Liberal compassion

National | Reporters don't take Al Gore to task when his Tennessee tenant calls him a slumlord | Tim Graham

After months of winking at George W. Bush's supposedly oxymoronic phrase "compassionate conservatism," the media are trying to whistle past an embarrassing example of uncompassionate liberalism.

Al Gore rents out a house on his estate in Carthage,Tenn. The Mayberrys, a poor family that lives off Social Security disability payments (but won't take welfare or food stamps), with a father who can't work and five children (two of them disabled), couldn't get Mr. Gore or his property managers to fix their broken toilets and other household debacles. After months of complaints from the mother, Tracy Mayberry, Gore Realty didn't send a plumber. It sent an eviction notice. So Mrs. Mayberry went to a Nashville TV station and called Mr. Gore a "slumlord." Then, suddenly Mr. Gore apologized and promised to find the family a place to stay while his people made repairs.

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