Dear Media Motherfuckers. Show us the PICTURES of the keyboards.

[Stinky The Clown]

Listen up, you shitbirds. This is for ALL of you who perpetuate this BULLSHIT about the Clinton transition.

There is no doubt that even morons, thugs, and dirty tricksters, as made up the incoming Bush administration, would have taken pictures of the supposed vandalism left behind in the wake of the departing Clinton administration.

Here's news for you motherfuckers.

It never happened. Yet all your spokesmodels are out there saying this crap over and over and over.

Local news losers are saying it.

Network assholes are saying it.

Cable fuckwads are saying it.

It is in print.

Nobody stole the Ws off the fucking keyboards. Nobody stole the fucking furniture or the fucking drapes. Nobody stacked chairs to the fucking ceilings.

NONE OF THAT SHIT EVER HAPPENED.

And if it did, and if you wanna keep saying it, SHOW US THE PICTURES.

OR SHUT YOUR FUCKING PIEHOLES.







...... goddam motherfucking lying assholes ........

[navarth]

1. Speak It !! But those clowns aren't listening yet...

we all have to speak this.

[yy4me]

2. I guess that's telling 'em! This time, when our much hated

pres leaves, the only thing that will be of concern is the lingering stink.

[poverlay]

97. Yep, peanut butter chile and bullshit leave a mighty whiffy stench...n/t

[CAVU]

3. The departing Clinton administration?

huh?

[gratefultobelib]

7. These were rumors back in 2000. I remember being really embarrassed that the

Clintonites would have been so childish. Then, OF COURSE, we found out these were all falsely spread stories. As Husb2sparkly says, Show us the proof.

[CAVU]

14. Oh...so I guess some news people have been repeating it?

I don't watch them very much.

[Warpy]

20. Every ranting gasbag on the right stated it like a fact

and the good puppy mass media picked it up like it was a fact. Eventually, we caused enough of a furore, along with the departing White House staff, that the incoming administration provided a picture of a "trashed" office.

The picture showed an office with boxes of paperwork stacked on the floor along one wall. Nothing was trashed. Everything was neat. However, the howler monkeys said it was proof of something or other.

There were no receipts for new keyboards per the GAO. There were no bills for cleaning per the GAO.

It was a pack of lies from a gaggle of right wing gasbags, the first in a series of massive lies that would eventually lead us into two unwinnable wars and an economic collapse.

They must be so proud.

[Captain Hilts]

40. Bob Herbert used it to trash the Clintons just last July. nt

[FatDave]

72. It didn't originate from the right-wing gasbags.

It originated with the Bush administration. At the very least, they had hundreds of opportunities to set the record straight. I remember Ari Fleishcher saying "we just want to move on and have no official comment". They chose to kick off their reign with a pack of lies. Fuckers.

[yardwork]

81. Actually, I remember the chimp stating that the rumors were false.

Even the chimp stated categorically that the stories about stolen silverware, etc., were false. He said something like "there might have been a couple of keyboards with the w keys missing, but that's it."

I don't have a link but it should be easy to find the shrub's comments about this, as it was reported. So it's particularly shameful and lazy and stupid and idiotic of the press to be repeating lies that were corrected once before. Fool them once, shame on them, fool them twice - the press get's fooled again!

[KakistocracyHater]

102. & they'll end it the same

too, you can count on it. Hopefully they will be stomped down for all their lies, I am sssooo sick of them trying to stir up fear!

[spag68]

108. Whitehouse equipment

I was in the service 50 years ago and something was true then as it is now. From local to state to federal, schools and towns and especially the GAO. There is a record of every piece of equipment and a tag on it with all the info about when it was bought, from whom, and who requisitioned it. If any thing was destroyed or stolen or altered there would have been hell to pay and everyone knows it. Let them play their little games, it's a new day and they got their ass kicked. SCREW-EM.

[YOY]

10. A debunked rumor

n/t

[LibraLiz1973]

24. Hasn't it been debunked like 2,345 times?

[tcfrogs]

4. Are the M$M still bringing this up?

I don't watch much. Personally, I'd just let it drop rather than get all upset about it.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

5. there are always pranks

some of them pretty sick - but the rockstar hotel room trashing claimed in the media is absurd.

