“Gore found time to put forth random, bizarre falsehoods: “I invented the Internet.” “I cleaned up Love Canal.”” is what your opinion write wrote. Both of those are wrong. Here is the real quotes:
On the internet: In a March 1999 interview with Wolf Blitzer, Gore said, “During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.”
And to back that statement up: According to Vincent Cerf, a senior vice president with MCI Worldcom who’s been called the Father of the Internet, “The Internet would not be where it is in the United States without the strong support given to it and related research areas by the Vice President in his current role and in his earlier role as Senator.”
The inventor of the Mosaic Browser (Netscape), Marc Andreesen, credits Gore with making his work possible. He received a federal grant through Gore’s High Performance Computing Act.
The University of Pennsylvania’s Dave Ferber says that without Gore the Internet “would not be where it is today.”
Joseph E. Traub, a computer science professor at Columbia University, claims that Gore “was perhaps the first political leader to grasp the importance of networking the country. Could we perhaps see an end to cheap shots from politicians and pundits about inventing the Internet?”
on the Love Canal: The Love Canal canard distorts a story Gore told to a high school class in Concord, New Hampshire. In answer to a question about how students could get involved in politics, Gore described a letter he’d received from a girl in West Tennessee while he was a congressman. Based on the girl’s complaint about a poisoned well, he organized an investigation, which in turn led to other pollution sites, culminating in the expose of Love Canal. Referring to the well in Toone, Tennessee, Gore said, “That was the one you didn’t hear of–but that was the one that started it all.”
The media was quick to misquote the line as “I was the one that started it all.” Seemingly dissatisfied with Gore’s style, the Republican National Committee improved the line thus: “I was the one who started it all.” When the Concord Monitor and the Boston Globe exposed what had really been said in that high school class, the New York Times, the Washington Post and U.S. News offered grudging corrections of their reportorial errors.
Both of those quotes, I mean misquotes used by your writer, are media driven and media created quotes. I would double check any futher quotes by this writer.
Also, she says: The only problem is, the “lie” told by Bush is actually true. Well if the lie is this: “The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.” Yes that is true that the British government did learn that, but as both governments have said in the past two weeks, it never happened. The documents were false. So the “lie” that Bush told was a lie. Both the British and American governments have admitted that the statement is not true.
Also: “Unfortunately for them, every single claim Bush made has been substantiated.” Really? Where are the WMD that bush talked about? And I belive that the “lie” was a claim, was it not? Again, our government has admitted that was not true.
Richard M. [email protected]