I'd been waiting since I got this month's
Atlantic to see how the Howler would handle a certain exchange in the letters to the editor.
As always, the Howler's Somerby handles it incomparably:
Gore and the Internet
Joshua Green ("Playing Dirty," June Atlantic) focuses on politicians' use of factual material or innuendo, but begins his story by repeating something that very simply and unarguably is false: he refers to what he calls "[Al] Gore's many exaggerations, including one "that he had somehow invented the Internet." Gore never said or implied that.
Stan Kurzban
Chappaque, N.Y.
Joshua Green replies:
Nonsense. Gore's saying that he "took the initiative in creating the Internet" is akin to my suggesting that because I paid my taxes I took the initiative in balancing the federal budget-a considerable exaggeration.
That may be the stupidest thing we've ever seen in print. In our lives.
Daaaaaaamn! Strong words from a man who composes copious daily blog entries about stupid things he sees in print.
- Marc from
whopundit