11/8 Miffed at the latest attack on him from Vice President Gore,
George W. Bush accuses the vice president of stretching the
truth.
"He's the man who said he invented the Internet," Bush gibed,
echoing a common joke at Gore's expense.
Now let's kill the joke.
A) Gore did not claim to have invented the Internet. In an
interview with Wolf Blitzer in March 1999, Gore said:
"During my service in the U.S. Congress, I took the
initiative in creating the Internet."
\- i think this is still bogus. when you are handed a list
of things to fund and you check off a bunch you like,
that is a far cry from "taking the initiative to
create". a more reasonable politician would have said "i
am a staunch supporter" or "lobbyied my colleauges"
etc. if someone brought you a human genome sequencing
project to you cong cmte and you decide to fund them, it
is no more your initiative than it is your money. --psb
\_ I read an article a few weeks ago where many of the
internet pioneers like Vint Cerf credited Gore. They
didn't mention any other politicians, but said that
Gore was instrumental in getting funding for R&D on
the internet. I think what Gore should have said was
he took the _political_ initiative in creating the
internet. Obviously the man is a politician and not
an engineer and I think it is reasonably clear that
he was claiming credit for his political work not
anything technical. -!orignal poster
\_ Gore's statement was not well-worded, but the mockery of
it is completely inaccurate. -tom
\_ Welcome to American politics. All public figures
screw up. The better lines get remembered. Tough
shit. And I saw the clip where he said this and
he made it clear the internet as a concept was his
idea. "I saw all these different research and
educational and other big computer places that
couldn't talk to each other so I...". Something
along those lines. The real thing is out there if
you care to find it. In context.
\_ motd formatting !god was here
\_ But Gore invented pants!
\_ URL PLEASE! Stop making blatant accusations and assumptions
without providing a URL, regardless of the source. Without
a URL, I am able to discredit all comments ever made about
pants, but if you provide a URL, even a GeoCities one, well,
then I'll just sit down and shut the fuck up.
\_ you are an idiot.
A) Gore did not claim to have invented the Internet. In an
interview with Wolf Blitzer in March 1999, Gore said:
"During my service in the U.S. Congress, I took the
initiative in creating the Internet."
project to you cong cmte and you decide to fund them, it
\_ that doesn't sound very different from I invented the internet.
\_ And I dare say it was deliberately meant to sound that way,
while supposedly giving him a way of weasling out now.
So he deserves all the flak he gets on it.
\_ Obfusication is an art. Gore learnt from the
master Bill "I prefer Double-D's" Clinton.
\- i think this is still bogus. when you are handed a list
of things to fund and you check off a bunch you like,
that is a far cry from "taking the initiative to
create". a more reasonable politician would have said "i
am a staunch supporter" or "lobbyied my colleauges"
etc. if someone brought you a human genome sequencing
project to your cong cmte and you decide to fund them, it
is no more your initiative than it is your money. --psb
\_ I read an article a few weeks ago where many of the
internet pioneers like Vint Cerf credited Gore. They
didn't mention any other politicians, but said that
Gore was instrumental in getting funding for R&D on
the internet. I think what Gore should have said was
he took the _political_ initiative in creating the
internet. Obviously the man is a politician and not
an engineer and I think it is reasonably clear that
he was claiming credit for his political work not
anything technical. -!orignal poster
\_ I read the same thing and Vint Cerf recollection
of history is flawed. The internet began in the mid
60's (before Gore was elected to any office) when
the DOD and DARPA asked BBNPlanet to "wire the
world". Gore had some minor role in converting
ARPAnet to NFSnet, but the DOD created the internet.
Some visionary general who wanted to defend America
and ensure its survival in a nuclear war created the
Internet. Not a weenie socialist named Gore.
\_ Under the leadership of Democratic President
Lyndon B. Johnson.
\_ Despite the leadership of LBJ.
\_ Gore's statement was not well-worded, but the mockery of
it is completely inaccurate. -tom
\_ Gore's lying. He BS'ed and someone called him.
You are just apologizing for Gore cause he's
a socialist just like you are and you are
afraid that conservatives will let the people
continue to think for themselves and that the
people will figure out that you are wrong.
Half of them already have.
\_ Welcome to American politics. All public figures
screw up. The better lines get remembered. Tough
shit. And I saw the clip where he said this and
he made it clear the internet as a concept was his
idea. "I saw all these different research and
educational and other big computer places that
couldn't talk to each other so I...". Something
along those lines. The real thing is out there if
you care to find it. In context.
\_ motd formatting !god was here
\_ all hail |
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