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‘Al Gore Is Nothing but a Bulls***ter’: Current TV Staffers Reportedly Irate Over Network’s Sale to ‘Big Oil’

Jan. 8, 2013 1:08pm Billy Hallowell

Even if you believe that climate change is a hoax, it’s hard to deny that things are heating up over at Current TV. In the wake of the network’s sale to Al Jazeera, The New York Post is reporting that some of Gore’s former staff members have less-than-favorable words for the company’s co-founder, who profited handsomely from Current’s sale (he will allegedly walk away with $100 million).

After the first, official staff gathering with their new parent company, at least one Current employee sounded off to media. While Gore was absent from the meeting, which was held in San Francisco and teleconferenced to offices in Los Angeles and New York, his partner, Joel Hyatt, was apparently there alongside the new Al Jazeera bosses, reports The New York Post’s Linda Stasi.

Current TV Staff Members Reportedly Angry With Al Gore Over Al Jazeera Buy Out

Former US vice president Al Gore delivers a speech before a screening of the film he helped make of his best-selling global warming book ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, 22 June 2007 in Cannes, southern France. Gore was recently nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in drawing attention to climate change, while the film ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ earlier this year won an Oscar. Credit: AFP/Getty Images

Along with Hyatt, two executives from the parent company, Ehab Al Shihabi (executive director of international operations) and Muftah AlSuwaidan (general manager of Al Jazeera’s London bureau) led the discussion. Current staffers were apparently told that the new network’s mission will be to “inform, inspire and entertain” — a three-pronged approach that will include a mixture of news and entertainment. Al Jazeera is slated to take over Current in April.

According to Stasi, the meeting was calm, but sources who were there — and who spoke off-the-record — were less than pleased with Gore. One individual who is described in the Post report as a “high-placed Current staffer” said, “Of course Al didn’t show up. He has no credibility.” This particular individual seemed particularly angry over the former vice-president’s decision to accept an offer from a network that is owned by the government of Qatar — a nation known for its vast oil reserves.

“He’s supposed to be the face of clean energy and just sold [Current] to very big oil, the emir of Qatar!,” the source exclaimed. “Current never even took big oil advertising—and Al Gore, that bulls***ter sells to the emir?”

And this source wasn’t done there, as he or she had plenty more Gore-bashing to do. In fact, the person spoke for the entire Current TV staff in claiming that the former politician is seen now as a phony who doesn’t stick by his word.

“We all know now that Al Gore is nothing but a bulls***ter,” the source continued. ”Al was always lecturing us about green. He kept his word about green all right—as in cold, hard cash!”

Clearly, Current’s staff — or at least a portion of it — isn’t happy. And considering all of Gore’s past talk about green energy, their frustration over the sale to Al Jazeera is understandable.

(H/T: New York Post)

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strawberry411a
Posted on January 8, 2013 at 1:36pm
Al Gore? A bullshitter? Gee. Ya think?

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- joey g
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 2:10pm
  al gore a pos…ya i think….like all libs/dems/commies just hypocrites….
  
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- biohazard23
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 2:15pm
  Who woulda thunk it?? And to think that those naive staffers actually believed him in the first place ROFLMAO!!!
  
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- SpankDaMonkey
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 2:20pm
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  Fom the minds of the kids that failed sandbox……
  
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- KickinBack
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 2:21pm
  Haha. Al’s too big now to be a buls***ter. He’ll have to be upgraded to a hippos***ter…or perhaps an elephants***ter…Hippo sounds better. Sounds kind of like hypocrisy. And hippos are really, really messy sh***ters at that.
  
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- toiletclogga
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 2:24pm
  No BS, fear peddling of climate change to mushy minds is a lucrative business.
  
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- TSUNAMI_22
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 2:24pm
  Of course Gore is a BS’er. The problem is that America has been raised on a steady diet of BS for the past 50 years and has acquired a taste for it.
  
  Something tells me things will be changing back soon enough, however.
  
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- SacredHonor1776
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 2:40pm
  Nah he’s bigger than hippo or elephant… He’s almost the size of a blue whale…
  
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- fastfacts
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 2:42pm
  He must be brothers with Letterman. Did you see what he said about Palin yesterday. ( http://www.thedailycandidate.com/video/2013/jan/letterman_apologized_palin.html )Claimed he only apologized because he wanted to continue to make fun of her. Then even went so far to say he went to a psyciatrist every week to try to be a better person after his affair, yet didn’t feel bad about the Palin insult. What a moron.
  
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- chips1
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 2:52pm
  When he has a heart attack and dies, can he be burried with Osama been Lyin?
  
