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“GORE-ITIS”
THE BEST OF AL GORE’S LIES AND EXAGGERATIONS
Tired of enduring Al Gore’s endless misrepresentation of the truth during the 2000 Democratic primary, in December candidate Bill Bradley’s campaign issued a pamphlet dealing with Gore’s inability to tell the truth:
“The [Bradley] pamphlet, which addressed the issue of prescription drugs, accuses Gore of ‘uncontrollable lying,’ a disease described as ‘Gore-itis’. . . . The pamphlet, labeled a ‘prescription form,’ describes a mock disease requiring a treatment with truth serum. ‘Al Gore needs to tell the truth,’ it said.” (The Associated Press, 12/11/99)
While Bill Bradley subsequently apologized to Gore for the pamphlet, Time magazine noted it was because he was “furious that his campaign had descended to Gore’s level.” (Time, 12/20/99) What Gore has lacked over the years in creative and innovative policies, he has made up for in creative and innovative story telling. However, no matter how creative and innovative Gore’s stories are, they are not honest. Here is a collection of some of the best of Al Gore’s lies and exaggerations.
Gore Created the Internet? Lie Number One!
The Gore Lie
“During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.” (Al Gore, CNN’s “Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer,” 3/9/99)
The Truth
The U.S. Defense Department Created the Internet. “The Internet, originally called ARPANET, dates to 1969, when the Defense Department began funding the project. Gore, then 21, was still eight years away from joining Congress.” (The Associated Press, 3/11/99)
Gore Was the Inspiration for Love Story? Lie Number Two!
The Gore Lie
“Around midnight, after a three-city tour of Texas last month, the Vice President came wandering back to the press compartment of Air Force Two. Sliding in behind a table with the two reporters covering him that day, he picked slices of fruit from their plates and spent two hours swapping opinions about movies and telling stories about old chums like Erich Segal, who, Gore said, used Al and Tipper as models for the uptight preppy and his free-spirited girlfriend in Love Story; and Gore’s Harvard roommate Tommy Lee Jones, who played the roommate of the Gore-like character in the movie version of Segal’s book.” (Time, 12/15/97)
The Truth
Not According to Love Story Author Erich Segal. “Vice President Al Gore acknowledged Sunday a ‘miscommunication’ on his part in leading reporters to believe he and his wife were the model for the 1970s romance novel ‘Love Story.’ The author, Erich Segal, told The New York Times he was ‘befuddled’ by the comments in the first place. He said he called Gore, and the vice president said it was a misunderstanding.” (The Des Moines Register, 12/15/97)
Gore Led a Crusade Against Tobacco? Lie Number Three!
The Gore Lie
“When I was a child, my family was attacked by an invisible force that was then considered harmless. My sister Nancy was older than me. There were only the two of us, and I loved her more than life itself. She started smoking when she was 13 years old. The connection between smoking and lung cancer had not yet been established. But years later, the cigarettes had taken their toll. It hurt very badly to watch her savaged by that terrible disease. Her husband Frank and all of us who loved her so much tried to get her to stop smoking. . . . Tomorrow morning, another 13-year-old girl will start smoking. I love her too. Three thousand young people in America will start smoking tomorrow. One thousand of them will die a death not unlike my sister’s. And that is why until I draw my last breath, I will poor pour my heart and soul into the cause of protecting our children from the dangers of smoking.” (Al Gore, The Democratic National Convention, 8/28/96)
The Truth
Yet, 4 Years after the Death of Gore’s Sister the Press Reported: ‘“Throughout most of my life, I raised tobacco,’ the Tennessee senator hollered. ‘I want you to know that with my own hands, all of my life, I put it in the plant beds and transferred it. I’ve hoed it, I’ve dug in it, I’ve sprayed it, I’ve chopped it, I’ve shredded it, spiked it, put it in the barn and stripped it and sold it.’” ([New York] Newsday, 2/26/88)
Gore Was Still Growing Tobacco and Receiving Money From Tobacco Interests Years After His Sister’s Death. Tobacco was still grown on the Gore family farm years after Gore’s sister’s death. (CNN’s “Inside Politics,” 3/19/99) Furthermore, “from 1979 until the end of 1990, he [Gore] accepted $16,440 from tobacco political action committees.” (The Washington Post, 8/30/96)
Gore Worked for 20 Years on a Test Ban Treaty? Lie Number Four!
The Gore Lie
“I’ve worked on this for 20 years because, unless we get this one right, nothing else matters.” (Gore 2000 web site, 10/14/99)
The Truth
Gore’s Own Words Prove Past Opposition to the Treaty. In 1988, Gore chastised his Democrat colleagues for supporting the ban and clearly indicated that he would have voted against the comprehensive test ban as a senator:
Q: “If you’re elected president, will you suspend all U.S. nuclear weapons tests, upon taking office, and then proceed to conclude a formal test ban treaty?”
