On 08 May 2008 20:44:52 GMT, Opus the Penguin
<opusthepenguin+usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Rod Stiffington (invalid@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
) wrote:
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>> For instance, the biggest lie of all was "Invented The
>> Internet". Gore never said it. Yet it was repeated over, and
>> over, and over again. You know what happens when a lie is
>> repeated over and over, it becomes true. But it NEVER happened.
>>
>
>He used the word "creating" rather than the word "inventing". If that
>was "the biggest lie of all" then Gore was not lied about ever and
>misrepresented only very slightly.
He was referring specifically to his CONGRESSIONAL accomplishments.
Here is the full quote:
GORE: “During my service in the United States Congress, I took the
initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving
forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be im****tant
to our country’s economic growth, environmental protection,
improvements in our educational system.”
The Internet needed Congress to turn it into a commercial entity. Gore
was the one who pushed for this legislation to happen. Still not
convinced? Let Newt explain it to you:
GINGRICH: "In all fairness, it’s something Gore had worked on a long
time. Gore is not the Father of the Internet, but in all fairness,
Gore is the person who, in the Congress, most systematically worked to
make sure that we got to an Internet, and the truth is—and I worked
with him starting in 1978 when I got [to Congress], we were both part
of a “futures group”—the fact is, in the Clinton administration, the
world we had talked about in the ’80s began to actually happen."
Still not convinced? Here is a quote from the Guardian in 1988:
"American computing scientists are campaigning for the creation of a
“superhighway” which would revolutionise data transmission.
Legislation has already been laid before Congress by Senator Albert
Gore of Tennessee, calling for government funds to help establish the
new network, which scientists say they can have working within five
years, at a cost of Dollars 400 million."
Make no mistake, we are in Iraq today because of this "lie".
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