Subject: K0HB Supports Common Sense...NOT!
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Date: 12/24/2004 10:07 AM Central Standard Time
Message-id: .com


K=D8HB wrote:

The popular vote is meaningless, otherwise Al ("I invented
the internet") Gore would be President today.

Al Gore never claimed to have invented the internet.

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.htm

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Nooooooooooooooooooo...He didn't "invent the Internet"...He just "took the
Initiative" for it!

Below are the first couple of paragraphs from the URL you provided, Jim.

QUOTE:

Claim: Vice-President Al Gore claimed that he "invented" the Internet.
Status: False.

Origins: No,
Al Gore did not claim he "invented" the Internet, nor did he say anything that
could reasonably be interpreted that way. The derisive "Al Gore said he
'invented' the Internet" put-downs are misleading distortions of something he
said (taken out of context) during an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN's
"Late Edition" program on 9 March 1999. When asked to describe what
distinguished him from his challenger for the Democratic presidential
nomination, Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey, Gore replied (in part):

"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 important to our country's economic growth
and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system."

Clearly, although Gore's phrasing was clumsy (and self-serving), he was not
claiming that he "invented" the Internet (in the sense of having designed or
implemented it), but that he was responsible for helping to create the
environment (in an economic and legislative sense) that fostered the
development of the Internet.

UNQUOTE

The author of this "debunking urban legends" article should be spanked for
having the temerity to state "Al Gore did not claim he "invented" the Internet,
nor did he say anything that could reasonably be interpreted that way."

The very quote he provided said EXACTLY that!

"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in
creating the Internet."

That was the SAME Algore who stood in the Capitol Building and didn't
recognize George Washington's bust...and THAT was on videotape!

Had Al Gore gotten elected and the same September 11th events transpired,
he would have had us paying restitution to the families of the hijackers!

Sheeeeeesh!

Steve, K4YZ