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- TEIN
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 3:26pm
  I thought people would have caught on when Al claimed 20 feet rise in ocean levels, but spent $8 mil buying a house on beach front property…..
  
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- booger71
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 4:00pm
  Big Oil? If it had not been for Exxon and Chevron, these goat herders would still be stump breaking their goats.
  
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- Mulder1
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 4:39pm
  So, it does not bother them that they will be working for an Islamic Jihad supporting group?
  
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- PR-WY
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 5:06pm
  Gore exposed himself for what he is, just another greedy man chasing after money. So much for his ‘message’.
  
  Thanks for proving us right Gore!
  
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- yiska8
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 5:13pm
  Dumb,useful idiots. Wait til the layoff come since most are devout atheists and aren’t about to pray to Mecca five times a day. Ha!!!!!!!!!!!!
  WELCOME TO REAL LIFE LOSERS.
  They get everything they deserve and I hope it stings.
  
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- Mil Mom
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 6:51pm
  @yiska8
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 5:13pm
  
  Dumb,useful idiots. Wait til the layoff come since most are devout atheists and aren’t about to pray to Mecca five times a day. Ha!!!!!!!!!!!!
  WELCOME TO REAL LIFE LOSERS.
  They get everything they deserve and I hope it stings
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  They’ll probably figure since they don’t believe allah exists it won’t hurt for them to pretend to pray in order for their paychecks to keep coming.
  When I was in school, (many moons ago) a 5th grade teacher asked us if we wanted to learn to pray like muslims. Of course we did, so she had us get down on our Knees, then bow down and as we rose up repeat after her, Down: “I know my heart” Up, hands raised, down again: “I know my mind” Up with hands waving, back down: “I know that I am sticking up behind.” She had a good laugh on us, nowadays she’d lose her teaching license. Our parents thought it hilarious.
  
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- KeystoneState
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 7:57pm
  Al “Jazeera” Gore! Lol! Don’t worry Al, you still have plenty of supporters! Hand out some Trillion Dollar Platinum coins, it’ll keep em happy!
  
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- savagenatn
  Posted on January 9, 2013 at 2:47am
  right. Anybody with half a brain knew he was a lying phony jackass decades ago. Was this moronic staffer born under a rock, or just another dumb ass ******* with his head buried?
  
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- may40
  Posted on January 9, 2013 at 8:45am
  Ha, ha, ha, ha all the liberals fell for it. Mr Al Gore is laughing all the way to the bank. Yes, we have global warming and you are all to blame. I’ll fly around in my fancy jet and use as much electricity to power my beautiful mansion because I’m the most powerful Gore! Way too funny! I guess the liberal will fall for anything except the truth.
  
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- Link8on
  Posted on January 9, 2013 at 3:31pm
  real N\ews
  Al Gore took a risk in the media arena.
  
  It did not work out.
  
  Al Gore wanted to fire a bunch of whining non producers.
  
  Al lacked the spine to do it himself.
  
  Glenn offered to buy the media outlet from Al Gore
  
  Al shopped around to other bidders and got a higher bid.
  
  GB is no poorer.
  AG is much richer.
  Contracted staffers get buy outs.
  non-contracted whiners get fired .
  
  Win Win Win Win.
  
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DocScience
Posted on January 8, 2013 at 1:36pm
Nothing like a liberal rube waking up and seeing the truth.

But don’t worry, these ideologues will be back to sleepwalking in no time, following dancing unicorns in candyland.

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- gyro
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 1:42pm
  very true
  
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- Twinspeedr
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 1:53pm
  There is none that is good, no not one, except YHVH, God Almighty. Maybe we should start looking to his word for the tried-and-true (though unpopular) ways to solve humanity’s problems. Hmm?
  
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- ozchambers
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 2:40pm
  They are awake to the idea that he is a bullsh****r when it comes to selling out his supposed values for a buck, but I doubt they would consider that he was also bullsh****ng when he put out “An Inconvenient Truth”.
  
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- Displacedsoutherner
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 4:56pm
  Wonder how the gay employees at Current TV, and you know there has to be plenty of them, will enjoy being employees of a company now owned by people who not only believe gays don’t have a right to marry, but don’t even have a right to be alive.
  
  The Left keeps digging itself into deeper holes; who’s going to defend their rights when BHO and his cronies decide freedom of anything is just too risky to their agenda? Kim Jung Barrack will preside over a gray paradise of obedience and equality.
  
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- Link8on
  Posted on January 9, 2013 at 3:19pm
  Not sure how these Liberal owners so frequently get overpaid for thier worthless assets.
  Arriana gets way more ($315 MIL) than her HuffPro was worth from AOL.
  
