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Originally Posted by Nimetic
Ok... I may be wrong on the the internet bit. I'll do some research
The internet was well and truly available in the late 80s, I recall it from uni. And we had bulletin boards and so on before that. But I'll check up on this (contribution). The IT press savaged Gore on this topic, but maybe that's a one-sided view.
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Post <a href="http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showpost.php?p=2326309&postcount=79">#79</a> ...is still on the previous page on this thread.... it's full of "research" ....but the only fringe info about Gore and the internet is in the beginning of the post...by that "rock" of accuracy and integrity.... conservative propagandist, Brent Bozell III .
I guess endorsements of Gore's contribution to the development of the internet, displayed in post $79, By Gates of Microsoft, and
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Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf, seconded by Dave Farber, Sep 28 2000
"Bob and I believe that the vice president deserves significant
credit for his early recognition of the importance of what has
become the Internet."
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...it's all there...in post #79....why wouldn't it be enough....? How long have you "known what you;ve known"? Why wasn't what was included in post #79, enough to stop your from continuing to post about "Gore and the internet", and where would you possibly go to do your research, that isn't tainted with Bozell's BS or some other partisan distortions?
We can't have discussions on this forum because some of us don't know how they came to "know what they know".....and we repeat the same pattern, over and over..... Bozell and CNP are very good at what they do. The 1200 station, Salem Comm. radio network, and their townhall.com internet destination, reinforce what you think you know, and everyone else ssems to know what you know....nice and neat....and it helped get us into, abd keep us in an avoidable war, and to think that a political agenda that is good for mega millionaires....is good for the rest of us, too!
But it isn't, it's a well financed campaign to keep a lot of us ignorant....it's like a virus....and it's killing the country.....making us a little more ike pre-Chavez Venezuela, every effing day......
You come from a wealthy country where ten percent of your small population lives in poverty, why is that?
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sto...4-2862,00.html
....with your Mr. Howard at the helm, it seems that you're becoming a mini version of the US conservative led...<h3>"let's make the populists seem like fools while we transfer the remaining wealth that they don't yet own....to our rich benefactors..."</h3>
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http://mediamatters.org/items/200708...fset=20&show=1
...But there is a danger or three in reporting by anecdote.
Reporting by anecdote is how we got a president who doesn't windsurf, doesn't order the "wrong" kind of cheesesteak, doesn't wear earth tones, doesn't sigh, and doesn't exaggerate* -- but who does lie to the nation on the way to war, spy on Americans, torture people, threaten to veto health care for children, allow arsenic in our drinking water, politicize the Justice Department, take an à la carte approach to the Constitution ("I'll have the Second Amendment and a little bit of the 10th, but hold the First, Fourth through Sixth, and the Eighth, please") and generally behave like a despot.
With the country at war and a presidency in crisis, this may be a good time to remember that a candidate's foreign policy instincts tell us more about his fitness for office than his grooming habits do."....
....But along the way, Sullivan and Powell offered an example of the "Trivial Story": <h3>"Al Gore wears earth tones on the advice of a consultant."</h3> That's trivial, all right, but it is also false, according to all available evidence -- as anyone who has been paying attention should have known for about eight years by now. But Sullivan and Powell don't merely repeat the story as though it is true, they claim it actually tells us something significant:
Reporters argue that seemingly small details can illuminate larger truths about a candidate. And they often do: Gore's sartorial hire told us about his insecurity as a candidate.
No. No, no, no, no. "Gore's sartorial hire" didn't tell us any such thing. It didn't tell us anything at all, because it never happened....
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Why isn't your country more populist leaning....like the Swedes or the French?
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showpos...&postcount=108