On Mar 4, 6:01 am, "rb608" wrote:
" wrote in message
"During my service in the
United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the
Internet.

Yep, it was those words that stirred up the right-wing **** storm.

There you go with that partisan crap again.

Those
words, however, are generally accepted by those in the industry and relevent
political arena as being essentially valid.

I won't speak for any "political arena"....I'm sure making inflated
claims
about what you have done is perfectly acceptable in political circles.

As far as "in the industry" that's complete hogwash. Cerf and Kahn
would have caught crap by industry people if they had claimed to
have created the internet.....and they contributed far more than
Al Gore ever did.

Most defense of Gore tries to rely on word spinning. That somehow
"creating the internet" is better than "inventing the internet."
I'll stick to the actual word he used if that makes you feel better.
(I'll admit my bias, as a hardware person, creating ~= inventing)

I design microprocessors for a living. If I went around saying that I
created microprocessor xyz, even though I might have had a huge
part in it's design, I would rightfully catch crap from the several
thousand other people who created that microprocessor. If it was
created before I even got there someone might even say that I
was full of it.

"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the
initiative in creating the Internet."

Yes, I'm a technical person and maybe politicians or other
simpletons can't see through unadulterated BS, but that
statement no matter how you try to justify it is BS......
.....and it's got nothing to do with right vs left vs middle.
- Ken