Originally posted by Mr. Vega
Show some respect for Gore. He invented the internet, after all.
Oh, please, not this **** again.
For all of you nimrods who still believe the religious right propaganda machine, allow me to set you straight. You'll thank me for this later. Here's what Gore really claimed about his relationship to the Internet. This is a DIRECT quote of Gore's EXACT WORDS (the stuff journalists refer to when they report on what people actually said):
"While I was a congressman, I took the initiative to help create the Internet."
The word "invented" is NEVER used in that sentence. So, please, when you want to complain about this **** again, don't use the word "invented." It's a blatant misquote that makes you look like a complete moron. You guys who misquote this **** make back-country inbred yokel Bible-thumpers look like Einstein. As much as I hate to insult the Father of Relativity like that, I have to call 'em like I see 'em.
Now, to an analysis of Mr. Gore's statement. He said that he "took the initiative to help create the Internet." What was he referring to? Well, for those of you who actually care enough to do some research so that you don't fall under the spell of the conservative propaganda complex and actually
decide to think for yourselves, rather than have someone do it for you, here's what Gore was referring to: while he was a congressman in the 1980s, he sponsored a bill to convert the nascent Internet, at that time only a modest military project, into a large civilian infrastructure. It was a not-well-known vote at the time, because no one knew way back then how useful the Internet would turn out to be. Gore sponsored the bill, and it got passed in Congress. And lo and behold, several years later, we now have the Internet.
So yes, people, it is TRUE
(not a lie!) that if Gore had not sponsored that bill, then you and I would not now be flaming each other through our high-tech computer screens and keyboards. Isn't that nice?
You morons who drag up two-year-old bull**** one-liners that came out of George "I'm a uniter, not a divider (yeah, right!)" Bush's political compost heap of corporate insiders, you all need to grow some brains and start thinking for yourselves.
As long as people are going to keep flaming each other on this thread, I might as well join in the fun for as long as this thread is open. And I just finished watching George Carlin's latest HBO special (his best routine yet!), so now I'm REALLY in the mood to insult people's intelligence. Here's hoping it lasts.
