CRASHING AN AL GORE EVENT: ” Al Gore’s speech Saturday at the American Institute of Architects convention was closed to the media, but you can read about it in today’s Express-News on Page 1B. How we cracked the former vice president’s iron curtain is a mildly entertaining story. . . . So here’s what happened: Our intrepid reporter, Caputo, went over to the convention center Thursday, registered under his own name and address as an ‘expo only’ attendee and got a pass that gave him access to the speech. Then he covered it and wrote about it. It was that easy. Purists might contend that was unethical. To me, it was like crashing a Ku Klux Klan rally. Gore didn’t want coverage. We think he deserved it.”

I don’t think he deserved the Klan comparison, though.