Smasharoo wrote:
I know you did. You know you did. We all know you did.
I knew he was making a joke, you knew he was making a joke, we all knew he was making a joke. Some of us, apparently, are idiotic pedantic ***** who point out the rhetorical lack of veracity in throw away one liners.
I know you're a dim witted simpleton, you know..etc.
Ok, Totem made a witty one-liner joke. But that joke only works as a joke because there is such a common perception that Al Gore claimed to have invented the internet, and he's a complete moron for having done so.
I think that major media can edit, misquote and opinionise until news becomes outright propaganda. I think one of the outstanding propaganda achievements of the conservative biased media in the US recentishly is this massive, long-running opinion that Al Gore is stupid, ineffective, a joke, and a believer in lunatic fringe theories in the face of all reason.
I was just thrilled at the opportunity to put forward a counter opinion of him, even if it looked like I was simply missing the point.