Al Gore, storyteller

While promoting his new, hyperbolic-as-usual documentary An Inconvenient Truth at a convention of theater owners in Las Vegas Monday, Al Gore "told a story about the warm reception he got at a Grover Norquist breakfast gathering here in January."

In Variety magazine's account of the speech, Gore said that Washington, D.C. conservatives in attendance "stood up afterward and said, 'You're absolutely right.'"

"How many conservatives were there actually?" asks the Washington Post's "Reliable Sources" page. "Three people at the convention tell us Gore left the distinct impression he received multiple kudos, "many" in Variety's telling. That got a chuckle from the breakfast club, whose members recall a polite response but only one attendee approaching Gore with praise. Gore's people deny any hyperbole, saying he never claimed more than one enviro-conversion at the meal and may have been misquoted."

Pardon us if we take most of the words of this former Vice-President, who claims to have invented the internet, to have been the basis for the novel "Love Story," and to be the current rightful President of the United States, among other delusions, with a spoonful of salt, a wink, and a nod...all the while shuffling toward the exit.