A tale of two Als: Why Al Gore sold out to Al Jazeera

[Soggy in NOLA]

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But one has to love the hypocrisy...

 

[PredFan]

I'm glad that you posted this because I heard two separate radio host talk about the 'hypocrisy' (plural) involved with this sale. What hypocrisy? I don't see it. Please be specific because I ASSURE you that I can defend my position.

You don't see the hypocrisy in a man who has built his career trying to promote man-made global warming being caused by carbon emmissions selling out to a network financed by oil money? Or a man who has railed again and again about the "rich" paying their fair share trying to broker a deal and claim all his money as 2012 income rather than 2013?

I'll take both of these issues head on.

Selling Current TV to Al Jezerra when the country has a lot of oil wealth and Gore is a proponent of weening the human race off of fossil fuels is not, in and of itself, an example of hypocrisy. (It could be if a certain condition is present, and I'll get back to that).

What WOULD be an example of hypocrisy is if Gore invested in oil wells, or oil companies, or coal mines, or the manufacturing of equipment which was used in the extraction or production of fossil fuels. THAT would be hypocrisy.

As far as taxes go, I don't recall Gore advocating for higher tax rates on the wealthy, but that's not even relevant. Let's just say he did so, and he did so repeatedly. As long as Gore is complying with the law, there is no hypocrisy. There WOULD be hypocrisy if the law was changed, and AFTER the law was changed, Gore requested an exception or exemption from the law that everyone else was required to comply with.

Now, back to the 'certain condition.' IF Current TV, under Gore's direction, previously refused to run ads for the oil and/or coal industries (like those ridiculous CLEAN COAL propaganda pieces the coal industry pushes), and Al Jezerra intended to use the station as a platform for promoting fossil fuels and undermining climate change theory AND Gore knew that at the time of the sale, then THAT would be hypocrisy.

Now, as far as the sale is concerned, Gore might actually be able to do a LOT of good with that big chunk of change he's getting. For example, he could conceivably buy a coal mine and shut it down.

But nothing about this sale (that we know about at this point of time) qualifies as hypocrisy based on Gore's previously stated positions on global warming or taxes.

If you get some relevant information that would change that assessment, feel free to share it.

I would refer you to the definition of Hypocrisy. That's relevant enough.

 

[Misty]

Gore's real inconvenient truth.

" what he forgot to mention was the oil and gas business, which accounted for more than half of Qatar's 2010 GDP, according to estimates by Qatar National Bank."

Gore took oil money while preaching global warming caused by fossil fuel.

Biggest hypocrite of the year.

 

[AsheedMidrarwz]

Those of us with common sense and normal intelligence have known Gore is a con man all along. I'd like to see how the mindless twits who listen to this shyster are coping with this by telling themselves lies.

 

[Mustang]

Those of us with common sense and normal intelligence have known Gore is a con man all along. I'd like to see how the mindless twits who listen to this shyster are coping with this by telling themselves lies.

No, Rush Limbaugh is a con man. And against the odds (of common sense, at least) Rush has somehow managed to get economic middle class and lower middle class conservatives to be against a change in upper middle class tax rates that only truly affected Rush and his fellow conservative talk radio hosts, not his listeners.

When someone has the power to convince millions of people to support ideas that work against their best interests and oppose ideas that would help them, is it any wonder that advertisers pay him millions to hawk gold coins and get rich quick schemes?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

I think it's awesome Gore is doing business with todays Hitler

 

[g5000]

I'm glad that you posted this because I heard two separate radio host talk about the 'hypocrisy' (plural) involved with this sale. What hypocrisy? I don't see it. Please be specific because I ASSURE you that I can defend my position.

You don't see the hypocrisy in a man who has built his career trying to promote man-made global warming being caused by carbon emmissions selling out to a network financed by oil money? Or a man who has railed again and again about the "rich" paying their fair share trying to broker a deal and claim all his money as 2012 income rather than 2013?

I'll take both of these issues head on.

Selling Current TV to Al Jezerra when the country has a lot of oil wealth and Gore is a proponent of weening the human race off of fossil fuels is not, in and of itself, an example of hypocrisy. (It could be if a certain condition is present, and I'll get back to that).

What WOULD be an example of hypocrisy is if Gore invested in oil wells, or oil companies, or coal mines, or the manufacturing of equipment which was used in the extraction or production of fossil fuels. THAT would be hypocrisy.

Wrong. Just because Gore is one step removed from the oil industry, that does not obliterate his hypocrisy.

If I sold my business to someone who got the money to buy my business by selling child porn, and I knew that was how he got his money, I would be a willful benefactor of the sexual abuse of children, even though it was indirectly.

Al Gore is a willful benefactor of the oil business. This is an inescapable hypocrisy.

 

[Mustang]

You don't see the hypocrisy in a man who has built his career trying to promote man-made global warming being caused by carbon emmissions selling out to a network financed by oil money? Or a man who has railed again and again about the "rich" paying their fair share trying to broker a deal and claim all his money as 2012 income rather than 2013?

I'll take both of these issues head on.

Selling Current TV to Al Jezerra when the country has a lot of oil wealth and Gore is a proponent of weening the human race off of fossil fuels is not, in and of itself, an example of hypocrisy. (It could be if a certain condition is present, and I'll get back to that).

What WOULD be an example of hypocrisy is if Gore invested in oil wells, or oil companies, or coal mines, or the manufacturing of equipment which was used in the extraction or production of fossil fuels. THAT would be hypocrisy.

