Crispin in Waterloo says:
January 5, 2013 at 6:09 am
” 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.”
Excuse me but who, or what is “RT.”
Steve from Rockwood
January 5, 2013 9:25 am
That’s called cashing in your chips. I think Gore will be moving to the sidelines for awhile to count his riches and have some fun (obviously without generating too much more CO2).
But, friends, don’t forget the LARGER and arguably more serious problem of his second career apparently profiting from trashing – ever more ironic now – ‘big oil-funded climate skeptics’, via an unsupportable accusation against them. At least we see his funding right out in the open. But for all his accusations against skeptic scientists, we have yet to see him produce an iota of evidence to prove it.
Please see my article from last year, “Pt II: Is Gore’s Accusation of Skeptic Climate Scientists Still a Hoax?” http://www.redstate.com/russellc/2011/06/22/pt-ii-is-gores-accusation-of-skeptic-climate-scientists-still-a-hoax/
AL Gore should have to donate all the monies to the US Treasury . . . what is becoming no one’s favorite charity. Won’t happen . . . but, now you know how some “old money” makes money.
Jimbo
January 5, 2013 11:25 am
beesaman says:
January 5, 2013 at 5:07 am
Maybe, just maybe, he’s getting ready to bail out of the Global Warming scam…..
The Revolution will be Currently televised.
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kim
January 5, 2013 11:35 am
Let’s see, @ur momisugly $500 or so a pop, how many chakras can be released with a hundred million smackeroos? The mind boggles, the stilt wilts.
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Jimbo
January 5, 2013 11:40 am
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?
Funny that as I found the following before I read your comment. I must have missed it skimming down.
And today it stands at 100 times more. The Co2 scam and big oil money have been good for Al Gore.
DirkH
January 5, 2013 11:53 am
David Jones says:
January 5, 2013 at 9:08 am
“Excuse me but who, or what is “RT.””
Russia Today, a Putin-financed english language TV channel.
Heavily promoting the impending downfall of Western civilisation through monetary collapse / crony capitalism; therefore constantly beanker bashing, class warfare promoting, OWS supporting.
I like their program “Capital Account”, though; they have interesting guests from the Gold bug / Austrian / bear side. Their general news are heavily lunatic.
Never looked at AJ before today. Just watched their news hour and found it to be more unbiased than the BBC, (not difficult), and with world-wide coverage of interesting stories that BBC, ITV and Ch4 did not touch.
It will be interesting for those of us furth of N. America to see if the NA AJ coverage differs from the coverage we get here in GB.
accordionsrule
January 5, 2013 12:02 pm
No surprise. Gore-ist goals go hand-in-hand with Middle East oil interests. They both want the same things: To kill coal, shale, natural gas, and even oil if it’s not Middle Eastern. They rail against the U.S. over CO2 and AGW. The happy couple is thrilled with astronomical oil prices. Politics does make strange bedfellows.
When there aren’t any more square miles left for solar panels; when every China-made windmill is in the doldrums; when manufacturing and farming are no longer profitable; when developed countries are kicked back to preindustrial stagnation; when greedy Americans are frugal non-consumers shivering in the dark; maybe then the strange bedfellows will wake up and smell the coffee. No eggs for breakfast, though, because they’ve killed the goose.
oldfossil
January 5, 2013 12:04 pm
Al Jazz is part of the satellite bouquet I subscribe to. Contrary to what you’d expect it is not a mouthpiece for Al Q. The viewpoint is slightly lefty but overall the standard of journalism is quite high. Certainly higher than Russia Today. Subscribe to them on Facebook for a week or two and judge for yourself.
For the record, Al Jazeera was started in the early 90s by veteran BBC reporters and producers who spoke Arabic (as a result of previous regional assignments) or who were Arabic Brits themselves. The BBC reporters and producers saw a need for global news broadcast into the Middle East countries, which at the time did not have any; all news was national and represented the ruling party. The various sheiks and rulers, initially, were NOT amused. There was a great pushback against Al Jazeera. It was only the subsequent purchase and investment of the Qatar sheik that saved it, the same sheik who invited US universities (like Columbia) to open campuses there in concert with their own, and who funds serious scientific and medical research.
