True Commitments

Gore's Green Commitments

The hypocrisy of Al "do-as-I say,-not-as-I-do" Gore has been well documented.  The man whose personal global carbon footprint is bigger than Texas long ago lost all credibility--except amongst the credulous.  Amongst such, Al still has a devoted band of acolytes and callow tyros fighting the good fight for the salvation of mankind. 

Recently Al sold one of his unsuccessful businesses--a TV station.  This failed commercially not because of a lack of ardour and passion amongst those involved, but because there were no government subsidies on offer to make it pay.  Al deserves full blame for this lack of commercial success.  He broke his own rule of successful investing, which is: never invest in anything that does not have a taxpayer subsidy.
 

Al sold his failing TV channel to Al Jazeera--which is OK in itself since Al is a globalist of globalists--but the rub is that Al Jazeera has been grown out of petro-dollars.  Al sold out to the enemy--or that's what his stunned band of acolytes believe. 

The New York Post documents the announcement of the sale to Al's TV station staff:

Yesterday morning, the still shell shocked staff at Current TV was called to an all hands staff meeting at its San Francisco headquarters, which was teleconferenced to their offices in LA and NYC, to meet their new bosses.  That would be two of Al Jazeera’s top guys: Ehab Al Shihabi, executive director of international operations, and Muftah AlSuwaidan, general manager of the London bureau.  Ominously missing was the creator of Current, the self proclaimed inventor of the Internet and savior of clean energy, Al Gore, although his partner, Joel Hyatt, stood proudly with the Al Jazeera honchos.

“Of course Al didn’t show up,” said one high placed Current staffer. “He has no credibility. He’s supposed to be the face of clean energy and just sold [the channel] to very big oil, the emir of Qatar! Current never even took big oil advertising—and Al Gore, that bulls***ter sells to the emir?”

So the poor staff had been working frantically to raise ad revenue, but they had been tethered because they had not been allowed to accept dirty ad money from big oil.  But now their boss, the Green Crusader has stabbed them in the back by accepting cash from those rich Arabs whose sole source of moola is dirty oil money.
 
So much for the Green Crusader.  This is the problem when the acolytes genuinely believe, whilst their leader is merely posing (for commercial gain). The marriage was always going to end in tears.

How do they feel about Gore the savior of green energy now?  The displeasure with Gore among the staff was thick enough to cut with a scimitar.  “We all know now that Al Gore is nothing but a bulls***ter,” said the staffer bluntly.  We do stories on the tax code, and he sells the network before the tax code kicked in?

“Al was always lecturing us about green. He kept his word about green all right—as in cold, hard cash!”

And there is the money quote, if you would excuse the pun.  The only green Al is committed to is cold hard green cash, his--not yours.