Wrong. Just because Gore is one step removed from the oil industry, that does not obliterate his hypocrisy.

If I sold my car to someone who got the money to buy my car by selling child porn, and I knew that was how he got his money, I would be a willful benefactor of the child porn business, even though it was indirectly.

Al Gore is a willful benefactor of the oil business. This is an inescapable hypocrisy.

Al Jezeera sells oil?

 

[g5000]

I'll take both of these issues head on.

Selling Current TV to Al Jezerra when the country has a lot of oil wealth and Gore is a proponent of weening the human race off of fossil fuels is not, in and of itself, an example of hypocrisy. (It could be if a certain condition is present, and I'll get back to that).

What WOULD be an example of hypocrisy is if Gore invested in oil wells, or oil companies, or coal mines, or the manufacturing of equipment which was used in the extraction or production of fossil fuels. THAT would be hypocrisy.

Wrong. Just because Gore is one step removed from the oil industry, that does not obliterate his hypocrisy.

If I sold my car to someone who got the money to buy my car by selling child porn, and I knew that was how he got his money, I would be a willful benefactor of the child porn business, even though it was indirectly.

Al Gore is a willful benefactor of the oil business. This is an inescapable hypocrisy.

Al Jezeera sells oil?

Do you not know who owns Al Jazeera?

It's an organ of the oil state of Qatar.

 

[ScreamingEagle]

Al Gore is nothing more than a money-grubbing fake....

where are all those drowning bears.....? oh wait....there aren't any....

Last fall, as a massive media campaign reminded us, the extent of Arctic ice was at an all-time (since 1979) low, yet we cannot recall a single report of a drowned polar bear as a result. Surely, with all the attention on polar bear well-being that arose as the Interior Department considered its ESA decision, if there were evidence of polar bears drowning last summer, it would have been held up front and center. But it wasn’t. Because they weren’t.

Al Gore’s “drowned polar bear” AIT source under investigation | Watts Up With That?

 

[Mustang]

Wrong. Just because Gore is one step removed from the oil industry, that does not obliterate his hypocrisy.

If I sold my car to someone who got the money to buy my car by selling child porn, and I knew that was how he got his money, I would be a willful benefactor of the child porn business, even though it was indirectly.

Al Gore is a willful benefactor of the oil business. This is an inescapable hypocrisy.

Al Jezeera sells oil?

Do you not know who owns Al Jazeera?

It's an organ of the oil state of Qatar.

As long as Al Jezeera is a stand alone company operating independently of oil companies, it's not relevant. Otherwise, you're conflating a relationship to the point that doing business with ANYONE in Qatar is no different than doing business directly with oil concerns.

It would be the equivalent of a foreigner saying that if a company or a person from his country does business with CNN, it's the same as dealing with any American connection they choose to link to it in a negative connotation (the US Gov't, the US military, or big oil). It's a specious argument.

 

[Murf76]

Just a little snippet from an article today in the WSJ Online:

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.

cont... Crovitz: Inconvenient Truths About Al Jazeera - WSJ.com

That's not "just business". That's radicalism. And it's just PART of what was posted at the above link. Al Gore is a piece of crap, and quite frankly, I have no intention whatsoever of continuing to pay for a television service if Al Jazeera is getting a single red cent of my money. I'll cancel first and go to an online service like Netflix or Hulu first.

People need to get serious about putting their money where their mouth is. Yeah, a huge hypocrite managed to scam the Emir for some cash... but that doesn't mean he's going to get what he paid for. We need to be calling our cable and satellite companies and withdrawing our business if they continue to carry this station.

 

[NYcarbineer]

The US produces more oil than Qatar.

 

[Some Guy]

The US produces more oil than Qatar.

Discussion: Hey, what do you think about man-made global warming advocate Al Gore selling his network to a company funded by oil money?

NYcarbineer: I LIKE FOOD!

 

[AsheedMidrarwz]

Those of us with common sense and normal intelligence have known Gore is a con man all along. I'd like to see how the mindless twits who listen to this shyster are coping with this by telling themselves lies.

No, Rush Limbaugh is a con man. And against the odds (of common sense, at least) Rush has somehow managed to get economic middle class and lower middle class conservatives to be against a change in upper middle class tax rates that only truly affected Rush and his fellow conservative talk radio hosts, not his listeners.

When someone has the power to convince millions of people to support ideas that work against their best interests and oppose ideas that would help them, is it any wonder that advertisers pay him millions to hawk gold coins and get rich quick schemes?

Rush is what he is, Rush. Having a hard time facing the fact that one of your hero frauds has been exposed for the con man he always was?

 

[Politico]

Its a tale of thank god someone bought that loser from me.

 

[Clementine]

Free Enterprise is bad now?

Of course not. What is striking is that this particular sale contradicts everything Gore has supposedly stood for all these years. It's the hypocrisy. He may as well come out say, "You know all that stuff I've been preaching for years? Well, never mind."

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

FOX News http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/08/21/fox-shareholder-funded-mosque-imam/ fox-arab-shareholder-funded-9/11-mosque-imam

Murdoch, Saudi prince team up to launch ‘Arabic Fox News’ | The Raw Story

 

[Politico]

And that is a shock how? What he stood for changed from month to month and year to year. Only thing that stayed the same is it always revovled around money.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

I can't believe the right wing noise machine has the right so hard for Gore.

It's hilarious