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In 1992, Gore published Earth in the Balance, an environmentalist tract with a generally apocalyptic view about the damage wrought to "the earth's climate balance." Likening the supposed abuse of the environment to the predations of Nazi Germany, Gore wrote that global warming threatens "an environmental holocaust without precedent" and, while papering over contrary evidence, insisted that "evidence of an ecological Kristalnacht is as clear as the glass shattering in Berlin. Although the book sold well, it also revealed Gore to be an uncompromising ideologue, undercutting the "moderate" image he had cultivated while seeking the presidency in 1988. Gore's 2000 run for the Presidency was marked by revelations of his fabulation and self-creation. On one occasion, he claimed to have been the inspiration for the main character in film Love Story. Gore was quoted in the New York Times December 14, 1997 edition as saying "[Erich] Segal had told some reporters in Tennessee that Love Story was based on him and Tipper." The Tennessean newspaper article indeed quoted Segal as saying that Love Story was based on both the Gores. Gore's quotation is therefore accurate since Gore was referring to what the Tennessean had reported. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore_controversies He misleadingly claimed to have brought a New York toxic waste dump called Love Canal to national attention. On 30 November 1999, in response to a question about what students could do to involve themselves in the political process, Gore described to a New Hampshire high school his reaction in the late 1970s to a letter from a student in Toone, Tennessee, complaining about her family's poisoned well: "I called for a congressional investigation and a hearing. I looked around the country for other sites like that. I found a little place in upstate New York called Love Canal. Had the first hearing on that issue, and Toone, Tennessee — that was the one that you didn't hear of. But that was the one that started it all."[13] While the Associated Press story that covered the speech printed the final quotation correctly, both the Washington Post and The Washington Times claimed that Gore had actually said: "I was the one that started it all". [14] The Post ran a correction a few days later, but the Times never did http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore_controversies That's the Moonie Times for ya. Perhaps most notoriously, Gore in a Mach 1999 interview suggested that as a Congressman he had played a critical role in "creating the Internet." If President Eisenhower had said in the mid-1960s that he, while President, "created" the Interstate Highway System, we would not have seen dozens and dozens of editorials lampooning him for claiming he "invented" the concept of highways or implying that he personally went out and dug ditches across the country to help build the roadway. Everyone would have understood that Ike meant he was a driving force behind the legislation that created the highway system, and this was the very same concept Al Gore was expressing about himself with his Internet statement. http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp Glad I could clear up your disinformation. --Jeff -- We can have democracy or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few. We cannot have both. --Justice Louis Brandeis |
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