[Baron Munchausen]

Originally posted by teal:
I did some informal surveying to make sure I wasn't completely crazy... Turns out I'm not. If you think I am either crazy or just crazy on this point then you can ask yourself long and hard why do you think both me and BM posted the entire paragraph of the interview and then said, "see, its perfectly obvious there was no misstatement here." Either we were so completely wacko as to actually hand the other side complete text that they could use to hang us with a great big glowing sign or else we were completely reasonable human being approaching the quote from a different point of view and reached a reasonable conclusion which we are then somewhat flabbergasted to learn that other reasonable people disagree with us about...

My favorite answer is from my survey is, "Gore was trying to say as little as possible". Now *that* is something we can agree on.

Cheers!

Teal

Actually, he was trying to say as much as possible not as little as possible. If he had just taken the extra second to say 'I took the initiative in the legislation that created the internet." he'd have been completely correct -- he was a primary sponsor on both major 1970s and 1980s bills that made the Internet what it is today. In that case this ridiculous controversy would never have occured. But he is a politician, after all, and politicians are professional advertizers who advertize themselves for a living. So he over-reached while thinking on his feet and trying to make himself look as good as possible.