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Al Gore is the very same hypocrite who purchased a second large home with 6 fireplaces.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/17/photos-al-goree-new-8875_n_579286.html
Al Gore is the very same hypocrite who managed Occidental Petroleum stock and taking polluting zinc cash while spouting off about the environment.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/03/al_gores_legacy_of_hypocrisy.html
Al Gore is one of the biggest hypocrites the world has ever known.
Elyess~ We Americans who are familiar with the LIES of both CNN and the Beeb, are NOT impressed.
I guess you could simply call the 100 Mmillion dollars as back pay. Al’s climate change conspiracy theory lead to restrictions on oil drilling in the hopes of raising the costs until people couldn’t afford to buy it. All he accomplished was letting OPEC sell it for two to three time what it was worth by rationing supply. Al made them tens of billions of extra money in the last decade, I am sure he was due his tip.
Dennis Nikols says:
January 4, 2013 at 9:41 pm
Ever hear of the term “evil socialist”, Dennis? You have now. Ever hear of the term “uninformed”, or “brainwashed”? SImply read your comment again.
Elyess says:
January 5, 2013 at 1:16 am
No thanks, Elyess. I don’t consider either CNN or the BBC even worth watching–The Blaze is far superior on content and accuracy. And I don’t consider your nasty rant to be worth any more than the poor selection of adjectives you use, either. If you wish to embrace a station that was al Qaeda’s favorite, or proudly carried bin Laden’s messages, your value system certainly isn’t worth emulating–Of that I’m exceptionally sure.
@Rodky Road:
I regularly watch Al Jazeera precisely because they put those folks on ‘straight’. It’s like having a camera ‘inside their tent’. Just amazing what it does for understanding of their goals and mind set…. “Observation is not agreement”. Ask any ‘forward spotter’….
Though I agree with the ranking above by Jean Parisot that had AJ ahead of the likes of MSNBC. I’ve tried to watch it, really I have. Just don’t have the stomach for it. Come to think of it, don’t watch CBS or NBC or PBS either… F.Business, Fox News, CNBC, A.J., CNN, then other stuff…
According to Glen Beck, another potential bidder for Current TV :
Mr. Beck said on his radio show Thursday that his company’s interest was rebuffed “within 15 minutes.”
“We were not allowed to the table,” he said. “He (Gore) didn’t sell to the highest bidder. He looked for, Who do I ideologically align with?”
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/03/gore-went-to-bat-for-al-jazeera-and-himself/
Al Gore was a hypocrite way before this incident. Now hopefully more people will realize this and link it to the whole alarmist climate movement.
Oh and BTW from same article linked previously:
Mr. Gore, … will have an unpaid seat on the board of the new Al Jazeera channel …
Maybe, just maybe, he’s getting ready to bail out of the Global Warming scam and move into another ‘social’ area. He would need financial capital to do that and enough of it to make a big enough impact to drown out the criticism from the enviroloons.
Not a hypocrite, just a standard, know it all left-wing socialist suffering from the same narcissistic personality disorder that all socialists suffer from. They have answers and solutions to every known problem. This narcissistic personality disorder is fed by the love they feel from the fools who believe them and causes them to have intense hatred towards those fools who refuse to listen to them. All conversations with these loons is about proving their superiority never about solving problems.
The increasing prevalence of this narcissistic personality disorder across the western world is of course killing it. Western civilisation is collapsing before our very eyes.
E.M.Smith says:
January 5, 2013 at 4:06 am
“I regularly watch Al Jazeera precisely because they put those folks on ‘straight’. It’s like having a camera ‘inside their tent’. Just amazing what it does for understanding of their goals and mind set…. “Observation is not agreement”. Ask any ‘forward spotter’…. ”
The goals have been written down 1,400 years ago as well as how to achieve them. (with every means available)
The only interesting part is how and why they fail.
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E.M.Smith says:
January 5, 2013 at 4:06 am
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The lesson here is that Al Jazeera lags in “progressiveness” compared to US/UK news channels. AJ still has some modicum of truth slipping thru.
Don’t worry tho, AJ will eventually get it right, learning from their more experienced western counterparts. The Nazis employed socialist American university “research” to perfect their propaganda machine.
boodledug says:
January 5, 2013 at 4:58 am
Oh and BTW from same article linked previously:
Mr. Gore, … will have an unpaid seat on the board of the new Al Jazeera channel …
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Have watched Al Jazeera English for a while now and it does, I think, add to the News perspective by covering events ignored by other outlets. It obviously has its own editorial position but hardly unique in that respect and the discerning viewer can do their own filtering as one does with the rest of the bunch. 🙂 However, on the environment front it could be sourcing its material straight from the BBC. There is a new series with the title Earth Rise, has a spectrum of reports some with useful content but the AGW meme pervades and I noted yesterday an on screen slide advocating that viewers go to the “Skeptical Science” site where will be found rebuttals for Skeptics claims. Gore with a seat on the board may end up with a vehicle with much more reach than Current TV.
