Reply #46: It wasn't the Internet that damaged Gore in 99-00 with the ridiculous and often repeated slander [View All]

[Uncle Joe]

and libel of "Gore claimed to have invented the Internet," it was the traditional top down, one way corporate media; television, radio and print that did the dirty deed and in the process brainwashed a sizable % of the people as to Gore's credibility/integrity.

The corporate media's motivation was as ancient as Greek Mythology, if not older.

They were especially motivated to betray the American People's best interests and enable Bush to the White House precisely because Gore was the leading political champion for opening the Internet to the people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_gore

Gore was one of the Atari Democrats who were given this name due to their "passion for technological issues, from biomedical research and genetic engineering to the environmental impact of the "greenhouse effect."<32> On March 19, 1979 he became the first member of Congress to appear on C-SPAN.<48> During this time, Gore co-chaired the Congressional Clearinghouse on the Future with Newt Gingrich.<49> In addition, he has been described as having been a "genuine nerd, with a geek reputation running back to his days as a futurist Atari Democrat in the House. Before computers were comprehensible, let alone sexy, the poker-faced Gore struggled to explain artificial intelligence and fiber-optic networks to sleepy colleagues."<32><50> Internet pioneers Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn noted that, "as far back as the 1970s, Congressman Gore promoted the idea of high speed telecommunications as an engine for both economic growth and the improvement of our educational system. He was the first elected official to grasp the potential of computer communications to have a broader impact than just improving the conduct of science and scholarship <...> the Internet, as we know it today, was not deployed until 1983. When the Internet was still in the early stages of its deployment, Congressman Gore provided intellectual leadership by helping create the vision of the potential benefits of high speed computing and communication.

Gore introduced the Supercomputer Network Study Act of 1986.<51> He also sponsored hearings on how advanced technologies might be put to use in areas like coordinating the response of government agencies to natural disasters and other crises."<52>

As a Senator, Gore began to craft the High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991 (commonly referred to as "The Gore Bill") after hearing the 1988 report Toward a National Research Network submitted to Congress by a group chaired by UCLA professor of computer science, Leonard Kleinrock, one of the central creators of the ARPANET (the ARPANET, first deployed by Kleinrock and others in 1969, is the predecessor of the Internet).<53><54><55> The bill was passed on December 9, 1991 and led to the National Information Infrastructure (NII) which Gore referred to as the "information superhighway."<56>

After joining the U.S. House of Representatives, Gore held the "first congressional hearings on the climate change, and co-sponsor hearings on toxic waste and global warming."<57><58> He continued to speak on the topic throughout the 1980s.<32><59><60> In 1990, Senator Gore presided over a three-day conference with legislators from over 42 countries which sought to create a Global Marshall Plan, "under which industrial nations would help less developed countries grow economically while still protecting the environment."<61>

As the Internet grew in power and influence, the corporate media's owners and upper management, if no one else in that industry saw the writing on the wall, the empowerment of the peoples' voice and democratization of information would come at the corporate media's expense. The corporate media came to view the growing Internet as a threat to their monopoly on the distribution and dissemination of information and a subsequent erosion of their power, wealth and influence.

In short their business plan was threatened and they became embittered, their enmity of Gore was so great, they were willing to enable a corrupt incompetent to the most powerful office in the land. They played Zeus to Gore's Prometheus but instead of sending a vulture to eat his liver for all eternity, they payed pundits and "journalists" to eat away at his credibility with the American People via continuous slander and libel.

The corporate media; "Fourth estate," guardian watchdogs for democracy could never bring them selves to actually give the man credit for his vision and legislative achievements, had they done so, Gore would've won by a landslide margin too large for Bush and the Republican controlled Supreme Court to steal.

To my knowledge, the corporate media; still hasn't apologized to Gore or the American People for selling them down the river.