Wasn’t there a big to do when the Aussie Rupert Murdock wanted to buy news outlets in the US?
Al Jazeera Seeks a U.S. Voice Where Gore Failed
By BRIAN STELTERDanny Moloshok/Associated Press Al Gore, a co-founder of Current TV, which will be shut down by the Qatar-based news organization Al Jazeera.
9:16 p.m. | Updated Al Jazeera, the pan-Arab news giant, has long tried to convince Americans that it is a legitimate news organization, not a parrot of Middle Eastern propaganda or something more sinister.
It just bought itself 40 million more chances to make its case.
Al Jazeera on Wednesday announced a deal to take over Current TV, the low-rated cable channel that was founded by Al Gore, a former vice president, and his business partners seven years ago. Al Jazeera plans to shut Current and start an English-language channel, which will be available in more than 40 million homes, with newscasts emanating from both New York and Doha, Qatar.
For Al Jazeera, which is financed by the government of Qatar, the acquisition is a coming of age moment. A decade ago, Al Jazeera’s flagship Arabic-language channel was reviled by American politicians for showing videotapes from Al Qaeda members and sympathizers. Now the news operation is buying an American channel, having convinced Mr. Gore and the other owners of Current that it has the journalistic muscle and the money to compete head-to-head with CNN and other news channels in the United States.
Gutter, Kutter, Quattor….Qatar…hmmm…aren’t they one of the major funders of Hamas and al-Qaeda now, amongst other things?
UPDATE: Time Warner Cable Drops Current TV Upon Sale To Al Jazeera. Via WZ
I’ve got Time Warner and I didn’t even know that Current was in the line up.
They are a harmless country!
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@ huckfunn:
You haven’t miss anything!
this country is already crawling with AQ and it’s associates…now they actually an office to operate out of…how nice
how much more stupid can we get?…liberals are gonna get a whole lot of people killed when they decide to unleash their goods and services
@ heysoos:
It’s a shame both parties support the MB and AQ. Can I have a party opposed to Islamic Supremacy? Heck even Fox News is now pro-Islamist. They just repeat AQ propaganda on Syria. I don’t watch Fox that much anymore because of that.
@ Rodan:
I’ve never watched knowing who owned it and the scumbags involved with. Jihad TV for sure.
heysoos wrote:
we can get way more stupid than we are now. look at Europe.
you’re right. this strategy will get people killed. those who own the strategy don’t care now, won’t care in the future, haven’t cared where they’ve employed it in the past.
Al Gore a charter member of the 1%.
Maybe they can rehire Keith Olbermann.
Rodan wrote:
Eliot Spitzer and Jennifer Granholm work at Current TV.
@ Speranza:
Now they can work directly for their overlords
Speranza wrote:
According to the lineup, they also have shows with morons Joey Behar and Cenk Uygar.
@ huckfunn:
Hard-Left TV. It was a commercial failure, though, was it not? Seems to me that Al Jizz got ripped off. But now they have a direct pipeline into their supporters on the Hard Left. I doubt that their ratings will pick up, but I don’t think Al Jizz is about the ratings the way a company in America or Europe would be. They are like the “news” organs of the former Socviet Union. It is more important to get out the Party Line than to make money. In that they are perfectly suited for the Democrats, though Gore certainly doesn’t mind making out like a bandit every chance he can get. He’s probably really glad he lost the Presidency. He’s made a lot more money as a spokeshole for the hardest hard Left. He should be forced to share his wealth…
As Ann Althouse points out, what Al “Jazeera” Gore was selling was his access/lobbying to get Al Jazeera into the American cable market.
Al Jazeera was not carried by US cable companies, for the most part. Current TV was, but nobody watched it. A/J buys Current, and gives Gore the big money to persuade American companies not to drop Current because it’s now owned by A/J.
They’re buying their way in, using a former US Vice President to get them in (according to Weasel Zippers, Gore turned down an offer from Glenn Beck in favor of Al Jazeera, for ideological reasons).
Note, BTW, that Mr. Anti-Big-Oil, Mr. Carbon Footprint, is taking a big, big wad of cash from those oil-rich sheiks.
I want to interject something here.
I am not sure that this focus on the culture is all that great.
The real principals I think that Conservatives/Libertarians should be fighting for should be immutable relative to the culture.
As a matter of fact I think we should first state that Government and Politics should not be the end-all-be-all for “everything”. How about we give the culture back to the people for a change? We need to show them how the Dems are stealing it and thier lib syncophants in the media and Hollywood are letting them do it.
This ain’t the USSA.
huckfunn wrote:
None of which will have to change their screed to be accepted on Al Jazzera.
Note, also, that Gore sold out in time to avoid paying “his fair share.”
unclassifiable wrote:
It ain’t?
Separated at Birth…?
@ waldensianspirit:
Well not yet.
Guess I’m too lazy to give up (emmigrating to Mars or the Moon seems to be a bit of a pain in the butt).
@ buzzsawmonkey:
I noticed that. The Dems are good at talking about “paying your fair share”, but when it comes to doing it they are noticably absent. It is like Warren Buffet campaigning for higher taxes when he has millions outstanding and is using every trick in the book to keep from paying them. They are hypocrits.
waldensianspirit wrote:
It’s worse…
Every time a D’Rat uses the word ‘fair’ it really means that you have something they want and you are going to get screwed.
