Gored In the 2000 presidential campaign, the running narrative was that Al Gore was a big liar and the worst that could be said about George W. Bush was that he was kind of dumb. The mainstream media, never ones for complexity, played these cardboard caricatures to the hilt. Every Bush stumble meant he was the village idiot, while the press corps nitpicked seemingly every remark the vice president made, turning truths into exaggerations and minor inconsistencies into outrageous lies. Indeed, the notion that Al Gore said he invented the Internet is a hoary urban myth (go to snopes.com...