Kessler the comedian

Glenn Kessler (with Stella Kim) of The Washington Post plays quite the prank on us readers in his story about the visit to North Korea by Bill Clinton, in which Clinton negotiated a pardon of the two kidnapped journalists of the Al Gore-funded news channel, Current. He gives us the classic "who's your daddy?" slam, 9 years in the making, with the final sentence:

A source familiar with the planning of the visit said the (Obama) administration's consensus choice to travel to Pyongyang was former vice president Al Gore, who co-founded the news channel that employs the journalists. But North Korea rejected Gore as an envoy.

Zing! And ouch. Nine solid years of, largely, the much bigger post-Clinton administration sway in domestic and, more so, international affairs comes this embarrassing jolt back to reality.

I like Al Gore ... I guess. So I'm not just piling on. But this has to hurt the ego.