel people to worship him. Same with Al (even down to the dubiousness of his initial idealism, which was really nothing but an attempt to be somebody).