The Times Unofficially Endorses Gore 
LAST THURSDAY, in an astonishing editorial, The New York Times unofficially endorsed Al Gore over Gov. George W. Bush for president in the 2000 election. 

First, does the paper really believe that Americans don’t “know enough” about Al Gore after he’s been in office for seven years? I think they know he claimed to invent the Internet; said there was “no controlling authority” that prevented him from making campaign solicitations from his office; that on the day Clinton was impeached by the House of Representatives, Gore, at that infamous White House pep rally, insisted that his boss will be remembered as one of the greatest American presidents; and that despite his current mantra of “family values,” honesty is apparently not one of them. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have railed against the tobacco industry in 1996, exploiting his sister’s death of lung cancer in 1984, when he had bragged in Southern states during the ’88 presidential primaries that he tilled tobacco like any hard-working farmer. 
The Mugger 

Al Gore's future and the future of the nation. 
Let's start by being brutally honest. Just between you and me. In the weeks since the Monica Lewinsky story thrust itself upon the national consciousness, I bet you have found yourself, on more than one occasion, sitting in your tiny West Wing office, just down the hall from the Oval, daydreaming about what it all could mean. 

 You know what I'm referring to: the scandal continuing to spiral out of control. More deceptions, more tidbits from the Tripp tapes. Lewinsky cuts a deal with Starr. The full story spills out--the presents, the dress, the late-night visits to the president's study, the message he may have foolishly left on Lewinsky's answering machine. A chastened and beleaguered Clinton sees no alternative. A nighttime address to the American people is hastily organized. An emotional mea culpa. A resignation. Noon tomorrow. And then, the next morning, a tearful farewell to the staff in the East Room, a walk across the South Lawn. He boards Marine One, a defiant wave good-bye. Then you walk solemnly back to the White House. The chief justice is there. Tipper is holding a Bible. Your moment in history has arrived.... 
Daniel Casse 

A down home look at Gore 
Reinventing government is one thing, reinventing Gore is another. 
Nashville Tennessean 

Meet the Patron Saint of the Net 
Vatican has a preference, and it's not Al Gore! 
BBC News 
 

GORE RESURRECTS DESPISED 'GORE TAX'  Reach Out and Tax Everyone! Vice President Al Gore is set to double the tax on your phone  bill by hiking the "Gore Tax" and socking taxpayers with billions of dollars in new taxes.   Gore's scheme sounds innocent enough: Let the Federal Communication Commission silently  siphon money from your phone bill - labeled a Universal Service Charge on your monthly bill -  to connect schools and libraries to Gore's invention, the Internet.   Kind of Fishy?  But Gore wasted countless taxpayer-dollars by paying his old political crony,  Ira Fishman, $250,000 a year to run the program (more than any other federal employee -  including Bill Clinton), and just 4 percent of the $2 billion that schools requested so far has  gone to pay for actual Internet access - the rest went for bureaucratic overhead, and ripping  up walls, repairing carpets and even putting in new computers. Gore also missed the news that  over 80 percent of schools are already on the Net.   Plus he must've forgot that Article 1,  Section 8 of Constitution, says only "Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes."  Is  this what Gore means by "Reinventing Government?"   Reach Out: The FCC is set to finalize the Gore phone-tax hike at the end of May, unless - of course - we keep Gore and the FCC's phones ringing:   GOP Solution - Cut Phone Tax and Wire Schools: Congressman Billy Tauzin (LA-3) introduced a bill (the Schools and Libraries Internet Access Act) to clean up Gore's mess by slashing $3.8 billion in federal telephone taxes - while investing $1.9 billion to hook up schools and libraries to the Internet.  His approach avoids Gore's bureaucratic disaster by giving the money and decision making back to the states outright.   Vice President Al Gore  Phone:202/456-2326  e-mail vice-president@whitehouse.gov  Address: Vice President Al Gore  Old Executive Office Building  Washington,D.C. 20501

News 
W A S H I N G T O N, May 27 — Vice President Al Gore called today for quick House action on gun control and accused Republicans of plotting to please the gun lobby by delaying a vote on Senate-passed restrictions. 
Laurie Kellman 

Commentary 
Gore: Finger on the Trigger - or in the Wind? 
Vice President Flip-Flops from Pro-Gun, To Pro-Gun Control 

Al Gore yesterday cast a tie-breaking vote to stiffen federal gun-control laws in the name of all families suffering from gun violence.  But just like his record on tobacco and taxpayer-funded abortions, gun control depends on which way  the wind blows: 

