I'm not sure that it's possible to be personable without being a person, which I think Gore and most politicians are.......................corrupt people definitely, but still people. -
Fat Albert Gore Wins The Nobel Prize for Hypocrisy
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I'm not sure that it's possible to be personable without being a person, which I think Gore and most politicians are.......................corrupt people definitely, but still people. -
SO you finally admit you are not capable of having an intelligent conversation. That is the first step. Now perhaps you can seek professional help. Although I am not sure there is a twelve step program for terminal ignorance.
Yes, but Rex did it without any of the name calling and personal abuse you're so fond of. Even when you're right you have such an insulting way of expressing yourself that I can't take you seriously as a thinker or debater.
I'm not sure that it's possible to be personable without being a person, which I think Gore and most politicians are.......................corrupt people definitely, but still people. -
I know they're people, but neither you nor I have ever seen Al Gore the person. You've seen Al Gore the product, the investment made by interest groups to push their agenda. The image put in place by a business. The figure head designed to breed trust.
To try to apply the same logic to what his motivations are, what his business decisions should be, as you'd apply to people, is always going to breed confusion.
I concur.
Just a suggestion for the mod team....given the title thread and the nature of the content of the OP, politics is not really the correct forum for this piece.
Insults, and ramblings about made up prizes hardly constitute serious political discourse. the title alone makes it read more suited to the 'fun and jokes' sub-forum as an attempt at political satire.
With thirteen steps you'd have a gallows.......................if that could somehow be worked into a program-
Insults and ramblings about made up prizes hardly constitute 'fun and jokes' either. I'd say let's leave the Fun and Jokes Sub-Forum to those who actually have a sense of humour.
Go for it. I'll wait until December 31 and then knock one out of the park. That way I'll have all year to size up the competition.
Mwa ha ha, the prize will be mine!
- Here's an update on the Gore sale of Al Jazeera that reveals the network has recently become even more controlled by the big oil dictator of Qatar than it already was.
- Now lets hear more from the left wing morons who support Fat Albert and rank Democratic hypocrisy no matter what.
Kelly McParland: Al Jazeera, fresh off purchase of Al Gore’s cable channel, accused of increasing bias
Kelly McParland | Feb 15, 2013 1:20 PM ET
More from Kelly McParland | @KellyMcParland
Mohammed Salem-Pool/Getty ImagesJust weeks before closing the purchase of Al Gore's cable TV channel, Qatar's emir visited Gaza, where he was accompanied by Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh. The Emir embraced the Hamas leadership with an official visit, breaking the isolation of the militant Palestinian Islamist movement, to the dismay of Israel and rival, Western-backed Palestinian leaders in the West Bank.
There was always a slight odour to the deal in which former U.S. vice-president Al Gore sold his struggling cable channel to Al Jazeera, the Qatar-based Middle East broadcaster. And it’s not going away.
Initial criticism of the sale focused on the hypocrisy of Gore, who owes much of his considerable wealth and fame to his high-profile role as globe-trotting environmental campaigner, selling out to a broadcaster controlled by the government of Qatar, an oil-rich country run by an absolute monarchy that gets its wealth from the very product Gore blames for the horrors of climate change.
Gore reportedly stood to make $100 million from the sale of his Current TV, and pushed to have the deal close before the end of last year, so he could avoid the higher rate of tax due to take effect under President Barack Obama, a fellow Democrat. He defended the sale by claiming Al Jazeera provided top-notch coverage of climate issues, and insisted that both Al Jazeera and Current were founded “to give voice to those who are not typically heard; to speak truth to power; to provide independent and diverse points of view; and to tell the stories that no one else is telling.”
National Post
- Now lets hear more from the left wing morons who support Fat Albert and rank Democratic hypocrisy no matter what.
Kelly McParland: Al Jazeera, fresh off purchase of Al Gore’s cable channel, accused of increasing bias
Kelly McParland | Feb 15, 2013 1:20 PM ETMore from Kelly McParland | @KellyMcParland
There was always a slight odour to the deal in which former U.S. vice-president Al Gore sold his struggling cable channel to Al Jazeera, the Qatar-based Middle East broadcaster. And it’s not going away.
Initial criticism of the sale focused on the hypocrisy of Gore, who owes much of his considerable wealth and fame to his high-profile role as globe-trotting environmental campaigner, selling out to a broadcaster controlled by the government of Qatar, an oil-rich country run by an absolute monarchy that gets its wealth from the very product Gore blames for the horrors of climate change.
Gore reportedly stood to make $100 million from the sale of his Current TV, and pushed to have the deal close before the end of last year, so he could avoid the higher rate of tax due to take effect under President Barack Obama, a fellow Democrat. He defended the sale by claiming Al Jazeera provided top-notch coverage of climate issues, and insisted that both Al Jazeera and Current were founded “to give voice to those who are not typically heard; to speak truth to power; to provide independent and diverse points of view; and to tell the stories that no one else is telling.”
