<VV> The Truth Re: Al Gore (political, no Corvair content), was: postage rates

[FrankCB at aol.com]

Hi Mark,
    Let's look at the EXACT transcript of Al Gore's  interview with CNN's 
Wolf Blitzer on March 9, 1999:
    
_http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/03/09/president.2000/transcript.gore/index.html_ 
(http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/03/09/president.2000/transcript.gore/index.html) 
 
    About 1/4 of the way down the page Al Gore makes  the statement:
    "During my service in the United States Congress, I  took the initiative 
in creating the Internet. "
 
    I leave it to our VV readers to make  their own interpretation of the 
meaning of his exact words.
    Incidentally, CNN is not usually regarded as a tool  of the Republican 
National Committee.
    I apologize for bringing this up on VV, but I  prefer to consider FACTS 
instead of rumors.
    Regards and back to Corvairs,
    Frank "hoping for some of Al Gore's global warming  in chilly NJ" Burkhard
 
In a message dated 4/5/2008 3:29:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
airvair at earthlink.net writes:

Hank,

A quote from the book, "Big Lies" by Joe Conason on page  44: "When Gore's
early legislative work to promote expansion of the  Internet was affirmed by
experts from Vinton Cerf to Newt Gingrich, that  didn't matter. Instead, a
phony quote that had the Vice President asserting  he had 'invented' the
Internet persisted in journalistic folklore, courtest  of the Republican
National Committee."

Just another Republican Big  Lie, told over and over until people actually
begin to believe it. Wake up  and realize you've been lied to, and by  whom.

-Mark






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