Opps. Gregory had said Al Gore lied about "Love Canal" not "love story" as I posted in my reply. Well, not to worry because the article also shows how Gore did not lie about "love canal"
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Gore claims to have brought the Love Canal issue to national attention. This legend began with a gross misquote that appeared simultaneously in The New York Times and The Washington Post; the papers reported that Gore told a group of students he discovered the Love Canal toxic waste dump as an issue, adding: “I was the one that started it all.” In fact, Gore didn’t claim he discovered the Love Canal issue; he said instead the problems at the canal had supplemented his crusade against toxic wastes. He was inspired by an incident in Toone, Tenn., after a teenager there wrote a letter alerting him to problems in the southern town.
“I called for a congressional investigation and a hearing. I looked around the country for other sites like that. I found a little place in upstate New York called Love Canal. Had the first hearing on that issue and Toone, Tennessee — that was the one that you didn’t hear of. But that was the one that started it all,” Gore told the students, according to a video tape of the event.
Clearly, Gore hadn’t said, “I was the one that started it all.” And the “one” that started it all was Toone, not Love Canal. What Gore was describing was factually correct in every respect. He wrote about it in detail in his 1992 book, “Earth in the Balance,” and his role as a prime mover in creating the toxic-waste cleanup Superfund has been amply documented by his biographers, including Zelnick. Both the Times and the Post ran corrections. But that fact has escaped the numerous pundits and partisans who bandy about the phrase “Love Canal” as yet another sound bite implying that Gore is a liar.
