Gore loves some oil money

[New Mama]

What a hypocrite. Yep, Al Jazeera is the same company that shows live beheadings of American citizens on TV....soon coming to a channel near you. To think we could have had him a POTUS too!

Al Gore and his co-investors just sold liberal cable channel Current TV to Al Jazeera, the network bankrolled by the emir of Qatar. How much in carbon offsets does Mr. Gore need to balance his estimated $100 million from the sale to an oil sheik?

In 2008, Al Jazeera threw an on-air party for Samir Kuntar when he was released from an Israeli prison. Kuntar led a Palestine Liberation Front terrorist team that kidnapped an Israeli family in 1979. He shot the father and killed the 4-year-old daughter by smashing her head against rocks along the beach. In footage available on YouTube, Al Jazeera's Beirut bureau chief hands Kuntar a scimitar to cut the celebratory cake and says: "This is the sword of the Arabs, Samir."

In 2009, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, host of the network's most popular Arabic-language show, "Shariah and Life," said on air (also available on YouTube): "Oh, Allah, take this oppressive Jewish, Zionist band of people. Oh Allah, do not spare a single one of them. Oh Allah, count their numbers and kill them, down to the very last one." Perhaps Mr. Gore doesn't have access to YouTube.

online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323874204578221932173414130.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

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As soon as this sale was announced some cable companies -- including Time Warner -- dropped the channel. Good.

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The blowback has begun -- Spitzer quit because he didn't want to work for Al-Jazeera

Eliot Spitzer Ends His Show on Current TV

Mr. Spitzer said he had a “wonderful time” at Current, but emphasized that his relationship was with Al Gore and Joel Hyatt, Current’s co-founders, not with Al Jazeera. “Moving forward, their mission will be different,” he said — more international newscasts, less liberal talk about the news.

[Ardbeg... innit]

From what I have heard, Gore screwed Al Jazeera. They paid a LOT more than what it was worth, and its will be worth a LOT less than it was before this is all over. BRAVO American capitalism.

[Ardbeg... innit]

BTW- Fox News is co-owned by an oil sheik.. second biggest ower too. So I wouldnt point that finger too hard there Anita. Of course it could be bad just because a liberal did it.

[Tex]

Jan 8, 2013 11:16:36 GMT -6 Ardbeg... innit said:

From what I have heard, Gore screwed Al Jazeera. They paid a LOT more than what it was worth, and its will be worth a LOT less than it was before this is all over. BRAVO American capitalism.

I don't know that you don't really have some inside dope on this, but I would be skeptical if I were you. The only way that Time Warner has kept the channel up until now, is that Al Gore had the clout to sic the regulatory dogs on them at their license renewals if they dropped it. (rent seeking I believe is the economic term) I don't pretend that this sort of shakedown favors an ideology either, but pardon me if I pass on the BRAVO.

[Ardbeg... innit]

From listening to the talk on Sirius/XM, which broadcasts some of Current's shows (well, actually Current stuck a video camera in the radio booth of some of the show that are part of the Sirius/XM network), VERY cheap production costs.

The $100M is Gore's share of the sale. Total sale was in the $400-$500M range... for something that exists only on paper anymore.

I would call that a very capable capitalist, getting AJ to buy into essentially nothing means Gore got some big bucks, for a second rate cable channel that was going nowhere.

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I wonder if this means Keith Olbermann will be hired back?

[Ardbeg... innit]

Jan 8, 2013 9:17:34 GMT -6 New Mama said:

What a hypocrite. Yep, Al Jazeera is the same company that shows live beheadings of American citizens on TV....soon coming to a channel near you. To think we could have had him a POTUS too!

I dont get it.. how is he a hypocrite?

[Ardbeg... innit]

Jan 8, 2013 12:06:23 GMT -6 ♥ COVID-19♥ said:

I wonder if this means Keith Olbermann will be hired back?

Depends what he thinks of Bahrain

[Tex]

I don't know either way with any authority, but would not assume, that Al-Jazeera is a naive bunch who happens to have a big checkbook. Al Gore has a lot of influence and and if you can peddle it at the old capital gain rate of 15%, that is more advantagious than paying over 50% at the self employed top rate. Then again, I work with taxes constantly and carpenters sometime tend to think everything is a nail.