[JeffR]

6. Oh my. Now I've gone & put this on the Greatest Page

WHERE IT BELONGS!!!!!!!!!!111111111111111111111111

[specimenfred1984]

8. You're screaming at fascist propaganda whores hoping they'll change

Just turn them off, ignore all their advertisers.

[phantom power]

9. Oh no, tell me they aren't bringing that up again.

[Dennis Donovan]

11. IIRC, the GAO report did say that there was some damage, but NOT out of line...

..from previous transitions. The incoming Bush admin made it sound MUCH worse than it was.

[ExPatLeftist]

76. Yes, IIRC the damage was greater for outgoing Bush I and even Reagan. n/t

[BR_Parkway]

12. Tell the Mrs I love you - your rants always go where I would, but can't

seem to get the words out like you do

[dkofos]

13. Not that shit again.

[librechik]

15. "No Truth in Vandalism Claims," ( GSA report)

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/0518-04.htm

Yeah. After stalling and stonewalling for years, the truth came out in whispers.

So, yeah, FAUX--show us the proof.

[Poiuyt]

57. Thanks for that article

I just heard Ann Compton repeat the story on the radio the other night. She swore that it was true. Maybe she should do some more investigative work.

[louis-t]

84. Maybe someone needs to do the investigation for her

Anyonme can send it to them. Snopes, the GSA article. If press won't do their job.....

[Judi Lynn]

16. Good indication of their persistance in getting to the truth of stories before broadcasting them!

As most of the DU'ers on this thread have already noted, this was examined as soon as they started these primitive lies, and it was revealed there was NOTHING unusual, out of line at all, everything completely consistant with normal wear and tear, but the scum attempted to create an anti-Clinton storm with their concoction.

God forbid our current corporate, right-wing owned media should simply do a little checking into the original findings which we all heard, if we paid attention.

[NRaleighLiberal]

17. Another media myth I heard on the radioes today - "McCain suspended his campaign during the crisis".

With a media that is so apathetic, lazy and willing to be a right wing echo chamber, we are looking at something else that needs to be fixed big time.

[newtothegame]

18. DU'ers don't consider the Clintons pure evil anymore?

I missed the memo...:) Must be post-election.

[Stinky The Clown]

21. I can't speak for "DU'ers" ...... but I still like "The Clintons"

I never saw them as pure evil.

[tclambert]

88. Nobody's pure evil

Hitler liked puppies. And Dick Cheney . . . um, well, never mind.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

19. Who cares?

They're just doing it to irritate people.

[Festivito]

22. OKAY. Calm down. Some of that did happen. Not worth the press tho.

I'm sure someone took a W off a keyboard and taped it to a wall. It's funny. The keys are meant to come off in case a paperclip or diamond gets underneath.

Maybe two people thought of it.

Three investigations showed nothing, mainly because, I recall this, the investigators asked for documentation and received none. Later, after all three were done, Republicans admitted they gave them no documents because there were no documents. And, I think it continues. They had the information memorized and the investigators did not tell them to reveal what they remembered.

Then came two photos showing stacked binders on the floor, and some other one. The stacks were not perfect, but these were used binders.

Republicans continued claiming the photos showed the ..., .

After all, who are you going to believe, your own lying eyes, or Republican politicians?

[Captain Hilts]

39. They plucked a couple of Ws off keyboards, left dirty pix in xerox machines...

it's not like stacking the desks to the ceiling so the newcomers would need a forklift to start working, as was done Reagan to GHWB, I believe.

[Patiod]

45. it was like $12-13K

Bob Barr was obsessed with this - the first GAO report came back with "no problem". He insisted on a thorough re-audit, and that came back with like $12-13K, and most of that was normal wear and tear of people leaving offices after EIGHT years - marks on walls, damage to woodwork, spills on carpets, and some minor pranks like the keyboards.

This admin, did trillions of damage to the whole country

[Captain Hilts]

59. By Barr's standards you could say the Roosevelts "trashed" the White House...

the private rooms hadn't been painted in years - FDR's sinuses were really sensitive and he HATED the smell of paint - etc. It needed a major re-working after they moved out, though the public rooms had been completely renovated in 1939 for the visit of King George and Queen Elizabeth.

FDR: I never thought of it that way.
ER: Me neither. It just seemed inappropriate to spend money on such things during the war.

[Patiod]

74. Exactly right

Eight years of wear and tear = only $12,000. Most pols spend WAY more than that on re-decorating one office, and the entire Clinton White House did only $12,000 worth of damage to the whole place in 8 years.

