I love it! Preview confronts Al Gore

[Xenophon]

Al Gore is an enemy of science.

So, you are claiming he's a Republican?

 

[Si modo]

Al Gore is an enemy of science.

So, you are claiming he's a Republican?

Nah, just a political hack who has no regard for science by shitting on it with politics.

 

[Xenophon]

Al Gore is an enemy of science.

So, you are claiming he's a Republican?

Nah, just a political hack who has no regard for science by shitting on it with politics.

Oh, so he IS a Democrat afterall.

 

[Si modo]

So, you are claiming he's a Republican?

Nah, just a political hack who has no regard for science by shitting on it with politics.

Oh, so he IS a Democrat afterall.

Why, yes. I do believe he is.

 

[George Costanza]

Thanks...Probably EVERYBODY already knew this info...

Yes, everyone except, apparently, these folks:

http://www.usmessageboard.com/politics/113296-i-love-it-preview-confronts-al-gore.html#post2205951

http://www.usmessageboard.com/politics/113296-i-love-it-preview-confronts-al-gore.html#post2206200

Funny how you attack this like it has never happened to anyone else before. But it makes a good point...it sucks when people claim something was said that really wasn't, doesn't it?

I really love you guys. Let's review. I'm minding my own business, reading a thread on USMB, and I see this post which claims that Al Gore said he invented the Internet - a very well-known and long-standing piece of conservative propaganda: a LIE. So, sighing with weariness that, once again, someone is going to have to set the record straight, I do so.

And then here you come, trying to make as much conservative lemonade out of lemons as you possibly can, by accusing me of "attacking" someone, using an argument that "EVERYBODY" has been aware of this little, conservative "error in interpretation" (translation - you mothers got caught in yet another lie) for a long time, implying that I was not aware of that fact.

In the first place, it was not I that launched the attack here - it was the person who put up the post that, in all seriousness, claimed that Al Gore actually said he invented the Internet. Secondly, all I was doing was (once again) setting the record straight. - I wasn't "attacking" anyone.

I really love you guys . . .

 

[rightwinger]

Such an impressive example of journalistic integrity

Geraldo Rivera would be proud

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Interesting that you people are still obsessed with Al Gore. Gore is a very successful businessman, and the man that won the popular vote for President in the 2000 Presidential race. He also presented the scientists message on global warming in layman's terms. And did so well enough to make the most shown documentary in history.

The present message on global warming is now from many sources. From Thomas Friedman, to almost all the scientists in the world, no matter what country or culture they are from. There is an overwhelming consensus, all Scientific Societies, all National Academies of Science, and all major Universities now accept and warn of the danger of anthropogenic global warming.

Scientific opinion on climate change - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Scientific Consensus on Global Warming | Union of Concerned Scientists

Logicalscience.com - The Consensus On Global Warming/Climate Change: From Science to Industry & Religion

You know, in his peer reviewed "layman's guide to 'science'" book "Earth in the Balance", Gore blamed Water Vapor (H20) for "global warming"

 

[del]

Thanks...Probably EVERYBODY already knew this info...

Yes, everyone except, apparently, these folks:

http://www.usmessageboard.com/politics/113296-i-love-it-preview-confronts-al-gore.html#post2205951

http://www.usmessageboard.com/politics/113296-i-love-it-preview-confronts-al-gore.html#post2206200

Funny how you attack this like it has never happened to anyone else before. But it makes a good point...it sucks when people claim something was said that really wasn't, doesn't it?

I really love you guys. Let's review. I'm minding my own business, reading a thread on USMB, and I see this post which claims that Al Gore said he invented the Internet - a very well-known and long-standing piece of conservative propaganda: a LIE. So, sighing with weariness that, once again, someone is going to have to set the record straight, I do so.

And then here you come, trying to make as much conservative lemonade out of lemons as you possibly can, by accusing me of "attacking" someone, using an argument that "EVERYBODY" has been aware of this little, conservative "error in interpretation" (translation - you mothers got caught in yet another lie) for a long time, implying that I was not aware of that fact.

In the first place, it was not I that launched the attack here - it was the person who put up the post that, in all seriousness, claimed that Al Gore actually said he invented the Internet. Secondly, all I was doing was (once again) setting the record straight. - I wasn't "attacking" anyone.

