Er, Right Again, Paul
Paul Krugman starts his latest column this way:
Al Gore never claimed that he invented the Internet. Howard Dean didn’t scream. Hillary Clinton didn’t say she was staying in the race because Barack Obama might be assassinated. And Wesley Clark didn’t impugn John McCain’s military service.
Let's just look at the first two, shall we? Actually, Gore never did use the word "invent" about the internet. That's quite true. However, what he did actually say to Wolf Blitzer of CNN, "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.", amounts to the same thing. So Krugman is partially correct, but not in the way he meant it. Dictionary.com lists the following as synonyms for create:
Main Entry: create
Part of Speech: verb
Synonyms: beget, build, cause, compose, conceive, concoct, design, establish, fabricate, fashion, form, found, generate, imagine, invent, make, mold, originate, plan, procreate, reproduce, shape, start
On the second item, that Screamin' Howie never screamed, well, you can believe an agenda-driven columnist from the New York Times or your own eyes:
We report, you laugh at Krugman.
By Gideon7, July 4, 2008 @ 1:08 pm
George Bush never said "Mission Accomplished". The banner on the USS Abraham Lincoln was put up by the crew to celebrate the end of their tour. The WH had nothing to do with it other than the unfortunate camera angle. Bush’s in his speech that day said that the WOT will take many years in Iraq and elsewhere.
Bush 41 never marveled at seeing a checkout scanner for the first time. It was misreporting by the NYT.
Bush never flipped anyone off on video. It was an edit job.
Quayle spelled "potatoe" because it was on the flash card in front of him. The flash card was wrong.