IF THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO KICK OFF A GORE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDACY, I’d say it failed:

NBC’s three-hour primetime “Live Earth” special, which included highlights from Saturday’s global concerts, failed to generate much enthusiasm in the ratings.

The estimated 2.7 million viewers was slightly under the 3 million viewers NBC has averaged on Saturday nights in the summer with repeats and the Stanley Cup hockey playoffs on what is already the least-popular night of television.

As a reader Bob Houk notes, a guy who can’t outdraw hockey won’t make much of a candidate.