FICTION: Al Gore recently claimed that his mother-in-law pays more than $100.00 for the arthritis medicine Lodine; and he claims that his dog takes the same medicine for $37.00, claiming "This is wrong!"
FACT: Gore's aides were quick to apologize for Gore's lie, saying the information was from a Democratic study. Washington newspapers also reported that Al Gore wasn't even sure his mother-in-law was taking any medication and wasn't even sure she had arthritis. And, he doesn't know anything about his dog's "arthritis".
FALSE.
A) Gore's aides NEVER apologized, because there was no lie.
B) It was confirmed by both Mrs. Gore's physician and the dog's veterinarian that both were indeed taking the same respective drug.
C) Lodine for humans costs $2.13 per capsule, whereas the canine version of the drug costs 92 cents per capsule. That's a difference of 232% !
FICTION: Al Gore claimed responsibility for inventing the Internet in the 1990's.
FACT : Shocked scientists were quick to speak out, explaining that the Internet had been in widespread use by government and educational institutions since the early 1970's.
FALSE.
Gore never said he invented the internet, and what you are referring to was the ARPANET not the internet. Furthermore:
Al Gore said "During my term in Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet", which he did. In March 1986, when workstation computers were still something found mostly in laboratories, Gore sponsored the Supercomputer Network Study Act, Senate Bill 2594, which proposed to link the nation's supercomputers into a single system, when forward-looking companies such as Apple still didn't even have e-mail !
One of Gore's Republican colleagues, Sen. Slade Gorton of Washington, credited him at the time for introducing a bill that would "create {note that word} a high-capacity national research and education network to link up supercomputers and databases around the country."
In testimony to a House committee, Gore said: "I genuinely believe that the creation of this nationwide network ... will create an environment where work stations are common in homes and even small businesses."
FICTION: Al Gore claimed the book "Love Story" was based on his life and Tipper's.
FACT: Author Erich Segal called a press conference to deny his claim. (Couldn't he at least lie about a love story where his sweetheart doesn't die?"
FALSE.
Mr. Gore has simply never made such a statement. It was printed in an article in the Nashville Tennessean newspaper. Eric Segal corrected the paper's false assertion, by explaining that Al Gore WAS one of the preppies he had in mind in creating the Oliver Barrett character; the other was Gore's roommate at Harvard, the actor Tommy Lee Jones.
FICTION : Gore claimed that as a reporter for a Nashville newspaper, his stories led to the arrests of numerous corrupt criminals.
FACT: He later apologized for his claim and actually said it was untrue (Also known as lying).
FALSE.
No apology given or required.
FICTION: Gore claims to increase diversity in the staff that follows him daily, especially among blacks.
FACT: Black members of the Secret Service are suing because they claim they are not being promoted to positions guarding the Vice-President.
You've offered no evidence that the Vice-President hasn't increased diversity among his STAFF, and the protected have nothing to do with who is promoted within the Secret Service.
FICTION: Al Gore said he was the first to discover the Love Canal nuclear accident.
FACT: The incident was already discovered, being investigated, and covered widely in the press for many months before Gore was aware of it.
FALSE.
The misquotes were retracted by their sources:
"It's Seelye's fault (NYTimes) and the Washington Post's Ceci Connolly's - that folks think Gore claimed credit for Love Canal in the first place. Which he didn't. Both papers issued corrections for their respective Dec. 1 stories that accused Gore of hogging the credit for Love Canal. As the corrections and the Content article point out, Gore took credit only for spearheading an investigation of illegally dumped toxic wastes in Tennessee and for holding the congressional hearings that looked into Love Canal."
OOPS !
FICTION: Gore said just recently that if elected president, he would put harsh sanctions on the sleazy producers of Hollywood's extreme sex and violence.
FACT: Just six days later, Gore attended a fundraiser by Hollywood producers and radical gay activists where he told them that he would only pretend to "nudge them" if elected. He raised over $4 million.
FALSE.
Gore never said "he would put harsh sanctions on the sleazy producers of Hollywood's extreme sex and violence". Both he and Lieberman merely addressed the possible violation of FTC standards in regards to the MARKETING of certain films to children.
FICTION: Al Gore says parents should not have a choice between private and public schools because public schools are far better.
TRUTH : Al Gore attended private school and he has sent his children to private schools.
FALSE.
The Gore's children attended both private school (for security reasons) and public school.
FICTION: Al Gore remembers his mother lulling him to sleep as a baby by singing the popular ditty, "Wear The Union Label".
FACT: The popular ditty was created by the unions when Gore was 27 years old.
It was a joke ! Guessed you missed the crowd laughing at the joke ?
SHEEZ !
FICTION: Al Gore claimed to co-sponsor the McCain-Feingold Campaign Reform Act.
FACT: The Act was not sponsored until he had been out of office for over a year.
FALSE.
Gore claimed to have cosponsored campaign finance reform legislation (which he did), NOT the specific bill referred to as "McCain-Feingold".
FICTION: Al Gore claims to be instrumental in keeping gas prices low.
FACT: Gore has voted on numerous occasions to raise the tax on gasoline. In his book "Earth In The Balance" Gore claims that the nation's Number One enemy is the internal combustion engine. (That's the motor in your vehicle that gets you to work and takes your kids to school)
Gore merely predicted the internal combustion engine would be phased-out over a 25 to 30 year period of time. So did someone else, several years later:
"No car company will be able to thrive in the 21st century if it relies solely on internal combustion engines", said John F. Smith Jr., the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of General Motors. Additionally, Smith predicts a "slow phase-off of the internal combustion engine in 20 to 30 years...Any auto-maker that doesn't do so risks being left in the dust".
FICTION: Gore pretends to champion the rights of poor women to be tested regularly for breast cancer with the most modern technology.
FACT: While giving a speech on the subject in September, Gore didn't know what a mammogram was.
FALSE.
FICTION: AL Gore promised Florida's senior citizens that they would finally have low-cost drugs with no interference from government.
FACT: Gore's plan calls for the creation of a huge federal agency that would tell you which doctor you are allowed to see in order to get the "special rates".
FALSE.
Why would the addition of a prescription drug benefit to Medicare require a "huge federal agency" ? Medicare is one of the most efficient federal programs that has ever existed. It would be completely voluntary and you would choose your own physician and pharmacist.
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YEP.
Sounds like the RightWing's propaganda machines are on overdrive again, as they can't campaign on the issues.
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