  Frankel also landed a Senate seat just before his Air America crashed.
  
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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on January 8, 2013 at 1:33pm
Pg 201 of “Bias, A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News” provides a fascinating insight to how the media executives make their decisions with the following statement:

“Despite the liberalism of the media, there is a subtle form of racism at work here. As Fiamma Nirenstein writes, “The Arabs, it is implicity suggested, are a backward people, not to be held to the civilized standards of the West”.

What the writer is saying by the phrase “implicity suggested” is that behind the backs of Arabs, behind closed doors, there are vibrations that never reach public microphones endorsed by current executives, there is a concensus that the Arabs are to be treated perhaps just like the Native American Indians, a backwards people who will never grow up?

I’m not real hip to liberalism, and I don’t know how Glen Beck does it, a lot of his friends are in the media, he is the in the media, and these people hold grudges that will never die? You know what, I think Glenn Beck is not part of that media that thinks like that, and when you have Bernard Goldberg re-hashing that Americans have been sick of being lectured to since the 1960s, these are not my wishful thinking or projections, these are the well worn observations of professional people in the press who have observed and helped people for decades?

We can not endorse that viewpoint of racism any more than we can support violence when we know it is simply not necessary?

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johnpaulkuchtajr
Posted on January 8, 2013 at 1:33pm
Hey Pilgrims,

I hate to break this to you; but, this country has been bought and paid for by the Middle East oil interests.

Presidents, vice-presidents, governors and state attorneys general are all ****-deep in Saudi cash through the fine Muslim Brotherhood front groups that have all been named as “unindicted co-conspirators” by federal judges; but, they never get prosecuted! In fact, Eric “Fast and Furious” Holder even halted the federal trial of the co-founder of CAIR.

Now, how do you think that happened?

Plug into http://www.muslimbrotherhoodinamerica.com and get educated.

“Remember Benghazi and ALL the Traitors!”

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Fog_Horn
Posted on January 8, 2013 at 1:30pm
Why would any of this surprise anybody that pays attention. Gore is a waste our time.

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Kupo
Posted on January 8, 2013 at 1:30pm
It’s always been obvious to anyone with two neurons to rub together that Al Gore has always been in this for the money. Hypocrisy is nothing new with him.

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fatsomann
Posted on January 8, 2013 at 1:29pm
Al Gore, a hypocrite? NOOOO! Hah, Everyone else who bought into his garbage is going to figure out who else is a lying hypocrite. Not really funny, just reality for the lemmings setting in.

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WireWizard
Posted on January 8, 2013 at 1:28pm
We need to set up our own ringer to sell to Glenn Beck after signing up with all the carriers.
Imagine their reaction to finding The Blaze on every TV in the country…

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coyote1hell
Posted on January 8, 2013 at 1:28pm
Al-oh-my-god-it’s-hot-Gore said…do you know how much heat and A/C/ 100 mill gets you..???suckerss….fools….idiots…follow the flock right off the clifff……you people are frekin’-stupid……

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- Mil Mom
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 7:27pm
  @coyote1hell
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 1:28pm
  
  Al-oh-my-god-it’s-hot-Gore said…do you know how much heat and A/C/ 100 mill gets you..???suckerss….fools….idiots…follow the flock right off the clifff……you people are frekin’-stupid…
  ***
  Just exactly WHAT did they thing the POLLUTION EXHANGE currency was all about? Anyone who makes a fortune setting an international board game up where every country with people who breath in oxygen and expell CO2 (wonder which ones would be immune from this?) must buy pullution credits from him, to think this person ISN’T in it for the money is a credit to the power of that stuff they smoke!
  I’m with Ron Paul, if they want to smoke it and prove how dumb they can get, why use our tax money to protect them from enemies. Let’s just print maps of where they live for the caliphate to find them easily. (Oops, they already know, because these idiots are the ones inviting them into our white house and government. As they would say, “My bad!”)
  
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DEFCON4
Posted on January 8, 2013 at 1:25pm
The ‘king’ of green-energy profits, sold-out, to the kings of the ‘oil profits’……..

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starman70
Posted on January 8, 2013 at 1:25pm
Al Gore is just like all the other elitest, far left, liberal dopes. He has profited greatly from his “Global Warming Agenda” and has purchased a second mansion in California. Like the forst mansion in Tennessee, the California mansion uses more power off the grid than the average American family uses in one whole year. He, like all the liberals, believe that the agenda they are pushing, whatever it concerns, should only apply to the plebian masses, not to them.

