On Monday's Hardball Show, Chris Matthews claimed there was a difference of the sliming on the Gore 2000 Race and the Kerry 2004. He said "Gore brought the trouble upon himself", saying: "Al Gore, he's the one who said he created the Internet. He's the one who put out the word that he was the subject or the role model for Love Story, that he pointed the country's attention to Love Canal. He stuck himself into that story." Matthews concluded: "Gore got himself in those problem areas by vanity and showing off and trying to make himself cool."
Now, what's worse, that Mr. Matthews thinks accomplishing good things and speaking of them is "showing off", and his projecting that he thinks that was to make himself "cool", or continuing the lie he repeated 7 years ago? If Mr. Gore did invent the internet and he stated so, how dare Chris Matthews call that showing off. However, Mr. Gore never claimed to have invented or create the internet-along with the other claims, and this has been proven time and time again over these years that an incorrect statement was first made by Wolf Blitzer when he wrongly recounted an interview he had with Mr. Gore and then continuously repeating a false story by the right wing and reporters.
FACT: Mr. Gore, as transcripts show in the interview Wolf Blitzer conducted stated
Transcript: Vice President Gore on CNN's 'Late Edition'
March 9, 1999
Web posted at: 5:06 p.m. EST (2206 GMT)
Gore: "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system."
After 3 years, Mr. Gore was finally successful passing the Bill, the High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991. The bill was one of the most important pieces of legislation directly affecting the expansion of the Internet.
And, that's not to mention the other false claims.
Matthews' assertion that Gore "put out the word" that he was the "subject or role model" for the main character in Erich Segal's 1970 romance novel Love Story has been debunked. While Matthews and other media figures asserted during the 2000 campaign that Gore had claimed he was the "subject" of Love Story (examples provided below), Princeton history professor Sean Wilentz and many others have noted:
Gore never made the claim. ... Schmoozing one night about the movies with two Time reporters, Gore had mentioned an interview, reported in the Nashville Tennessean, in which Segal claimed that Gore and Tipper were the models for his story. There was such an interview, but the Nashville reporter misquoted Segal, who actually said that Al, and not Tipper, had served as one of his models.
In addition, Matthews' assertion that Gore said he "pointed the country's attention to Love Canal," a toxic-waste site in upstate New York, echoes a false claim first made in December 1, 1999, articles in The Washington Post and The New York Times and partially retracted in a correction printed in the Post's December 7, 1999, edition and the Times' December 10, 1999, edition, as Media Matters has documented. The allegation was cited by the media throughout the 2000 campaign to describe Gore as an "exaggerator."
In reality, Gore didn't say "I was the one that started it all" -- he said "that was the one that started it all" [emphasis added] -- a fact that was clear as early as the December 1, 1999, broadcast of MSNBC's Hardball, which played a clip of Gore saying:
GORE:
"I found a little place in upstate New York called Love Canal, had the first hearing on that issue in Toone-Teague, Tennessee. That was the one you didn't hear of, but that was the one that started it all. We passed a -- a major national law to clean up hazardous dump sites, and we had new efforts to stop the practices that ended up poisoning water around -- around the country. We've still got work to do, but we've made a huge difference, and it all happened because one high school student got involved."
How many years would Mr. Matthews like to make false statements repeatedly, when it has been proven to be incorrect, before we now admit that Mr. Matthews is intentionally lying, smearing and impugning Mr. Gore?
I sent this to Keith Olbermann, because I belive this qualifiies Chris Matthews honors as Worst Person In The World.
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hardball@msnbc.com
(if you would like to tell Chris you are tired of the lies)
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http://mediamatters.org/...