[tclambert]

90. Didn't Palin spend $50,000 to redecorate the major's office in Wasilla?

[truedelphi]

79. And someone locked Monica Lewinsky in a bathroom

Off the main hallway leading into the OVal Office...

[mikeysnot]

61. It is true about the W's.

The W's were removed from keyboards and taped to the door. The other claims are pure BS. The custodian for the WH confirmed that the worst he saw was after GHWB left the WH in 1993. The story died after that. Thee MSM is playing on some americans long term memories. You know anything over two weeks.

I personally know the person who did the prank. And the Bushies responded like the big babies they were by blowing it all out of proportion.

They fed the BS to the press and all the repugs feigned outrage in unison. They were setting us up for what would be the next eight years of war, borrowing and spending and lies.

They started lying right out of the box from day one.

m

[Captain Hilts]

65. And it's so easy to replace a key on a keyboard!!

[mikeysnot]

67. Especially since

They were all taped in a bag to the door, so they weren't technically "missing". Just relocated.

Like honesty and integrety in the GWB white house years.

[yardwork]

82. I guess the prank had it's desired effect since the repugs are still complaining eight years later.

They really are babies.

[nikto]

85. I have to disagree with:"the Bushies responded...by blowing it all out of proportion"--NOT EXACTLY

Bu$hCo didn't overreact----They just did what they always do.

They added some lies to fill it out
and then
turned it into a weapon.

That was then----An innocent time, relatively speaking.

We all know better now.


Damn straight we do.

[lligrd]

91. Yep, Harmless Pranks And I Actually Thought The W Keys

were quite funny.

[orleans]

23. kick & recommend.

now, i KNOW these bushites *are* going to pull shit. hell, they've been shitting on us for years--i don't doubt they are going to do a lot of dirty crap to the obama team.

and obama has so much class--we'll probably never hear all the shit that was done when they move in.

[JerseygirlCT]

25. I distinctly remember hearing afterwards a report

(quick, and not often reported, granted) that the story had all been made up, and all of that had never happened. So sorry, nevermind, carry on, type thing.

[starroute]

26. Here's the link to the GAO report

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02360.pdf

Page 6 GAO-02-360 The White House

Damage, theft, vandalism, and pranks did occur in the White House complex during the 2001 presidential transition. Multiple people said that, at the beginning of the Bush administration, they observed (1) many offices that were messy, disheveled, or contained excessive trash or personal items; (2) numerous prank signs, printed materials, stickers, and written messages that were left behind, some of which contained derogatory and offensive statements about the president; (3) government property that was damaged, including computer keyboards with missing or damaged “W” keys and broken furniture; and (4) items that were missing, such as office signs, a presidential seal, cellular telephones, doorknobs, and telephone number labels. In addition, documentation provided indicated that some broken, missing, or possibly stolen items were repaired or replaced at the beginning of the Bush administration. Several EOP staff said they believed that what they observed during the transition, such as broken furniture and excessive trash left behind, was done intentionally.

Some former Clinton administration staff acknowledged that they had observed a few keyboards with missing “W” keys and some prank signs at the end of the administration. However, the former Clinton administration staff we interviewed also said that (1) the amount of trash that was observed during the transition was what could be expected when staff move out of their offices after 8 years; (2) they did not take the items that were discovered missing; (3) some furniture was broken, but not intentionally, before the transition and little money was spent on repairs and upkeep during the administration; and (4) many of the reported observations were not of vandalism. Further, two former Clinton administration representatives told us that, in their opinion, most of the observations were not true.

[Nye Bevan]

30. Hmmmm. So either the GAO are a bunch of liars

or the OP's purple-faced outrage is somewhat misplaced.

I think there were a few pranks (including the W keys stuff) but at the time it was vastly exaggerated into allegations of large-scale "vandalism" that turned out to be false.

[Captain Hilts]

41. The place wasn't "trashed." And no major claims to repair damage.

[spooky3]

83. LA Times story on GAO report said total damage = $15000.

http://articles.latimes.com/2002/jun/12/nation/na-clinton12

The story was ambiguous as to whether the W keys specifically were removed.

