ELECTION DAY REPLAY - Gore Pulls a Quayle
By: Robnoxious	Published: 11/07/2000
WASHINGTON — Vice President Al Gore's claim that he is the father of the Internet drew amused protests from congressmen on Capitol Hill. Gore, who supposedly coined the term "information superhighway," raised eyebrows with a pronouncement he made during a CNN interview. "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet," he said when asked to cite accomplishments that separate him from another Democratic presidential hopeful, former Sen. Bill Bradley of New Jersey. House Majority Leader Dick Armey, said that even under the time-honored tradition of politicians taking credit for everything, Gore's statement is an "outrageous claim." The Internet, originally called ARPANET, dates to 1969, when the Defense Department began funding the project, and later professors and scientists used the medium to quickly exchange research data. Gore, then 21, was still eight years away from joining Congress. Boy 0 boy, Gore is commiting political suicide with these comments. Bill says he never inhaled, Gore certainly did. Why not join the rest of us on the inside and get all of Goofball.com?
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hahaha (0 replies) started by Anonymous Goofball (11.20.2000 9:48:57 AM EST) This is funny. AND ACCURATE! I was intending to write a similar article myself... Why are you people so wrapped up in this thing? I realize that a 'true american patriot' is supposed to worry about petty things such as presidents and such... BUT BOTH OF THEM ARE MORONS! The USA is more than strong enough to survive a bad leader. (see the last 8 years) And as for florida? I think that a headline similar to: "presidential election: day 12" is absurd. and just in case you peoples wanna say I am so brave because I am anonymous.... my name is Matt and my email is mcaley@hotmail.com. I just forgot my username because I was laughing at some of you so hard.

I never accused.... (0 replies) started by latertater (11.12.2000 10:56:00 PM EST) Al Gore of complaining! Florida laws are set up for automatic recounts when a cetain percentage differentiates the candidates. A recount was performed and that didn't work out to Gore's favor. Now I read they are going to do a manual recount. Excuse me, but this isn't an election where you recount until you like the outcome. I know there was protesting in Florida but I have not heard of any rioting there. Are you s-t-r-e-t-c-h-i-n-g this point or are you adding fuel to the fire. Let me pull a Clinton here and ask, define "normal people". See how ignorant that sounds but it worked for Clinton! If Al Gore wants to go jogging or play football or run down Pennsylvania Blvd. with his pants down....I could care less. You can be guaranteed his henchmen are working behind the scenes. Mr Daley is out there working his rearend off bringing more dishonor to his family name! If my brain freezes over, at least I can thaw it out and it will work perfectly. I believe your's has thrown a rod and overheated and there is not a mechanic in sight. Way to sum up your whole article. Your shallowness shows! Don't take any wooden nickels!

Mr. latertater... (0 replies) started by Anonymous Goofball (11.12.2000 2:14:37 PM EST) It doesn't matter who those 19000 voters were voting for. In democracy, everyone should get to vote. Yes some of them are just plain stupid, but that doesn't mean that their votes dont count! Some of the ones on the smarter end of the spectrum checked who they were voting for, and realized their 'boo-boo'. They asked for new ballots (it SAYS on the ballots you can get a new one if you ask...) BUT THEY WERE TURNED DOWN. That was NOT supposed to happen. The hag who did that should have some legal issues... Anyway, it was NOT Al Gore who complained, it was NOT Al Gore who asked for a recount (At first, florida WAS HIS, but then there was a recount, and it went to bush.) The people who started rioting and protesting, etc. were the same people who's votes were thrown out because of poor ballot design (sure they're stupid, but in democracy, even stupid people have the same rights). If you go to yahoo and search for news, pictures, 'florida ballot,' you will notice a lot of normal people holding up signs that say "make grandma's vote count!" and etc. You will notice that there are no pictures of Al Gore holding up a sign... These people were angry on their own, Al Gore did not tell them to do that. All Al has been doing the last couple days is jogging and playing two hand touch football with his family. Now if anything about that suggests that he's secretly causing voter uprisings at night, maybe bushes will fly and your brain will freeze over. THIS HAS BEEN YET ANOTHER PUBLICK ("") SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT. If you did not have enough time to read all that, I will sum it up: GO TO HELL.

