Al Gore

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.

Links

Reference

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

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?"

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

Media

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)

Video

• 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.