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Some Facts And Fictions
Of Al Gore
Reprinted from the Internet News Bureau article "Al Gore's 21 Lies"
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10-4-00
 
 
 
FICTION: Al Gore recently claimed that his mother-in-law pays more than $100.00 for the arthritis medicine Lodine; and he claims that his dog takes the same medicine for $37.00, claiming "This is wrong!"
 
FACT: Gore's aides were quick to apologize for Gore's lie, saying the information was from a Democratic study. Washington newspapers also reported that Al Gore wasn't even sure his mother-in-law was taking any medication and wasn't even sure she had arthritis. And, he doesn't know anything about his dog's "arthritis".
 
FICTION: Al Gore said his father, a senator, was a champion of civil rights during the 1960's.
 
FACT: Gore's father voted against the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 and was a racist who was fond of using the "N" word.
 
FICTION: Al Gore said that his sister was the very first person to join the Peace Corps.
 
FACT: By the time Gore's sister joined the Peace Corps, there were already over 100 members.
 
FICTION: The same sister died of lung cancer years later and Gore vowed to never accept tobacco money as campaign contributions.
 
FACT: Just four years later, while campaigning for office, Gore spoke to the tobacco industry and said he was one of them because "I've planted it, raised it, cut it, and dried it." He raised over $100,000 in "reported" contributions.
 
FICTION: While running for office, Gore's campaign literature claimed he was a "Brilliant Student".
 
FACT: Washington newspapers said he barely passed Harvard and consistently earned D's and C's.
 
FICTION: Gore claims an extensive knowledge of law as a result of his extensive study at law school.
 
FACT: Al Gore dropped out of law school.
 
FICTION: Gore claimed that his knowledge of God and spirituality came to complete fruition while "finishing" divinity school.
 
FACT: Al Gore dropped out of divinity school.
 
FICTION: Al Gore claimed responsibility for inventing the Internet in the 1990's.
 
FACT : Shocked scientists were quick to speak out, explaining that the Internet had been in widespread use by government and educational institutions since the early 1970's.
 
FICTION: Al Gore claimed the book "Love Story" was based on his life and Tipper's.
 
FACT: Author Erich Segal called a press conference to deny his claim. (Couldn't he at least lie about a love story where his sweetheart doesn't die?"
 
FICTION : Gore claimed that as a reporter for a Nashville newspaper, his stories led to the arrests of numerous corrupt criminals.
 
FACT: He later apologized for his claim and actually said it was untrue (Also known as lying).
 
FICTION: Gore claims to increase diversity in the staff that follows him daily, especially among blacks.
 
FACT: Black members of the Secret Service are suing because they claim they are not being promoted to positions guarding the Vice-President.
 
FICTION: Al Gore said he was the first to discover the Love Canal nuclear accident.
 
FACT: The incident was already discovered, being investigated, and covered widely in the press for many months before Gore was aware of it.
 
FICTION: Gore said just recently that if elected president, he would put harsh sanctions on the sleazy producers of Hollywood's extreme sex and violence.
 
FACT: Just six days later, Gore attended a fundraiser by Hollywood producers and radical gay activists where he told them that he would only pretend to "nudge them" if elected. He raised over $4 million.
 
FICTION: Al Gore said he built his Tennessee home with his bare hands.
 
FACT : Totally false!
 
FICTION: Al Gore says parents should not have a choice between private and public schools because public schools are far better.
 
TRUTH : Al Gore attended private school and he has sent his children to private schools.
 
FICTION: Al Gore remembers his mother lulling him to sleep as a baby by singing the popular ditty, "Wear The Union Label".
 
FACT: The popular ditty was created by the unions when Gore was 27 years old.
 
FICTION: Al Gore claimed to co-sponsor the McCain-Feingold Campaign Reform Act.
 
FACT: The Act was not sponsored until he had been out of office for over a year.
 
FICTION: Al Gore claims to be instrumental in keeping gas prices low.
 
FACT: Gore has voted on numerous occasions to raise the tax on gasoline. In his book "Earth In The Balance" Gore claims that the nation's Number One enemy is the internal combustion engine. (That's the motor in your vehicle that gets you to work and takes your kids to school)
 
FICTION: Gore pretends to champion the rights of poor women to be tested regularly for breast cancer with the most modern technology.
 
FACT: While giving a speech on the subject in September, Gore didn't know what a mammogram was.
 
FICTION: AL Gore promised Florida's senior citizens that they would finally have low-cost drugs with no interference from government.
 
FACT: Gore's plan calls for the creation of a huge federal agency that would tell you which doctor you are allowed to see in order to get the "special rates".
 
FACT: Al Gore told NBC's Lisa Meyers that he had never told a lie. When Meyers pressed harder, "You've never told a lie?!" Gore said, "Not that I know of." SOUND FAMILIAR?
 