Mr. latertater... (1 reply) started by Anonymous Goofball (11.12.2000 1:41:41 PM EST) Go to hell, fuck hole bitchsucker

Mr. Austin GrOss... (0 replies) started by latertater (11.11.2000 10:19:01 PM EST) and I use the term "Mr." loosely, calling Republicans, assholes, wholy shows your true colors. Every American was given their "American Right" to vote. I guess those 19,000 voters needed a democrat to enter the voting booth with them so they could make the so called "right choice." If they cannot follow simple election instructions then whose fault is that? It's time for people to start being held accountable for their mistakes. The easy thing to do would be to blame somebody else. I have a lot better things to do than argue with a liberal such as yourself. Why would I want to leave this funny site to go to your dumbass site. Do us all a favor......come back when you can't stay as long! Don't take any wooden nickels!

Talk about streaching the facts... (1 reply) started by Anonymous Goofball (11.11.2000 8:46:52 PM EST) You (article writer) are a complete hippocritical moron. You are really stretching the facts when you say Al Gore was streaching the facts. He did not say he "invented the internet." Nor did he say "that he coined the coined the ter, 'internet superhighway.' You (again, I am referring to the article's writer) are obviously trying to stretch the facts, or are one of the idiots who belive the asshole republicans. I think they are assholes not because I am a democrat, which I am not, but because they ARE assholes! I noticed most of the people posting here think Gore is a crybaby. Get real: 19,000 votes were through out because of a confusing ballot design. That has obviously not happened before, so its obviously an irregularity. And for those of you who think Al talked them into speaking up, go lick George W Shrub! Because the people of that county were angry about their vote being thrown out, and they have every right to be pissed off! And finally... for those of you who think there's no difference between 'creating' and 'inventing,' there is, and that is this: inventing referrs to FIRST creating the IDEA and PROTOTYPE of someting. I can CREATE a ball of clay with out inventing the first ball of clay! I can make an initiative for making the internet populated (and have the effect of the booming internet we have today) without INVENTING the internet. And "hardball" if you think Al Gore has an IQ of 2, take a look at George Bush (not to mention yourself.) Gore took the initiative in CREATING (NOT inventing) the internet. Would the internet be the internet we know today if there was no market for it, thus no sites on it, thus just plain boring? DAMN NO! So go lick George bush you asshole dumbass republican corperate zombies! And get a life, Robnoxious, doing something better than twisting insignificant stories and geting high on brain doses from republican shitheaddumbass-etc.-es If you're pissed with this dumbass web site, go to someplace better: http://members.home.net/austingross THIS HAS BEEN A PUBLICK (no pun intended) SURVACE ANNOUNCEMENT, FUNDED BY ME, AustinGr0ss THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

He's pissed because (0 replies) started by theresalove (11.11.2000 1:17:42 AM EST) Bush took his home state, and people aren't stupid. Florida is primarily a retirement state, correct? Older people who live there will naturally stick with a name that brought success, just as we would... would you rather own a Rolex watch, or a Bolex? So, between having his home state stolen by Bush, and naturally the voices of the people being heard, of course he's going to stand in the sidelines crying "I want a recount.... wah!" and have one of his cronies go do the dirty work of announcing it for him, instead of being a man (for which he could only wish to be), and letting it go for what it was. The man is a freaking sociopath..... of course he's going to give his delusions to the people at actual fact..... geez! DUH!!!!!!

Powermongering cry baby (0 replies) started by teufeljohn (11.10.2000 12:43:31 PM EST) Now we see the true colors of Al Gore. Is this man really, really right for the Oval Office. He's the only one, right now, throwing a fit over the Florida votes. I think its time that Al throw in the frickin' towel and go at it in four years. By that time he will our will not have the ammunition to knock the Repub's out of office. Who else thinks its time for this to happen and the elections be over?

Doesn't matter (2 replies) started by dkotler (11.09.2000 10:42:59 AM EST) It doesn't matter who is president. The rich will still be rich and the poor will still be poor. I feel sorry for these idiots who defend Al Gore like he's some kind of messiah who is going to save the world. I think my cock would be a better president.