I really love you guys . . .

while it's true that he said he "took the initiative in creating the internet", only a true partisan would see that as substantively different from saying he invented it, and ignore the fact that either construct is demonstrably false.

ARPAnet began in 1969-al was either in harvard or vietnam, but he certainly wasn't taking an initiative in creating or inventing the internet. he voted to use other people's money to fund it almost ten years after its launch. big fucking deal.

what a shock, a politician trying to take credit for someone else's hard work.

the reality is that defense companies, academics and other researchers *took the initiative in creating the internet*, not al gore or any other preening piece of political crap.

 

[rightwinger]

Thanks...Probably EVERYBODY already knew this info...

Yes, everyone except, apparently, these folks:

http://www.usmessageboard.com/politics/113296-i-love-it-preview-confronts-al-gore.html#post2205951

http://www.usmessageboard.com/politics/113296-i-love-it-preview-confronts-al-gore.html#post2206200

Funny how you attack this like it has never happened to anyone else before. But it makes a good point...it sucks when people claim something was said that really wasn't, doesn't it?

I really love you guys. Let's review. I'm minding my own business, reading a thread on USMB, and I see this post which claims that Al Gore said he invented the Internet - a very well-known and long-standing piece of conservative propaganda: a LIE. So, sighing with weariness that, once again, someone is going to have to set the record straight, I do so.

And then here you come, trying to make as much conservative lemonade out of lemons as you possibly can, by accusing me of "attacking" someone, using an argument that "EVERYBODY" has been aware of this little, conservative "error in interpretation" (translation - you mothers got caught in yet another lie) for a long time, implying that I was not aware of that fact.

In the first place, it was not I that launched the attack here - it was the person who put up the post that, in all seriousness, claimed that Al Gore actually said he invented the Internet. Secondly, all I was doing was (once again) setting the record straight. - I wasn't "attacking" anyone.

I really love you guys . . .

while it's true that he said he "took the initiative in creating the internet", only a true partisan would see that as substantively different from saying he invented it, and ignore the fact that either construct is demonstrably false.

ARPAnet began in 1969-al was either in harvard or vietnam, but he certainly wasn't taking an initiative in creating or inventing the internet. he voted to use other people's money to fund it almost ten years after its launch. big fucking deal.

what a shock, a politician trying to take credit for someone else's hard work.

the reality is that defense companies, academics and other researchers *took the initiative in creating the internet*, not al gore or any other preening piece of political crap.

In terms of Congressional support, Al Gore invented the internet. He was bringing it up and recommending legislation while most congressmen were scratching their heads and saying "Inter-what?"
The internet we know today could have gone an entirely different direction if Congress chose to control it. Taxes, content control, charges per post all could have been possible

Great job there Mr Gore!

 

[George Costanza]

Thanks...Probably EVERYBODY already knew this info...

Yes, everyone except, apparently, these folks:

http://www.usmessageboard.com/politics/113296-i-love-it-preview-confronts-al-gore.html#post2205951

http://www.usmessageboard.com/politics/113296-i-love-it-preview-confronts-al-gore.html#post2206200

Funny how you attack this like it has never happened to anyone else before. But it makes a good point...it sucks when people claim something was said that really wasn't, doesn't it?

I really love you guys. Let's review. I'm minding my own business, reading a thread on USMB, and I see this post which claims that Al Gore said he invented the Internet - a very well-known and long-standing piece of conservative propaganda: a LIE. So, sighing with weariness that, once again, someone is going to have to set the record straight, I do so.

And then here you come, trying to make as much conservative lemonade out of lemons as you possibly can, by accusing me of "attacking" someone, using an argument that "EVERYBODY" has been aware of this little, conservative "error in interpretation" (translation - you mothers got caught in yet another lie) for a long time, implying that I was not aware of that fact.

In the first place, it was not I that launched the attack here - it was the person who put up the post that, in all seriousness, claimed that Al Gore actually said he invented the Internet. Secondly, all I was doing was (once again) setting the record straight. - I wasn't "attacking" anyone.

