By now you’ve all heard how Al Gore sold his Current TV network to Al Jazeera, the Arab news network owned by the oil-rich Qataris, and is walking away with a cool $100 million. The global warming profiteer and champion of “tax the rich” class warfare tried to ram the sale through before the Obama tax hikes hit, but I guess the arm twisting took a little longer than he had hoped. See, although his network was already piped into millions of homes, nobody watched it, and Al Jazeera programming is already available online. Why would cable providers approve such a deal? Well, they didn’t want to be accused of anti-Muslim bigotry.
Al Gore’s Current TV was never popular with viewers, but it was a hit where it counted: with cable and satellite providers. When he co-founded the channel in 2005, Mr. Gore managed to get the channel piped into tens of millions of households — a huge number for an untested network — through a combination of personal lobbying and arm-twisting of industry giants.
He called on those skills again after deciding in December to sell Current TV to Al Jazeera for $500 million. To preserve the deal — and the estimated $100 million he would personally receive — he went to some of those same distributors, who were looking for an excuse to drop the low-rated channel, and reminded them that their contracts with Current TV called it a news channel. Were the distributors going to say that an American version of Al Jazeera didn’t qualify, possibly invoking ugly stereotypes of the Middle Eastern news giant?
“The lawyers for the carriers couldn’t find their way around it,” said a person briefed on the negotiations who described them on condition of anonymity.
Read the whole thing. Gore is a hypocrite on so many levels it’s mind blowing. But what does he care? He’s pretty much a nobody these days, although a much wealthier nobody than he was a few days ago.
Oh, and Time Warner Cable had decided to drop Current TV/Al Jazeera from it’s lineup (our provider is Time Warner and I didn’t even know we had Current TV) but is now under fire from the left, so we shall see what happens there.
@lonelycon they’re all left wing idealogue’s
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There are very few options where we live so we subscribe to DISH Network. They offer Current, RT (Russian TV), CCTV (Chi-Com TV) and a few other leftie/Marxist choices. To me, I don’t really care what the Network carries; I just don’t like the fact that you’re forced into bundled packages. I don’t care to watch any of those I mentioned but I have to include them.
I’m sure in favor of having an al la carte menu to maximize my tele-dollars for what I’m interested in watching; not programming that is uninteresting, meaningless and financially wasteful to me as a subscriber.
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[...] So, How Did Al Gore Get Cable Providers To Go Along With Sale To Al Jazeera? [...]
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The networking band of DNC thieves supports the infiltrating radical terrorists. Clinton-Gore and Gore-Lieberman accepted illegal campaign contributions from foreign Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, China, and Russia but only paid a small fine to the FEC and reimbursed the Treasury a small portion, just as BHOle-Biden has done. All opponents must follow rules, but not the Dhimmicrats.
Remember the Saudi Royal Family, including one of Osama’s brothers, in the Nineties had contributed over $100 Million to Harvard Law Schools for Islamic Law Study. In the last decade, Harvard President Larry Summers and Law Dean Elena Kagan, both former Clinton stooges who were also in the BHOle Administration + now Elena is SCOTUS, accepted $10 Million from Prince bin Talal. Now also remember that the Too Big To Fail Banks NEEDED to be SHARIA COMPLIANT. And Kagan as Solicitor General for Barry in 2009 wrote an AMICUS to the Supreme Court strongly urging them NOT to hear arguments in a lawsuit by 9-11 Families against the Government of Saudi Arabia. Also note that it was Clinton-Gore-Albright who gave the 19 Arab terrorists PASSPORTS into America to do their dirty deeds.
Al Gore was in Saudi Arabia 2/2006 apologizing for what the U.S. government had done to Arabs after 9-11 submitting 69 to “unforgivable conditions” at GITMO and secret prisons.
As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton has testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee asking for funds in her budget to buy propaganda for BBC, Jazeera, CCTV, and RT. You know, like $2B to BBC Nigeria, $79,000 BHOle biographies for Embassies, $20M USAID for Pakistani Sesame Street, $79,000 commercial in Pakistan denouncing U.S. government involvement in the scapegoat movie trailer.
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And we must not forget that it is Barry-Hillary that facilitated the Arab Revolution knocking allied dictators out to be replaced by radical extremists unfriendly to the Western World. And even the NY Times reported 12/2012 that the BHOle administration approved secret weapons deals that armed Qaeda and Salafist radical-islamists in Libya by Qatar-Saudi Arabia. Mrs. BHOle met with the Emir of Qatar on her Spain vacation at the Cordoba. She shopped for $50,000 underwear in NYC 12/2011 with the Queen of Qatar. The non-profit Clinton Foundation contributes to the Dubai Study Departments here and in London. Hillary’s longtime aide has been Huma Abedin associated with the MB + MS. It is more than just coincidental opportunists.
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And until recently the MB having tacit ties to an outed, sexual pervert and former Democrat Congressman, Anthony Weiner, via his wife Huma Abedin.
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