Al Gore Denies Hypocrisy In Current TV Sale To Al Jazeera: Video

COMMENTS (12)

• Al Gore is a hypocrite for selling to Qatar. But, Al Jazeera English’s reporting has been great. Much better than ABCC, CBS, NBC or Fox News. And when the left is presented on MSNBC, it never attacks Democrats and Republicans equally.

  Al Jazeera has reported on the National Defense Authorization Act. They have reported on the contracts of the oil companies going in Iraq involving Shell, Chevron and others. Would you see that on the US nightly news? Nope. Why? The oil companies are advertisers of the big 3 US networks.

  Comment by James — Tuesday January 29, 2013 @ 2:22pm PST  Reply to this post

• Come on, SNL…now’s your chance to be fair and balanced. Skewer this guy.

  Comment by Colon Blow — Tuesday January 29, 2013 @ 2:29pm PST  Reply to this post

• Hmmm, $100 million profit for Gore on a deal for a flop, money-burning, “news” network.
  He must be smarter than I thought…

  Comment by Burbank — Tuesday January 29, 2013 @ 2:45pm PST  Reply to this post

• Such integrity. How’s that moral superiority working out for you, Al? What a putz.

  Comment by Lucy — Tuesday January 29, 2013 @ 2:56pm PST  Reply to this post

• Gore can deny all he wants, but he had lost all credibility with a staunch group of former supporters. He took the money and he ran far, far away from the ideals that he apparently thinks everyone else must live but but he is exempt from. He lost his legacy to gain a fortune. Ah, where have we had that story before??? Who now cares what Gore thinks except for the conservatives who always knew he was a big piece of phony baloney. In this case, those nuts was correct!

  Comment by Pietro — Tuesday January 29, 2013 @ 2:58pm PST  Reply to this post

• This dude would be skewered on every single media outlet if he were a Republican. Not trying to defend Republicans, but this double-standard has become so obvious and obnoxious it’s nauseating.

  As someone who used to like and respect Al Gore (long ago), I honestly can’t think of anything more hypocritical than this. I mean, this takes the Grand Prize. Shame on you, Al.

  Comment by Devil's Advocate — Tuesday January 29, 2013 @ 3:10pm PST  Reply to this post

• The headline should read “Al Gore Defines Hypocrisy” he personifies hypocrisy he can deny it all he wants but he defines it with his actions and his greed especially because he hustled to close the deal before Dec. 31st so he could avoid the tax increase on such a large amount of money. Typical limousine liberal always trying to avoid the taxes that they themselves advocate and implement for the little people. But not for them. Oh no they know how to avoid the high taxes they make people lower on the ladder than they are pay.

  Comment by Algore the Hypocrite — Tuesday January 29, 2013 @ 3:32pm PST  Reply to this post

• I used to like Gore as well but this transaction has bullcrap written all over it. The US is still a free country and I guess he is entitled to make money like any other “3-card-monte Times Square huckster”. What disturbs me is that American tax dollars support Al Jazeera nightly broadcasts on PBS. No one seems to be bothered by that little tid bit!

  Comment by 24p — Tuesday January 29, 2013 @ 5:07pm PST  Reply to this post

• Ole Jethro here can deny it all he wants but let’s face it, he’s smiling all the way to the bank and after realizing he was a fish out of water when it came to running a TV network, he gave up the fight and sold out to the highest bidder, in this case AJE, so he should stop his bitching and complaining and be happy AJE overpaid on this poor excuse of a TV network.

  Comment by Zeke — Tuesday January 29, 2013 @ 6:57pm PST  Reply to this post

• Why do people care so much about this? He did what the supposed American thing is and created a company and ended up making a huge profit on it. Why do people LOVE to point at the hypocrisy of others so much? I find it odd and a little unsettling. People actually seem to like someone better who has no morals or doesn’t try to stand for something because it makes them feel better about themselves.

  Comment by Tim W. — Tuesday January 29, 2013 @ 7:40pm PST  Reply to this post

• Boo-hoo. Like we haven’t had to live with right-wing hypocrisy for too many years. Carlyle Group, anyone? Halliburton? Blackwater? Conservative insiders making a zillion dollars on fake WMD wars. Flag-waving all the way to big profits for a select few. $18 BILLION missing in Iraq, still unaccounted for. Where were you whiners then?

  According to Time magazine (latest issue out now), Gore is richer than Mitt Romney and he didn’t hoodwink right-wing rubes to do it! He got swindled out of the presidency, now he’s laughing all the way to the bank. I call it justice. Welcome to America, Al-Jazeera! Eat it haters.

  Comment by Enough — Tuesday January 29, 2013 @ 7:54pm PST  Reply to this post

• I feel the same way about Al Gore as I do Lance Armstrong: I wish they both would just go away forever. Let’s stop indulging them, stop reporting on them, etc. They are both uninteresting hypocrites, whose motto seems to be, ‘Do what I say, not what I do.’

  Comment by joshreader — Wednesday January 30, 2013 @ 4:43am PST  Reply to this post