..."The GAO concluded that ”damage, theft, vandalism, and pranks did occur in the White House during the 2001 presidential transition.” The report stated that some incidents, such as removing keyboard keys, placing glue on desk drawers and leaving obscene voicemail messages ”clearly were intentional,” and intentional damage would constitute a criminal act under federal law. No prosecutions are planned, though..."

[1monster]

27. Come on now! Stop with the soft soap. Tell us how you really feel!

[Deja Q]

28. KQRS morning show's disc jockey brought that dead horse up again too

I recall it was debunked, but I don't recall the source -- will look around as I'd rather know proper.

[Stinky The Clown]

29. Several links in this thread have what you're looking for.

[file83]

31. Well, Dick Cheney says he has photographic evidence...

...but it's stashed with his 2001 Secret Energy Meeting Documents...
you know, due to matters of National Security.
:rofl:

[autorank]

32. k*r Multiple approvals for the messages

I thought about this the other day, the lies about the transition. we know that there will be shredder abuse over the next days, working the 7 x 24. Who will speak for the poor shredders? These guys just need to be gone.

[tclambert]

92. Oh, hell, the shredders are going to melt from overuse in the next 2 months.

[eridani]

33. OK--you started this thread

Now you dig up the contact email addys and phone #s, OK?

Let's have a concerted and effective response here.

[Stinky The Clown]

34. There might be a few missing ....... but try this.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_oet&address=358x1903

[eridani]

35. We need to know specifically which people and media outlets are pushing the W bullshit n/t

[Stinky The Clown]

36. For that we're going to have to all pay attention to the teevee and make notes

I haven't done that.

I've heard this so on the CBS morning show, MSNBC, my local teevee nooz, Faux Nooz, the Daily Fish Wrap, and local nooz radio.

[Bozita]

38. Barbara Walters started it on Thursday's "The View," followed within a few hours by 3 CNNers

Blitzer, Crowley, and another female reporter.

IMHO, this is no fucking coincidence.

[create.peace]

71. I heard it on BBC world service the night before last

some american reporter revived it, ann compton maybe?

[MadMaddie]

37. Tru Dat!! Husb2Sparkly !!! Tru Dat!!

[orleans]

42. posted on this thread earlier--but running across it again

i'm still amused with "Dear Media Motherfuckers"

[Twinguard]

43. I haven't seen pictures either

Back in 2000/01 I lived in the DC area, and I knew a few people that worked in the white house. I heard about the "W-less" keyboards from one of the people that removed the W keys. It sounded to me like a college prank. About a week later, I heard about it on the news. The reports I've heard since have made it sound like the 'neanderthals stopped just short of burning the white house to the ground.'

I still maintain that it sounds like a few people trying to release some frustration after the supreme court selected the loser of the election to serve as prez. Nothing more.

[BobTheSubgenius]

44. I have no idea why you seem to think you need to be polite to these people.

:D

[Papagoose]

46. This is one of those stories that have entered the lexicon

Untrue stories, repeated often enough, become part of the popular culture. W didn't win any elections, but served two terms.

You know, I thought the keyboard story was funny and true for years.

[orbitalman]

47. Where is the PROOF, media?????

On your say-so? We already know what complete LIARS Bushies are. Sometimes we just have to ignore the media. I think that happens a lot. The hard part is trying to ferret out the truth.

[bunkerbuster1]

48. I think it all started with Peggy Noonan Sally Quinn quoting David Broder: "They trashed the place"

The seeds for this lunatic meme started, I think, with this lunatic's 1998 piece in the WSJ:

http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=95000430

Mind you, she was speaking FIGURATIVELY, but I'm sure she didn't mind that it became thought of quite literally:

It is hard to feel the full human sympathy for Mr. Clinton that one would normally feel for one who has paid a high price for his actions. Throughout the yearlong trauma he forced the country through, he smirked and maneuvered and muscled people. He acted as if he were still in Little Rock, still up against legislators in plaid suits who own the Chevy dealership. When Bill Clinton was governor and it was the Yalie vs. the yokels, the yokels folded when you leaned on them. But Washington is not Little Rock. This is why David Broder told Sally Quinn, "He trashed the place, and it wasn't his place to trash." And Lindsey Graham and Chris Cox and Bill McCollum are not yokels.