GORE: “Well, just as President John Kennedy made our world safer by getting a treaty banning atmospheric explosions, I would seek a treaty with the Soviet Union banning underground explosions as well. But before doing so, I would pin down the answers to two questions that are important to our national security:”
“First of all, can we firmly verify whether or not the Soviet Union is exploding low-yield tests on its territory? The evidence now coming from the scientists indicates that there are ways to negotiate cooperative agreements with the Soviets to make that possible. But we need the answer before the test ban rather than after.” (C-SPAN, Remarks by Al Gore at the Democratic Presidential Forum sponsored by the “Stop the Arms Race Political Action Committee,” 9/27/87)
Gore’s emphasis on the need for the continued testing of weapons systems to preserve the U.S. deterrent capability extended to many strategic systems. When his fellow Democrats advocated a ban on the flight-testing of missiles, Gore was scathing:
“They took positions that are wildly out of touch with what mainstream Democratic voters believe. . . That’s not exaggerated political rhetoric, that is absolutely the case. The very idea of having a complete ban on all flight-testing of missiles when we rely on deterrence for the survival of our civilization. . .” (The Washington Post, 2/22/88)
Gore Has Always Been Pro-Choice? Lie Number Five!
The Gore Lie
“And know this, I will always, always defend a woman’s right to choose. Every time Congress has tried to play politics with that fundamental personal right -- imposing gag rules, and attaching anti-choice language to any bill they can think of -- we have stood up to them and stopped them.” (Al Gore, Remarks at Women for Gore Event, 6/1/99)
The Truth
Gore Was Pro-Life as a Congressman. “It is my deep personal conviction that abortion is wrong. I hope that some day we will see the current outrageously large number of abortions drop sharply. . . . Let me assure you that I share your belief that innocent human life must be protected . . . In my opinion, it is wrong to spend federal funds for what is arguably the taking of a human life. . . .” (Letter from Rep. Al Gore to a Constituent, 7/18/84)
“During my 11 years in Congress, I have consistently opposed federal funding of abortions. In my opinion, it is wrong to spend federal funds for what is arguably the taking of a human life.” (Sen. Albert Gore Jr. Letter to a Constituent, 5/26/87)
“Calling abortion ‘the most complex issue that any candidate faces,’ Albert Gore Jr. said Wednesday that he doesn’t believe the courts have struck a proper balance between the rights of a fetus and woman’s right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy. ‘I don’t believe a woman’s freedom to live her own life, in all cases, outweighs the fetus’ right to life,’ the 4th District congressional candidate said, predicting that the abortion issue will be the forerunner to a whole series of issues in which medical technology and basic human rights come in conflict. Gore said he favors a cautious, case-by-case approach.” (The Nashville Banner, 7/29/76)
Gore’s Reporting Resulted In the Imprisonment of a Bunch of People? Lie Number Six!
The Gore Lie
“In 1987, Gore’s eagerness to play up his image as an investigative reporter led to one of the worst gaffes of his short-lived campaign for the presidency. Gore told The Des Moines Register that his reporting ‘got a bunch of people indicted and sent to jail.’” (Columbia Journalism Review, 1/93)
The Truth
In 1988 Gore Was Caught Lying About His Career as a Reporter. “Presidential candidate Sen. Albert Gore Jr. says he made an honest mistake when he said a Metro councilman had gone to prison after Gore wrote stories as a Tennessean reporter.”
“In an interview published last Sunday by the Des Moines Register, Gore was quoted as saying he ‘got a bunch of people indicted and sent to jail’ while working as a reporter for The Tennessean in the 1970s.”
“A story appearing in yesterday’s editions of The Commercial Appeal, a Memphis newspaper, says Gore exaggerated his record as an investigative reporter for The Tennessean.”
“Two persons were indicted as a result of an investigation into alleged corruption on the Metro Council in Nashville during the period in which Gore was covering the council. Neither of them was imprisoned as a result of the charges.” (The Tennessean, 10/4/87)
Gore Faced Enemy Fire in Vietnam? Lie Number Seven!
The Gore Lie
“And I was shot at. . . . I spent most of my time in the field.” (Al Gore, The Washington Post, 2/3/88)
“I carried an M-16 . . . I pulled my turn on the perimeter at night and walked through the elephant grass, and I was fired upon.” (Al Gore, Los Angeles Times, 10/15/99)
The Truth
Gore No Longer Mentions Combat Duty on the Campaign Trail. “On the campaign trail today, while he suggests no combat heroics, he nonetheless mentions his service in Vietnam proudly.” (Los Angeles Times, 10/15/99)
Gore Had Bodyguards Assigned to Keep Him Out of Harm’s Way in Vietnam. “In Vietnam, Alan Leo, a photographer in the press brigade office where Gore worked as a reporter, said he was summoned by Brig. Gen. K.B. Cooper, the 20th Engineer Brigade’s Commander, and told Leo that he, Cooper, ‘had a great amount of respect for the senator.’ He asked Leo, the most experienced member of the press unit, to make sure that nothing happened to Gore. ‘He requested that “Gore not get into situations that were dangerous,’” said Leo, who did what he could to carry out Cooper’s directive. He described his half-dozen or so trips into the field with Gore as situations where ‘I could have worn a tuxedo.’” (Newsweek, 12/6/99)
Gore Would Never Mess With Social Security? Lie Number Eight!