Anyone who accuses Al Jazeera of being an Al Qaeda mouthpiece is ignorant.
policycritic
January 5, 2013 1:30 pm
More…it was the success of CNN during the first Gulf War that sparked the idea in the BBC reporters and producers. They realized there was no Arabic version that could broadcast the same info, and that people in the affected regions were only getting local viewpoints.
oldfossil wrote:
January 5, 2013 at 12:04 pm
[blockquote/Al Jazz is part of the satellite bouquet I subscribe to. Contrary to what you’d expect it is not a mouthpiece for Al Q. The viewpoint is slightly lefty but overall the standard of journalism is quite high. Certainly higher than Russia Today. Subscribe to them on Facebook for a week or two and judge for yourself.[/blockquote]
Indeed.
if jumping to conclusions becomes an Olympic event,
then many here will be candidates to represent their nation. 😉
Al Jazz is not a mouthpiece for Al Qaeda, Big Oil, or other such interests.
Just as the Mid East is not a monolithic block, but a set of competing interests
of which Al Q is one small part.
Rather it is quite a good news source, reminiscent of the Beeb [BBC] in it’s heyday: http://www.aljazeera.com
john robertson
January 5, 2013 2:07 pm
Truth in advertising for me, will be when the MSM news starts with “I am The Slime” by Frank Zappa as the lead in music.Al Jazeera still lets some truth slip through.
As a Canadian I hate paying to support CBC, as lying by omission is no different to deliberate misinformation, it amazes me how much goes unreported, unless it suits the Media Parties delusions.
Right now we have our media fawning over a phoney hunger striker,a very probably criminally corrupt Indian Band Chief.
They report very blandly, that their heroine is dining on moose and fish soups, but is so bravely continuing her hunger strike.No coverage of the approximately 90 million tax payer dollars this gal has managed…
Small wonder Big Phoney AL’s hypocrisy escapes them.
Justa Joe
January 5, 2013 2:23 pm
Gore & his leftist buds create the CCX, which is a disaster. Gore walks away a $100 million. Gore gets control of CurrenTV. Its another disaster yet Gore walks away with another $100 million. I guess that’s what is meant by too big to fail.
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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Not really, It’s an illustration of the fact that the socialist elite always enjoy benefits that the subjects of socialism do not.
Tom Bakewell
January 5, 2013 2:31 pm
I grew up in mining camps overseas We took in whatever news we could dredge up on the short wave radio. That was a great early lesson in spin detection. The VOA was right at the top of the spinners with a very noticable ” well, just dont tell them all of the story” touch in their news broadcasts.
Even now I try to get several different reports on something to see more or less what is really happening. I check AJE fairly frequently and have seen little to complain about except for their warmista approach to reporting on the supposed AGW.
Is he looking for some people to help him wire up those red buttons?
barn E. rubble
January 6, 2013 9:56 am
From Rex Murphy @National Post:
“Now comes the latest news that Al has sold Current, for the magnificent sum of $500-million, $100-million of which is his alone. Not bad for a TV station with less reach and inferior programming to most billboards.”
And . . .
“One other, not-to-be-missed note: Mr. Gore was very quick to make sure the sale took place before the New Year — the better to spare him, who is now one of the world’s superrich, his friend Barack Obama’s tax hike on those dreadful one-percenters. That move alone was worthy of a Republican.”
The rest here: http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/01/05/rex-murphy-al-gore-friend-of-the-petro-state/
Goode 'nuff
January 6, 2013 11:22 am
Late to the party again… Happy New Year, everybody! Hope you had a serving of blackeye peas or other lucky legumes. Muscadine and/or scuppernong wine brings you luck! Good health. Muscadine & scuppernong is another perfect food for human.
