GOREGASMS
Politically Correct Lies!
Updated 9/26
From WISN radio 1130
* The Monk Shakedown: Denies he knew a
fundraiser at a Buddhist temple was indeed a
fundraiser. Direct quotes: "I didn't realize I
was in a Buddhist temple." "..drank a lot of
iced tea during the meetings and may have been
in the bathroom at the time.." money exchanged
hands.
--New York Times, 3/11/00
* Hopped out of a helicopter and picked up a
downed wire while surveying storm damage.
* Took credit for creating the internet.
--During an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN,
March 9, 1999.
* Calls Michael Jordan, 'Michael Jackson.'
Direct quote: " I tell you
that Michael Jackson is just unbelievable, isn't
he?"
--The Chicago Tribune June 17, 1998
* Took money from the tobacco lobby throughout
his entire political
career, then blamed the industry (and the weed)
for killing his sister.
--While running for office in 1996.
* After vilifying the industry for political
gain, he embraced it
while talking to tobacco farmers. Direct quote:
"Throughout my life, I
raised tobacco. I want you to know that with my
own hands, all of my life, I put it in the plant
beds and transferred it. I've hoed it. I've dug
in it. I've sprayed it. I've chopped it. I've
shredded it, spiked it, put it in the barn and
stripped it and sold it.'
--Newsday 2/26/88
* Claimed the book 'Love Story' was based on his
romance with Tipper.
--Time Magazine 12/15/97
* Once said 'A zebra never changes it's spots.'
--Attacking President Bush in 1992..as quoted by
the Toronto Sun.
* He and Tipper got lost in the woods at Camp
David and had to be
rescued by the Secret Service.
* Asked about three busts while touring
Montacello. The tour guide,
with some embarrassment for Gore, pointed out
that the busts were of George Washington, Thomas
Jefferson, and Ben Franklin.
* He coined the phrase 'no controlling legal
authority.'
* Claims he 'discovered' the toxic waste site at
Love Canal. "I found
a little place in upstate New York called Love
Canal."
* Gore camp sent a form letter to George W. Bush
in 1999, which told Bush 'we can't win without
you by our side.'
* At a news conference on the homeless in
December of 1997, he claimed Mary and Joseph
were homeless. Direct quote: "Speaking from my
own religious tradition in this Christmas
season, 2,000 years ago a homeless woman gave
birth to a homeless child in a manger." Mary and
Joseph were not homeless, they were just
traveling and were unable to find lodging for
the night.
-- Press Conference at HUD, 12/22/97
* An older couple concerned about losing their
Amtrak line between
Chicago and Texas wrote a lengthy letter to Al
Gore explaining the
situation, and begging, "Please save the Texas
Eagle." Gore wrote back saying it was "important
to save this rare bird!"
--Fox News Sunday, December 3, 1996.
* In June of 1999, Gore claimed kids 18 to 20
years old can't buy beer, but they can waltz
into any gun store and buy a handgun. The
minimum age to purchase a handgun has been 21
years old, and it's been the minimum age since
1968.
* Gore claims he held 3,000 town hall meetings
in Tennessee during his 16 years in congress.
That would be 187 meetings per year...or a town
hall meeting in Tennessee every other day for 16
years.
--to NPR's Bob Edwards, while running for vice
president in 1992.
* Claims he's a big fan of trash rocker Courtney
Love, and she calls
him on it. Love: "He goes 'I'm a really big fan,
and I was like 'Yeah right. Name a song, Al. He
says 'I can't name a song, I'm just a really big
fan."
--To David Letterman, May 20, 1999.
* In 1994, calls Oliver North 'the colonel of
untruth' and said he was
counting on Said North was counting on political
contributions from "the extra-chromosome right
wing." (He has to apologize after advocates for
the mentally retarded call him on it).
--The Washington Times, September 4, 1997.
* He lies about the costs of prescription drugs.
Says his dog and his
mother in law are on the same drug, and quotes
specific prices they pay. The story was made up,
and he pulled the price quotes from a very
misleading house study on prescription drugs.
--Talking to a crowd of supporters in Florida,
9/18/00
* Claims his mother used to sing him, as a
lullaby, "Look for the
Union Label." Turns out it was written in 1977,
when he was 27 years old.
--speaking to the Teamsters, September 2000.
* He claims he 'feels the pain' of the Wisconsin
Farmer. The direct
quote: "I am very familiar with the importance
of dairy farming in
Wisconsin. I've spent the night on a dairy farm
here in Wisconsin."
--Atlanta Journal Constitution and The
Washington Post, June 14, 2000.
* Early in his career, (until the truth came
out) Gore embellished his
duty in Vietnam. Direct Quote: "And I was shot
at...I spent most of my time in the field." Gore
no longer mentions combat duty on the campaign
trail, because the truth is out. He had what
amounted to a bodyguard, specifically assigned
to him to keep the Senator's boy out of harm's
way.
--Gore to the Washington Post, 2/3/88
* Gore's not great at geography either. When he
and Joe Lieberman
kicked off their campaign by floating down the
Mississippi, Gore saw a marching band on the
right hand bank of the river, and yelled over.
"Do you know 'On Wisconsin'?" He was yelling at
a band in Iowa. A simple mistake, but Bush would
have been blasted for it.
* His campaign literature touts Gore as a
'brilliant student.' He is a
bright enough guy, but his records at Harvard
show one D, one C-minus, two C-plusses, and a
B-minus. Grades like that put him in the lower
fifth of his class for two years in a row.
--David Maraniss, The Washington Post.
* In 1987, Gore exaggerated about his reporting
skills while working
as an investigative reporter at The Tennesseean.
He told The Des Moines Register that he...."got
a bunch of people indicted and sent to jail."
--Columbia Journalism Review 1/93
* In September of 2000, Gore struggles to find
the word mammogram. Again, it's not a big deal,
but George Bush's intelligence would have been
called into question. Direct quote: 'A long
waiting line before they could get a biopsy, or,
ah, another kind. What am I looking for? A
sonogram."
People in the crowd, "mammogram."
* A Gore flip-flop. On September 21st of this
year, Gore called on the president to tap into
the nation's emergency oil reserves to head off
high fuel prices. However, Gore's stance in
favor of high prices on fossil fuels couldn't be
more clear. He wrote about it in his own book.
Direct quote: Higher taxes on fossil fuels...is
one of the first logical steps in changing our
policies in a manner consistent with a more
responsible approach to the environment."
--Earth in the Balance, 1993
* Al needs to brush up on his Latin. Direct
quote: "We can build a
collective civic space large enough for all our
separate identities, that we can be e-pluribus
unum--out of one, many." E pluribus unum is on
the U.S. seal, and means 'out of many, one.'
--During a speech in January of 1994, to the
Institute of World Affairs.
* Al was caught by Bill Bradley during their
primary campaign. Gore
told The New York Times that he not only
supported the McCain/Feingold campaign finance
bill, but he was a co-sponsor of it. Direct
quote: "Unlike Senator Bradley, I was co-sponsor
of it, and I feel that it's very important to
get the influence of special interest money out
of our politics." Bradley quickly pointed out
that Russ Feingold wasn't even elected until
1992, and Al Gore left the senate in '92 to
become vice president. He and Feingold never
served together.
--Bradley Press Release 12/7/99
Even Clinton didn’t lie this much. Do we really
need another lying scumbag for President?
