Coulter then repeated her ridicule of Gore about his Love Story claim on pages 154, 159, and 160. What is the truth? This claim of Gore's is trivially easy to investigate, for anyone capable of using computerized keyword-searches and the LexisNexis document-retrieval software. In Slander, Coulter repeatedly claims to have used such keyword searches to when searching for evidence favoring or disfavoring claims in her book. Merely by giving that software the command to search all newspapers of Tennessee, for all available dates, for all articles containing "Gore" AND "Segal" AND "Love", I was able to find an article by a reporter who investigated this claim of Gore's. The article quotes Segal as saying that he based the male character of Love Story on two real-life persons: Al Gore and the roommate Gore had, a man named "Tommy Lee Jones" |