I really love you guys . . .

while it's true that he said he "took the initiative in creating the internet", only a true partisan would see that as substantively different from saying he invented it, and ignore the fact that either construct is demonstrably false.

ARPAnet began in 1969-al was either in harvard or vietnam, but he certainly wasn't taking an initiative in creating or inventing the internet. he voted to use other people's money to fund it almost ten years after its launch. big fucking deal.

what a shock, a politician trying to take credit for someone else's hard work.

the reality is that defense companies, academics and other researchers *took the initiative in creating the internet*, not al gore or any other preening piece of political crap.

I would submit that only a true partisan would see his statement as a claim that he, single-handedly (which is the implication conservative spin-artists are seeking to create) "invented " the Internet.

On your other point - go back and read the link in my original post. Gore voted for legislation that was important to getting the Internet going in its infancy. To me, that equates with "taking the initiative in creating the Internet." I'm sure that if he had known what the Right was going to do with that statement, he probably would have worded it differently. But fair minded people often fail to anticipate the future actions of those prone to using unfair tactics.

 

[xsited1]

...

Watch how fast Al Gore tries to get out of there!

Remember before when Al Gore tried to bully anyone who didn't agree with him, with his "consensus" BS and calling them "deniers" like they were holocaust deniers?

Now he's left with running away from people who ask questions. Al Gore is such a pompous fraud.

He won the Nobel Peace Prize. Of course he's a fraud!

 

[CrusaderFrank]

To Libs, Al Gore's invention of the Internet can't be real news until Jon Steward blesses it

 

[Sarah G]

Thanks...Probably EVERYBODY already knew this info...

Yes, everyone except, apparently, these folks:

http://www.usmessageboard.com/politics/113296-i-love-it-preview-confronts-al-gore.html#post2205951

http://www.usmessageboard.com/politics/113296-i-love-it-preview-confronts-al-gore.html#post2206200

Funny how you attack this like it has never happened to anyone else before. But it makes a good point...it sucks when people claim something was said that really wasn't, doesn't it?

I really love you guys. Let's review. I'm minding my own business, reading a thread on USMB, and I see this post which claims that Al Gore said he invented the Internet - a very well-known and long-standing piece of conservative propaganda: a LIE. So, sighing with weariness that, once again, someone is going to have to set the record straight, I do so.

And then here you come, trying to make as much conservative lemonade out of lemons as you possibly can, by accusing me of "attacking" someone, using an argument that "EVERYBODY" has been aware of this little, conservative "error in interpretation" (translation - you mothers got caught in yet another lie) for a long time, implying that I was not aware of that fact.

In the first place, it was not I that launched the attack here - it was the person who put up the post that, in all seriousness, claimed that Al Gore actually said he invented the Internet. Secondly, all I was doing was (once again) setting the record straight. - I wasn't "attacking" anyone.

I really love you guys . . .

while it's true that he said he "took the initiative in creating the internet", only a true partisan would see that as substantively different from saying he invented it, and ignore the fact that either construct is demonstrably false.

ARPAnet began in 1969-al was either in harvard or vietnam, but he certainly wasn't taking an initiative in creating or inventing the internet. he voted to use other people's money to fund it almost ten years after its launch. big fucking deal.

what a shock, a politician trying to take credit for someone else's hard work.

the reality is that defense companies, academics and other researchers *took the initiative in creating the internet*, not al gore or any other preening piece of political crap.

He didn't try and take credit for creating the internet, he took the time to learn about it and incorporate it's capabilities to their needs. That inventing the internet nonsense is just that, nonsense.

He also worked on FCC auctions designed by economists that incorporated game theory created by John Nash and other mathmatical minds. Al Gore loves to learn and the way he is treated by wingnuts who have no idea what they are talking about is ridiculous.

I'm sure he isn't a genius but he is very smart. I think he's misunderstood by people who would like to compare him to Dan Quayle and Sarah Palin. No comparison there unless one is made between Quayle and Palin.

 

[traveler52]

O'Reilly has a history of sending his minions out to do that kind of "interview".

and you have a history of being a stupid clueless fuck.

And you have a history of a low life, scum sucking, belly crawling, shit eating coward tthat lacks the necessary qualifications to be called an intelligent life form.

