-Caveat Lector- ----- Original Message ----- From: Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Well, it's Wired News not Wired Magazine, but who am I to complain? --Declan] **** The American Spectator July 1999 AL GORE'S WAR ON HIGH TECH Forget the image -- the veep loathes Silicon Valley By Grover Norquist Declan McCullagh, a writer for Wired magazine, was watching CNN's "Late Edition" last March 9 when Vice President Al Gore told host Wolf Blitzer that "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet." Blitzer didn't question Gore's claim, but McCullagh did. In fact, the first plans for what became the Internet were devised by MIT's Lawrence G. Roberts in 1966 -- when Al Gore was all of 18. Moreover, neither of the two men who've been nominated for a U.S. postage stamp for actually inventing the Internet is named Al Gore. (They are Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn, who published "A Protocol for Packet Network Interconnection" in 1974, years before Gore was old enough to serve in Congress.) In the Web pages of Wired News, McCullagh reported on Gore's cavalier attempt to take credit for the work of others. He also sent an e-mail alert to the several thousand subscribers of his Politech mailing list. From there, at the speed of light, Gore's lie entered the popular culture, from teenage slang to Jay Leno's monologue, and is now as well known as Dan Quayle's spelling of "potatoe." It is of a piece with Gore's claim that he and Tipper Gore were the models for Eric Segal's Love Story or his boast that he grew up ploughing hillsides in Tennessee. [...] Like Bill Clinton before him, Gore has posed as a New Democrat. He was a member of the Democratic Leadership Council that supposedly stood for a Democratic Party no longer tethered to labor unions, trial lawyers, and big city machines. Yet every time these pillars of the old Democratic Party have clashed with the high-tech world, Gore has sided with the forces of the past. Every time. [...] [I do not think this article is yet up on http://www.spectator.org/. You'll have to pick it up on the newsstands. --DBM] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- the moderated mailing list of politics and technology To subscribe: send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this text: subscribe politech More information is at http://www.well.com/~declan/politech/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
