Reply #81: But it's true! [View All]

He didn't ask for recounts anywhere else. You noted that he joined existing lawsuits, which is true. He did not ask for a statewide recount, he merely joined suits in counties that stood the best chance of benefitting his campaign. So I stand by my assertion that he asked for votes to be counted in the counties that stood to benefit his total the best rather than ask for a statewide manual count.

I will allow that I misspoke when I said that Gore subverted the Constitution. My point was that I find it contradictory that a man who has by all means revolutionized media with Current TV would have used his voice to encourage a labeling campaign. The effect of age-related labeling campaigns has historically been to lessen the audience that a piece of media can reach, thus shrinking its potential market, and making that media less likely to be funded, accordingly. This discourages free speech, and we see it all the time when movies are edited to avoid an R or NC-17 rating.

Granted, Gore has helped a great deal as well on these matters. Encouraging adoption of the Internet and the development of Current have done wonders in terms of enabling free speech.