@ Da_Beerfreak:
It’s the Obamanation…
Nothing here surprises me. Gore’s complete sell out of America. Current T.V. moving from one for of propaganda purpose to another. The big question of course will be, will anyone actually notice a change in programming in any appreciable way?
My prediction: No.
looks like Boehner is gonna fold on the Sandy Pork Bill…pressure from his own party….what a mess
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/cane_mutiny_by_gop_on_sandy_aid_pM83RHIw1hDXEIYFWffJNL?utm_source=SFnewyorkpost&utm_medium=SFnewyorkpost
Flyovercountry wrote:
If it’s done correctly no one really should notice any changes.
Crap is crap…
the feds loot the voters to pay for votes…it’s criminal…
Sandy Pork Bill is not about the storm victims, it’s payola and we get fucked from both directions…I’m about to blow
Oompa Loompas gone wild.
comment from elsewhere…
Please notice that the individual(s) that stuffed the pork in the bill is not identified. Who in the hell thought it was a good idea to contaminate the legislative vehicle intended to help those people in drastic need with their petty, unrelated, scratch-my-back, garbage projects? If Congress would man-up and identify these culprits by name, it would stop. But, of course, they won´t -- if they do, they´ll be named next time they do the stuffing.
@ Flyovercountry:
Gore is a corpulent hypocrite. The very picture of do as I say, not as I do.
Green is the colour of money, and we can see how he cares where it comes from.
gore has found the perfect gimmick. Wasn’t gore set to make a killing setting up carbon exchanges? But that got torpedoed when Cap and Trade was not passed. Too white to be a race hustler, so became an environment hustler.
no guts, no glory
fortune favors the bold
nothing ventured, nothing gained
hello?….pretty simple
GOP, the party of the three monkeys
MOre people killed with hammers and clubs each year than with rifles. But it isn’t about reducing the numbers of murders, is it? Gun control is anti-civil rights legislation. There is no reald difference between pushing fo rit and pusing to have segregation re-introduced into the school system.
Boehner is in again….
rewarding failure is a bad thing
@ heysoos:
the next couple of years are going to suck. I guess the silver lining is that Boehner has announced that he’s going to stop capitulating now. A bit late, but maybe he can grow a spine.
Flyovercountry wrote:
Well, after the $60 billion pork bill.
I still think Leia would have made a good Speaker.
She could follow the fine example of Nopey whenever Obama wants to spend money we don’t have:
I hope they remember this when they get robbed:
@ lobo91:
Saw that earlier. I don’t know what is worse. The stupid manager or the customer who saw the gun, didn’t realize that all the people at the table were cops or is just afraid of those scary guns. Of course having that rule that no guns are allowed in a Denny’s will make them less likely to be robbed by a person with a gun. We all know criminals pay attention to signs.
Oh fer cryin’ out loud.
Does he have an earworm with Bert Parks singing “There he is! Ms. America!”?
Some funny stuff!
@ unclassifiable:
Boehner is a useless chump.
@ MikeA:
I saw a guy that I assumed was a plain clothesed police officer at IHOP once. He was carrying a 1911 very openly. I just assumed he was a cop because a civillian would have had it concealed. Nobody squawked.
@ Iron Fist:
Depends on the state. In VA, that could be anybody with a 1911. Open carry and all, you know.
Boehner is the next best thing the D’Rats have after Pelosi Galore…
@ Mike C.:
Yeah, but this was Tennessee. We don’t have open carry. My point being that absent any other indications, the logical assumption is that the person isn’t breaking the law.
@ Iron Fist:
You don’t have open carry in TN? Dang…
@ Mike C.:
Only concealed, and only with a permit. We have a State Senator that is supposed to be working on that. We also have some screwy knife laws. A real defensive knife (with double edges or a blade longer than 4″) isn’t allowed. There are exceptions when you are hunting, but for the most part it is concealed of you go unarmed.
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
I would not be shock if Boehner is a false flag plant.
@ Iron Fist:
Well, TX doesn’t have open carry, either.
we have open carry rights in NM but I rarely see it…a few times a year…our laws are very few, carry and open carry alone require registration
The money is the key part here. The fact that Al Jazeera also is ideologically compatible with Algore is just a bonus
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in 2011 there were only 102 murders by firearms in ABQ….population 600k…pretty low, and you have to assume the lax rules have something to do with it
heysoos wrote:
Would also bet the bulk of that 102 was gang and/or drug related that would have occurred with or without guns
@ AZfederalist:
The majority of homicide victims are, themselves, involved in some form of crime. There are, of course, innocent victims, but the media plays it as though every victim were innocent, and this is simply not the case.
The goal of our worthless main stream media is to get as many uninformed people as possible to fear guns and their owners.
AZfederalist wrote:
I was looking at a color coded map, and my neighborhood incorporated village of Los Ranchos is the safest spot in the entire area
Iron Fist wrote:
the cops kill bad guys by the boatload down here…so many, the feds are investigating
heysoos wrote:
Must be an ethnically biased boatload or the Feds wouldn’t care
AZfederalist wrote:
good point, you’re probably right
@ heysoos:
We had 24 here, in a not-much-smaller city.
We also have an extremely high rate of concealed carry permits here.
If anything its an improvement. maybe they can get some libs convinced to strap on splodydope vests. Doesn’t Chunky Chuck watch current 24-7?