For Tougher Laws: "'I personally would like to dedicate my tie-breaking vote to all of the families suffering from gun violence,' Gore told a news conference after the vote." (CongressDaily, 5/20/99) 

Against Tougher Laws: Gore has voted consistently in the past to make it easier to obtain firearms.  In 1990, Gore voted against stiffening a proposed semi-automatic weapons ban and against prohibiting the sale of large-capacity magazines.  (CQ Vote #102:  Motion agreed to 82-17:  R 42-2; D 40-15,  May 22, 1990) 

Against Waiting Period: In 1985, Gore voted against a 14-day handgun purchase waiting period. (CQ Vote #141:  Motion agreed to 71-23:  R 46-5; D 25-18, July 9, 1985) 

Exempts Gun Collectors: Gore voted to exempt many gun collectors from licensing requirements, remove the ban on interstate sales of rifles, shotguns and handguns and require advance notice for routine compliance inspections.  (CQ Vote #142:  Passed 79-15:  R 49-2; D 30-13, July 9, 1985) 

Which Vice President is the  
King of Gaffes? 
Gore Has a History of Silly Flubs and Boasts, and the Networks 
Have a History of Ignoring Them 
MediaRealityCheck 

Happy Birthday Albert 
WASHINGTON -(March31) Today, our esteemed Vice 
President Albert Gore celebrates his 51st birthday.  Like 
most people, we wonder what do you get for the man who 
inspired the novel "Love Story" and invented the Internet? 
Here are some ideas: 

So this is what Al Gore believes? 
"There is not a single passage in that book that I disagree with, or would change." 

     Al Gore, Gannett News Service, 3/23/99, talking about his 
     1992 extremist manifesto, Earth in the Balance. 

Save Trees, Not People? 

 "It seems an easy choice - sacrifice the tree for a human 
life - until one learns that three trees must be destroyed 
for each patient treated. … Suddenly we must confront 
some tough questions. How important are the medical 
needs of future generations?" 
     -- Page 119, Earth in the Balance 

Say 'Bye-Bye' to the Family Car? 

"Within the context of the SEI (Strategic Environment 
Initiative), it ought be able to establish a coordinated 
global program to accomplish the strategic goal of 
completely eliminating the internal combustible engine over, 
say, a twenty-five-year period." 
     -- Page 325-36, Earth in the Balance 

American Children Are Destroying Our Planet? 

"Any child born into the hugely comsumptionist way of life 
so common in the industrial world will have an impact on 
the environment that is, on average, many times more 
destructive than that of a child born in the developing world." 
     -- Page 308, Earth in the Balance 

Barefoot Boy from Embassy Row 
Delivering Calves with 'Bare Hands'? 

Gore on national agriculture talk radio show, Agritalk, 3/19/99: 

     " 'I've had some experience in farming myself.  I was raised 
     a good part of my life on a farm. I've cleaned out hog lots. 
     I've planted. I've harvested. I've taken up hay all day in 
     the sun, and then after a short dinner break help neighbors 
     take it up by moonlight before the rain came.  I know about 
     a lot of things that people who have never been on the 
     farm don't know anything about.' 

     Then he added: "I've helped deliver calves with my bare 
     hands." 

Get a Grip! 

Internet Al, Down On The Farm 
From the Weekly Standard, March 29, 1999 
Click Here For Weekly Standard 

Well, the vice president's life has been vastly more interesting than you thought.  It turns out that, before being elected to Congress and inventing the Internet, Al Gore was also the son of a sharecropper in Tennessee.  Or at least that's how it sounded in Gore's  March 16 interview with the Des Moines Register:  "I'll tell you something else [my father] taught me," said Gore.  "He taught me how to clean out hog waste with a shovel and a  hose.  He taught me how to clear land with a double-bladed ax.  He taught me how to plow a steep hillside with a team of mules.  He taught me how to take up hay all day long in the hot sun."  How preposterous.  Even when he tries to slum, Gore betrays his blue-blood upbringing.  Real farmers, even poor ones, have been hiring bulldozers to clear land since before Al Gore was born, or at least using chainsaws.  Only  a hobbyist would use an ax.  Not to mention, no responsible farmer since the Dust Bowl days of the 1930s has plowed a steep hillside; you don't want your topsoil to get washed away.  As for the mules, it occurs to THE SCRAPBOOK that maybe one of them kicked young Al in the head.

