Now that Al and Tipper have split, the inevitable rumor of an affair is going round.
But the most interesting thing to me is not the possibility of Al’s cheating. I’ve learned that a person who ends a long-term marriage usually crowbars out of it with an affair, or their spouse does. Very few decide to just up and leave in a vacuum; the force of habit and connection is usually too strong.
It’s a little more interesting to me that, if an Al Gore affair has occurred, it appears to have been with Laurie David, Larry David’s supposedly-already-cheating (with the caretaker of their estate) ex-wife. She’s as dedicated an environmentalist as Gore, and that’s saying something—although, like Gore, she also has a huge carbon footprint. In addition, she’s a sometime blogger at Huffington Post (I’d love to see headlines that read “Gore rumored to have affair with blogger,” but alas, I doubt we will).
The most interesting thing to me about the reports in Star, however, is the following statement about the entire episode, allegedly made by an “unnamed insider”:
Al and Laurie went from friends to lovers…It couldn’t be avoided.”
Really? Was no free will involved? I know that Al Gore has a certain density, but surely his gravitational pull is not that powerful.
[ADDENDUM: Laurie David denies any such thing:
"It's a total fabrication. I adore both Al and Tipper. I look at them both as family. And I have happily been in a serious relationship since my divorce."
A serious relationship---is there any other kind?
But whatever may or may not be going on between Ms. David and Al Gore, isn't she bending the truth a mite already when she uses the phrase "since my divorce?" Her affair is supposed to have broken up the Davids's marriage.
And this is pretty funny, in a sad way.
(Hat tip: Ann Althouse).]
Previously a lifelong Democrat, born in New York and living in New England, surrounded by liberals on all sides, I've found myself slowly but surely 
June 15th, 2010 at 4:32 pm
Maybe Miss David will do a blog post about this featuring the hockey stick graph upside down?
June 15th, 2010 at 4:54 pm
Western Women are only loyal to their options.
There are no consequences for their poor behavior; they are rewarded for it.
June 15th, 2010 at 5:01 pm
J Stamford: generalize much?
June 15th, 2010 at 5:24 pm
Good God. Makes me embarrassed to be a primate.
Pray for the asteroid.
June 15th, 2010 at 5:24 pm
Nah.
Rhambo leaked it after Al complained about the Gulf.
June 15th, 2010 at 5:38 pm
Slap! Slap! I am slapping myself for laughing at “density/gravitational pull.” I have been bad, bad, bayud!” Your check is in the Paypal, if I can figure it out, again. I don’t use it all that often.
June 15th, 2010 at 5:41 pm
Beware Laurie. Al already has a paramour – name of Al Gore.
My guess is that Tipper just got sick of competing with Al’s overpowering affair with himself.
June 15th, 2010 at 5:44 pm
I’m such a hick. I don’t understand nuance. Is this anything like, “It depends on what the meaning of “is” is.”
June 15th, 2010 at 6:17 pm
Some woman are very good in the sack.
June 15th, 2010 at 6:32 pm
Yuck.
Contemplating that union is enough to make me want to switch teams.
(not that there is anything wrong with that…
)
June 15th, 2010 at 6:39 pm
Just hope and pray there’s no sex tape of the two of them, floating around out there!
Honestly, I do feel sorry for Tipper – from what I have heard through various second-hand sources, she is a very nice person.
June 15th, 2010 at 6:50 pm
Y’all are making me want to scopp out my eyes with a melonballer. The thought of AlGore with anyone is just….aaaaccccckkkkk.
Sorry….hairball.
June 15th, 2010 at 10:42 pm
I must say, the comments are more amusing over on Althouse:
“…The mind boggles. Laurie as Gaia, ManBearPig as himself, the warming, the methane, the rising and the falling, the coverup, the inconvenient truth…”
C’mon people, we can do better than that!
June 16th, 2010 at 12:54 am
Wow, Laurie David and Al Gore, the two most self righteous people on the planet. Getting together oh boy. Dinner parties must be a much sought after ticket at their house. What fun that will be.
Larry David and Tipper were definitely the charming personalities in that bunch, those folks would be fun to hang with. It’s too bad they weren’t treated well.
And hey J Stamford go back to your cave.
June 16th, 2010 at 7:34 am
[...] Tawdry gossip. [...]
June 17th, 2010 at 12:51 pm
I saw that same sentence in the Star and had exactly that same reaction. That one sentence bothered me to the point I started thinking about it later in the day…
I have no idea whether or not the rumors are true, could care less for that matter. I don’t even know why I clicked on the story. BUT whoever the unnamed insider might be, this person is completely and totally untrustworthy. Anyone who might know this person would be well advised to not turn their back and to keep a hand on their wallet. Heh.