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1. Sick joke of the year - Al Gore in Vietnam
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- THE CURRENT favourite for the Workers Solidarity 1998 Sick Joke of the Year Award is that infamous newspaper of record, The New York Times - for a profile it ran of US Vice-President Al Gore. It prominently tipped Al Gore to run for US President in 2000. In doing so, the NYT notes that Al Gore has many "qualities" that recommend him for the job, including an avid interest in the environment, going back to when Gore was just a lad. ...
- In an article he wrote at the time, for 'Stars and Stripes' (the US Armed Forces paper), Gore marvelled at the inventiveness of the ordinary Vietnamese peasants who made use of old empty Coke and Pepsi tins to make huts and implements to farm with. Gore though this was a great example of recycling! (We kid you not). ...
- However, while Gore was noticing these eco-friendly practices, he appears to have missed all the napalm and Agent Orange defoliant that was raining down all over South Vietnam at the time. ...
2. IHTFP Hack Gallery: Al Gore Buzzword Bingo
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- Al Gore Buzzword Bingo.
- Vice-President Al Gore, known for his technological advocacy, spoke at MIT's 1996 graduation. Gore's speeches regularly included buzzwords hyping technology, including the infamous "information superhighway. ...
- Instead of numbers, each square included a familiar Gore-buzzword. ...
- The cards were apparently brought to the attention of Gore before the speech. ... Gore acknowledged the outburst with the question, "Did I say a buzzword?" .
3. Al Gore "invented the Internet" - resources
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- Al Gore "invented the Internet" - resources.
- Transcript: Vice President Gore on CNN's 'Late Edition' .
- GORE: Well, I will be offering -- I'll be offering my vision when my campaign begins. ...
- After Gore took credit for the Internet,. ... (note - the Wired News archived version of the story seems to have lost two critical paragraphs in the archiving process - compare other archived versions ) The Laugh Is on Gore One follow-up Wired News article by Declan McCullagh, Mar. 23, 1999, pressing the claim: "Al Gore's timing was as unfortunate as his boast. ... " The Mother of Gore's Invention A much later Wired News article by Declan McCullagh, Oct. 17, 2000, stating: "If it's true that Al Gore created the Internet, then I created the "Al Gore created the Internet" story. The basic debunking of the story: Al Gore and The Internet Red Rock Eater News Service, Phil Agre, Mar. 28 2000 "That Al Gore claimed to have invented the Internet has got to be the most successful flat-out lie since, well, the last one. " Did Gore invent the Internet? Salon, Scott Rosenberg, Oct. ... " Al Gore's support of the Internet, by V. ... " More debunking of the story: Al Gore and the Creation of the Internet First Monday, Richard Wiggins, October 2000 "This article explores how the perception arose that Gore in essence padded his resume by claiming to have invented the Internet. We will then explore Gore's actual record, in particular as a U.
4. The Consortium
- www.consortiumnews.com
- So Gore Really Won?.
- In a new story in Thursday's editions, the Herald acknowledged what we also pointed out: that a careful examination of the Herald's own data would have led to a conclusion that Al Gore was the choice of Florida voters under a reasonable standard judging the "clear intent of the voters. ...
- The Herald's data revealed that by looking at the so-called "undervotes" in all 67 counties and counting various markings for president, Gore would have won Florida and thus the presidency.
- The Herald's second-day story said Gore would have achieved net gains of 1,475 votes in Palm Beach County and 1,081 votes in Broward County if the various marks for president recorded on the ballots were counted.
- Even with a more conservative standard, Gore could have erased Bush's certified statewide victory of 537 votes, meaning that Gore could be president today if a full, statewide recount had been permitted.
- The new Herald story, entitled "Recounts Could Have Given Gore the Edge," received only a fraction of the national attention.
- The earlier story reached its "Bush Won" conclusion by subtracting Gore's gains in Palm Beach, Broward, Volusia and part of Miami-Dade County. ...
- "Had the Broward and Palm Beach canvassing boards used the loosest standard in judging ballots Gore almost certainly would have won," the Herald reported. ...
- "And that tally may be conservative because it excludes the cleanly punched ballots in Broward, 252 Bush votes and 786 Gore votes. ...
- "Had they used the correct standard, Al Gore would be president. ...