Noonan doesn't get anywhere near the blame she deserves for poisoning American discourse.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

54. "Throughout the yearlong trauma (Clinton) forced the country through

Oh please... this just rips open all the healed and healing wounds.

x( The GOP created and forced us through the trauma

:cry: A mere year-long national trauma seems so quaint now... I am almost feeling nostalgic

:spank: Tell me again, noonan, how did bu$h get into the White House? Is he entitled to trash it if he pleases?

:grr: The idea of trashing the WH is so 1990s... Now we have an illegal president who has trashed the entire country and its Constitution

[bunkerbuster1]

58. I am going to force myself to re-read this seminal work now and again.

It's important to remember just how full of themselves the conservatives really were when they were out of power.

[Captain Hilts]

62. Wonder why Broder doesn't think GWB has "trashed" the place. nt

[tclambert]

93. He might leave the White House clean, but he trashed the country.

[Tarc]

49. Well actually it kinda did happen, but it was seriously overblown by the Bushies

The cost of normal repairs for wear and care of 8 yrs of occupancy plus a few traditional pranks (that many previous administrations have done. its sort of a tradition) that was completely overblown by conservatism.

[Captain Hilts]

63. The press believed it, without seeing it or any photographs. nt

[Atman]

50. I have to admit, I haven't heard this brought up anywhere but on DU

Really. I tend to watch Morning Fuck on defense-contractor MSNBC propaganda outlet, and even they haven't brought it up once. What are you watching, Fox? Them bringing it up wouldn't surprise. Fox News: we lie, you try to figure it out.

.

[bulloney]

52. I heard it on Paul Harvey. When the story was debunked, I don't recall him retracting.

He's such a senile old tool for the Right.

[Atman]

53. Paul Harvey is still alive?

Holy shit...he was ancient when I was kid...and I'm soooooooooooo no longer a kid. Don't bother with that fossil. So what if his demographic believes him; half of 'em will drop dead of old age by dinner time tonight.

.

[Captain Hilts]

64. GWB referred to it this week as did Barbara Walters and CNN. All this week. nt

[kegler14]

51. I agree with your sentiment, BUT

the excess profanity really isn't necessary.

[Stinky The Clown]

55. Cluck cluck

Profanity is what I do,

[Captain Hilts]

60. Actually, it was vulgarity, not profanity. nt

[Nye Bevan]

104. Excess profanity is one DU route to the Greatest page

This thread would not have received 79 recs if it had expressed the polite belief that the vandalism reports were somewhat exaggerated, and had omitted the "Godamn motherfucking assholes" type stuff. I am sure the OP is not as unbalanced as he appears; he just wanted to get a lot of recs. And it worked.

[unhappycamper]

56. Come on Husb2Sparkly. Tell us how you *really* feel. n/t

I'm unhappycamper and I approve of the "...... goddam motherfucking lying assholes ........".

[klook]

66. Salon: The White House Vandal Scandal That Wasn't

This article has a good overview of this "story"'s initiation and trajectory:
http://archive.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/05/23/vandals/print.html

The White House vandal scandal that wasn't
How the incoming Bush team nudge-nudged a credulous press corps into swallowing a trashy Clinton story.

- - - - - - - - - - - -
By Kerry Lauerman and Alicia Montgomery

May 23, 2001 | WASHINGTON -- The "scandal" broke benignly enough, with an item in Lloyd Grove's dishy Reliable Source column in the Jan. 23 Washington Post, three days after the inauguration of George W. Bush.

"Incoming staffers of the Bush White House," Grove wrote, were "apparently victims of a practical joke." Bush aides in the Old Executive Office Building (EOB), adjacent to the White House, discovered that "many computer keyboards in their work spaces are missing the W key -- as in President Bush's middle initial."

<snip>

The day after running an inflammatory front-page story, the Washington Post ran another scandal story inside, noting that Fleischer "had scaled back his description of a review the White House is conducting of purported vandalism." The "cataloging" Fleischer had previously discussed now consisted of an aide "keeping track in his head" of any damage.

<snip>

On April 27, the GAO's Bernard Ungar finally informed Rep. Barr's office that there wasn't any damage to the White House, or, to be precise, there were "no records of damage." It took three more weeks for Barr to finally respond, citing his dissatisfaction with the investigation but, ultimately, giving up. According to Ungar, an inspection of the White House by the General Services Administration, the federal government's property managers, did find "that there were papers all over the place, and that it was really messy." But there was scant proof of active mischief.

