the unbearable stupidity of the New York Times

There are multiple examples of the NYT’s idiocy every day, most of which I can rise above, because it is still a fine newspaper.

Today, however, Gail Collins, the author of an amusing and enlightening book that I have mentioned a couple of times (Scorpion Tongues)—a book that proves she is way, way, way smarter than this—made my teeth hurt with this tossed-off sentence in her column (which is thin gruel in general):

If it hadn’t been for [Joe Lieberman's] unhelpful performance in Florida after the 2000 election, perhaps Al Gore would be president now and there would be peace and global cooling throughout the planet.

There would be peace and global cooling if Al Gore were president?

REALLY?

And this in a column dissecting Hillary’s congenital pandering?