So has anyone heard if the Bore has put any of that cabbage to work yet, since the Fiscal Cliff Bill had so much pork in it for green energy? Solar stocks are rebounding, wind, algae, biofuel and the like. NA$CAR again gets so much money, wuwt?
The luckiest of all is persimmon beer, guess because it is so rare. So this relief rally is rewarding, the Bore has a whale of a head start but I feel so lucky right now I might actually ‘sorta catch up some. If you cannot beat ’em might as well join ’em… it sure doesn’t look like anyone’s going to beat ’em for a long while. So it’s hard to time it right, I picked up some pretty girls (altitude stocks) at near right price. They got blow off tops for a bit but now their jiggy’n around up like their topless. So I figure we have maybe a month to make money before everything tanks hard again over the debt ceiling/$pending cut$ battles to come in Febrrrruary. More like another can-kicking exercise in which Republicans cave in on cuts to entitlements in return for Democrats caving in on cuts to military.
When checking out the claims from talking heads I have always found the biggest liar, liar, pants on fire were from the extremists on either end of this left/right political tug of war. This post and some comments are funny. Like, there are no crooked slimy political figures on the right? I’m so $ure Glenn Beck wouldn’t have possibly flipped it to the other Al for a tidy profit, nah, yeah right. Your gonna like this not http://www.mediaite.com/tv/rachel-maddow-tears-apart-dick-morris-after-receiving-letter-from-his-lawyer/
So far so good on checking her claims out. I have seen similar slimy things in the past on both sides. Why they get so many votes is a mystery to me. I give up… Spent a lot of time and effort last year trying, Gary Johnson only got 1% and my pick less than that. Nowhere near Ross Perot, if only for his VP pick. Messed it up for everyone since. Oh, I shouldn’t say that, the thugs did threaten to harm his daughter.
So where would we be if Romney had been selected? Basically the same place, because they’re all just Walton puppets on strings. Very little real distinction except during manure spreading election time.
Anything from Duplin is top shelf muscadine. Ttyl http://www.duplinwinery.com/index.php?page=new-store&Section=Cool-Sweet-Easy-Wine
Crispin in Waterloo says:
January 5, 2013 at 6:09 am
” 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.”
Excuse me but who, or what is “RT.”
That’s called cashing in your chips. I think Gore will be moving to the sidelines for awhile to count his riches and have some fun (obviously without generating too much more CO2).
But, friends, don’t forget the LARGER and arguably more serious problem of his second career apparently profiting from trashing – ever more ironic now – ‘big oil-funded climate skeptics’, via an unsupportable accusation against them. At least we see his funding right out in the open. But for all his accusations against skeptic scientists, we have yet to see him produce an iota of evidence to prove it.
Please see my article from last year, “Pt II: Is Gore’s Accusation of Skeptic Climate Scientists Still a Hoax?” http://www.redstate.com/russellc/2011/06/22/pt-ii-is-gores-accusation-of-skeptic-climate-scientists-still-a-hoax/
https://rt.com/tags/russia/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_(TV_network)
AL Gore should have to donate all the monies to the US Treasury . . . what is becoming no one’s favorite charity. Won’t happen . . . but, now you know how some “old money” makes money.
He has already begun. You may have missed this story from last year.
http://www.wnd.com/2012/09/al-gore-bails-from-green-energy-investment/
The Revolution will be Currently televised.
=============
Let’s see, @ur momisugly $500 or so a pop, how many chakras can be released with a hundred million smackeroos? The mind boggles, the stilt wilts.
==========
Funny that as I found the following before I read your comment. I must have missed it skimming down.
And today it stands at 100 times more. The Co2 scam and big oil money have been good for Al Gore.
David Jones says:
January 5, 2013 at 9:08 am
“Excuse me but who, or what is “RT.””
Russia Today, a Putin-financed english language TV channel.
