The quote at the bottom isn't mine, but I had to include it with this article...
The Arizona Republic
March 22, 1999 Editorial
Poor Al Gore. Poor stiff, earnest Al Gore. You go to the effort of helping invent the "Information Superhighway," aka the Internet, and what do you get? Snickers and one-line zingers from everyone from Jay Leno to - yes - Dan Quayle.
"If Gore invented the Internet, I invented Spell-Check," said Quayle, who, during his potato-salad days as vice president certainly took his share of shots from smart alecks.
Gore has a way of morphing Zelig-like into the lives of whomever he's addressing.
Among tobacco growers? Gore "raised... shredded... spiked (and) sold" the weed. Among anti-tobacco activists, though, the vice president veritably weeps at the thought of smoking.
Among Iowa hog farmers? The life-long Beltway insider claims to have spent his youth shipping pig manure.
Now Gore's a computer super-scientist with the prescience of Stephen Hawking to anticipate the future. Okay.
In fact, as the chairman of a key science subcommittee in 1986, Gore did foster the creation of five supercomputer centers through the National Science Foundation that became the cornerstone of the Internet.
Alas, too late. Leno's already worked him into the monologue.
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Algore called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And Algore saw that it was good. |
