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So Al Gore, Mr. Environment, sold his soul to an Arab government for a few shekels. Spurning an offer from Glenn Beck, Gore and his partner instead took a reported $500 million from Al-Jazeera, the cable TV company owned by the emir of Qatar, Hamid bin Khalifa Al Thani. Chairman of the board of Al-Jazeera is the emir’s cousin. For Gore’s “Current TV” and its 22,000 viewers Al-Jazeera gets access to American viewers, assuming, of course, that the cable and satellite networks agree to let Al-Jazeera take over Current Affairs’ broadcast slot.
The reported $500 million payoff is pocket lint for the oil rich emirate, which just gave Hamas in the Gaza Strip $400 million. We don’t see a distinct difference between providing funds to a terrorist organization and seeking a propaganda outlet in the U.S.
Gore’s partner and co-founder Joel Hayatt, said, “Al and I did significant due diligence,” adding he spent a week at Al-Jazeera’s headquarters in Qatar and was impressed with the network’s “journalistic integrity.”
Gore and Hyatt were only impressed with the integrity of their bottom line as they sold out to a foreign potentate. Their greed was highlighted by the New York Times, which reported they tried to close the deal in 2012 before taxes went up Jan. 1 following the “Fiscal Cliff” so-called deal.
I understand that Mr. Gore became physically ill when told that Glenn Beck was tendering for the network. Close call!!! Imagine Al-Jazeera being higher on Gore’s esteem scale than Glenn Beck!
Is not Al-Jazeera the tv networkl where Osama Bin Laden was allowed to spew his anti-American statements? I now have to question Al Gores sanity and loyalty to America even more than before. I guess half a billion dollars mean all morals and just plain common sense goes out the window. Thank god this jackass was never president!
Al-Jazeera TV and online news are already as available in the USA as BBC News, and about as radical. Read it, watch it, and then decide for yourself.
Since when did the Mountain Democrat turn communist and demand that a private company sell its assets to anybody but the highest bidder? And, by the way, Beck didn’t even make a bid for the company, so you are telling us that as Americans we don’t have a right to sell our assets to somebody that you don’t happen to like.
Since I really don’t think that’s what you believe, I suggest you right a follow-up opinion to explain the exact principle you believe applies here and when you believe we are free enough to chose our own buyers.
does anyone know if saudi prince alwaleed bin talal is still the second largest shareholder in fox news? he’s a chum of rupert murdoch.
Al-Jazeera has a thousand times more integrity than Glenn Beck.
kgg is right. Saudi prince bin Tallal is a major stockholder in Murdoch’s News Corp. Al Jazeera is available every evening on Link TV. It is far less biased than FOX and gives a world-view of the news (without commercials). In other words, it gives news about what’s going on beyond U.S. borders.