I have watched a bit of AJ in the past few months and it is pretty good. It is commonly provided at big hotels. It is much closer to how people think outside NA than NA-based networks. For textbook insanity try RT for half an hour! Although there is a broad spectrum of loons on offer in the West they are amateur hour compared with RT.
AJ is becoming for many people the new BBC where the unvarnished opinion of all sides gets an airing, like it or not. The BBC, now suffused with the incandescent glow of CAGW, still gets a lot of traction in the Colonies because it plays the AJ role of reliably providing news about The Regime from outside.
For those of you who are US-bound, please be aware that the CNN (etc) you see is not what appears on foreign screens. Overseas it is much more balanced and multinational in flavour, relatively speaking. Those wanting real balance about an event watch 3 or 4 channels to get different viewpoints. AJ is often one of them.
When it comes to leftists, never assess as stupidity that which can be explained by malice.
(spoonerism w-h/t to Napoleon)
Well my one dimension news spectrum might be RussiaToday, CNN (only because I can’t escape it), Fox News, Fox Business, Haaretz, DEBKA, and points in between. I have also a technical dimension, a philosophical dimension and a religious dimension.
My understanding of American politics has been much influenced by Angelo Codevilla’s America’s Ruling Class – And the Perils of Revolution, and world politics by Samuel P. Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations – And The Remaking of World Order.
I am ten years television free. It is the death of 1000 cuts to intelligence, the mind sucker.
The TV station, equipment, broadcast/cable license, AJ are all beside the point. The real story here is: Al Gore purposefully and enthusiastically (and with a straight face) accepted an estimated $100,000,000 from Big Oil/OPEC. Enough said.
Dennis Nikols says:
January 4, 2013 at 9:41 pm
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.
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zbcustom says:
January 5, 2013 at 2:29 am
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?
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PaulH:
At January 5, 2013 at 7:15 am you say
Yes! Well said! Thankyou.
I only post to iterate your important post in hope that it will help others to avoid missing it.
As you say, that is the “real story” but it was completely lost in a torrent of irrelevance on the other thread.
Richard
“Well my one dimension news spectrum might be RussiaToday, CNN (only because I can’t escape it), Fox News, Fox Business, Haaretz, DEBKA, and points in between. I have also a technical dimension, a philosophical dimension and a religious dimension.
I am ten years television free. It is the death of 1000 cuts to intelligence, the mind sucker.”
Doug – STOP TAKING MY LIFE! Hahaha, that is said with good humor. SOUNDS SO MUCH LIKE ME. The fact that RT (despite some biases) CONTINUOUSLY scores with more INTELLIGENT reporting has not been missed on my part. SAD in a way, but then again…the A.G. $100 Million for a TURKEY (i.e., a WORTHLESS ENTERPRISE) is perhaps much more deep than you realize. ALTHOUGH the enterprise is worthless, the AL GORE is still the “Goracle” and leading the sheeple to the cliff (NOT FISCAL).
I have known for 30 years that we have enough shale oil/gas to run the USA for 500 to 1000 years. (Does ANYONE think we’ll be using FOSSIL FUELS 50, 100, or 300 years from now?)
We just need enough to TRANSITION to “whatever” is coming. BUT, the LUDDITE urge and apocalypse of the Goracle is enough to DAMAGE the USA, the WEST…and give the planners in the Middle East MORE POWER. They are not so stupid as to know that.
The Soviets used to call it, “Convenient Fool”. I, however, do subscribe to the concept that there are forces WILDLY beyond the planning of any temporal “conspirators”. Who’d have thought that the USSR would become the Union of Soley Saddened Russians?
The Saudis could find their day over in a very short period of time also.
And Al? I think the Goodyear Disease will take care of him!
Max
Whoops, above needs “NOT know that” in place of “know that”. Sorry.
crosspatch says:
January 4, 2013 at 9:22 pm
I hear they are hiring Baghdad Bob to be their chief climate correspondent.
He’s probably better at it than Julia Slingo!
(Not that that would be difficult!)
There’s always the possibility that this was the end game all along. Since it would have been an uphill fight to gain cable slots for AJ directly, it makes sense to fund someone else to get those spots. Just sayin’ …
Elyess says:
January 5, 2013 at 1:16 am
“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.”
As a Brit I do NOT regard “rivals the BBC” as being a statement of praise. Totally the opposite!