 

[del]

Yes, everyone except, apparently, these folks:

http://www.usmessageboard.com/politics/113296-i-love-it-preview-confronts-al-gore.html#post2205951

http://www.usmessageboard.com/politics/113296-i-love-it-preview-confronts-al-gore.html#post2206200



I really love you guys. Let's review. I'm minding my own business, reading a thread on USMB, and I see this post which claims that Al Gore said he invented the Internet - a very well-known and long-standing piece of conservative propaganda: a LIE. So, sighing with weariness that, once again, someone is going to have to set the record straight, I do so.

And then here you come, trying to make as much conservative lemonade out of lemons as you possibly can, by accusing me of "attacking" someone, using an argument that "EVERYBODY" has been aware of this little, conservative "error in interpretation" (translation - you mothers got caught in yet another lie) for a long time, implying that I was not aware of that fact.

In the first place, it was not I that launched the attack here - it was the person who put up the post that, in all seriousness, claimed that Al Gore actually said he invented the Internet. Secondly, all I was doing was (once again) setting the record straight. - I wasn't "attacking" anyone.

I really love you guys . . .

while it's true that he said he "took the initiative in creating the internet", only a true partisan would see that as substantively different from saying he invented it, and ignore the fact that either construct is demonstrably false.

ARPAnet began in 1969-al was either in harvard or vietnam, but he certainly wasn't taking an initiative in creating or inventing the internet. he voted to use other people's money to fund it almost ten years after its launch. big fucking deal.

what a shock, a politician trying to take credit for someone else's hard work.

the reality is that defense companies, academics and other researchers *took the initiative in creating the internet*, not al gore or any other preening piece of political crap.

In terms of Congressional support, Al Gore invented the internet. He was bringing it up and recommending legislation while most congressmen were scratching their heads and saying "Inter-what?"
The internet we know today could have gone an entirely different direction if Congress chose to control it. Taxes, content control, charges per post all could have been possible

Great job there Mr Gore!

Take a look at the following introduction of a nationwide tax upon Internet goods and services, inserted within page 58 of the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) National Broadband Plan released this week:

Digital Goods and Services Taxation

RECOMMENDATION 4.20: The federal government should investigate establishing a national framework for digital goods and services taxation.

The National Broadband Plan is focused on increasing beneficial use of the Internet, including e-commerce and new innovative business models. The current patchwork of state and local laws and regulations relating to taxation of digital goods and services (such as ringtones, digital music, etc.) may hinder new investment and business models. Entrepreneurs and small businesses in particular may lack the resources to understand and comply with the various tax regimes.

Recognizing that state and local governments pursue varying approaches to raising tax revenues, a national framework for digital goods and services taxation would reduce uncertainty and remove one barrier to online entrepreneurship and investment.
LEE: Internet taxation is on the way - Washington Times

thank god, obama is correcting that terrible oversight.

maybe you believe that al didn't tax it because he wanted to grow it; i think he would have taxed it if he could have figured out a way to do it.

 

[oreo]

YouTube - Preview: 'The Factor' Confronts Al Gore

Watch how fast Al Gore tries to get out of there!

Remember before when Al Gore tried to bully anyone who didn't agree with him, with his "consensus" BS and calling them "deniers" like they were holocaust deniers?

Now he's left with running away from people who ask questions. Al Gore is such a pompous fraud.

Yep--saw it--

 

[oreo]

while it's true that he said he "took the initiative in creating the internet", only a true partisan would see that as substantively different from saying he invented it, and ignore the fact that either construct is demonstrably false.

ARPAnet began in 1969-al was either in harvard or vietnam, but he certainly wasn't taking an initiative in creating or inventing the internet. he voted to use other people's money to fund it almost ten years after its launch. big fucking deal.

what a shock, a politician trying to take credit for someone else's hard work.

the reality is that defense companies, academics and other researchers *took the initiative in creating the internet*, not al gore or any other preening piece of political crap.

In terms of Congressional support, Al Gore invented the internet. He was bringing it up and recommending legislation while most congressmen were scratching their heads and saying "Inter-what?"
The internet we know today could have gone an entirely different direction if Congress chose to control it. Taxes, content control, charges per post all could have been possible

Great job there Mr Gore!