The Gore Lie
“Social Security Benefits Will Remain Untaxed. . . . I sincerely believe that any plan to tax Social Security benefits would place an unforgivable burden on our senior citizens who are currently trying to enjoy their retirement years in the face of ever-increasing prices . . . it is totally inconceivable . . . It is unfair . . .” (Albert Gore Jr. column, Carthage Courier, 2/21/80)
The Truth
Gore Has Voted to Raise Taxes on Social Security. In 1993, Gore cast the tie-breaking vote for the largest tax increase in history that included $25 billion in higher taxes on Social Security benefits. (Bill Clinton & Al Gore, Putting People First, 1992; CQ Vote #247: Adopted 51-50: R 0-44; D 50-6, with Albert Gore Jr. casting a “yea” vote, 8/6/93; “The Economic and Budget Outlook: An Update,” Congressional Budget Office, 9/93)
Gore Co-Sponsored McCain/Feingold Campaign Finance Reform? Lie Number Nine!
The Gore Lie
“Gore noted that he had backed a sweeping campaign finance bill sponsored by Senators John McCain, Republican of Arizona, and Russell D. Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin. ‘Unlike Senator Bradley, I was a co-sponsor of it,’ Gore said, ‘and I feel that it’s very important to get the influence of special interest money out of our politics.’” (The New York Times, 11/24/99)
The Truth
Gore Never Even Served with Sen. Feingold. Sen. Russell Feingold was not elected to the U.S. Senate until 1992, the year Al Gore left the Senate to become Vice President, therefore making it impossible for Gore to be a co-sponsor of any McCain/Feingold campaign finance reform legislation. (The Almanac of American Politics 1994) Even Bill Bradley Called Gore on This Lie. “Gore not only did not, but could not have cosponsored McCain-Feingold. Russ Feingold was not elected until 1992. Al Gore quit the Senate in 1992 to become Vice President. Feingold and Gore never served together.” (Bill Bradley for President Press Release, 12/7/99)
Gore Supports the Death Penalty? Lie Number Ten!
The Gore Lie
“Defending his position on the death penalty, Gore said, ‘I’ve always supported it because I think society has a right to make careful judgments about when that ultimate penalty ought to be applied.’” (The Associated Press, 11/19/99)
The Truth
Gore Voted Against the Death Penalty. Gore voted against the death penalty for drug kingpins. (CQ Vote 140: Adopted 66-32: R 38-6; D 28-26, 6/28/90) Gore voted against the death penalty for terrorists. (CQ Vote #12: Rejected 25-72: R 5-38; D 20-34, 2/20/91)
Gore Discovered Love Canal? Lie Number Eleven!
The Gore Lie
“I found a little place in upstate New York called Love Canal. I had the first hearing on that issue and Toone, Tenn. But that was the one that started it all.” (Al Gore, The New York Times, 12/10/99)
The Truth
Jimmy Carter, the Federal Government and Local Residents All Found Love Canal Long Before Gore Did. “Mr. Gore held Congressional hearings on the matter in October 1978. But two months earlier President Jimmy Carter had declared Love Canal a disaster area, and the federal government, after much howling by local residents, had offered to buy the homes.” (The New York Times, 12/1/99) Lois Gibbs, the Leader of the Love Canal Home Owners Association, Rebukes Gore. ‘“He did not begin Love Canal,’ Lois Gibbs, legendary leader of the Love Canal Home Owners Association, said Wednesday in an interview.” ([New York] Newsday, 12/3/99)
Gore Wrote Superfund? Lie Number Twelve!
The Gore Lie
“I have written the law, along with one other principle author of the superfund law, and amendments to the other major law in this area which requires that companies improperly disposing of hazardous waste, must bear the financial consequences of cleaning it up.” (Al Gore, The League of Women Voters Democrat Debate, 4/16/88)
The Truth
Rep. James Florio Authored Superfund. Rep. James Florio (D-N.J.) wrote the first Superfund law. (CQ Vote#510: Passed 351-23: R 123-14; D 228-9, 9/23/80) Though he did not author the law, Gore did vote for it. However, he also criticized Superfund for being “far too small to make a reasonable start on correcting this enormous environmental problem.” (Al Gore, Congressional Record, 5/16/80)
Gore Wrote the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)? Lie Number Thirteen!
The Gore Lie
“[Bradley’s proposals were] an old-style approach that spends a lot of money but doesn’t have any new ideas. [He proposes] the expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit. I was the author of that proposal. I wrote that, so I say, welcome aboard. That is something for which I have been the principal proponent for a long time.” (Al Gore, Time, 11/1/99)
The Truth
Gore Was Not In Congress When the EITC Was Passed. The EITC Act was originally passed in 1975. Gore did not become a member of Congress until 1977. Gore did not write the EITC Act of 1975. (Buffalo News, 12/13/99; U.S. News & World Report, 12/20/99)
Gore Negotiated an Agreement that Provided Internet Protection for Children? Lie Number Fourteen!
The Gore Lie
“I helped to negotiate an agreement with the Internet service providers to put a parent protection page up and give parents the ability to click on all of the web sites that their children have visited lately. That’ll put a lot of bargaining leverage in the hands of parents.” (Al Gore, ABC’s “Nightline” Democratic Debate, 12/16/99)
The Truth
Gore Had Little or Nothing to Do with Internet Protection for Children. “The [Internet] industry had been working for a year with bipartisan members of Congress on putting a link to on-line child-safety resources on the front page of Internet portals – with no participation from the Vice President.” (editorial, The Wall Street Journal, 5/6/99) Bartlett Cleland, a board member of the nonprofit Internet Education Foundation, said: “There was no Gore involvement. They hijacked this issue. He makes it sound like he led the project. I can’t imagine what he will invent tomorrow.” (The Washington Times, 5/6/99)
Gore’s Discussion With A Speech Writer Had A Major Impact On Hubert Humphrey’s 1968 Democratic National Convention Acceptance Speech? Lie Number Fifteen!