- Deep inside the Wednesday "Bush Won" story, the Herald reported that Gore would have carried Florida by 299 votes even with a more conservative standard – counting undervotes that had been partially punched through and ballots that had indentations in more than one race, indicating a voter trying to cast a vote on a malfunctioning voting machine.
- As we pointed out, that information about Gore's apparent victory was buried in the 44th paragraph of the Herald's initial story.
- Nevertheless, in contradiction of that conventional wisdom, the evidence continues to build that Gore was not only the favorite of Florida's voters – if there had not been irregularities with the "butterfly ballot" and the purging of voters incorrectly identified as felons – but it appears that Gore also would have been elected president if a fair statewide recount had been permitted.
5. Scotty Kowall's Weekly Tirade , Commentary : Vice President Al Gore 's Fund-raising Calls
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- Vice President Al Gore has himself in a pickle. ... Gore had said that all calls were charged to a party credit card, but the party recently reimbursed the government $24. 20 for calls not found on Gore's credit card. According to the Associated Press, of those Gore reached, within a month after receiving the calls, gave a total of $695,000. ... The ethical question is, why are federal employees allowed to make personal calls on company time? Did Al Gore make the call on his lunch break? If Mr. Gore wants to make fund-raising calls, he should do it on his own time. ... Poor Al Gore, he has a top job, big office, plenty of staff and nothing to do. ...
6. Wired News: The Laugh Is on Gore
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- The Laugh Is on Gore .
- WASHINGTON -- Al Gore's timing was as unfortunate as his boast. ...
- But the possibility of the Senate removing President Clinton from office, combined with Gore's nascent presidential campaign, made Washington insiders a little more sensitive to the possibility of President Gore.
- So it didn't take long for GOP sharks to smell blood in Gore's fish story. ...
- On 11 March, Wired News was the first to report Gore's remarks. Hundreds of articles were quick to appear, many drawing the inevitable comparisons to Gore's other gaffes. ...
- A Washington Times columnist remembered that Gore took credit for inspiring the tough-guy hero in Erich Segal's novel Love Story. Segal denied it, saying that Gore's Harvard roommate, actor Tommy Lee Jones, was the role model.
- It didn't help that soon afterward, Gore described himself as a boots-and-overalls hog farmer who, as a youth, was taught by his father how to muck out stalls, clear land with an ax, and "plow a steep hillside with a team of mules. ...
- "Albert Gore actually grew up in the District of Columbia, the pampered, private-school-educated son of a veteran United States senator," the New York Post said in an editorial. ...
7. Media Cover-Up of Gore Victory
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- The Media Cover-up of the Gore Victory.
- Confirmation that the media reported more favorably on George Bush than Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election .
- GORE MEDIA COVERAGE -- PLAYING HARDBALL, Jane Hall, Columbia Journalism Review .
- Push to Mock Gore's Image, Alison Mitchell, The New York Times .
- Easily provable lies about Al Gore that most mainstream media reporters repeated ad nauseam.
- Al Gore v. ...
- Gore's too-willing executioners, Salon. ...
- Gore In Context (Google cache, archived at MakeThemAccountable. ...
- Katharine Seelye on Gore and on Bush .
- Rick Berke on Gore .
- Berke embellished some tales and he beat on Gore’s mom, Bob Somerby, The Daily Howler .
- Ceci Connolly on Gore .
- Ceci Connolly keeps milking those Gore farm chores--for quite a bit more than they’re worth, Bob Somerby, The Daily Howler .
- Confirmation that Tim Russert used Bush campaign opposition research material against Al Gore .
- Confirmation that Jack Welch influenced and favored Tim Russert, and that he chewed out Claire Shipman for being too easy on Gore .
- Did Al Gore win after all? US newspapers would rather not say, Charles Laurence, Daily Telegraph of London.
8. 10.29.2004 - Air Force Two behind him, Al Gore eyes the stratosphere
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- Former Vice President Al Gore, joined onstage by Journalism School Dean Orville Schell, gets passionate about the threat of global warming. ...
- Air Force Two behind him, Al Gore eyes the stratosphere Former vice president visits Berkeley with a chilling message on global warming and U. ...
- BERKELEY – With the clock running out on the 2004 presidential campaign, Al Gore came to Berkeley on Tuesday with a message that transcended — for the most part — the national obsession with undecided voters in battleground states. ...
