Seven Years Later Wapo Scribe Admits Gore Did Not Claim To Invent Internet

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Seven Years Later Wapo Scribe Admits Gore Did Not Claim To Invent Internet

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/21/AR2006072101365.html

The inconvenient truth is that as a politician, Gore has always been more successful in a supporting role. In the Senate, he was a visionary on environmental issues, nuclear proliferation and, yes, the Internet, which he never did claim he invented.

Nice analysis by Daily Howler below.

http://dailyhowler.com/

Now they tell us! Seven years later, many major scribes, like Grunwald, seem to feel free to mention the fact that Gore never said he invented the Internet. Missing of course, is an attempt to explain why we heard, all through Campaign 2000, that Gore did make this comical statement. And yes, the public kept hearing that punishing charge right there in Grunwald’s own paper. For example, here is the Post’s Ceci Connolly in December 1999, one day after she invented another bogus claim—the claim that Delusional Gore had hauled off and said that he discovered Love Canal:

CONNOLLY (12/2/99): Add Love Canal to the list of verbal missteps by Vice President Gore.

The man who mistakenly claimed to have inspired the movie "Love Story" and to have invented the Internet says he didn't quite mean to say he discovered a toxic waste site when he said at a high school forum Tuesday in New Hampshire: "I found a little place in upstate New York called Love Canal."

Gore went on to brag about holding the "first hearing on that issue" and said "I was the one that started it all."

Simply put, that is one of the ugliest moments in recent American history. In this moment, Connolly—a journalistic disgrace throughout this campaign—invented another fake claim about Gore, a claim that would be repeated, far and wide, for the rest of Campaign 2000. If you want to know why the U.S. Army is now in Iraq, go ahead—reread those three paragraphs by Connolly, who would be drummed out of any real profession for her astonishing conduct throughout this campaign. Starting in early April 1999, Connolly just kept making up bogus claims about Gore. Result? George Bush ended up in the White House—and the US Army ended up in Iraq. If you don’t understand that chain of events, you don’t yet understand recent history.

Today, many major reporters, like Grunwald, feel free to tell us—seven years later—that Gore never said he invented the Internet. Routinely, though, they fail to answer the obvious question: Why was the public we told the opposite all through the course of Campaign 2000? In fact, Ceci Connolly’s serial inventions did send George W. Bush to the White House. Seven years later, we get one small morsel of truth: Al Gore never did claim that he invented the Internet!

Seven Years Later Wapo Scribe Admits Gore Did Not Claim To Invent Internet

NOT!