Take a look at the following introduction of a nationwide tax upon Internet goods and services, inserted within page 58 of the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) National Broadband Plan released this week:

Digital Goods and Services Taxation

RECOMMENDATION 4.20: The federal government should investigate establishing a national framework for digital goods and services taxation.

The National Broadband Plan is focused on increasing beneficial use of the Internet, including e-commerce and new innovative business models. The current patchwork of state and local laws and regulations relating to taxation of digital goods and services (such as ringtones, digital music, etc.) may hinder new investment and business models. Entrepreneurs and small businesses in particular may lack the resources to understand and comply with the various tax regimes.

Recognizing that state and local governments pursue varying approaches to raising tax revenues, a national framework for digital goods and services taxation would reduce uncertainty and remove one barrier to online entrepreneurship and investment.
LEE: Internet taxation is on the way - Washington Times

thank god, obama is correcting that terrible oversight.

maybe you believe that al didn't tax it because he wanted to grow it; i think he would have taxed it if he could have figured out a way to do it.

To add to your comment--Paul Volcker suggested taxing Energy just last week. As we know--he is one of Obama's top economic advisors. This is what Al Gore is ABOUT--a complete take-over of energy in this country. This is what Al Gore has been trying to do for decades.

http://arkansasgopwing.blogspot.com/2010/04/obamas-volker-proposes-unprecedented.html

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Al Gore... geeze.. what numbskull is paying him any mind anymore. The man's a demonstrable fraud and quite frankly, a loon.

 

[Richard-H]

The ignorance of the Wingnuts is so incredibly demonstrated by their denial of Al Gore's involvement in transforming the ARPANET into the Internet.

While it is true that Al Gore did not invent the technologies that comprise the Intenet, he is certainly the single person most responsible for the tranformation of the ARAPNET into the Internet.

Read & learn:

Al Gore and information technology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Still don't believe it?

Reality just doesn't phase you does it?

 

[Charles Stucker]

Ya, but he invented the internet.

That little scam made the man a lot of money and fooled a lot of people. He is probably praying for gobal warming now to save his reputation. Personally, I think a little global warming would be a good thing.

The only scam in the Al Gore/Internet issue is the claim that Al Gore said that he invented the Internet.

Al Gore did not claim that he invented the Internet, nor did he say anything that could reasonably be interpreted in that fashion. The "Al Gore invented the Internet" put-downs were intentionally misleading, out-of-context distortions of something Gore said during a Wolf Blitzer interview on CNN's "Late Edition" on March 9, 1999. When asked to describe what distinguished him from his challenger for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey, Gore said:

"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."

While his phrasing may have been a little clumsy, clearly Al Gore was not claiming he "invented" the Internet but rather that he was responsible, in an economic and legislative sense, for fostering the development of the technology that produced what we now know as the Internet.

Much of what I have written here was taken directly from the following link:

snopes.com: Al Gore Invented the Internet

Of course, the Right immediately seized upon this comment and mischaracterized it in an attempt to discredit Al Gore - an attempt that has succeeded quite well. The fact remains that he never said this.

What is interesting is that in context, he seems to be saying that he invented the Internet.


BLITZER: I want to get to some of the substance of domestic and international issues in a minute, but let's just wrap up a little bit of the politics right now.

Why should Democrats, looking at the Democratic nomination process, support you instead of Bill Bradley, a friend of yours, a former colleague in the Senate? What do you have to bring to this that he doesn't necessarily bring to this process?

GORE: Well, I will be offering -- I'll be offering my vision when my campaign begins. And it will be comprehensive and sweeping. And I hope that it will be compelling enough to draw people toward it. I feel that it will be.

But it will emerge from my dialogue with the American people. I've traveled to every part of this country during the last six years. During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.

During a quarter century of public service, including most of it long before I came into my current job, I have worked to try to improve the quality of life in our country and in our world. And what I've seen during that experience is an emerging future that's very exciting, about which I'm very optimistic, and toward which I want to lead.

So, if we take Gore's quote completely out of context one can pretend it is not a bogus claim, but when seeing the entire context it is revealed as the weasel word BS for which Gore is famous.

How am I not surprised?