- "I'm Al Gore," said the man who needed no introduction. ... " Instead, as fate and the Supreme Court have ordained, now-citizen Gore has his eye on the bigger picture. Employing an arsenal of whiz-bang technical slide-show effects — from breathtaking time-lapse NASA photography of Earth to a "Simpsons"-style cartoon for which, in a comic tour de force necessitated by a sound-system glitch, he supplied all the voices — Gore drew a frightening picture of a world on the brink. ...
- "I'm not sure whether to be inspired or depressed," mused Orville Schell, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism, who joined Gore onstage at Wheeler Auditorium following the hour-long presentation. ...
- Gore, a bit broader than he was in the Clinton years and, by Schell's reckoning, "much more unchained," jokingly admitted that it had been difficult to adjust to civilian life. ...
- After apologizing for his red necktie — which he hadn't realized was "a potential faux pas" — Gore confidently roamed the stage wielding a laser pointer, his left hand stuffed in his pocket, looking more professor than pol. ... ") He leavened his message of impending doom with familiar flashes of humor, a stubborn optimism, and the occasional sideways dig at the current White House resident, over whom Gore sighed the sighs heard ‘round the world during 2000's most memorable debate.
- Gore, who wrote his environmental call to arms, Earth in the Balance, in 1992 as a U. ...
- "Global climate is a nonlinear system," warned Gore. ...
- Prompted by Schell to explain the nation's failure thus far to confront the global climate crisis, Gore blamed a "loss of literacy" and a "crisis of decision-making" in America. ...
- "Reading is cratering in the United States — it's like that Greenland ice cap," Gore said, bemoaning the myriad distortions of the TV age and the manipulation of the media by politicians and corporations. ...
- democracy from the time of the Founding Fathers, Gore said, we now have a system in which "information comes mixed with propaganda. ...
- "Yes," said Gore.
9. Gore Vidal
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- Gore (Eugene Luther) Vidal (1925-) - Original name Eugene Luther Vidal - Detective novels under the pseudonym Edgar Box .
- Gore Vidal grew accustomed at an early age to a life among political and social notables. ... Gore, a populist Democrat senator from Oklahoma. Vidal learned about political life from him and when he was a teenager he adopted the first name of Gore. ...
- Gore Vidal has been active in liberal politics. ...
- Vidal's family have provided him with a wealth of material, starting from his maternal grandfather, former senator Thomas Pryor Gore and his relation to Jackie Kennedy through one of his mother's marriages. ...
- For further reading: Gore Vidal by Fred Kaplan (2000); Gore Vidal: A Critical Companion by Susan Baker (1997); Gore Vidal by Robert F. Kiernan (1982); Gore Vidal, or, A Vision from a Particular Position by Stephen Macaulay (1982); Views from a Window by R. ... Dick (1974); Gore Vidal by R. ... Michener on Vidal: "Gore Vidal, who wrote Williwaw at only nineteen, was another whose early book could well have been his last, but instead he wrote a series of books that varied in subject matter from the critical days of early Christianity to the dramatic eras of American history to outrageous sexual games. ...
- Gore Vidal Sexually Speaking, 1999 (ed. ...
- The Essential Gore Vidal, 1999 (ed. ...
10. Gore Vidal: The Erosion of the American Dream
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- by GORE VIDAL.
- This is a transcript of Gore Vidals's March 12 interview on Dateline, SBS TV Australia.
- MARK DAVIS: Gore Vidal, welcome to Dateline.
- GORE VIDAL: Happy to have crossed the dateline down under.
- GORE VIDAL: Why the shift in the United States of America, which has obliged me --since I've spent most of my life marinated in the history of my country and I'm so alarmed by what is happening with our global empire, and our wars against the rest of the world, it is time for me to take political action. ...
- GORE VIDAL: No, he certainly is worse. ...
- GORE VIDAL: Well, it's a weapon. ...
- GORE VIDAL: I prefer hypocrisy to honesty any time if hypocrisy will keep the peace. ...
- GORE VIDAL: There is no greater good at work. ... We saw what happened in November 2000, when Albert Gore won the popular vote by 600,000, he actually won the electoral vote of Florida, but a lot of dismal things happened and denied him the election. ...
