There must be something in the water at the Los Angeles Times. We've extensively documented the dishonest, partisan behavior of Times blogger (and former Bush flack) Andrew Malcolm. And fellow Times blogger/Bush alum Jimmy Orr has shown similar tendencies. I don't know if Craig Howie ever worked for W before signing on with the Los Angeles Times, but I do know that this just isn't true:

Al Gore once famously took a very complicated concept -- the origin of human interaction in a virtual world and the political ramifications thereof -- and simplified it for the masses (“I created the Internet”).

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Washington Sen. Patty Murray (or one of her staff) asked her more than 16,000 Facebook followers this simple question:

What tools and platforms do you like to use to connect to and engage with campaigns and candidates online?

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Here are some of our favorite responses from Murray's Facebook followers, which we relay with no other comment other than to mention that Murray is a Democrat, so please bear in mind the results may be as badly skewed as Al Gore's campaign-season claims to fame. [Emphasis added]

Al Gore didn't say “I created the Internet.” Didn't happen. And it's true that Gore's “campaign-season claims to fame” were “badly skewed” -- but the skewing came from the news media and the Bush campaign, which you wouldn't know from reading Howie's lame attempts to keep alive decade-old smears of Gore.