Heavily promoting the impending downfall of Western civilisation through monetary collapse / crony capitalism; therefore constantly beanker bashing, class warfare promoting, OWS supporting.
I like their program “Capital Account”, though; they have interesting guests from the Gold bug / Austrian / bear side. Their general news are heavily lunatic.
Never looked at AJ before today. Just watched their news hour and found it to be more unbiased than the BBC, (not difficult), and with world-wide coverage of interesting stories that BBC, ITV and Ch4 did not touch.
It will be interesting for those of us furth of N. America to see if the NA AJ coverage differs from the coverage we get here in GB.
No surprise. Gore-ist goals go hand-in-hand with Middle East oil interests. They both want the same things: To kill coal, shale, natural gas, and even oil if it’s not Middle Eastern. They rail against the U.S. over CO2 and AGW. The happy couple is thrilled with astronomical oil prices. Politics does make strange bedfellows.
When there aren’t any more square miles left for solar panels; when every China-made windmill is in the doldrums; when manufacturing and farming are no longer profitable; when developed countries are kicked back to preindustrial stagnation; when greedy Americans are frugal non-consumers shivering in the dark; maybe then the strange bedfellows will wake up and smell the coffee. No eggs for breakfast, though, because they’ve killed the goose.
Al Jazz is part of the satellite bouquet I subscribe to. Contrary to what you’d expect it is not a mouthpiece for Al Q. The viewpoint is slightly lefty but overall the standard of journalism is quite high. Certainly higher than Russia Today. Subscribe to them on Facebook for a week or two and judge for yourself.
Nothing will ever beat SCTV’s “Today is Moscow” on 3CP One.sketch. I cried.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv1j9erks2Y 3cp1 begins at 2:20
For the record, Al Jazeera was started in the early 90s by veteran BBC reporters and producers who spoke Arabic (as a result of previous regional assignments) or who were Arabic Brits themselves. The BBC reporters and producers saw a need for global news broadcast into the Middle East countries, which at the time did not have any; all news was national and represented the ruling party. The various sheiks and rulers, initially, were NOT amused. There was a great pushback against Al Jazeera. It was only the subsequent purchase and investment of the Qatar sheik that saved it, the same sheik who invited US universities (like Columbia) to open campuses there in concert with their own, and who funds serious scientific and medical research.
Anyone who accuses Al Jazeera of being an Al Qaeda mouthpiece is ignorant.
More…it was the success of CNN during the first Gulf War that sparked the idea in the BBC reporters and producers. They realized there was no Arabic version that could broadcast the same info, and that people in the affected regions were only getting local viewpoints.
Maybe we’re being to tough on Al. I’m sure use his $100 million to buy carbon credits for his little house.
oldfossil wrote:
January 5, 2013 at 12:04 pm
[blockquote/Al Jazz is part of the satellite bouquet I subscribe to. Contrary to what you’d expect it is not a mouthpiece for Al Q. The viewpoint is slightly lefty but overall the standard of journalism is quite high. Certainly higher than Russia Today. Subscribe to them on Facebook for a week or two and judge for yourself.[/blockquote]
Indeed.
if jumping to conclusions becomes an Olympic event,
then many here will be candidates to represent their nation. 😉
Al Jazz is not a mouthpiece for Al Qaeda, Big Oil, or other such interests.
Just as the Mid East is not a monolithic block, but a set of competing interests
of which Al Q is one small part.
Rather it is quite a good news source, reminiscent of the Beeb [BBC] in it’s heyday:
http://www.aljazeera.com
Truth in advertising for me, will be when the MSM news starts with “I am The Slime” by Frank Zappa as the lead in music.Al Jazeera still lets some truth slip through.
As a Canadian I hate paying to support CBC, as lying by omission is no different to deliberate misinformation, it amazes me how much goes unreported, unless it suits the Media Parties delusions.
Right now we have our media fawning over a phoney hunger striker,a very probably criminally corrupt Indian Band Chief.
