Posted on 12/22/2002 2:48:58 AM PST by kattracks
WHAT A GREAT Christmas gift Al Gore gave us.
But most of all, what a gift to Granite Staters, whom Al Gore probably lied to more than anyone else. They won't have to suffer through another season of Bill Clinton's vice president treating them like fools.
The holidays are the ideal time to reminisce, so let's take a moment to remember a few of the times Al Gore lied during 2000's first primary campaign.
Perhaps the funniest lie he told, rivaling his claim that he invented the Internet, was in November 1999 when he told Concord High School students that he had discovered the toxic waste site in New York known as Love Canal.
"I found a little place in upstate New York called Love Canal. Had the first hearing on that issue. That was the one that started it all . . ." The day after, the country was reminded by the media that Love Canal had been dealt with and evacuated in 1978 by New York Gov. Hugh Carey and President Jimmy Carter two months before U.S. Rep. Gore held hearings. "It was the governor banging on the federal government's door that got Gore involved," Love Canal activist Lois Gibbs told newspapers.
A less humorous Pinocchio moment came in December 1999 at a WNDS forum in Derry.
Katherine Prudhomme, a concerned mother and longtime Democrat, asked Gore what he thought of allegations by Juanita Broaddrick that Bill Clinton raped her while he was attorney general of Arkansas.
"When Juanita Broaddrick made the claim, which I thought was quite credible, that she was raped by Bill Clinton . . . did it change your opinion about him being one of the best Presidents in history? Do you believe Juanita Broaddrick's claim? And what did you tell your son about this?"
Gore responded that he didn't "know how to evaluate the story" because he didn't see the nationally televised interview by Lisa Myers on NBC's "Dateline." Who did he expect to believe that one? If he didn't watch, did he expect us to believe he neither read a news story about it nor had an aide give him a briefing?
In early January 2000 at the University of New Hampshire, Gore took part in a debate with Bill Bradley co-sponsored by The Union Leader. He said he would support local control over the White Mountain National Forest, instead of the one-size-fits-all roadless policy President Clinton had proposed.
Gore insisted, "Now if areas of that forest are protected under the new order, the same process of consultation that has been used in the past that gives individuals and communities input into the process will be a part of this process."
What a whopper he was telling. Six months later, after he had won our primary and didn't need Granite Staters as much, he told the League of Conservation Voters: "And just so I'm crystal clear about it, no new road building and no timber sales in the roadless areas of our national forests. Period."
Finally, remember his Manchester debate against Bradley in late January 2000? Gore claimed he had been pro-choice his entire political life.
Bradley whipped out a 1987 letter from Gore to a constituent saying abortion was "arguably the taking of a human life," and a 1984 letter saying it was his "deep personal conviction that abortion is wrong."
Al Gore went out like he blew in: lying. He says the reason he's not running again in 2004 is because the race against President George W. Bush would be about the past, meaning the hotly disputed 2000 election. But we all know that's not the real reason. His own party doesn't want him to run again, according to a recent poll of Democratic National Committee members.
Who can blame them? Al Gore presents himself like a shifty, soulless salesman. What a Christmas gift, to be spared another season of lies from Al Gore.
Bernadette Malone is the former editorial page director.
No, the Democrat Party deserves a liar because they tolerate, nurture, and encourage them. Anyone that thinks the Democrat Party was "victimized" by Clinton and Gore need only harken back to the impeachment saga to see the party standing four-square behind Clinton no matter what he said or did.
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Stacked on the floor as you wound your way to the cash register were new books they hoped you would buy as impulse gifts. Bush at War and George and Laura had a few copies left. There was a BIG stack of Joined at the Heart.
Heheheh.
People routinely emulate those who appear to be successful. Al Gore was raised from birth to be a politician, by a father who, from his record, appeared to have no moral constraints whatsoever. It was quite natural for Gore to emulate politicians whose aims were comparable to his, and who'd achieved greater success than he had. All of those were deceit-mongering statists. Bill Clinton is only the most obvious example.
Others will follow in those footsteps, for as long as the method appears likely to get them what they want: power over the rest of us.
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Oh I could go on for hours.
You know that "Love Canal" quote? The media botched it - read below:
The incorrect information being circulated: Gore implies that he began Love Canal during a visit to a New Hampshire high school on November 30, 1999 "I called for a congressional investigation and a hearing. I looked around the country for other sites like that. I found a little place in upstate New York called Love Canal. Had the first hearing on that issue," stated Gore. "That was the one that started it all. ... We made a huge difference and it was all because one high school student got involved."
Now, Gore did chair hearings on the matter by the House Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, but that was two months after the Love Canal homes were evacuated and President Carter declared the area a national state of emergency. However, he was not the one who first drew attention to Love Canal, as he tries to claim.
(Sources: http://www.junkscience.com/dec99/lovegore.htm Associated Press, Dec 1, 1999 The Providence Journal, Dec 21, 1999, page B-04)
Hold it.
Listen to the actual quote: The quote in full. This is from a show called "This American Life" on KUT Radio (90.5 FM) Source for live feed. The media, for the most part, was not mentioning the full quote. Relevant parts were removed, which changed the interpretation. Can anyone explain HOW one is supposed to know the media botched a quote if all the mainstream media outlets are publishing the same incorrect info over and over? I always tell people to check sources, but in this case, that didn't do much good since the media botched this one.
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