Just before buying Gore’s channel, the emir visited Gaza, where he pledged $400 million to its Hamas rulers.
That claim is looking a bit dubious these days, as some of Al Jazeera’s top talent has been deserting the network amid claims it has become a shill for its Qatari owners and other Middle East autocrats. Spiegelonline, the web version of the German newsmagazine, has a lengthy report on the departures, which it says includes reporters and anchors from Paris, London, Moscow, Beirut and Cairo. Though previously lauded for its willingness to confront Middle Eastern regimes, it says, since the advent of the Arab Spring it “has shamelessly fawned upon the new rulers.”
Today, when Egyptians protest against President Mohammad Morsi and the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Jazeera is often critical of them, in the style of the old pro-government TV station. Conversely, according to ex-correspondent [Aktham] Suliman, Al-Jazeera executives have ordered that Morsi’s decrees should be portrayed as pearls of wisdom. “Such a dictatorial approach would have been unthinkable before,” he says. “In Egypt we have become the palace broadcaster for Morsi.”
It reports that the Emir of Qatar, who visited Gaza in October and pledged $400 million to Hamas, its terrorist rulers, is increasingly intolerant of independent voices:
A prominent correspondent who, until one year ago, used to report in Beirut for the network, says: “Al-Jazeera takes a clear position in every country from which it reports — not based on journalistic priorities, but rather on the interests of the Foreign Ministry of Qatar,” he says. “In order to maintain my integrity as a reporter, I had to quit.”
Critics say that the emir now essentially trusts only his own people: The network’s director general is now a relative of the emir, as is the head of the advisory board. They are seemingly required to follow political guidelines laid down by the palace — instead of serving the interests of viewers. Thanks to its oil wealth, Qatar is blessed with the world’s second highest per capita income, and it’s a key geo-political player with a clear agenda.
Signs of disaffection were evident even before the sale of Current TV closed. In September, Britain’s The Guardian reported that staff members had protested after being ordered to re-edit a UN report to give more prominence to the emir.Critics say that the emir now essentially trusts only his own people: The network’s director general is now a relative of the emir, as is the head of the advisory board. They are seemingly required to follow political guidelines laid down by the palace — instead of serving the interests of viewers. Thanks to its oil wealth, Qatar is blessed with the world’s second highest per capita income, and it’s a key geo-political player with a clear agenda.
Al-Jazeera’s editorial independence has been called into question after its director of news stepped in to ensure a speech made by Qatar’s emir to the UN led its English channel’s coverage of the debate on Syrian intervention.
Journalists had produced a package of the UN debate, topped with excerpts of President Obama’s speech, last Tuesday when a last-minute instruction came from Salah Negm, the Qatar-based news director, who ordered the video to be re-edited to lead with the comments from Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani.
Despite protests from staff that the emir’s comments – a repetition of previous calls for Arab intervention in Syria – were not the most important aspect of the UN debate, the two-minute video was re-edited and Obama’s speech was relegated to the end of the package.
The emir’s visit to Gaza came just a few weeks later, the first visit by a head of state since Hamas gained control in 2007. Al Jazeera paid $500 million for Current TV not for its audience — it averaged just 40,000 on most nights — but because it can be viewed in 40 million U.S. homes. The idea was to provide a conduit to U.S. viewers for independent-minded coverage of the Middle East. But an organization increasingly aligned to the political agenda of an all-powerful Qatari emir, and friend to Hamas, may find it difficult to muster much enthusiasm among a U.S. audience, even if it has a friend in Al Gore.Journalists had produced a package of the UN debate, topped with excerpts of President Obama’s speech, last Tuesday when a last-minute instruction came from Salah Negm, the Qatar-based news director, who ordered the video to be re-edited to lead with the comments from Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani.
Despite protests from staff that the emir’s comments – a repetition of previous calls for Arab intervention in Syria – were not the most important aspect of the UN debate, the two-minute video was re-edited and Obama’s speech was relegated to the end of the package.
National Post
They can? How?
How so?
What do you think Spade? Romney would make us all Mormons... is that what you mean?
- Here's an update on the Gore sale of Al Jazeera that reveals the network has recently become even more controlled by the big oil dictator of Qatar than it already was.
- Now lets hear more from the left wing morons who support Fat Albert and rank Democratic hypocrisy no matter what.
Kelly McParland: Al Jazeera, fresh off purchase of Al Gore’s cable channel, accused of increasing bias
More from Kelly McParland | @KellyMcParland
Mohammed Salem-Pool/Getty ImagesJust weeks before closing the purchase of Al Gore's cable TV channel, Qatar's emir visited Gaza, where he was accompanied by Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh. The Emir embraced the Hamas leadership with an official visit, breaking the isolation of the militant Palestinian Islamist movement, to the dismay of Israel and rival, Western-backed Palestinian leaders in the West Bank.
