Al Gore

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Contents 1 Overview 2 Links 2.1 Reference 2.2 Filed Links 2.3 News 2.4 The "Invented the Internet" Myth 3 Media 3.1 Books 3.2 Video

[edit] Overview

Al Gore was vice-president of the United States under Bill Clinton. He ran for president against George W. Bush in 2000, when he actually would have been president had the vote been properly counted, and 2004. He also played a key role in early expansion of the internet backbone, thus making possible the internet as we now know it; his attempts to claim credit for this during the 2000 presidential race were distorted into a popular myth that he had claimed to have "invented the Internet", which was exploited by his opponents.

[edit] Links

[edit] Reference

• official web site
• Wikipedia
• Conservapedia
• dKosopedia
• SourceWatch

[edit] Filed Links

• 2007-10-02 /S/D/ Collins and Broder and all the Raccoons played a sick, stupid old ball game “Weighing in on a Kansas controversy, Vice President Al Gore's office said Thursday he favors the teaching of evolution in public schools but would not oppose instruction in creationism if taught as part of a religious course. .. "They may teach creationism in the context of a religious course; that is clearly up to the local districts to decide," said Alejandro Cabrera, speaking for Gore. He said Gore bases his opinion on court rulings that allow the teaching of creationism as part of a religious course but not as a science.” (emphasis added)
• 1999-08-29 /S/D/ Gore waffling in debate over teaching of creationism? “ According to this account, vice presidential spokesman Alejandro Cabrera declared, "The vice president favors the teaching of evolution in public schools. Obviously, that decision should and will be made at the local level and localities should be free to decide to teach creationism as well." .. According to Eisner, "Several hours" after the initial statement, Cabrera called Reuters again to insist "the vice president supports the right of school boards to teach creationism within the context of religious courses and not science courses."” It's not clear that this claimed quote is accurate, or accurately reflects Gore's views; see this.

[edit] News

• 2007-10-20 (date found) The Real Al Gore by Alexander Cockburn, largely based on claims about the supposed utter erroneousness of global warming
• 2007-10-08 A Nobel Candidate "Thousands of activists are hoping to convince Al Gore to run for president. Could a Nobel Peace Prize give the reluctant candidate a push?"

[edit] The "Invented the Internet" Myth

• 2007-06-27 humor: User Friendly (webcomic)
• 2007-03-23 NOBODY HERE BUT US CHICKENS! Brilliantly, Waldman corrected a lie. Walsh let a new lie spread
• 2000-10-17 Who Invented "Invented"?: Tracing the Real Story of the "Al Gore Invented the Internet" Hoax, by Phil Agre
  • 2000-10-17 The Mother of Gore's Invention by Declan McCullagh
• 2000-10-15 The New Science of Character Assassination by Phil Agre: the Republican habit of distorting facts and then accusing their opponent of doing it
• 2000 untitled P.S. probably by Phil Agre
• 2000-07-20 Our current howler (part III): One that did matter

[edit] Media

[edit] Books

• The Assault on Reason: how our system of government has become dominated by the outcome of money-controlled television ad campaigns
  • excerpt
  • 2007-05-22
    • Democracy in trouble, Gore says in book
    • Al Gore's New Book Examines 'The Assault on Reason': "In his new book, Al Gore explores why reason, logic and truth seem to play a sharply diminished role in the way America now makes important decisions and what we can do to change that." (includes many links)
  • 2007-05-21 video Al Gore with Diane Sawyer discussing the book (or trying to)

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• An Inconvenient Truth: feature-length movie on the urgency of global warming
  • 2007-10-11 A Newly Orchestrated Right-Wing Lie Unmasked About Al Gore and Global Warming by Jackson Williams
• 1992-09-29 video Gore criticizes Bush for ignoring Iraq's ties to terrorism: Al Gore criticizes George H.W. Bush for ignoring Iraq's ties to terrorists and disregarding Iraq's attempts to acquire weapons of mass destruction.