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Jenny Cavalleri. As anyone who has seen the movie knows, that character was based on Ali
MacGraw.
The media went to town. An offhand remark, accurately quoting a seventeen-year-old
story from his local paper, would be used against Gore more than a billion times over the
next three years.
Here's an excerpt from the September 19, 2000, Hannity and Colmes program:
HANNITY: This is a big picture we've got to look at. AI Gore once told the American people,
told the crowd, Love Story was based on his life and Tipper's life. The author of Love
Story says that's not true.
TALK SHOW HOST NANCY SKINNER: No. That's not true, Sean—
HANNITY: Absolutely, he's on record.... Did he create the Internet, Nancy?
SKINNER: No, we're starting with Love Story. . . . Okay, Erich Segal said that indeed AI was the
model for the male model
HANNITY: That's not true.
SKINNER: But that he never said Tipper was, and that all that AI Gore had ever said
HANNITY: Not true
SKINNER: -IS that he had read in the Tennessean, a newspaper, that, where Erich Segal had
said that he and Tipper were the model. You know what? The Tennessean newspaper
did write that. Erich Segal has confirmed that it was AI Gore, but not necessarily Tipper.
So there was a minor difference that got blown into
HANNITY: I don't have a lot of time to refute every fact here.
Refute every fact? Sean, some of us are more concerned about refuting lies.
So Gore takes credit for a program he championed and funded.
And then he accurately quotes from a newspaper. Noticing a pattern here? An insidious,
compulsive pattern? It gets worse.
In January of 2000, Gore spoke to a high school in Concord, New Hampshire, about
how one individual can help change a community. He told a story about how the actions of
one teenage girl from Toone, Tennessee, changed national policy. The girl had contacted
Gore's congressional office about toxic waste in her hometown. Because of her initiative,
Gore said, he "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 you didn't hear of.
But that was the one that started it all." Gore pointed out that as a result, "we passed a major