Re: Al Gore's support of the Internet, by V.Cerf and B.Kahn [ I second this djf]

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From Seth Finkelstein <sethf@MIT.EDU>
Date Mon, 2 Oct 2000 13:19:31 -0400
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> "Eric C. Grimm" <ericgrimm@MEDIAONE.NET>
> Exactly.  In this case, in retrospect, you know that (1) your stories were
> misleading at best, prevarications at worst, and (2) they WERE picked up by
> others in the media and used for partisan reasons to generate an effect out
> of all proportion to the importance the the story.

        Sigh. Not only does he *know* this, he *boasts* about it:

  "House Majority Leader Armey on Gore "inventing the Internet"

  "I called up Armey's office when I got this. They told me they learned about
   Gore's remarks from my Wired News story, which is at:
   http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/18390.html"

   http://www.politechbot.com/p-00285.html

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