Had Clinton either told the truth or kept his mouth shut, Gore would've been far better off.
As it was Clinton made the corporate media's job of transferring the sins of the President (lack of integrity) to the Vice President all the easier.
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman" instantly morphed into "Al Gore claimed to have invented the Internet" this propaganda boom for the corporate media and Republicans damaged Gore in mulitple ways whether it be in not actually giving the man rightful credit for his legislative work in opening the Internet to the people or in believing his environmental message re: global warming.
CNN held a poll as to the most revolutionary creation of the 20th century and the Internet won hands down but they trashed its' primary political champion.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_gore
"Gore was one of the Atari Democrats who were given this name due to their "passion for technological issues, from biomedical research and genetic engineering to the environmental impact of the "greenhouse effect." On March 19, 1979 he became the first member of Congress to appear on C-SPAN. During this time, Gore co-chaired the Congressional Clearinghouse on the Future with Newt Gingrich. In addition, he has been described as having been a "genuine nerd, with a geek reputation running back to his days as a futurist Atari Democrat in the House. Before computers were comprehensible, let alone sexy, the poker-faced Gore struggled to explain artificial intelligence and fiber-optic networks to sleepy colleagues." Internet pioneers Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn noted that, "as far back as the 1970s, Congressman Gore promoted the idea of high speed telecommunications as an engine for both economic growth and the improvement of our educational system. He was the first elected official to grasp the potential of computer communications to have a broader impact than just improving the conduct of science and scholarship the Internet, as we know it today, was not deployed until 1983. When the Internet was still in the early stages of its deployment, Congressman Gore provided intellectual leadership by helping create the vision of the potential benefits of high speed computing and communication."
Gore introduced the Supercomputer Network Study Act of 1986. He also sponsored hearings on how advanced technologies might be put to use in areas like coordinating the response of government agencies to natural disasters and other crises."
As a Senator, Gore began to craft the High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991 (commonly referred to as "The Gore Bill"
after hearing the 1988 report Toward a National Research Network submitted to Congress by a group chaired by UCLA professor of computer science, Leonard Kleinrock, one of the central creators of the ARPANET (the ARPANET, first deployed by Kleinrock and others in 1969, is the predecessor of the Internet). The bill was passed on December 9, 1991 and led to the National Information Infrastructure (NII) which Gore referred to as the "information superhighway."
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The corporate media as an institution demonized Gore with a near two year war of slander and libel while enabling a corrupt, incompetent Bush to power, they did it precisely because Gore did champion opening the Internet.
The corporate media came to view the First Amendment enhancing, democracy empowering Internet as a direct threat to their top down, one way, authoritarian business model of telling the American People what reality was/is.
If the corporate media as an institution decides to trash or demonize any candidate or person, getting an undistorted message out becomes near impossible.
Gore did a great job despite of the corporate media's inherent vendetta against him.
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