The Gore Lie
“As young Gore later often told the story, he had been interviewed the day before by Charles Bartlett, the veteran Chicago Sun-Times columnist from Chattanooga, a family friend who had known Albert Gore Sr., the senior senator from Tennessee, since his early days in the House. Bartlett ‘had passed the apogee of his career’ by 1968 but was ‘still a very eloquent writer,’ Gore said, and was one of those helping Humphrey with his speech at the convention. ‘And he came and spent an hour with me, asking what people my age thought about the war.’ As Gore sat in the convention hall and looked up at Humphrey in the spotlight, he thought that he heard his own words coming back to him. He was convinced that the vice president’s speechwriters had incorporated his suggestions into the acceptance speech -- evoking ‘the end of an era,’ the promise of a ‘prompt end to the war,’ the assertion that no one wanted ‘a police state,’ the call for ‘young Americans . . . to continue as vocal, creative and even critical participants in the politics of our time.’ Hearing those phrases, Gore said later, led him to the conclusion that ‘there was no doubt Mr. Bartlett had faithfully conveyed some of the feelings that I had tried to describe.”’ (The Washington Post, 12/27/99)
The Truth
The Individual Gore Spoke With Had No Link to Humphrey in 1968. “But was Gore only imagining his role as interpreter for his generation? According to Bartlett's description of those long-ago events, that might be the case. ‘I had nothing to do with Humphrey,’ Bartlett said in a recent interview. ‘I had no contact with Humphrey at all. If I talked to Al, it was perhaps for a story. I had absolutely no link at all with Hubert Humphrey in 1968.’ When presented with Bartlett’s response, Gore quickly retreated from his earlier recollection. ‘Faulty memory. Faulty memory,’ he said of himself and his oft-told story.” (The Washington Post, 12/27/99)
Gore Lives on a Farm Today? Lie Number Sixteen!
The Gore Lie
“I’ve spent some of my time growing up on a farm,’ Gore said. “I live on a farm today. I have my heart in my own farm. Yes, I live in Washington, D.C., when I’m working there. And yes I grew up more there than I did on the farm. But my heart is in Smith County, Tenn.” (ABCNEWS.com, 12/23/99)
The Truth
Gore Lives At the Naval Observatory In Washington, DC. “In yet another one of his patented Goreisms, the vice president appeared to reopen the question of whether he was raised as a city boy or a country boy. In the process of trying to find common ground with a questioner, Gore claimed that his current home is a farm – referring to his family’s farm in Carthage, Tenn. He quickly qualified the statement by noting that he lives in Washington ‘when I’m working there.’” (ABCNEWS.com, 12/23/99)
I correspond with a LARGE group of people. I think I will e-mail all of them one of these lies per day for the next few weeks. (8^)
Thanks, Lady. The file of Gore-ism grows.
Love it! Go for it!
I just e-mailed this post to my brother.We'll see what happens!
You're welcome.This guy is amazing isn't he?!!!!!
And his latest, as seen in another thread
Al Gore; "Madonna Asked Me to Father Her Love Child"
I can't believe this guy. One minute he's railing about the evils of soft money and the next thing - he's out fundraising for - soft money!!
Thanks for coming aboard goliath.I've seen this site before.They're too much!
No way the novel "Love Story" could be based on Al and Tipper Gore. First of all, Tipper is still alive and she's a blonde. Furthermore, I think it's more believeable that Brad and Janet in "Rocky Horror Picture Show" are based on Al and Tipper.
Finally, Gore didn't invent the internet. Tipper "invented" racial profiling with the "Parental Warning Labels" that her group, the Parents Music Resource Committee (PMRC), forced the record industry to put on black Rap records. "Let's do the time warp again!" :^)
"Brad and Janet in "Rocky Horror Picture Show" are based on Al and Tipper"
You've hit it right on the head!
BUMP!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
Have you seen this one?
Please come aboard!
The Truth
Gore Was Pro-Life as a Congressman. “It is my deep personal conviction that abortion is wrong. I hope that some day we will see the current outrageously large number of abortions drop sharply. . . . Let me assure you that I share your belief that innocent human life must be protected . . .
He'd sell his soul for a vote.
And throw Tipper and the kids in to boot.
The man has no morals.
BUMP!
Thanks, Lady In Blue.....great post!
Looks like Mr. Gore has weaved himself a web of lies. Let's hope GW is able to watch him strangle himself this fall. :-)
Thanks Lady. Sometime down the campaign road, Gov. Bush needs to implement a feature entitled 'Goreism of the Day'. It could be a feature of his web site........
I am here, LIB. I really don't think it's Goreitis. It's Clintonitus. The surefire remedy: distance yourself from Clinton ASAP, but it's easier said than done.
This is one of the great posts ever on FR.
Great post!
Have you sent this to GWB?
This is wonderful grist for the mill.
"He'd sell his soul for a vote. And throw Tipper and the kids in to boot.
The man has no morals."