Fuck Gore!!! (0 replies) started by greenapplesplatters (11.08.2000 10:57:10 PM EST) Dumb-ass Gore. One wonders if that vacuum-sealed cranium cavity he posesses is capable of telling even ONE truth. Anyone who walks around spouting out-and-out baldface lies like ' I invented the Internet', 'Tipper & I were the inspiration for Love Story', 'I plowed steep hillsides with mules', 'I discovered Love Canal', and mountains of other lies tell alot about this pie-faced, condescending, completely annoying, fucked-up lousy excuse for a human being. To lose the election would only be the beginning of what this cum stain deserves...I hope to find him one day asking me at the drive-tru if I want fries with my burger. Dumb-ass twat fungus. Strike a blow for freedom ... Slap a Democrat!

so???? (0 replies) started by PetShopBoy (11.08.2000 9:53:00 PM EST) so the fuck what Briredfern? at least he has some fucking evidence to back it up unlike some people. Which I may add is sooo fucking typical of republicans, all BS, no actual substance. The only reason I need to vote for Gore other than I agree with his views is that Bush is a fucking coke snorting Nazi and his only interest is in how fat his pocket book can get while he's in office, with the help of Daddy, of course. All you stupid fucking conservatives need to stop bitching because you fucking know that guy (Bush) is a fucking moron and is completely incompetant. Oh yeah and if you wanna be critizing stupid shit people say why don't you add the part where Bush is talking about social security not more than a week ago, and says something along the lines of "Al Gore wants to make social security a federally controlled institution! What does he think it is? Some sort of Federal Act!?" no shit sherlock

POLITICS SUCK (0 replies) started by Anonymous Goofball (11.08.2000 9:52:04 PM EST) Who cares if Gore said that or if Bush smoked crack or who's suckin on the Clinton!! Not I!

does anyone care (0 replies) started by disposablehero (11.08.2000 7:06:15 PM EST) that this story is like 8 months old? PUT THE CLERKS CARTOON BACK ON TV

You go Oliver!!! (0 replies) started by BriRedfern (11.08.2000 4:24:35 PM EST) HA! Did you guys read the replys to our annonymous friend's post? The whole thing was taken from a political site, you gotta love a plagorist!

Phew (0 replies) started by scottm (11.08.2000 11:37:54 AM EST) Anonymous Goofball=Too much time on my hands or Anonymous Goofball=Gore? ranger

Invent/Create? (0 replies) started by Hannes (11.08.2000 0:43:30 AM EST) You can create a statue, but you can't invent it... BTW: Gore does deserve credit for his efforts - but not the amount which he took. Of course - he's not the only one who was caught with a lie - and this is a relatively harmless (if ludicrous) one... Anyway "politics is the art of understanding the choice between two evils as a good". (Not a definition, just Machiavelli's opinion.)

It looks like someone... (0 replies) started by Defiance (11.08.2000 0:17:54 AM EST) ...has too much time on their hands, Mr. Anonoymous. You better get your facts straight before trying to cause a ruckus. Let's have "safe sex" and remember: Kinky is using a feather, perverted is using the whole chicken!

Hey anonymous goofball... (0 replies) started by latertater (11.07.2000 7:45:10 PM EST) This is the meaning of "invent", taken from the online Merriam-Webster Collegiate Thesaurus: Entry Word: invent Function: verb Text: Synonyms CONTRIVE 2, concoct, cook (up), devise, dream up, formulate, frame, hatch (up), make up, vamp (up) Related Word conceive, envision, imagine; "create", mint, produce, turn out; inaugurate, initiate Looks as though invent and create mean the same thing. Next time you decide to write a novel, how about doing a little more research on the meaning of words. Al Gore is just picking up where Dan Quayle left off. Now, get off your knees and wipe Gore's sperm off of your face. If Gore wins (God forbid) you might as well get back on your knees...but he will not be in front of you...he will be behind you and all of us for that matter screwing us in the ass and not even thanking us! Don't take any wooden nickels!

gore (0 replies) started by hardball (11.07.2000 5:16:31 PM EST) or as I like to call him Algoreyaforyourmoney.is the fifth horseman.He is a commy with only your money in mind FUCK YOU. if you vote for this scumbag shit for brains.He carried a 2.0 grade avg failing most of his law classes bush carried a 3.5 grade avg. and failed no classes.who the idiot? I will agree al is smart after all he has his supporters thinking that less money in there pocket makes them better off. Gun's Gun's we need more Gun's, what for, to preserve freedom.Don't ask what you country can do for you. Get off your lazy fat ass and get a fucking job.