NOW LET'S GO TO AL WITH TRAFFIC 

"A parent should not have to be saying good morning or  good night to their child from a cell phone because they're stuck in traffic," said Vice President Al Gore on Monday, announcing "a major new federal effort" to help commuters.  Unfortunately, he wasn't talking about lending Air Force Two to people who need to get home in a hurry.  Instead, Gore wants the federal government to start issuing traffic reports over the phone to people who call a national three-digit number - sort of like "911" for rush-hour information. Parents can use their cell phones - everyone has one, right? - to call.  That's awfully considerate of the Vice President. If he were an actual commuter, of course, he would know that almost every radio station in America provides local traffic updates with annoying frequency. But that’s probably not apparent when your limousine's cassette deck plays whale noises all the time.

 

The Ill-Educated Al Gore 
Al Gore doesn't want to be president of the United States. 
He wants to be president of a national school board. 
NEW YORK POST 
Tuesday, May 18, 1999 
Editorial 

Veterans for Gore AWOL 
(From Veterans for Gore 2000's web-site Click Here) 

     "Due to the poor leadership performance during the current 
     military involvement in Yugoslavia, the failure of the 
     Clinton/Gore Administration to achieve an expedient 
     termination of this crises, the staff, members and 
     supporters of Veterans for Gore 2000 have elected to 
     stand down this website of three years until and if better 
     leadership is demonstrated and mission success appears 
     speedily forthcoming. 

     "Veterans for Gore 2000 are terribly disappointed in the 
     sluggish and incompetent manner American military forces 
     are being deployed and managed. 04 May 1999." 

'Internet Al' Commits Another  
Cyber-Gaffe 
From the Los Angeles Time, Wednesday, April 7, 1999 

DNC labeled Al Gore 'A Radical Environmentalist' 
Highlights from a 1992 memo by DNC staffer Jonathan Sallet to the Clinton-Gore campaign 

The Selling of the Vice Presidency 1998 
Super-Lobbyists Advise Gore -- What Do They Get In  Return? 

"Once Vice President Al Gore's domestic policy adviser, 
Greg Simon still counsels Mr. Gore as he prepares to run for 
president in 2000. But Mr. Simon's principal job now is 
offering advice to clients who have business with the federal government. 
As Reported By Jonathan D. Salant of the Associated Press 

Gore's Cartoon Image 
Not even Walt Disney has ideas as 'cartoonish' as these: 

Al Gore's Endorsement of Lower Incomes 
 "Where might Mr. Gore's extremism come from?  Mr. (Gore 
biographer Bob) Zelnick sees it as a personal character 
pattern.  If so, it may be unfixable.  But some of is also 
comes form Mr. Gore's adherence to the playbook of 
far-out environmentalists.  In 1990, Paul Ehrlich and Anne 
Ehrlich's book The Population Explosion called for reducing 
per capita income, reducing Social Security, increasing 
foreign aid, doubling gasoline prices, and favoring 
regulations telling Americans how many children they may 
have.  Sen. Gore wrote a blurb for that volume:  'The time 
for action is due, and past due.  The Ehrlichs have written  the prescription…'" 

--Ben Wattenberg, The Washington Times, 
April 15, 1999 
 

Gore Angry Over Clinton's Airing Of  Campaign Concerns, Aides Say 
President's Attempt at 'Damage Control' Appears to Backfire 
Ceci Connolly 
 
 

'Chung-Ching': Gore Still Soliciting from Chinagate Donors  Under questioning by Judicial Watch, Chinagate witness Johnny Chung reveals that "Vice President Al Gore recently mailed [Chung] an invitation to a fundraising event in Los Angeles, both at his home and office. Chung was also recently solicited by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee."   NewsMax.com

FCC Expected to Levy "Gore Tax" 

Opponents say the Executive Branch agency is overstepping its jurisdiction by levying its own tax, a power granted in the Constitution only to the House of Representatives. In Congress, Rep. Billy Tauzin and Sen. Conrad Burns have introduced the "E-Rate Termination Act" to strike the schools and libraries provision from the Telecommunications Act of 1996.  CNS

WHEN AL GORE INVENTED THE 
INTERNET, WHY DIDN'T HE MAKE IT A 
SAFER PLACE? 
Gore claimed at a staged photo-op that"one-click" 
tools making the Internet safer for children were 
conceived at the White House "around a table here in the 
Roosevelt Room two years ago."  However, several 
computer industry executives involved in the "one-click" 
program immediately took issue with Gore's latest cyber-gaff. 

