The Al Gore quote

So here I am again. I had a previous blog that had a fairly regular following for a couple of years, but life was getting in the way and I found myself losing interest in keeping up with it. I eventually decided to just flat out delete the old one, something I regret now. The funny part is that I can't get the original name back because it's already assigned to me as a deleted blog.

I decided that if I was going to start blogging again I should put the same Al Gore quote under my name that I sported for a couple of years. The funny part is that it's not that easy to find now on the internet without some obvious modifications. No doubt somebody thought they'd "help" Al Gore out by explaining what he really meant with more detail like mentioning Bush in the rewrite and also putting quotes around "undermining support for our troops". The original quote is from a speech, there's no mention of Bush or quotes around the troops comment, but it certainly changed the content. I suppose clarity might be why "Bush" was added, but adding imaginary quotes around the troop content was simply a way of buffering the actual attacks by the media on our military forces. He never claimed the reporters and editors were in fact not undermining support for the troops. That's why the line is so funny. He was trying to rally his liberal cronies and only reinforced the idea that the left despises the military.

The original quote in my header is a direct paste from CNN.com.