tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432168.post5877045678567376082..comments2023-10-30T04:43:49.750-04:00Comments on one small voice: Gores prize,Turkey's war and earnings yes earningspjblogger62http://www.blogger.com/profile/16535411466306603832noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432168.post-60868217092224593192007-10-17T16:04:00.000-04:002007-10-17T16:04:00.000-04:00Give Al Gore credit. Geez, it's bad enough you ar...Give Al Gore credit. Geez, it's bad enough you are in some sort of warped, neo-con Bush-ian denial of global warming. You can at least acknowledge that Al Gore was a visionary with regard to the internet and helped make it a reality.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432168.post-41613227760442024322007-10-15T14:50:00.000-04:002007-10-15T14:50:00.000-04:00Hello,You should read his exact quote not what oth...Hello,<BR/>You should read his exact quote not what other people say he said, its even worse than you think! <BR/>It was a dumb thing for him to imply and it was heavily promoted by the main stream media .<BR/><BR/>jamespjblogger62https://www.blogger.com/profile/16535411466306603832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432168.post-43743312296463568462007-10-15T14:45:00.000-04:002007-10-15T14:45:00.000-04:00Al Gore never claimed to have invented the Interne...Al Gore never claimed to have invented the Internet.<BR/><BR/>In an interview on CNN in 1999, Gore, who was then the sitting vice president and a candidate to succeed Bill Clinton in the White House, said this by way of reviewing his record:<BR/><BR/>“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, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.”<BR/><BR/>Notice that Gore took credit for leadership in Congress in creating the Internet. He never said he “invented” the Internet. Was his claim to such leadership legitimate? Well, here’s what Republican Newt Ginrich said about that:<BR/><BR/>“(I)n all fairness, Gore is the person who, in the Congress, most systematically worked to make sure that we got to an Internet, and the truth is—and I worked with him starting in 1978 when I got [to Congress], we were both part of a ‘futures group’—the fact is, in the Clinton administration, the world we had talked about in the ’80s began to actually happen.”<BR/><BR/>Way back in 1988, The Guardian, a British paper, reported this:<BR/><BR/>“American computing scientists are campaigning for the creation of a ’superhighway’ which would revolutionise data transmission. Legislation has already been laid before Congress by Senator Albert Gore of Tennessee, calling for government funds to help establish the new network, which scientists say they can have working within five years, at a cost of Dollars 400 million.”<BR/><BR/>Years later, when Gore was vice president, computer scientist Vinton Cerf, widely known as the Father of the Internet, had this to say:<BR/><BR/>“I think it is very fair to say that the Internet would not be where it is in the United States without the strong support given to it and related research areas by the vice president.”<BR/><BR/>History shows that Gore’s claim to leadership in congressional action regarding the Internet was ignored by the media and not distorted into a claim that he invented the Net until the Republican Party cooked up that falsehood a few days after the CNN interview.The Rascalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02255237905690635887noreply@blogger.com