Take time to learn the TRUE story... (2 replies) started by Anonymous Goofball (11.07.2000 5:12:58 PM EST) Although Gore's statement about his having helped foster the creation of the Internet might be exaggerated, he never claimed to have "invented" the Internet -- that claim is a the result of a persistent (and often willful) misreporting by the media of something he said during a CNN interview. "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." Clearly, although Gore's phrasing was clumsy (and self-serving), he was not claiming that he "invented" the Internet (in the sense of having designed or implemented it), but that he was responsible for helping to create the environment (in an economic and legislative sense) that fostered the development of the Internet. Al Gore might not know nearly as much about the Internet and other technologies as his image would have us believe, and he certainly has been guilty of stretching (if not outright breaking) the truth before, but to believe that Gore seriously thought he could take credit for the "invention" of the Internet -- in the sense offered by the media -- is just silly. (To those who say the words "create" and "invent" mean the same thing: If they mean the same thing, then why have the media overwhelmingly and consistently cited Gore as having claimed he "invented" the Internet when he never used that word? The answer is that the words don't mean the same thing, but by substituting one word for the other, commentators can make Gore's claim sound [more] ridiculous.) However, validating even the lesser claim Gore intended to make is problematic. Any statement about the "creation" or "beginning" of the Internet is difficult to evaluate, because the Internet is not a homogenous entity (it's a collection of computers, networks, protocols, standards, and application programs), nor did it all spring into being at once (the components that comprise the Internet were developed in various places at different times and are continuously being modified, improved, and expanded). Despite a spirited defense of Gore's claim by Vint Cerf (often referred to as the "father of the Internet") in which he stated "that as a Senator and now as Vice President, Gore has made it a point to be as well-informed as possible on technology and issues that surround it," many of the components of today's Internet came into being well before Gore's first term in Congress began in 1977, and it's hard to find any specific action of Gore's (such as his sponsoring a Congressional bill or championing a particular piece of legislation) that one could claim helped bring the Internet into being, much less validate Gore's statement of having taken the "initiative in creating the Internet." It's true that Gore was popularizing the term "information superhighway" in the early 1990s (when few people outside academia or the computer/defense industries had heard of the Internet) and has introduced a few bills dealing with education and the Internet, but even though Congressman, Senator, and Vice-President Gore may always have been interested in and well-informed about information technology issues, that's a far cry from having taken an active, vital leadership role in bringing about those technologies. Even if Al Gore had never entered the political arena, we'd probably still be reading web pages via the Internet today. No, Al Gore did not claim he "invented" the Internet, nor did he say anything that could reasonably be interpreted that way. The derisive "Al Gore said he 'invented' the Internet" put-downs are misleading distortions of something he said (taken out of context) during an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN's "Late Edition" program on 9 March 1999. When asked to describe what distinguished him from his challenger for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey.

fuck gore ... fuck bush ... fuck you (0 replies) started by daveminster (11.07.2000 5:08:56 PM EST) see title for details

So Sad (0 replies) started by RedNeckedTulsan (11.07.2000 3:51:41 PM EST) Gore is an exagerating idiot with the personality of bait but brighter and more competent than Bush. Thats a scary but true thing. In some countries they have already nicknamed them as Dumbo and Pinnochio. Even sadder. Who saddled us with these two?

YOU KNOW (0 replies) started by donut38 (11.07.2000 3:01:12 PM EST) I HEARD HE WAS GAY AND IF YOU READ IT OR HEAR IT IT "MUST" BE TRUE SOME PEOPLE WILL BELIEVE ANYTHING

gore (0 replies) started by 1trackmind (11.07.2000 1:55:49 PM EST) sucks fat cock

Internet and Internet (0 replies) started by beska (11.07.2000 12:22:12 PM EST) Saying that the ARPANET of 1969 and the Internet of today are the same is pretty ridiculous. Gore was on a commitee that took the inititive in supporting the furthered development of the Internet...the creation of the Internet as we currently know it. He used an unfortunate turn of phrase that has been taken out of context and used against him. But, then again, that's the story of all politics these days...

Are you out of your mind AG? (0 replies) started by Hannes (11.07.2000 11:52:35 AM EST) You can't take an initiative to create something which already exists. You may take an initiative to pick-up a girl, but you can't take an inititive to give birth to her.

This is fucking stupid (0 replies) started by Anonymous Goofball (11.07.2000 11:26:05 AM EST) Gore did take the initiative in inventing the Internet. If I take the initiative to score with a chick, that doesn't mean I did, it means I took the initiative. Gores voting record supports his claims, he did take such initiative.

first again (0 replies)   started by zombiefuck (09.16.2000 7:07:13 AM EST) gore may be stupid but at least he's not a crack-head

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