Why do I get the feeling you thought "Birth of a Nation" was the feel good hit of the summer?

Al Gore is everywhere. Last night he turned up on Saturday Night Live.

One sketch had SNL impressionist Darrell Hammond playing Hardball host Chris Matthews. Al Gore played Trent Lott, complete with a wig that looked like a dead muskrat on his head.

Hammond/Matthews: "Sen. Lott, high ranking members of both parties are calling on you to step down after your comments about Sen. Thurmond who was a segregationist. Should your bonehead behavior spell trouble for Republicans?"

Gore/Lott:"When I said our country wouldn't have all these problems if Strom Thurmond had been elected president it had nothing to do with segregation. I simply meant that things would have been better if Thurmond were president because he would have kept white people and black people separate. I just hate it when liberals take me out of context like that."

Matthews: "Why do I get the feeling you thought "Birth of a Nation" was the feel good hit of the summer?"

Lott: "It has come to my attention that some of my comments about Strom Thurmond may have been construed as racially insensitive. Let me apologize. I meant no disrespect to any white people. I myself am a white man and some if not all of my best friends are white. Let me make this clear. As long as I am in my office we will leave no white person behind."

Matthews: "Senator, you're shedding a lot of light on the situation. Unfortunately the light is coming from a cross you just set on fire."