Al Gore and other investors purchased Newsworld International from Vivendi Universal, the struggling French media giant, and plans to turn it into a public affairs and entertainment outlet for the 18-34 demographic.

Al Gore says he’s not targeting the nation’s most popular cable news network, the FOX News Channel, despite rumors to the contrary.

“This is not going to be a liberal network, or a Democratic network in any way, shape, or form,'’ the former vice president said.

Is there a wink we’re missing?

There are a few that claim that while the FOX News Channel claims to be “fair and balanced,” they wink when the say it. It’s not true, the claim goes.

Gore no doubt buys into this sloppy line of thinking, so he might be thinking along the lines of: “Well, if Murdoch and Ailes can claim to be fair and balanced, so can the Al Gore News Network!” (NOTE: I invented the name for the new network; what he actually calls it is his business.)

After watching Gore on the stump for the past several years, I cannot imagine the man reserving his fiery vitriol from certain aspects of his life. Unless he is a brilliant actor and genius compartimentalizer, which would make his political life an ingenious fraud.