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Thanks Al Gore.. for defusing future hate-filled attacks on any comment skeptical of anthropogenic global warming, given that we are ‘funded and controlled by the evil and filthy rich oil companies’. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
al-gorzeera?
Al Gore the ultimate hypocrite can now say…
I’ve looked a climate from both sides now – Wow they both pay handsomely!
Who cares where the money comes from as long as it comes!!!!
I think it’s worth remembering that Current TV has been purchased not as a going concern but for their broadcasting rights ( and possibly premises and equipment ). The station will not continue as Current TV but is to be replaced by Al Jazeera American. Current TV as a brand and all of its programming will cease to exist. Which is a good thing, right?
Even as chairman I’m not sure how much Gore would have had to do with the sale. I expect that Joel Hyatt did most of the donkey work with large shareholders such as Burkle and Gore along with the likes of Comcast simply being offered a proposal ( there appear to have been other suitors, i don’t know who ) to say yay or nay to and collect their windfalls after signing.
It does appear to me to have been slightly overvalued given that a good chunk of revenue came via Time Warner and they have refused to carry the new station. Odd that it’s subscription based in the US as it’s free ( to cable and satellite ) over here. Not that this gained them any more of an audience.
I hear they are hiring Baghdad Bob to be their chief climate correspondent.
I Just read this from IBD.
Mark it up as a three-fer in greedy hypocrisy for Gore. He gives anti-Semitic Islamists more influence in America, takes $100 million in cash from Big Oil (after making a lucrative living by claiming that it’s destroying the planet), and gives those same greenhouse gasbags a foothold in the U.S. media.
Al, you’re a beauty!!!!!
But Al and Al do have similar interests.. one day the “Brain” will rule the world… AGAIN???
@DaveG:
AND Gore also tried to avoid paying extra tax (like a typical socialist) by desperately trying to conclude the sale before the Democrats new tax regulations came in on Jan the 1st.
Just waiting for Al to say:- “It doesn’t matter whether it is a white cat or a black cat, a cat that catches mice is a good cat.”
🙂
AI have had a little history with Current TV back when they hired Keith Olbermann, and before they fired him. You see, I disliked Keith very much, and became a professional troll at their website (a beloved troll I can add). I use to love to discuss his daily rants with the blind leftist friends of Keith, the whole right is racist, tea party racist, OWS greatest thing since sliced bread.
I loved facts, so I always came armed. Especially about his failed ratings while at Current TV and the lunacy near the end which got him fired. His koolaide drinking lefties were shocked. I was vindicated.
Anyhoo….back when he was praising the OWS and cursing the cops as fascists I posted this…..
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“From Alexa,com…CurrentTV rankings within countries, top 5:
Pakistan – ranked 1,324
India – ranked 2,148
Phillipines – ranked 2,432
Bangladesh – ranked 2,730
USA – ranked 3,150
So the islamist militants are likely finding Keith Online videos very inspirational. I have seen Currents rankings rise in Pakistan the past two months. They must love the OWS cop bashing videos very much.
And today we find that Al Quada was quite fond of Keith Olbermann and were sad to see he got fired from MSNBC….
“This Al Qaeda media strategy story keeps getting weirder and weirder. Last week we noted that Al Qaeda really disliked Fox News Channel, according to documents seized from Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan.”
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So I now find it funny now how that network has been sold to Al Jazeera by good old Al. And he declined early last year to sell it to Glen Beck. You got to love the left in this country.
I also created this little faux video of Keith back when he was at MSNBC and predicting his demise there. For those that may like to see a little of Keith’s best rantings while debating the famous Etrade babies.
Keith Olbermann Countdown unaired episode with a meltdown
Seems to me this is not the action of a socialist but that of a capitalist after all maximize your profit first and the devil take the hind most.
Sorry, missed part of the quotes from that article in my post above.
” According to the Washington Post‘s David Ignatius, Al Qaeda’s … preferred MSNBC when Keith Olbermann was hosting there: “
The context sensitive ad that I see is for “Brain training games.” That’s a good editorial comment!
Ah well, no doubt it’ll give Al Gore, on one of his perfunctory ‘consultancy’ trips to the Gulf courtesy of the sale, to pop in to say ‘Hi!’ to Dick Cheney, now that Halliburton has relocated its HQ to that part of the world…….
Strange, if ever I want a break from the main stream propaganda broadcasters here in Aus such as ABC, SBS etc, I turn to Al Jazeera.
“Seems to me this is not the action of a socialist but that of a capitalist after all”
Of course. Gore is an American politician. There are no socialists in American politics. Just hard right-wingers and totally loony right-wingers.
Been watching al jazera for years, its good news and less biased / skewed than other news oulets so pleased its coming to the us, nice to hear news sometimes thats isnt guided by govt spin etc…
Odd? Odd? Are you serious? Some of us actually remember the events of 9/11 and have not forgiven those who celebrated it.
@DaveG, “I’ve looked a climate from both sides now” Joni Mitchell was prescient!
Bows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air
And feather canyons everywhere, i’ve looked at cloud that way.
But now they only block the sun, they rain and snow on everyone.
So many things i would have done but clouds got in my way.
I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now,
From up and down, and still somehow
It’s cloud illusions i recall.
I really don’t know clouds at all.
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Being a junior scientist with no particular interest in any flavour of human/prophetic interaction or special/important/scary stories with which to frighten the kids…..And having worked as a north american (read canadian) oil and gas professional within the arab world for the past 25 years …. I would suggest that you folks south of the 49th give al jazeera english a listen to on youtube. In my humble opinion, it beats the p…h out of CNN and even rivals the BBC. However, should you folks continue to believe that you are exceptionally special and that your p…h does not smell, well then.enjoy your american dream and keep on listening your selves, alone.
So the news spectrum in the US will look like, from right to left: Fox Business, Fox News, AJ, CBS, ABC, CNN, NBC, NPR, MSNBC
Isn’t it time for a reprint of the previous comparisons of “poor ol’ Al’s” financial status when he left “politics” as opposed to now?
TomB says:
January 5, 2013 at 12:53 am
Odd? Odd? Are you serious? Some of us actually remember the events of 9/11 and have not forgiven those who celebrated it.
And what does any of that have to do with me finding it odd that Americans were paying for Current TV in subscriptions yet the British were receiving it in the default channel line up?
Regarding Elyess @ur momisugly 1:16am
You miss the point. I don’t believe anyone has suggested that Al Jazeera shouldn’t be allowed to buy into a TV network.
It seems the sale of Current TV was pushed through to avoid having to pay more tax. That’s not the problem. The problem is that back in November Al Gore said in an interview with Reuters that:
Is Al Gore a hypocrite? Al I can say is do as I say, and not as I do. Al Gore could sell snake oil to a snake oil salesman. He has no worries about taking big oil money funded Al Jazeera which is funded / owned by the oil and natural gas rich state of Qatar. So much for his worries about big oil and global warming.