[Amps] A tale of two IMs What happens?

[Doug Renwick]

Al Gore invented the Great Global Warming Swindle.

On a billboard somewhere along the Inter State in MN:

"Gore lies
Wins Nobel Prize"

Doug

I'll run the race and I will never be the same again. 

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On Behalf Of Bill, W6WRT
Sent: April 16, 2010 10:16 AM
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Subject: Re: [Amps] A tale of two IMs What happens?

ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:20:43 -0400, Roger <sub1 at rogerhalstead.com>
wrote:

>I'm not one of 'ol Al's boosters, but he never claimed to have invented

>the Internet. It was the press and opposition that said that.  
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore_and_information_technology
Although 
>he is responsible for providing a lot of government money to those 
>working on it back in those days. Computer systems and the Internet
were 
>my profession.

REPLY:

It's true he did not use the word "invent" but he did claim credit for
creating the internet.

Quoting from Wolf Blitzer's interview with Gore:  "During my service
in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the
Internet."

Is "taking the initiative" the same as "being the first"?  Is
"creating" the same as "inventing"?  Your call. 

You can read the full transcript at
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/03/09/president.2000/transcr
ipt.gore/index.html

73, Bill W6WRT