Error in verb tense here, ST.LOUIE1! May I humbly suggest that you probably meant that he DID sell his soul for a vote, rather than that he WOULD. I agree with your morals statement, and add my suggestion for Algore's biggest lie of all (and he KNEW it was a lie when he said it): "Bill Clinton is one of the greatest presidents ever!" That one statement alone should indict the man as a liar equivalent to Slick, himself!
This is a terrific thread. It's perfect to copy and refer to in discussions about the election ahead. A quote a day from this article posted on office bulletin boards across this country could make an impact! Print 'em big, and print 'em in color! Pass them out to all your friends. Remember, that repetition of simply expressed ideas is the key to effective persuasion:
Algore is a liar. Algore is a liar. Algore is a liar. ALGORE IS A LIAR!
Error in verb tense here, ST.LOUIE1! May I humbly suggest that you probably meant that he DID sell his soul for a vote,...
No, I meant what I said.
I think he probably would sell his soul for a vote.
I don't know that he has.
Although I cannot classify it as lie, the most despicable thing Gore has done in public life was the bartering of his vote on the Gulf War for face time in the Senate and on television. Gore demonstrated that he is so self-centered that he would vote to send Americans into harm's way not for America's interests or even for his constituents' interests, but for face time. Now that is what the Democrats call a man of principles.
Best Al Gore POSTING I have ever read through and through !!! Lady IB - you outdid yourself with this one !! BUMP at cha ~!
I don't know if this is considered a lie but this was sent to me by e-mail this morning.
The Lord has a way of revealing those of us who really know him, and those that don't!!! Think about it!
Al Gore gave a big speech this week about how his faith is so "important" to him.
In this attempt to convince the American people that we should consider him for president, he announced that his favorite Bible verse is John 16:3.
Of course the speech writer meant John 3:16, but nobody in the Gore camp was familiar enough with scripture to catch the error.
And do you know what John 16:3 says?
John 16:3 ............................................... "And they will do this because they have not known the Father nor Me" The Holy Spirit works in strange ways!!!
Pass it on. _
You're welcome Irma.I hope that GWB can keep hammering him with the same sense of humor he showed in the e-mail letter.Like GWB said one day this week,when asked about these Gore scandals - "If I don't talk about them - who will?" It's a crying shame that the press is not doing it's job - so I guess it is up to GWB to keep talking about these scandals.
You're welcome deport.Either that or Gore Detector!!Either one would be great.I hope the Bush Campaign keeps it up.I saw a post the other day,where it was stated that a few weeks ago(?)several boxes of Gore scandals or information was delivered to Austin,Tex!!Did you hear or read anything like that?
Hi Big Steve - On Brit Hume(Tony Snow-substituting)-there was a clip (about 1/2 a clip) of GWB saying something like the "best way to end these scandals is to remove this administration"!!GO GWB GO!
Thank you very much doug from upland! Just posted it like I saw it!!(smile).I sure hope the RNC and Bush Campaign keep it up.Who knows what else will be coming up from now until November?!
Thanks for link - I just went over there.It's one of your very best.Loved it!
No,I didn't.I didn't think of that but I did e-mail to Rush and Sean Hannity,asking them to read it on the air.If I can get ahold of some e-mail addresses for other talk show hosts and some of the Newspapers,I'll e-mail it to them.And I hope everybody will do the same.
monocle,do you know where I can get more info on this?It seems that I read sometime ago-I don't know where-something about this.I'd like to post it here.
Aw,shucks! Thank you 'mam.Appreciate your appreciation!!!!
And do you know what John 16:3 says? John 16:3 ............................................... "And they will do this because they have not known the Father nor Me" The Holy Spirit works in strange ways!!!
I love it,I love it!.I've already e-mailed this article to Rush and Sean Hannity.I'm going to e-mail your post as an addition,if you don't mind? This is TOO good!
You have my ok on the posts !!!!!
BUMP LIVES !!!
Thanks ashlee.Did you read ambi's reply?It is so funny!I just e-mailed it to Rush and Sean.I'm still chuckling over it.
Ambi LIVES !!!!!!
Ambi should be writing for the mainstream and clear the air up on a point or two, don't you think Lady ?!?
I think this should be more widely read !!! So BUMP !!!! x2 !
Ambi should be writing for the mainstream and clear the air up on a point or two, don't you think Lady ?!?
Absolutely!It was the best laugh,I've had all day!
AMBI RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!
There was a thread on this probably within the last month. As I recall. Gore had discussions with Alan Simpson and Bob Dole about how much time he would be alloted to speak and I believe Gore was holding out for 15 minutes which was agreed to. Gore then upped the ante to include prime time exposure.
After having posted my earlier reply, I reconsidered my position and have now arrived at the conclusion that his speech before the Senate in this matter may be the biggest lie of Gore's lengthy list of lies.
I am HTML challenged but here is the URL - http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a38a3bc0c0b4e.htm
As supporters of Gore and Hillary in New York are starting to play the race card, Gore's lie about his father's support for civil rights legislation should have a place on your list.
Recounting Gore's lies would challenge even someone with a photographic memory. I believe the Clintons select Gore for the VP spot solely on the basis of Gore's ability to lie without shame.
Monocle--i couldn't agree with you more !!
BUMP !!!
Big bump
Yes, I do have "alagoria", a fear of Al Gore being responsible for anything, when this creep could not tell the truth if it was tattoed on his hand!