"It's too bad Al Gore can't invent a truth filter for himself 
that would delete his fantasies about creating the Internet 
and developing improvement to make it safer," Nicholson said. 

Battle Lines on Y2K Liability Catch Gore 
in Cross-Fire 
High-tech CEOs, many of whom have been courted by Gore, want the 
vice president to take an aggressive stand for legislation to limit liability for 
damages resulting from Y2K computer failures. Trial lawyers, in contrast, 
want to retain as much leeway as they can to sue for damages, and are 
pressing Gore and the Clinton administration to remain in their corner. 

"Al Gore has to chose between his trial lawyer friends and his high-tech 
friends," said John Feehery, spokesman for House Speaker J. Dennis 
Hastert (R-Ill.). "It's a huge problem for them. Do they want to support 
one of the engines that had kept our economy growing at an exceptional 
rate or their buddies in the trial bar who haven't done anything to make the 
economy grow?" 
Washington Post 

Bush "Racist" Critic Joins Gore Campaign 

The Gore 2000 campaign announced that Donna Brazile will join the campaign as political director next month.  Brazile was also a top-ranking official with the Michael Dukakis for President campaign 11 years ago, when she accused Bush's campaign of being racist because of advertisements which illustrated the problems with the furlough program by showing pictures of Horton, a prison inmate who committed murder while out of prison on a weekend furlough during Dukakis's term as governor of Massachusetts.  But it wasn't Bush who initially noted the prison furlough issue and the program's shortcomings. It was Brazile's future boss who did so in the spring of 1988, when then-Senator Gore was seeking the Democratic presidential nomination.  CNS

EXPLORE THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GORE ! 
Stop by and see what Gore has "created" today! 

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Gore looking for fixes to his poll problems 
WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Al Gore's campaign advisers are 
searching for strategies to deal with persistent problems that show up in 
public opinion polls: A majority of people aren't convinced he's a strong 
leader and many don't find him a compelling presidential candidate. 
USA Today 

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Gore the blunderer 
Urges Democratic faithful to stand by him 
London Telegraph 

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Clinton tries to get some credit, too 
Defends Gore's claim to creation of network 
Associated Press 

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Vice president and Renaissance man 
About the only pursuits in which Gore did not claim to be an expert were bonsai and origami, 
although for all we know, he is not only accomplished at those two arts but also a virtuoso 
pianist and sturdy mountain-climber who scaled Mount Everest without bottled oxygen. 
R. Cort Kirkwood 
Ottawa Sun 

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ABC commits a gaffe on a Gore gaffe and CNN digs out the video 
of Gore boasting in 1988 about tobacco that "with my own hands, 
all my life, I've put it in the plant beds and transferred it. I've hoed it. 
I've suckered it. I've sprayed it." And that was four years after his sister 
died, a passing he exploited at the 1996 Democratic convention for an 
emotional speech about why he’s so committed to stopping kids from smoking. 
 

Gore told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer: "I've traveled to every part of this country 
during the last six years. 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, environmental protection, improvements 
in our educational system...." 

Dan Quayle can only dream of getting away with something like that. 
See Media Research Center's Report on how the press handles AlGore with kid gloves. 

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NH GOP Boss Raps Gore's Visit 
New Hampshire GOP Chairman Steve Duprey Friday accused Gore 
of "putting politics over policy ashe visits New Hampshire to campaign 
while our young men and women are engaged in war over the skies of 
Kosovo." 
Scott Hogenson 

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Gore - Dot - Not: VP Surfs for a Website 
"Where do you want to go today?" asks the TV ad touting the avalanche 
of information available on the Internet. You can go anywhere, it seems– 
as long as you don't want to go to the official Al Gore for President web site. 
Justin Torres 

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Reinventing AlGore 
The biggest problem Al Gore faces is how to defend his defense of 
President Clinton. In 1987, Sen. Al Gore, then running for president, said 
he wanted to "restore the rule of law and respect for common sense to 
the White House.'' He added that Americans of both political parties 
"have been shaken by the betrayal of public trust ... and the dishonesty of 
public officials .... Any government official who ... lies to the United 
States Congress will be fired immediately.'' 

