Al Gore Wins an Emmy

Choosing the right way to describe Al Gore got a little more difficult last night, when the former Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate (whose Oscar-winning "An Inconvenient Truth" has galvanized the modern green movement) won an Emmy. Yes, an Emmy. His Current TV won the interactive prize for allowing users of the station's Web site to create content that appears on the tube.

Gore said the democratizing of television will play a role in restoring the better parts of American democracy, which is ailing, according to his most recent book (oh, there's another) The Assault on Reason. "We are trying to open up the television medium, so that viewers can help to make television and join the conversation of democracy and reclaim American democracy by talking about the choices we have to make," Gore said in his acceptance speech, according to Variety.

It was an appropriate time to give the Nobel Peace Prize-nominated Tennessean (there are two more) a prize, as the Emmy Awards ceremony itself strove this year to be a little greener, with more recycled paper, local and organic foods and an emphasis on using less -- and using clean renewable -- energy. What's next for Gore? Well, he seems to have lost some weight lately. Maybe he'll go for gold in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

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