[New Mama]

Al climate warming guru Gore has vilified the oil industry and all who profit from that dirty business for years but has no trouble selling them a legal licensed vehicle to enter every cable ready household in America for that price. The fact the Current only has 22,000 active viewers’ means nothing. Clearly AJ overpaid but they now have the legal and financial means to market this channel boosting subscribers and can spend millions presenting their truth about oil, Islam and the evils of America.

[New Mama]

Jan 8, 2013 11:19:26 GMT -6 Ardbeg... innit said:

BTW- Fox News is co-owned by an oil sheik.. second biggest owner too. So I wouldn't point that finger too hard there Anita. Of course it could be bad just because a liberal did it.

Co-owned? News Corporation aka Rupert Murdoch & family is the parent of Fox and controlling stockholder. A Saudi prince holds 7% of News Corporation. I guess you think he has had tremendous influence on Fox. No? Wonder why he didn't block the millions Fox have contributed to the Republican Party? You’d think he would at least get O’Reilly fired.

Me thinks one of the richest men in the world knows how to make money and invests it in winners. He also owns over $4billion in Citibank stock.

[Ardbeg... innit]

Just sayin... oil money is oil money and an Islamic Owner is Islamic Owner...No?

[New Mama]

Jan 8, 2013 14:37:54 GMT -6 Ardbeg... innit said:

Just sayin... oil money is oil money and an Islamic Owner is Islamic Owner...No?

Well no. Al Jazeera a news organization and single investor are not the same.

Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Menlo College in California in 1979. He then received a Master's degree in Social Science with honors from Syracuse University in 1985. He is invested in the Western culture and donated to many humanitarian causes. BTW he does not have a 'controling' interest in News Corporation and holds a postion of 4th in ownership.

Al Jazeera is an organization whose track record is very unfriendly to this here United States.

[Irish Stu]

Jan 8, 2013 9:17:34 GMT -6 New Mama said:

Yep, Al Jazeera is the same company that shows live beheadings of American citizens on TV....soon coming to a channel near you

I'm not defending Al Jazeera, but this is incorrect and was in fact a false allegation made by Fox news on the day that they launched their English language service.

[bloojay]

Jan 8, 2013 9:17:34 GMT -6 New Mama said:

What a hypocrite. Yep, Al Jazeera is the same company that shows live beheadings of American citizens on TV....soon coming to a channel near you. To think we could have had him a POTUS too!

I'm sorry, but who is the hypocrite here? (Watch the video)


nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/01/jon-stewart-slams-fox-news-al-jazeera-hypocrisy.html?mid=r_dailyintel

[Tex]

Rupert isn't running a world wide crusade against carbon based fuels.

[bloojay]

Jan 14, 2013 14:37:36 GMT -6 Tex said:

Rupert isn't running a world wide crusade against carbon based fuels.

Weak

[New Mama]

Jan 14, 2013 14:27:32 GMT -6 bloojay said:

Jan 8, 2013 9:17:34 GMT -6 New Mama said:

What a hypocrite. Yep, Al Jazeera is the same company that shows live beheadings of American citizens on TV....soon coming to a channel near you. To think we could have had him a POTUS too!

I'm sorry, but who is the hypocrite here? (Watch the video)


nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/01/jon-stewart-slams-fox-news-al-jazeera-hypocrisy.html?mid=r_dailyintel

Like Jon Stewart can objectively compare al-jazeera to Rupert's publication track record.

How easily one forgets...

www.nationalreview.com/articles/337297/al-gore-al-jazeera-clifford-d-may#

We used to know a lot about Al Jazeera. At what point did amnesia set in? The station was launched in November 1996. Two months after al-Qaeda’s attacks on New York and Washington, Fouad Ajami, the Lebanese-born American scholar, analyzed its product in the pages of The New York Times Magazine. Al Jazeera, he wrote, “may not officially be the Osama bin Laden Channel, but he is clearly its star . . . The channel’s graphics assign him a lead role: there is bin Laden seated on a mat, his submachine gun on his lap; there is bin Laden on horseback in Afghanistan, the brave knight of the Arab world. A huge, glamorous poster of bin Laden’s silhouette hangs in the background of the main studio set at Al Jazeera’s headquarters in Doha, the capital city of Qatar.”