- GORE VIDAL: They're not clued in to what sort of country the United States is. ...
- GORE VIDAL: I spoke to 100,000 people two weeks ago in Hollywood Boulevard, down the hill from where I'm speaking to you now. ...
- GORE VIDAL: They do. ...
- GORE VIDAL: Well, we don't hear it because they're part of it. ...
- GORE VIDAL: I have those days, yes, such as Norman is having. ...
- GORE VIDAL: Adrift, but adrift toward war, and it's a war that we can't win. ...
11. The Consortium
- www.consortiumnews.com
- Gore's Victory.
- So Al Gore was the choice of Florida’s voters -- whether one counts hanging chads or dimpled chads. ... By any chad measure, Gore won. ...
- Gore won even if one doesn’t count the 15,000-25,000 votes that USA Today estimated Gore lost because of illegally designed “butterfly ballots,” or the hundreds of predominantly African-American voters who were falsely identified by the state as felons and turned away from the polls.
- Gore won even if there’s no adjustment for George W. ...
- Bush was not the choice of Florida’s voters anymore than he was the choice of the American people who cast a half million more ballots for Gore than Bush nationwide. ...
- Bush, Now More Than Ever,” in which Kurtz ridiculed as “conspiracy theorists” those who thought Gore had won.
- “That gets put to rest today, with the finding by eight news organizations that Bush would have beaten Gore under both of the recount plans being considered at the time. ...
- " Only "Gore partisans" – as both the Washington Post and the New York Times called critics of the official Florida election tallies – would insist on looking at the fine print.
- “Full Review Favors Gore,” the Washington Post said in a box on page 10, showing that under all standards applied to the ballots, Gore came out on top. ...
- Earlier, less comprehensive ballot studies by the Miami Herald and USA Today had found that Bush and Gore split the four categories of disputed ballots depending on what standard was applied to assessing the ballots – punched-through chads, hanging chads, etc. Bush won under two standards and Gore under two standards.
- The new, fuller study found that Gore won regardless of which standard was applied and even when varying county judgments were factored in. Counting fully punched chads and limited marks on optical ballots, Gore won by 115 votes. With any dimple or optical mark, Gore won by 107 votes. With one corner of a chad detached or any optical mark, Gore won by 60 votes. Applying the standards set by each county, Gore won by 171 votes.
12. yaledailynews.com - Gore tackles threats due to climate
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- Gore tackles threats due to climate.
- Al Gore urges a Battell Chapel audience to view the world’s environmental situation from a new perspective, speaking of climate change in a Tuesday afternoon lecture titled “The Climate Emergency. ...
- Former Vice President Al Gore spoke to a full audience at Battell Chapel on Tuesday afternoon, warning of the dangers of global warming. ...
- "When I use the phrase 'climate emergency,' I have partly in mind the fact that this is happening right now," Gore said. ...
- " In his introduction, environment school Dean Gustave Speth '64 LAW '69, described Gore's 1992 book "Earth in the Balance" as the "Silent Spring" of their generation and called Gore an "extraordinary leader. ...
- Focusing on the imminent threat due to climate change, Gore described melting ice caps and glaciers, rising sea levels and increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as symptomatic of an alarming problem. Gore explained that these concerns are the result of the deteriorating relationship people have with nature.
- "The underlying cause is a collision between our civilization and the earth," Gore said. ...
- Gore said the new relationship was due to the confluence of population growth, new technology and humanity's way of thinking. The exponential population growth in the past 50 years has caused resource scarcities and other environmental problems, Gore said, but he argued that even more importantly, human advances need to be taken into account.
- "When we don't examine habits that have persisted for a long time and then use the same habits with new technology, and we don't take into account the new power that we have, then the consequences can get away from us," Gore said.
- As an example, Gore explained that with the advent of nuclear weapons forced societies to re-evaluate their ideas about warfare. ...
- Gore added that people must now question their underlying assumptions about the environment.
- "Global warming seems to be gradual, but it's actually sudden," Gore said. ...
- Gore argued that global warming problems can be effectively tackled with the right political leadership and collective will. ...
- "Everything we've ever known is in one little, pale dot, and if we keep the right perspective and keep our eye on this problem we can solve this problem; we must solve this problem; we will solve this problem," Gore said. ...
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