Question: When in Vietnam, why didn't he have an insignia patch on his uniform?
Question: Why did he always have four body guards?
Question: If a TOUR OF DUTY lasts a year, why wasn't he there for a year?
The answer is, he is and was a low-down piece of @#$%#@, he has no right to call himself a Vietnam vet!
LIB, can you verify that algor told a group at a Black church that his farther lost his seat in the U.S. Senate because he voted for the civil rights act in 1964? This has no bearing, but, Bill Bradley has stated that the reason he became a Democrat was that the Democrats passed the civil rights act. It's not that the Democrats lie, it's that they are incapable of telling even the simple and most obvious truths.
BUMP
Sorry Ambi. The John 16:3 quote is bogus. There is no documented speech in which algore made this algoreithm. It is very believable (I fell for it myself at first), but that quote is a hoax.
I love it,I love it!.I've already e-mailed this article to Rush and Sean Hannity.I'm going to e-mail your post as an addition,if you don't mind? This is TOO good!
LIB, you will do your credibility a disservice by forwarding the John 16:3 quote. It is a hoax and has been documented as such on some of the websites that debunk urban legends and virus warning hoaxes and other internet myths.
If you forward the algore John 16:3 quote you might as well also tell about how a friend of a friend on a business trip woke up in a tub full of ice missing a kidney after some bimbo he picked up in the hotel bar slipped him a mickey, and then when he tried to get his change out of the payphone calling 911 he poked his finger on a hypodermic needle that had a note taped to it saying "Welcome to the world of AIDS", but it didn't really matter, because as he was driving himself to the hospital he noticed a car driving without headlights and when he flashed his lights at them they turned around and followed him and shot him in a gang initiation ritual.
algore has given us so many true examples of his stupidity and lies with his valid algoreithms. Let's not damage our credibility by circulating bogus quotes.
“I carried an M-16 . . . I pulled my turn on the perimeter at night and walked through the elephant grass, and I was fired upon.” (Al Gore, Los Angeles Times, 10/15/99)
Notice how he carried his M-16:
Here's a question for you: Did the Army not trust him with an ammo clip for that M-16 or did he think it was now safe to point the M-16 at his face since he had taken the ammo clip out (but probably leaving a round still chambered)?
And this genius thinks he is qualified to express an opinion on gun control / safety issues!!!
bttt
The Gore Lie
Gore claims he and Bill Clinton served as the inspiration for Angry Beavers.
The Truth
Janet Reno and Hillary Clinton are the real-life Norb and Dag. Al Gore served as inspiration for
Be sure to include this with your email to your group:
1993 The NERN
CPSR News Volume 11, Number 3: Summer 1993
In late 1991, the United States Congress passed, and President Bush signed into law, the High Performance Computing and Communications Act.
Chiefly sponsored by then Senator Al Gore, the HPCC program is designed to "ensure continued United States leadership in high-performance computing." For fiscal year 1992, the HPCC program was funded at $655 million, and for fiscal year 1993 it received $803 million, a 22% increase. The principal elements of HPCC include research and development on high-performance computing systems to improve the speed of computing by two or three orders of magnitude; research on advanced software technology in pursuit of several technical "grand challenges" in science and engineering; computer networking; human resources development; and basic research in computer science and technology relevant to high-performance computing.
The HPCC included funding for a new networking initiative called the National Research Education Network, or NREN. The NREN, like the rest of the HPCC, is an interagency program coordinated by the little-known Federal Coordinating Council on Science, Engineering, and Technology, or FCCSET (pronounced "Fixit"). The NREN is primarily run by the National Science Foundation and the Advanced Research Projects Agency (formerly DARPA--the word "defense' was dropped this year). The entire HPCC, however, is overseen by Dr. Donald A. Lindbergh, M.D., the director of the National Library of Medicine.
NREN is a program designed to increase the networking capabilities of leading scientific and technological
While the Internet and the : NREN will continue to: develop as models for advanced computer networking, they will also continue to fall short of a true national information infrastructure unless several key problems are solved.
Research centers. The law says that the participating federal agencies will make available a network capable of transmitting information at speeds of one gigabit per second or greater by 1996.
While the legislation describes a broad reach for the network-- including "research institutions and educational institutions, government, and industry in every state"-- as a practical matter the NREN is aimed at the community served by NSFNet. The NREN will not change the basic structure of the Internet, and it does not involve the deployment of any new fiber optic network. I I What the NREN will do, by developing new tools for broadband communication, is to absorb some of the "high-end" use of the Internet--uses that involve the transmission of huge amounts of data and which tend to degrade performance for "low-end" Internet users. So the NREN is not a "new" network, although it introduces a new name to the Internet family of networks. It is a program that will add new capacities and new tools to the Internet. The NSF backbone is expected to upgrade to a gigabit per second capacity or greater, and most mid-level networks that make up the U.S. portion of the Internet should upgrade to 45 Mbps within the near future. 12 The NREN program will also fund software development to take advantage of these higher speeds. The HPCC as a whole will drive this development with research on several "grand challenges" in science and engineering.