Al Jazeera English’s first Washington anchor was Dave Marash, a veteran reporter who had been a substitute host for Ted Koppel at ABC’s Nightline, for many years one of the best news programs on television. He quit after two years, explaining to the Columbia Journalism Review that as “the American face of the channel” he had, in effect, “vouched for its credibility and value,” and that he could not continue to do that because, while he considered much of AJ English’s reporting high-quality, its anti-American bias had become all too obvious.

The Al-Jazeera Network is owned and operated by the royal family of Qatar, an emirate rated by Freedom House as “not free.” Qatar’s Wahhabi religious establishment is hard-core but more indulgent of foreigners than are the clerics of Saudi Arabia, where Wahhabism also is the state religion. The sale of oil keeps Qatar’s rulers fabulously wealthy, so AJ will never need to turn a profit. If making money is not AJ’s purpose, what is?

Al Gore, Internet pioneer, paladin of the fight against global warming, and archenemy of carbon fuels, is about to have his bank account inflated by an estimated one hundred million petro-dollars, and he will “proudly” serve on the advisory board of a media outlet owned by a dictatorship that advocates government censorship of the Internet. In that role, he can be expected to use his political influence to ensure that cable executives continue to charge cable subscribers for a channel those subscribers haven’t asked for. Second, Gore had previously refused to sell Current TV to Glenn Beck because the conservative commentator — unlike Al Jazeera — is “not aligned with our point of view.” Third, according to the New York Times, “Mr. Gore and his partners were eager to complete the deal by Dec. 31, lest it be subject to higher tax rates that took effect on Jan. 1.” (Sadly, they missed that deadline.)


One more reason to be less than optimistic: Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi is the host of Al Jazeera Arabic’s most popular program, Sharia and Life. Qaradawi endorsed Ayatollah Khomeini’s call to execute novelist Salman Rushdie for blasphemy, called what Hitler did to Europe’s Jews “divine punishment” (adding that “Allah willing, the next time will be at the hand of the believers”). In 1991, one of his acolytes, Mohamed Akram, a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in America, wrote a memorandum, later obtained by the FBI, asserting that Brothers “must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house by their hands and by the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”

Is Al Gore really “thrilled and proud” to be associated with such “independent and diverse points of view”? Is this what he means by “speaking truth to power”? Might asking him these questions be a net contribution to the free market in ideas?

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Jan 14, 2013 15:11:31 GMT -6 New Mama said:

Jan 14, 2013 14:27:32 GMT -6 bloojay said:

I'm sorry, but who is the hypocrite here? (Watch the video)


nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/01/jon-stewart-slams-fox-news-al-jazeera-hypocrisy.html?mid=r_dailyintel

Like Jon Stewart can objectively compare al-jazeera to Rupert's publication track record.

How easily one forgets...

www.nationalreview.com/articles/337297/al-gore-al-jazeera-clifford-d-may#

Is The National Review objective?

[New Mama]

Jan 14, 2013 15:16:41 GMT -6 ♥ COVID-19♥ said:

Jan 14, 2013 15:11:31 GMT -6 New Mama said:

Like Jon Stewart can objectively compare al-jazeera to Rupert's publication track record.

How easily one forgets...

www.nationalreview.com/articles/337297/al-gore-al-jazeera-clifford-d-may#

Is The National Review objective?

Do you find the information presented untrue?

[New Mama]

Here's an update. Al Gore's old network has made it's debut as Al Jazeera America. The lawsuits are already in progress.

www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/08/20/al-jazeera-america-launches/2679407/

[Merlot Joe]

I am sure other cable or satellite providers will be doing the same thing.

[Exildo Wonsetler Briggs III]

Just tuned to it on Dish and they had a story about the big sink hole sucking up the trees. Will have to tune in when they have something interesting to watch. I used to regularly look at their web site to see what they were doing so kinda interesting to see what they will have on TV.