Editing Internets (section)

==Presidential usages==
Bush used the word ''Internets''{{ref| a|[a]}} in his third presidential debate against [[Al Gore]] on October 17, 2000:<ref>{{cite web | title = Transcript of the third Gore-Bush presidential debate | publisher = Commission on Presidential Debates | date = 2000-10-17 | url = http://www.debates.org/index.php?page=october-17-2000-debate-transcript | access-date = 2010-03-15}}</ref>

<blockquote>JOYCE CLEAMER, AUDIENCE MEMBER: …I'm very concerned about the morality of our country now. TV, movies, the music that our children are, you know, barraged with every day. And I want to know if there's anything that can be worked out with the—Hollywood, or whoever, to help get rid of some of this bad language and whatever, you know...<br>BUSH: ... You bet there's things that government can do. We can work with the entertainment industry to provide family hour. We can have filters on Internets where public money is spent. There ought to be filters in public libraries and filters in public schools so if kids get on the Internet, there is not going to be pornography or violence coming in.</blockquote>

In the 2004 election's second debate in [[St. Louis, Missouri]], this time opposing [[John Kerry]], Bush used the word ''Internets''{{ref| a|[a]}} in response to an audience question about a potential [[conscription in the United States|military draft]]:<ref>{{cite web | title = Transcript of the second Bush-Kerry presidential debate | publisher = Commission on Presidential Debates | date = 2004-10-08 | url = http://www.debates.org/index.php?page=october-8-2004-debate-transcript | access-date = 2010-03-15}}</ref>

<blockquote>DANIEL FARLEY, AUDIENCE MEMBER: Mr. President, since we continue to police the world, how do you intend to maintain our military presence without reinstituting a draft?<br>BUSH: Yes, that's a great question. Thanks. I hear there's rumors on the, uh, Internets{{ref| b|[b]}} [pause] that we're going to have a draft. We're not going to have a draft, period. The all-volunteer army works. It works particularly when we pay our troops well. It works when we make sure they've got housing, like we have done in the last military budgets.</blockquote>

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{{note|a|a}} The word "Internets" as used by Bush is capitalized in the official debate transcript.<br />
{{note|b|b}} The official transcript follows the word "Internets" with "([[sic]])". The transcript also omits the [[Filler (linguistics)|filler word]] "uh" preceding "Internets". [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKTH6f1JfX8 Video footage of the quotation] shows the full version.

Bush used ''Internets'' for a third time on May 2, 2007:

<blockquote>Information is moving&mdash;you know, nightly news is one way, of course, but it's also moving through the [[blogosphere]] and through the Internets.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blbushisms2007.htm |title=Bushisms - Stupid George Bush Quotes From 2007 |first=Daniel |last=Kurtzman |publisher=about.com |access-date=2008-12-25 |archive-date=2013-04-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130420220044/http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blbushisms2007.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref></blockquote>

During a discussion on education at a [[Twitter]]-themed town hall meeting on July 6, 2011, at the White House, President [[Barack Obama]] used the term "Internets" and quickly corrected his statement.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/07/06/obama_refers_to_the_internet_as_the_internets.html |title=Obama Refers To The Internet As "The Internets" |publisher=RealClearPolitics |date=2011-07-06}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/07/obama-uses----then-corrects----the-term-internets/1 |title=Obama uses -- then corrects -- the term 'Internets' | publisher=USA Today |first=David |last=Jackson |date=2011-07-07}}</ref>