However, the NREN has become more than just a program to speed up the Internet. It is increasingly a symbol of a new U.S. resolve to lead the world in the deployment of high speed, high bandwidth telecommunications services. A good deal of this inspiration is due to Vice President Al Gore's enthusiasm for the subject. When Gore started to get involved in computer networking issues an incremental upgrade to NSFNet was already in the works; the network had upgraded in 1990-91 and immediately started to make plans for the next step in order to keep pace with demand. The Bush administration, while not opposing the bill than contained funding for the NREN, insisted that special legislation wasn't necessary, since the administration had already budgeted and planned for the enhancement of NSFNet.
But Senator Gore mobilized his legislative colleagues to support the HPCC bill. and Gore himself began to give public speeches about the vision attached to the nation's information infrastructure. In large part due to the impetus provided by Gore, "the case and constituency for NREN," says Harvard's Brian Kahin, "has grown beyond academic 'research and education' to primary and secondary education, public libraries, and economic development writ large." 13 Now most of the people interested in promoting an integrated information infrastructure view NREN as the testbed for applications and technologies that will eventually be "ported" to broadband networks that serve the entire public. In fact, under pressure from constituencies outside the research community, Gore introduced a second bill, in 1992, called the Information Infrastructure and Technology Act, which will provide funding for the extension of networking resources to schools, libraries, state and local governments, and nonprofit institutions. (In some circles, the HPCC is known as "Gore 1," and the Infrastructure Act as "Gore II.") The Congress has since proposed another new role for the network, as a support for planned "manufacturing technology extension centers," which are part of a package of legislation called the National Competitiveness Act of 1993, sponsored by Rep. George Brown in the House and Senator Hollings in the Senate. For the reasons described earlier, national computer-based communication on high-speed networks has captured the public imagination, at least among business. policy and technical elites. By default, the NREN has become the vehicle for such enthusiasms, even though it was first proposed merely as a way to improve the "high-end" use of the Internet. The Clinton administration's manifesto on technology policy, introduced on February 22nd, states very clearly the objective of investing in a "national information infrastructure and establishment of a task force working with the private sector to design a national communications policy that will ensure rapid introduction of new communication technology."14 The Clinton-Gore campaign announced the goal of a high speed, high bandwidth communications system to "every home, school, and business in the United States by the year 2015," although this hasn't been repeated since the election. Dr. Lindberg, director of the HPCC program, testified on March 25, 1993, that the HPCC program is developing computing, communications, and software technology the U.S. will need to meet its information and telecommunications needs. It will lay the foundation for an advanced national information infrastructure (NII) consisting of high-speed communication links high performance computers, and powerful, but user-friendly software that will give every American access to an unprecedented amount of information, as well as the fools needed to effectively process and use it. This infrastructure will spur gains in U.S. productivity and industrial competitiveness, improve our national security, and improve the health and education of our citizens.15
Thus, since the Clinton administration took office, the High Performance Computing and Communications Program and its component, the National Research and Education Network, have been transformed from programs designed to improve the capabilities of U.S. computer science and computer networks to a general economic development strategy that will "spur gains in U.S. productivity and industrial competitiveness, improve our national security, and improve the health and education of our citizens." The Clinton administration has also introduced the concept of the NII as a natural follow-on to NREN and its associated results. But what this NII will actually look like is not yet clear.
THE NATIONAL IN FORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE While the Internet and the NREN will continue to develop as models for advanced computer networking, they will also continue to fall short of a true national information infrastructure unless several key problems are solved. Marvin Sirbu of Carnegie Mellon University has summarized these problems well:
"Development of standardized methods for information finding: White Pages directories, Yellow Pages, information indexes.
"Development of widely standardized methods for retrieving information which may be scattered across hundreds of different hosts.
"Mechanisms for security and authentication.
"Development of billing and accounting systems which can track the transfer of intellectual property and provide a mechanism for compensating authors and maintainers.
"Development of standard document representation formats, which go beyond ASCII and allow sharing of graphics, images, voice annotation, animated sequences, and video."16
These are technical requirements for a robust information infrastructure, some of which must be supplemented by policy decisions and conventions of use. Sirbu might have added the requirement of a scalable interface for users, so that novice users will find the information network "intuitive" and easy to use, but expert users will be able to select a method of using the network that matches their skill.
The two problems that confront policymakers now are: who will decide how to solve these problems, and who will pay for the solutions?
System uniformity, architectural stability, economies of scale, universal access, and social equity would all seem to suggest that the best vehicle for implementing a national network is the federal government itself. This is the position of Vice President Gore, who argues that the government is the only guarantor of a system that will serve all Americans. This is the model of the NREN, in which academic and industry researchers are using government funds to expand the capacity of the Internet. Gore believes that the federal government should build a new national network and then turn it over to private contractors for systems management, the way that the Internet was developed and is now managed. John MarkofT of The New York Times adds, "the whole project would be a key test for the industrial policy that Mr. Clinton and Mr. Gore view as a way to revive the economy."17
But opposing the Vice President and his allies are the large telecommunications corporations and opponents of President Clinton's industrial policy. Executives of AT&T, MCI, Sprint, and other long distance carriers maintain that their networks are well-poised to be transformed into a national information infrastructure, and that the government should stay out of the business of building a competing network. The commercial vendors of telecommunication services believe that they can offer an "upgrade path" of services that will be the most cost-effective. Competition will keep prices down, as demonstrated in the rate wars between long distance carriers. These players also argue that the government simply can't afford the massive investment required to develop a new network, especially in light of competing public demands such as universal and affordable health care.
