Obama's new ad is anything but dignified
7/3/2008 - 5:35am
Some of us think of Al Gore as the guy who claimed to invent the Internet and then got rich, using massive amounts of energy in his own home, while telling us to live in the dark and pay $5 for a gallon of gasoline. With Obama's new commercial, "Dignity", Obama has taken a step down the same road, exaggerating his accomplishments and reminding us that he's hardly a "man of the people", but rather just another lawyer/politician intent on getting rich through hypocrisy.
Please read my full article about Obama's new ad at:
Obama’s 'Dignity' Ad isn't Dignified (Or truthful), Ross Kaminsky, HumanEvents.com,7/3/08
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=27327
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Misinformation again from Kaminsky, this time about Gore
Kaminsky's comment that he's among those who "think of Al Gore as the guy who claimed to invent the Internet" shows in a nutshell how Kaminsky makes the use of falsehoods and other misinformation (see also his series of blog "articles" about Bob Schaffer's connections with Jack Abramoff) a standard part of his repertoire.
In fact, as the media widely have reported in the past eight years (and Kaminsky apparently has ignored), Gore never "claimed to invent the Internet." Even the journalist who apparently originated this canard (which has become a favorite of conservative media figures who'd rather spout a falsehood than do a little research), Wired magazine's Declan McCullagh, later clarified that Gore never made that claim.
Here's detail about the origins of this myth, including facts about what Gore really said, and what his actual role in the growth of the Internet actually was. Read the details, follow the links to the source material and decide for yourself: http://colorado.mediamatters.org/items/200711270001
There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of Kaminsky that being a blogger somehow carries a license to state as fact things that are not factually accurate. In this instance, by parroting the Gore-Internet myth, Kaminsky firmly ensconses himself in the company of such marginal characters as KOA's "Gunny" Bob Newman who enjoy repeating it. What's troubling is that the Denver Post is sponsoring this type of discourse. One hopes that at some point Post readers have enough of it and make their views in this respect known to the newspaper.
Bill Menezes
Editorial Director
Colorado Media Matters
it's weird
it's weird how every single conservative in colorado is lying and distorting the truth, according to menezes. can he name a single honest conservative? or should newspapers and radio stations get rid of all of 'em? that is the goal, right?
keep up the great work ross!
More of Ruse's distortions.
By all means Ruse. Keep up the great work. It is "weird" how you make up your own
facts and distort the truth. Mooney knows.
show me a distortion
Other than the debatable (and irrelevant) issue of whether Gore claimed or didn't claim to have invented the Internet, tell me what I "made up" about Obama's ad or his record.
EVERYTHING I note in my article can be found in public records. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's a distortion, but that sort of approach is how you people work. (By "you people", I mean liberals who have no real ideas and whose candidates have no good ideas.)