Reply #28: That would've been the equivalent of a tree falling in the forest with no one there to hear it. [View All]

[Uncle Joe]

The corporate media had already been slandering and libeling Al Gore for well over two years prior to the selection of 2000. The primary reason Bush came close enough to steal it was because the media had been trashing Al Gore's credibility at least since March of 99, ie: Al Gore claimed to have invented the Internet, Al Gore claimed to have discovered Love Canal, etc. etc.

The selection of 2000 had been centered on the issue of integrity and Al Gore was made out to be the serial liar, while Bush was the one the media claimed would "restore honor and integrity to the White House". The media parroted, the Republican "Sore-Loserman" meme after weeks of this dispute. There is a law of diminishing returns and I believe Al Gore rightfully saw the writing on the wall.

Even though Al Gore accepted the Supreme Court decision, he didn't stop fighting for the American People. Al Gore gave eloquent speeches against the folly of going to war with Iraq and how that could hurt the war against terrorism, the Cheney/Bush policies of torture, the shredding of the Constitution, the Unitary Executive theory the neocons embrace, which is just another word for fascism. Usually when he gave these speeches, he was ignored by the corporate media, or the millionaire pundits would say he was just ranting.

Al Gore has worked his whole life to give the American People the tools to fight against this very same dysfunctional one way megaphone corporate media and their brain washing propaganda, first when he championed opening up the Internet for the people while he was in Congress and as Vice-President and later by bringing about two way Current T.V.

I believe the primary reason the corporate media slandered and libeled Al Gore ie: Al Gore claimed to have invented the Internet" is because he was the primary political champion of this technology, thus empowering the people with a voice of their own without having to go through a media filter and as the Internet grew in power and influence, the corporate media came to resent Al Gore for it. They didn't want a strong advocate of the Internet in the White House, I call this the Prometheus Effect.