In an interview with Salon, Ungar stopped short of claiming that all the vandalism rumors had been proven false. "There was a sign or two here or there that had been altered," he said, declining to detail the alterations, "but that type of thing was not extensive." In any event, Ungar said, there was not enough information to justify a continued probe.

So, the whole thing is a tempest in a teapot. The press was suckered by the insinuations by Bush admin officials.

[Khaotic]

68. The Truth Be Told ...

When Shrub and crew moved into the White House THEY took all of the keyboards left behind by the Clinton administration and replaced them with T-H-E-S-E!



Shrub had to have a keyboard he could understand, and most importantly one that Barney could help him use.

As for the fucking "W" they're looking for ... here ya go Shrub.



* has definitely left us with a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World.

[ProfessorGAC]

69. Geez, Quit Holding Back!

Tell us how you really feel!

Good post, H2S!
The Professor

[krispos42]

70. Everybody can email or hotlink this pic for their R buddies

[cui bono]

73. I think Tony Snow admitted that he wrote the false story.

I believe it was in the Washington Times.

But I think a lot of people ended up reporting it as if it were true.

[Mz Pip]

100. It was Tony

He started the story and Drudge picked it up and the media went crazy with it.

[felinetta]

75. Thank you! I've been pissed about this for days!

[NashVegas]

77. H2S!

Pretty typical.

[cameozalaznick]

78. Don't just post here...

That's futile. Every single time the lie is repeated, send a letter to the repeat offender. Baba Wawa brought it up on The View just the other day. I sent her a comment here:

http://abc.go.com/site/contactus.html?lid=ABCCOMGlobalFooter&lpos=CONTACT

Don't just vent here. Write to the bosses of the clowns who are spreading it like manure. Trust me, if enough people did this, they would stop repeating it. They consider that every letter they get represents about 1000 other people who were too lazy to actually write. So stop being the lazy one and log onto Media Matters and take action.

[kestrel91316]

80. Has anybody looked it up on snopes? I'll check there and report back.

Yes, I know the whole thing never happened, but I think snopes can probably discuss it more rationally than me.......

Article in Salon.com debunking the rumor:
http://archive.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/05/23/vandals/print.html

[butterfly77]

86. ditto

[Captain Hilts]

87. Why doesn't the DNC/Dean issue a statement on this? nt

[Boudica the Lyoness]

89. I am English Lady

and I approve of this post.

[demwing]

94. I hope it DID happen

W is my least favorite letter, and I think it would have been a fun prank to pull off. Why so sweaty?

[deaniac21]

95. Who cares? I've got more pressing problems.

[Stinky The Clown]

98. Then why are you posting in this thread?

To let us know how busy you are?

To let us know you don't care?

To piss on something?

:eyes:

[deaniac21]

111. I felt like it.

:eyes:

[fascisthunter]

103. By All Means... go take care of your pressing problems

you are wasting valuable time deriding something that is unworthy of your time...

[deaniac21]

112. No, there are many things that can add to one's amusement.

Irrational outrage can really be amusing.

[ihavenobias]

96. K & R

[hangman86]

99. Actually I'm sort of disappointed that it's not real

Anyone who makes life miserable for the Bush Administration is okay by me.

[defendandprotect]

101. Weren't there reports from the investgation ...? Took a LONG time as I recall ---!!

[katnip]

105. But seriously...

...could you please tell us how you really feel cuz I'm not exactly clear:wtf:

I must say, I do agree, though:hi:

Idiots!

[SalmonChantedEvening]

106. Preach.

G'won preach now.

[ksimons]

107. that's all very confidential

I think they took pictures but George W. Bush dropped the camera in the pool and then they tried to recover the files sent by email, but those emails are now missing.



It's so sad really.

[baldguy]

109. The Clintonites popped the "W" keys off the White House computer keybords

And Al Gore claimed to have invented the internet.

"When the legend becomes fact, print the legend"

[piesRsquare]

110. When I saw the original story way back when...

...I clipped the article from the paper, because I couldn't stop laughing!

Reading this thread, I'm laughing again!

Removing the W's from the keyboards....I think that's fucking hilarious!

And the porno pix in the photocopy machine---:rofl:

In 2002, when I found out the story wasn't true, I (sadly) threw away the newspaper clipping...

I'm glad to know, however, that the W's were indeed "relocated"!

(pisses self, laughing!)