[Election Day is ticking away. E-mail this to as many people as possible or we will be living in an Al Gore fantasyland] _____
 
 
DRUDGE BOOK EXCLUSIVE 9-27-00
 
GORE'S NANNY CHARGES: I WAS KEPT IN CAR WHILE GORES ATE AT 'WHITES ONLY' RESTAURANT!
 
"Our parents said to work for good white folks -- and that's what we did!"
 
Those are the shocking words of Mattie Lucy Payne, 89, housekeeper and nanny to the Gores of Tenneessee.
 
For more than 30 years, Payne cleaned house and cooked for the Gores on their 250-acre farm in Carthage. It was on this farm where Payne helped raise Al Gore Jr.
 
During this period, Payne fought to overcome firmly established social boundries in the South.
 
On some occasions the Gores would take Payne on trips to Washington, where Al Sr. was Senator.
 
On those rides, Payne recalls being kept in the backseat of the car -- as the Gore family dined in 'Whites Only' restaurants!
 
Payne says she complained bitterly about the high temperatures in the car while she waited.
 
"Albert Jr. would bring out a sandwich to the car because I was not allowed in the restaurant," Mattie Lucy Payne told a local reporter.
 
"We didn't know any better, that's the way we grew up."
 
Mattie was very close to the Gores. And Al Jr's mother, Pauline, expressed her appreciation: "Mattie Lucy is a very special person... She always knew the kind of meals everyone liked... We think of Mattie as 'one of the family.'"
 
Pauline Gore even featured Mattie Lucy's recipe for "Farmer in the Dell Chicken" in her published cookbook.
 
Payne recalls: "When Al Jr. was in college he would come home for the weekend and bring friends. He would say, 'Mattie, fix several different dishes, some greens from the garden.'"
 
Payne's stunning claims are featured in the new book DRUDGE MANIFESTO, released October 3, 2000 by NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY.
 
Throughout the years, many of Payne's relatives worked on the Gore farm:
 
"I remember Mrs. Gore saying, 'If they are kin to Mattie Lucy they can come to work,'" Payne recounts for the CURRENT LINES of Upper Cumberland.
 
And Payne watched as the Gore family groomed Al Jr. for high office.
 
"Mr. Albert had it in his mind that Al would be in the White House."
 
But Payne's role in the Gore family history has been diminished in recent years.
 
"Segregation in the South is one those chapters from long ago and far away that is just not spoken about," said a family friend.
 
http://www.drudgereport.com for updates (c)DRUDGE REPORT 2000 _____
 
Gore Accused Of Low 'Negro Tolerance'
 
www.NewsMax.com 9-8-00
 
A black Democratic congresswoman from the Deep South has accused Vice President Al Gore of going along with limiting Afro-Americans on his Secret Service detail.
 
Black agents have been complaining of racial discrimination within the agency charged with guarding at all costs the lives of the president and other top federal officials, ever since Gore and President Clinton first came into office in 1993.
 
According to a Friday story in the Washington Times: Rep. Cynthia A. McKinney, in her fourth term from Georgia, said she found out only last week that the Clinton-Gore administration had placed a ceiling on the number of black Secret Service agents who could be assigned to protect Gore, who is the Democratic Party's nominee for president.
 
"Gore's Negro tolerance level has never been too high," she wrote on her congressional Web site. "I've never known him to have more than one black person around him at any given time. I'm not shocked, but I am certainly saddened by this revelation."
 
The congresswoman said she learned about the limit of black agents permitted to guard Gore from a group of agents bringing a racial-discrimination suit against the Clinton-Gore Treasury Department, the mother agency of the Secret Service.
 
McKinney said she was troubled that the black agents had received no response from Gore or his staff about their complaints, even after the vice president and his staff had been informed.
 
"That these black officers had no response from Gore's staff is symptomatic of a larger problem," she said. "Gore would like these problems to just go away, but they'll never go away if they're not addressed."
 
Ron Schmidt, an attorney representing the agents, said those black agents who complained about the Gore cap were threatened with retaliation. He said at least six "less qualified, less experienced" white agents were named over more-qualified black agents to informal supervisory positions on Gore's security detail - assignments that boost an agent's chances for promotion. _____
 
 
V.P. Al Gore Shamelessly Fabricates Father's Civil Rights Record
 
By R. D. Davis The Houston Review (8/13/99)
 
It is easy to control the minds of a people. All one has to do is change history by lying about the past. This is exactly what has happened with the legacy of former Democratic U.S. Senator Al Gore, Sr. of Tennessee - the father of our current vice president - and his mythical "support" of civil rights.
 
In a speech to the NAACP and most recently in his speech at the National Urban League Conference in Houston, Vice President Gore said his father lost his Senate seat because he supported civil rights legislation. Fellow black Americans, let me set history straight. Al Gore, Sr., together with the rest of the southern Democrats, voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
 
Congressional Quarterly reported that, in the House of Representatives, 61% of Democrats (152 for, 96 against) voted for the Civil Rights Act as opposed to 80% of Republicans (138 for, 38 against). In the Senate, 69% of Democrats (46 for, 21 against) voted for the Act while 82% of Republicans did (27 for, 6 against). All southern Democrats voted against the Act.
 
