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Originally Posted by Gore
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet
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The U.S. Defense Department Created the Internet. “The Internet, originally called ARPANET, dates to 1969, when the Defense Department began funding the project. Gore, then 21, was still eight years away from joining Congress.”
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(The Associated Press, 3/11/99)
Im not saying that Al Gore didnt advance the cause of what we see now as the internet, he did lots in Congress along with hundreds of others.
he does however, both make things up and exagerate things beyond belief, like when he claimed that he and his wife Tipper were the inspiration for the movie Love Story.
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“Around midnight, after a three-city tour of Texas last month, the Vice President came wandering back to the press compartment of Air Force Two. Sliding in behind a table with the two reporters covering him that day, he picked slices of fruit from their plates and spent two hours swapping opinions about movies and telling stories about old chums like Erich Segal, who, Gore said, used Al and Tipper as models for the uptight preppy and his free-spirited girlfriend in Love Story; and Gore’s Harvard roommate Tommy Lee Jones, who played the roommate of the Gore-like character in the movie version of Segal’s book.”
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(Time, 12/15/97)
The reality?
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Not According to Love Story Author Erich Segal. “Vice President Al Gore acknowledged Sunday a ‘miscommunication’ on his part in leading reporters to believe he and his wife were the model for the 1970s romance novel ‘Love Story.’ The author, Erich Segal, told The New York Times he was ‘befuddled’ by the comments in the first place. He said he called Gore, and the vice president said it was a misunderstanding.”
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(The Des Moines Register, 12/15/97)
So yes, I should be ashamed I question his claims in the movie that have been pointed out by scientists, because obviously he would NEVER make things up or exagerate!!