They report very blandly, that their heroine is dining on moose and fish soups, but is so bravely continuing her hunger strike.No coverage of the approximately 90 million tax payer dollars this gal has managed…
Small wonder Big Phoney AL’s hypocrisy escapes them.
Gore & his leftist buds create the CCX, which is a disaster. Gore walks away a $100 million. Gore gets control of CurrenTV. Its another disaster yet Gore walks away with another $100 million. I guess that’s what is meant by too big to fail.
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.
——————————–
Not really, It’s an illustration of the fact that the socialist elite always enjoy benefits that the subjects of socialism do not.
I grew up in mining camps overseas We took in whatever news we could dredge up on the short wave radio. That was a great early lesson in spin detection. The VOA was right at the top of the spinners with a very noticable ” well, just dont tell them all of the story” touch in their news broadcasts.
Even now I try to get several different reports on something to see more or less what is really happening. I check AJE fairly frequently and have seen little to complain about except for their warmista approach to reporting on the supposed AGW.
you re gonna like this not a lot
Is he looking for some people to help him wire up those red buttons?
From Rex Murphy @National Post:
“Now comes the latest news that Al has sold Current, for the magnificent sum of $500-million, $100-million of which is his alone. Not bad for a TV station with less reach and inferior programming to most billboards.”
And . . .
“One other, not-to-be-missed note: Mr. Gore was very quick to make sure the sale took place before the New Year — the better to spare him, who is now one of the world’s superrich, his friend Barack Obama’s tax hike on those dreadful one-percenters. That move alone was worthy of a Republican.”
The rest here:
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/01/05/rex-murphy-al-gore-friend-of-the-petro-state/
Late to the party again… Happy New Year, everybody! Hope you had a serving of blackeye peas or other lucky legumes. Muscadine and/or scuppernong wine brings you luck! Good health. Muscadine & scuppernong is another perfect food for human.
So has anyone heard if the Bore has put any of that cabbage to work yet, since the Fiscal Cliff Bill had so much pork in it for green energy? Solar stocks are rebounding, wind, algae, biofuel and the like. NA$CAR again gets so much money, wuwt?
The luckiest of all is persimmon beer, guess because it is so rare. So this relief rally is rewarding, the Bore has a whale of a head start but I feel so lucky right now I might actually ‘sorta catch up some. If you cannot beat ’em might as well join ’em… it sure doesn’t look like anyone’s going to beat ’em for a long while. So it’s hard to time it right, I picked up some pretty girls (altitude stocks) at near right price. They got blow off tops for a bit but now their jiggy’n around up like their topless. So I figure we have maybe a month to make money before everything tanks hard again over the debt ceiling/$pending cut$ battles to come in Febrrrruary. More like another can-kicking exercise in which Republicans cave in on cuts to entitlements in return for Democrats caving in on cuts to military.
When checking out the claims from talking heads I have always found the biggest liar, liar, pants on fire were from the extremists on either end of this left/right political tug of war. This post and some comments are funny. Like, there are no crooked slimy political figures on the right? I’m so $ure Glenn Beck wouldn’t have possibly flipped it to the other Al for a tidy profit, nah, yeah right. Your gonna like this not
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/rachel-maddow-tears-apart-dick-morris-after-receiving-letter-from-his-lawyer/
So far so good on checking her claims out. I have seen similar slimy things in the past on both sides. Why they get so many votes is a mystery to me. I give up… Spent a lot of time and effort last year trying, Gary Johnson only got 1% and my pick less than that. Nowhere near Ross Perot, if only for his VP pick. Messed it up for everyone since. Oh, I shouldn’t say that, the thugs did threaten to harm his daughter.
So where would we be if Romney had been selected? Basically the same place, because they’re all just Walton puppets on strings. Very little real distinction except during manure spreading election time.
Anything from Duplin is top shelf muscadine. Ttyl
http://www.duplinwinery.com/index.php?page=new-store&Section=Cool-Sweet-Easy-Wine