Michael Moore Endorses Bernie Sanders for President

[Uncle Joe]

15. Al Gore was and is a Democrat.

Where you around to hear the continuous 24/7 drumbeat of slander/libel by the corporate media conglomerates or "gatekeepers" that "Al Gore claimed to have invented the Internet?"

Snopes called it "media mirth-making" but it was powerful adverse propaganda tearing at Al's credibility particularly when coupled with Bill Clinton's "I did not have sexual relations with that woman; Monica Lewinsky" and then have Al go out on the White House lawn and defend him on the eve of impeachment knowing that it was all a lie and would jeopardize Gore's political chances.

That had infinitely greater impact on the millions of Americans that view their daily "news" particularly Americans living in purple or red states.

Did Al Gore Say ‘I Invented the Internet’?

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Despite the multitudinous derisive references to the supposed quote that continue to be proffered even today, former U.S. vice president Al Gore never claimed that he “invented” the Internet, nor did he say anything that could reasonably be interpreted that way. The legend arose from critics and pundits who plucked a relatively credible statement Gore made during the course of an interview, altered its wording, and stripped it of context to make it seem a ridiculously self-serving falsehood.

The “Al Gore claimed he ‘invented’ the Internet” put-downs were misleading distortions that originated with a campaign interview conducted by Wolf Blitzer on CNN’s Late Edition program on 9 March 1999. (Gore, then the sitting Vice President, was seeking the 2000 Democratic presidential nomination.)

In context, Gore’s response (which employed the word “created,” not “invented”) was clear in meaning: the vice president was not claiming that he “invented” the Internet in the sense of having thought up, designed, or implemented it, but rather asserting that he was one of the visionaries responsible for helping to bring it into being by fostering its development in an economic and legislative sense.

The claim that Gore was actually trying to take credit for the “invention” of the Internet was plainly just derisive political posturing that arose out of a close presidential campaign. If, for example, Dwight Eisenhower had said in the mid-1960s that he, while president, “took the initiative in creating the Interstate Highway System,” he would not have been the subject of dozens and dozens of editorials lampooning him for claiming he “invented” the concept of highways or implying that he personally went out and dug ditches across the country to help build the roadway. Everyone would have understood that Eisenhower meant he was a driving force behind the legislation that created the highway system, and this was the very same concept Al Gore was expressing about himself with interview remarks about the Internet.

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https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/internet-of-lies/

Why do you believe the corporate media conglomerates couldn't bring themselves to give Al credit for this vision and perseverance?