[Suicide Junkie]

i.e. In a messy and muddled situation Gore should be given the benefit of the doubt and be considered to have told the truth not the other way around. If we were to believe that the accused were always guilty before being proven guilty or that all that was necessary to prove someone guilty was to find a couple of reasonable people who thought them guilty then that would be a messed up world indeed.

It seems quite clear from that quote that what he said was definitely not true.

I can easily believe that it was not intentional, and there were no serious consequences of it. The public ridicule was also surely worse than he deserved.

However, his statement is still absurd, and we enjoy a good laugh at the situation.

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Also, note that while what he said is definitely not true, that does not nessesarily make it a lie.