Gore made those comments about the Reagan administration, but claims 
his own is honest and ethical. What Segal said about love could be said 
about Gore: He never has to say he's sorry -- his ideas are sorry enough. 
Cal Thomas 

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VP Gaffes 

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Farmer Al 

Michael Kelly 

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It pays to be friends of Al 
With so many potential scandals to choose from, Attorney General 
Janet Reno seems to have grown a bit persnickety about the appointment 
of independent counsels. No more so, though, according to  her Republican 
critics, than when allegations of wrongdoing concern Vice President Al Gore. 
Insight Magazine 

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Gore says he once slopped hogs,  
drove mules 
When Vice President Al Gore opened his Iowa campaign this week, 
his privileged upbringing as the son of a senator was nowhere in sight. 
Instead, he talked about how he slopped hogs, drove mules, built homes 
and cleared land -- by hand and with a double-bladed ax, no less. 

The man running for president was a boy who lived and was schooled in the 
rarefied air of Washington, spending summers and congressional breaks on 
the family farm in Tennessee. But as far as Iowans could tell, it was all 
sweat and no refinement. 
Associated Press 

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How Gore created the Internet 
He was 21 at the time, 8 years before going to Congress 
Wired News 

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Lott Teases Gore on Internet Claim 

Prompted by Vice President Al Gore's claim that he created the Internet, 
Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott made a surprising revelation of his own 
Friday, taking credit for inventing the paper clip. 
Michelle Mittelstadt 
Associated Press 

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Internet Al and the Year 2000 
Like Vice President Dan Quayle, Gore too will be most remembered for 
words, not deeds ("No controlling legal authority" comes to mind). Last 
week, as the revelations of widespread Chinese espionage were 
emblazoned upon the front pages of major newspapers all over the 
country, Gore was not found huddling with advisors and intelligence 
personnel, trying to assess damage and formulate solutions. No, instead 
he was before a crowd of traffic reporters, trying to sell them (and the 
country) on the notion that we don't need traffic reporters, because a 
new expensive federal bureaucracy dedicated to providing traffic reports 
for the entire country from Washington, DC is a much better way to 
relieve traffic congestion. Cell phone, anyone? 

If that blunder wasn't bad enough, yesterday the vice president stepped 
on his phone cord when he boasted to the world that he, Albert Gore, Jr., 
was the inventor, creator, mentor and father of the Internet. 
USA Journal 

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Armey Praises Gore for Internet Creation 
Armey reacted Thursday saying, "If the Vice President created the 
Internet then I created the Interstate highway system. Both were 
begun during the Eisenhower Administration and I think Ike actually 
deserves a little credit here." 
CNS 

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Gore linked to Chinagate 
Judicial Watch names him as defendant 
WorldNetDaily 

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Global warming theory debunked 
Ancient CO2 levels rose after temperatures 
Associated Press 

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After the Chicago Bulls won another NBA championship, Vice President  Al Gore marveled at the team's star player. "I tell you, that Michael  Jackson is unbelievable, isn't he? He's just unbelievable. Three plays in 20 seconds." Previously, Gore declared that a leopard cannot change its stripes, mistranslated the Great Seal's *e pluribus unum* as "out of one, many," and claimed that he and his wife Tipper were the real-life models for the Ivy League couple in Erich Segal's *Love Story*, an assertion the author felt obliged to correct. While touring Monticello during an important photo opportunity in 1992 as vice president-elect, Gore asked the guide about all the white marble busts that lined the walls. "Who are these people?" he asked. Somewhat taken aback, the guide hesitated, then identified George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson...

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Gore Blasted by APEC Officials 
Malaysia's newspapers led with headlines such as: ''AL GORED!'' 
and ''Chorus of Outrage over Veep's Gross Interference.'' 
This is Clinton's protégé? 
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See No Dissent, Hear No Dissent 
Newspapers Pretend Scientists Skeptical of Climate-Change  
Theories Don't Exist 
MRC 

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AL GORE AND THE NET 
Tom White's latest editorial cartoon takes an 
appropriate stab at the techno-veep 

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Al Gore and Maxine Waters Rebuffed 
FAIRNESS TRIUMPHS IN 
  WASHINGTON STATE 
New York Post 

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Al Gore's high-tech star is beginning to fade. 
 Anthony B. Perkins 
 The Red Herring magazine 
November 1998 

Time To Spell It Out 
A          Aberrant 
L           Lunatic 

G           Gerrymandering 
O          Oaf 
R          Risky 
E          Embarrassment 

—Northwest Distressed