Professor Stephen Hawking passed away overnight and CBS on Wednesday felt the need to connect Al Gore to the science icon. CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King linked, “The tributes are pouring in this morning to legendary scientist Stephen Hawking who died overnight at the age of 76. One internet pioneer, that’s also known as Al Gore, said Hawking had ‘a colossal mind and wonderful spirit.’”
Journalists just won’t let that go, will they?
In a March 9, 1999 interview, Gore famously told CNN: “During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.” As the Media Research Center’s Tim Graham noted on March 25, 1999, journalists let the boast go:
Nothing until CNN's Bruce Morton reviewed several Gore gaffes on March 19, and ABC's Aaron Brown let Gore joke about it on March 20's World News Tonight.
In 1997, Gore told Time’s Karen Tumulty that he and then-wife Tipper were the inspiration for the novel Love Story. Only CNN and NBC’s Today noticed. Author Erich Segal was “befuddled” by this remark.
More recently, CBS in 2017 compared “movie star” Gore to Wonder Woman. Given how journalists let the Democrat get away with such self-aggrandizing claims, it’s a wonder the show’s hosts didn’t say he was the inspiration for the super hero.
A transcript of the March 14 comment by Gayle King is below:
CBS This Morning
3/14/18
8:01GAYLE KING: I'm Gayle King with Norah O’Donnell and John Dickerson. The tributes are pouring in this morning to legendary scientist Stephen Hawking who died overnight at the age of 76. One internet pioneer, that’s also known as Al Gore, said Hawking had “a colossal mind and wonderful spirit.”