There was always a slight odour to the deal in which former U.S. vice-president Al Gore sold his struggling cable channel to Al Jazeera, the Qatar-based Middle East broadcaster. And it’s not going away.
Initial criticism of the sale focused on the hypocrisy of Gore, who owes much of his considerable wealth and fame to his high-profile role as globe-trotting environmental campaigner, selling out to a broadcaster controlled by the government of Qatar, an oil-rich country run by an absolute monarchy that gets its wealth from the very product Gore blames for the horrors of climate change.
Gore reportedly stood to make $100 million from the sale of his Current TV, and pushed to have the deal close before the end of last year, so he could avoid the higher rate of tax due to take effect under President Barack Obama, a fellow Democrat. He defended the sale by claiming Al Jazeera provided top-notch coverage of climate issues, and insisted that both Al Jazeera and Current were founded “to give voice to those who are not typically heard; to speak truth to power; to provide independent and diverse points of view; and to tell the stories that no one else is telling.”
Just before buying Gore’s channel, the emir visited Gaza, where he pledged $400 million to its Hamas rulers.That claim is looking a bit dubious these days, as some of Al Jazeera’s top talent has been deserting the network amid claims it has become a shill for its Qatari owners and other Middle East autocrats. Spiegelonline, the web version of the German newsmagazine, has a lengthy report on the departures, which it says includes reporters and anchors from Paris, London, Moscow, Beirut and Cairo. Though previously lauded for its willingness to confront Middle Eastern regimes, it says, since the advent of the Arab Spring it “has shamelessly fawned upon the new rulers.”
Today, when Egyptians protest against President Mohammad Morsi and the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Jazeera is often critical of them, in the style of the old pro-government TV station. Conversely, according to ex-correspondent [Aktham] Suliman, Al-Jazeera executives have ordered that Morsi’s decrees should be portrayed as pearls of wisdom. “Such a dictatorial approach would have been unthinkable before,” he says. “In Egypt we have become the palace broadcaster for Morsi.”It reports that the Emir of Qatar, who visited Gaza in October and pledged $400 million to Hamas, its terrorist rulers, is increasingly intolerant of independent voices:
A prominent correspondent who, until one year ago, used to report in Beirut for the network, says: “Al-Jazeera takes a clear position in every country from which it reports — not based on journalistic priorities, but rather on the interests of the Foreign Ministry of Qatar,” he says. “In order to maintain my integrity as a reporter, I had to quit.”Signs of disaffection were evident even before the sale of Current TV closed. In September, Britain’s The Guardian reported that staff members had protested after being ordered to re-edit a UN report to give more prominence to the emir.
Critics say that the emir now essentially trusts only his own people: The network’s director general is now a relative of the emir, as is the head of the advisory board. They are seemingly required to follow political guidelines laid down by the palace — instead of serving the interests of viewers. Thanks to its oil wealth, Qatar is blessed with the world’s second highest per capita income, and it’s a key geo-political player with a clear agenda.
Al-Jazeera’s editorial independence has been called into question after its director of news stepped in to ensure a speech made by Qatar’s emir to the UN led its English channel’s coverage of the debate on Syrian intervention.The emir’s visit to Gaza came just a few weeks later, the first visit by a head of state since Hamas gained control in 2007. Al Jazeera paid $500 million for Current TV not for its audience — it averaged just 40,000 on most nights — but because it can be viewed in 40 million U.S. homes. The idea was to provide a conduit to U.S. viewers for independent-minded coverage of the Middle East. But an organization increasingly aligned to the political agenda of an all-powerful Qatari emir, and friend to Hamas, may find it difficult to muster much enthusiasm among a U.S. audience, even if it has a friend in Al Gore.
Journalists had produced a package of the UN debate, topped with excerpts of President Obama’s speech, last Tuesday when a last-minute instruction came from Salah Negm, the Qatar-based news director, who ordered the video to be re-edited to lead with the comments from Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani.
Despite protests from staff that the emir’s comments – a repetition of previous calls for Arab intervention in Syria – were not the most important aspect of the UN debate, the two-minute video was re-edited and Obama’s speech was relegated to the end of the package.
National Post
Awwwh teddy's upset because Faux News has competition in the BULL$HIT department
Quote: Originally Posted by Kreskin
It's not like he sold Big Bird to the Chinese.
The hypocracy is from those calling for open and free enterprise who have an issue with people engaged in open and free enterprise.
Since no one objected, this stands as POST OF THE YEAR FOR 2012
Lemme guess; Gore's cat ate your budgie?
Those nasty, evil liberals; always pissing in your cornflakes. tsk tsk
The problem with Teddy is he has this propensity to denigrate people more intelligent than himself both on and off the forum!
I for one don't think there should be wide open free enterprise anymore than there
should be unfettered socialism.
should be unfettered socialism.