Public interest organizations, libraries, educators, and other nonprofit service providers have tended to side with the government, fearing that a purely commercial network will undermine the nation's tradition of universal service and price out large constituencies who won't be able to afford new services. Jeff Chester of the Center for Media Education in Maryland warns that a national network developed and run by corporations will turn television into a "pay per view" system, compromising what little public character the current "over-the-air" free broadcast system has now. Librarians are concerned that the open and free model of libraries will be threatened by the commercialization of information resources. Overall, many people are worried that a purely commercial network simply will cater to the lowest common denominator of the market, meaning dozens of "home shopping" services, on-line computer games, "infomercials," and packaged, sensationalized news.
Unfortunately, as Jonathan Aronson notes, "the public is not well organized...[and the 'public good,' broadly defined, usually is not reflected in the pressures on firms and policymakers regarding communications infrastructure.''] 8 While pronouncements about universal service and measures to attenuate the polarization of information "haves" and "have-nots" are routinely heard from business and government leaders, there is so far little evidence that such concerns are being incorporated into the policy debate. A first step will be the inclusion of public interest advocates on the government's recently announced National Information Infrastructure Council, an advisory body set up to chart the course of the NII.
The challenge that faces policymakers and network developers is how to incorporate public goods into an innovative system that will be driven primarily by market demand. In order for the information network to deserve the name "infrastructure," it must have a public character reflected in extra- market values such as equitable access, privacy, the inclusion of public space, freedom of expression, and some measure of democratic control. In some instances these values will conflict with the rationale of "economic competitiveness," which right now is the principal and nearly exclusive justification for the Nll. The task of the public interest community is to make sure its values are part of the design, management, and use of the network.
Public Interest Goals
How the public interest might best be defined is clearly not a simple task. The debate surrounding the future of the infrastructure combines aspects of traditional media and broadcasting policy with new questions about common carriage, connectivity, access and privacy. The important roles of the NSF and the university and research communities have added another layer of complexity to the policy analysis. Hybrids of technology have created hybrids of policy. Still the need to articulate public goals for the nation's infrastructure seems clear.
EDUCOM, an association of American colleges and universities, has recommend a number of principles for the development of the NII, including support for scientific and other tones of collaborative work, the opening of archives of federal technical, scientific and economic data. and the creation of a nationwide citizen network that provides access to educational programs, public information, and commercial information resources. These goals reflect the desire to accommodate private ventures while preserving the public character of the information infrastructure. I 9
Other initiatives focus on specific policy goals. The Benton Foundation in Washington, D.C., has launched a campaign to strengthen public interest advocacy on network issues, focusing specifically on the future of universal service. Karen Menichelli, associate director of the Benton Foundation, says that "universal service is one of the important measures of infrastructure success. Who will have access and on what terms are critical questions to examine." Universal service might include tree or affordable access to basic services, such as news, public affairs, health, education, and electoral information. Locator and directory services might help users navigate network resources.
Miles Fidelman, director of the Center for Civic Networking, speaks of the need to encourage local networks that serve the interests of state agencies and community institutions. Such networks could invigorate civic participation and community life. Taylor Walsh, with the National Capital Area Public Access Network (CapAccess), expresses a similar sentiment when he says that "it seems appropriate, if not crucial, at this stage in the evolution of national networking policy to create parallel programs that help the infrastructure take shape at the local level." Many states are now exploring various ways to link civic groups and public sector organizations.
For example, information "kiosks" could allow citizens to locate state agencies, to schedule appointments, and to gather data on government programs. Such kiosks could be located in grocery stores, shopping centers, or even recreation centers. Iowa State Senator Richard yarn, who also chairs the State Information Policy Consortium, says that
"The information age offers the opportunity for all levels of government to work together and to provide access to a broad range of government services through single access points."20
CPSR has also helped promote new local network initiatives. In 1992 CPSR organized a conference to explore Local Civic Networks. That meeting helped catalyze a number of local efforts to promote the development of community networks, including the Seattle Community Network now being pursued by members of CPSR/Seattle. ISee the accompanying article in this issue by Doug Schuler on the Seattle Community Network, page 8. A recent CPSR Newsletter explored the opportunities of Local Civic Networks in more detail, Vol. 10, Nos. 1-2 -ed.]
While these initiatives go forward, organizations and individuals are also setting out policy goals for the nation's infrastructure. The hope is that these principles will be incorporated into the design of network services and will be supported by legislative and regulatory decisions. Typically the public interest perspective on the national information infrastructure--what might be called in this world of acronyms the "NII PIP"--focuses on one or more underlying policy principles.
Universality
"Universal access" has a deep resonance in the history of U.S. communications policy. The country's commitment to public access to the phone network is a monumental achievement, considered by some to be the communications equivalent of Gutenberg's invention of the printing press. Broad public access to the telephone network literally wired together the nation and provided the opportunity for the rapid growth of new services and activities. Still, defining universal access in an era of "value-enhanced" services will not be an easy task. Not all users require "premium" channels, and market incentives areclearly necessary to encourage the growth of new commercial services. But neither can universal service simply mean an access point to the lowest service level, an "informational safety net" that may offer little more than yesterdays news, or last weeks employment listings.
Some weight must surely be given to infrastructure features that facilitate the delivery of other services. For example, if public support for the delivery of dial-