Confessions of a Welfare Queen.

• Author: McCarthy, Jamie
• Position: Letters - Letter to the Editor

I was enjoying the article "Confessions of a Welfare Queen" until I stumbled on this bit of liberal-bashing, thrown in for no apparent reason except to break up the monotony of right-wing treachery: "'Every summer,' said Gore, who grew up in a fancy Washington hotel, 'we went back down to the farm. I was in the 4-H club.'"

I hope Stossel's fact-checkers are normally more alert. Google "Al Gore Hotel," sift through the other reporters who swallowed the same line, and you'll quickly find out the truth: When Gore was a kid, the Fairfax was not all that fancy. He lived in a hotel because his...