Early on, Mr. Mackenzie repeats two deceptions about Al Gore; lets see if you can catch them. "This is the guy who told us that he and Tipper were the prototypes for "Love Story" despite denials by author Erich Segal, and that he invented the Internet - remember?
For those of you who don't know, Al Gore, late one night, was talking with a group of friends including a reporter about movies. He made the comment that a Tennessee Newspaper had reported that he and Tipper were the models for Love Story. This is true. A Tennessee Newspaper had falsely attributed a quote to Erich Segal that he and Tipper were the models for Love Story. The quote was later retracted. The media reported Mr. Gores comments and left out any notion of context. Hence, Mr. Gore is a liar about Love Story.
Secondly, Al Gore was instrumental, as a member of the United States Congress, in supporting the transition from the Arpenet to the Internet. He fought for funding to accomplish this transition (although, to be fair, he probably didn't know what the internet would become). He has taken credit for supporting the creation of the internet, saying that he had helped create it (Exact quote to Wolf Blitzer - "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."). Conserivatives liars like Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter changed create to invent, and claimed that he had cliamed to have written the code or that he had done it all by himself or something. Which was, of course, an encomrous distortion of what he actually said. And the media, instead of doing a little research and pointing out this deception on the part of Republican liars, chose to question Gores integrity. For more on this particularly succesful shell game, check this out.
The rest of MacKenzie's article is the standard pack of lies about the race for the Democratic Nominee. Does he act shocked that presidential candidates are running to the left in order to get the nomination? Yep. Does he compliment Lieberman as being the best candidate? Yep. Does he suggest Dean is both angry and possibly unstable? Yep.
He ends with an upbeat assessment (from my perspective) of Howard Dean's chances from William Kristol. "Could Dean really win? Unfortunately, yes. The Democratic presidential candidate has, alas, won the popular presidential vote three times in a row - twice, admittedly, under the guidance of the skilled Bill Clinton, but most recently with the hapless Al Gore at the helm. And demographic trends (particularly the growth in Hispanic voters) tend to favor the Democrats going into 2004."
Always look on the positive side.
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