In his remarks upon signing the Civil Rights Act, President Lyndon Johnson praised Republicans for their "overwhelming majority." He did not offer similar praise to his own Democratic Party. Moreover, Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, an Illinois Republican, collaborated with the White House and the Senate leadership of both parties to draft acceptable compromise amendments to end the southern Democrats' filibuster of the Act.
 
Al Gore, Sr. did not stop at simply voting against the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In addition, Congressional Quarterly reported that Gore attempted to send the Act to the Senate Judiciary Committee with an amendment to say "in defiance of a court desegregation order, federal funds could not be held from any school districts." Gore sought to take the teeth out of the Act in the event it passed.
 
Ostensibly, Senator Gore was "elated" at the idea of young Al, Jr. going to school with black children. In reality, however, the future vice president attended an elite private school.
 
In the end, the Gore Amendment was defeated by a vote of 74-25. Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, one of President Bill Clinton's political mentors, was among the 23 southern Democratic senators and only one Republican voting with Gore for this racist amendment.
 
Republican Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona voted against the Civil Rights Act because he was afraid the nation would be transformed into a "police state" as a result of some of its provisions. He did not want to throw out the proverbial "baby with the bath water."
 
History, of course, labeled Goldwater a racist even though he voted against the Gore Amendment - an amendment devised to continue school segregation. If anyone in the Senate should be tagged as a racist, it should be those voting for the Gore Amendment. Why didn't history record Al Gore, Sr. and the other southern Democrats as racists?
 
At least civil rights activist Andrew Young was forthcoming about this oversight in his book An Easy Burden. Young wrote, "The southern segregationists were all Democrats, and it was black Republicans...who could effectively influence the appointment of federal judges in the South." Young noted that the best civil rights judges were Republicans appointed by President Dwight Eisenhower. Young admitted, "These judges are among the many unsung heroes of the civil rights movement."
 
History tends to unilaterally and falsely depict Republicans as racists when southern Democrats truly deserved this title. We now have southern Democrats as both President and Vice President. That would never be the case without the power of the lie and the power of the liberal news media to alter people's perceptions. Lies can enslave men, but the truth shall set them free. I challenge you, the reader, to take the time to research the facts about our past in publications like Congressional Quarterly and An Easy Burden. Once you educate yourself, you can no longer be deceived by the fabulists. No longer will you be "gored" by a lie.
 
 
WHAT GORONS MUST BELIEVE
 
1. Gorons sincerely believe that Vice President Gore is a true environmentalist, when he has an environmental disaster on his own farm: a polluting zinc mine, from which he received $500,000 of income last year.
 
2. Gorons likewise believe that the VP is anti-smoking and anti-tobacco when he has operated a tobacco farm for decades and accepted government subsidies.
 
3. Gorons truly believe that Gore is a Vietnam war hero, when in fact he was placed by family influence in a "cushy" correspondent's job and the only action he saw was that of his Brownie camera!
 
4. Gorons actually believe that Mr. Gore is justified in illegally raising political funds from the Office of the VP, simply because the Vanderbilt Law educated VP claims he was ignorant of the illegality.
 
5. Gorons further believe that it was OK for Al to accept large sums of political money from China through Buddhist monks who had taken vows of poverty, since he again claimed ignorance.
 
6. Gorons also believe that the man who claimed to "invent the Internet" would be so computationally ignorant that he could lose weeks of potentially incriminating e-mail!
 
7. Gorons, incredibly, believe Gore's claim that he and Tipper were the models for the book and movie, "Love Story" even though the book's author, Erich Segal, says not.
 
8. Gorons, amazingly, believe that Gore will be the consumer's champion against high gasoline prices although Gore holds a million dollars in Occidental Petroleum stock.
 
9. Gorons applaud Mr. Lieberman's open rejection of President Clinton's immorality, but believe it was fine for Mr. Gore to remain silent on the subject, while simultaneously declaring Mr. Clinton "one of the greatest Presidents of our history."
 
10. Gorons believe that Al Gore is an effective leader, when they won't bother to look at his record as a Tennessee Senator, a record so ineffective that it has led to the election of Republicans as BOTH of Tennessee's Senators!
 
11. Gorons hold the belief that Gore is a compassionate man who will be the working man's friend, in spite of the eviction notice he served to the poor family who complained about the conditions of the run down slum house that he was renting to them.
 
CAUTIONARY NOTE: Medical researchers acknowledge that Gorons are generally harmless, except when allowed into a voting booth. There, unfortunately, overcome by their gullibility syndrome, they are apt to actually vote for Gore! They should be carefully protected from their ailment, since it may be harmful to their well-being, yours, mine and that of the USA.
 
Therefore, PLEASE, heed the Surgeon General's warning, reach out to aid the Gorons in overcoming the syndrome, and, PLEASE, pass this on to your normal friends, who might also know Gorons who need immediate treatment.
 
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
 
 
 
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