In article , (Steve
Robeson K4YZ) writes:

Subject: K0HB Supports Common Sense...NOT!
From:
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!

That's right! And as the snopes item shows, *that* claim was an exaggeration.

Al Gore *was* involved in setting up the legislation that made the internet as
we know it possible. That's not the same thing as *inventing* it, and he didn't
do it singlehanded.

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

Now who's editorializing? Anyone can follow the link. ;-)

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."

"should be spanked"? Are you advocating physical violence against that author?

The very quote he provided said EXACTLY that!

Nope. The word 'invented' was never used. Yet Al Gore is often quoted as saying
that exact word, which he didn't.

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

And he did. He and a whole committee of others.

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

How about Shrub's reference to "the internets"?

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!

That's pure....nonsense.

I think you're trying to get me to use an eight-letter word meaning bovine
excrement. Because that's what your last statement is.

Sheeeeeesh!

The plain and simple fact is that Al Gore never claimed to have "invented the
internet". "Invention" denote an original technical activity, such as
"inventing the telephone" or "invented color television". Nobody with any
understanding of English would write of the "invention of the Constitution" or
"invented the modern civil rights movement".

Hans wrote that Al Gore said "I invented the Internet" as if it were a direct
quote. That was a mistake, pure and simple, as the snopes site proves.

73 de Jim, N2EY