Hypocracy doesn’t even begin to describe these people. They are all in the same boat , it is just that Al Gore allowed his to show sooner than some of the others.

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Cavallo
Posted on January 8, 2013 at 1:23pm
Hahhahahahaha… Current TV are **** slaves to the middle east oil barons, bent over the barrel by their high priest for cold hard cash. This is so funny it makes my sides hurt.

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Larry E
Posted on January 8, 2013 at 1:20pm
I’m amazed that it takes anyone with the brains of my dog’s empty food dish more than five seconds to come to this conclusion. In any country where the people were actually educated this guy would have never risen past the position of paper boy.

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- bfavre71
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 1:28pm
  Shows you just how gross liberals really are. Pathetic, lying, cowards.
  
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- GeorgieJo
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 1:28pm
  POOR ALJerryGazeeria
  Grew up in a hotel room in DC
  NOW has more money than Romney
  Diane Feensteen’s husband is an investor with Gore.
  Doesn’t she have enough MONEY?
  Gore has always been a fake.The Greeners just bought his BS.
  
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lorial
Posted on January 8, 2013 at 1:20pm
Just have to laugh, what a fake! I guess everybody has a price. Now maybe he’ll shutup about the global warming crap he had everybody fooled by. He really has no room to talk now.

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BlackCrow
Posted on January 8, 2013 at 1:19pm
Just now figured that out?

Not as bright as they thought they were are they?

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Tri-ox
Posted on January 8, 2013 at 1:17pm
Well, enemy-obama and his cabal are destroying America as fast as they can, but, at least we have the Current TV situation to put a smile on our faces.

Hilarious!

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IndyGuy
Posted on January 8, 2013 at 1:17pm
Ssssucccckers…..

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IrritableGimp
Posted on January 8, 2013 at 1:17pm
OK, so let me get this straight…Current TV employees are fuming mad at Gore. Am I also to assume that since they are blowing their collective tops, that they are contributing to their so-called “Climate Change” “Golbal Warming” scenerio? Shame on them for polluting the air with their heated heads :D

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jackact
Posted on January 8, 2013 at 1:17pm
The big question:
Will every copy of ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ be pulled out of every single national public school in America.
We wouldn’t want our children to grow up as hypocrites too would we?

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- rickroland
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 1:22pm
  It should just be re-issued with the inconvenient truth about Al Gore not being so “green” after all, except green with cash.
  
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RaydocX
Posted on January 8, 2013 at 1:16pm
ah, to be young and idealistic, fresh from the Liberal haven of an ivy league university, unsillied by the truth about the world and the facts of life…

Current staffers that are surprised will hopefully turn the talents that led to Current abusing them to outing the true attitude of the leaders of the Left as the hypocrites they are. Maybe they can help wake up the other sheeple.

Funny their anger is at ‘big oil’, though, and not at the ‘fundamental islamist support’ that would be the real problem over time.

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hauschild
Posted on January 8, 2013 at 1:15pm
“‘Al Gore Is Nothing but a Bulls***ter’: Current TV Staffers Reportedly Irate Over Network’s Sale to ‘Big Oil’”

This is nothing new for leftists to whine about their own. However, when push comes to shove, they’ll be right back in Commie-Al’s corner because, afterall, to leftists, the ends always justify the means.

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NOTAMUSHROOM
Posted on January 8, 2013 at 1:15pm
The integrity and sincerity of the Regressives never ceases to amaze me. Useful idiots all.

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mrunner
Posted on January 8, 2013 at 1:14pm
Ya know… I gotta believe that Al Gore’s whole global warming scam opened the door to the Obama Presidency. The marxists looked at what he had done and realized that “yes indeed, most Americans truly are that willfully ignorant! We got a real good shot. Let’s take it now incase they actually wake up!”

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FlagWavingPatriot
Posted on January 8, 2013 at 1:12pm
These people are just now figuring out Al is a bullchitter? Talk about late bloomers.

I know he was full of it way back when he invented the internet.

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- BODYBAG
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 1:19pm
  Welcome to reality Current staffers.
  Nice to have you along.
  
  The sex poodle has always been a progressive fraud trying to find a happy ending
  to a lower body message.
  
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- FlagWavingPatriot
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 1:21pm
  Knew, not know.
  
  These fingers disregard my brain’s instructions sometimes.
  
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- BODYBAG
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 2:10pm
  *massage
  
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MrSunshine
Posted on January 8, 2013 at 1:12pm
How many thousands of times has the first sentence in this headline been said?

Another round of carbon credits on Al’s ****!

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- MrSunshine
  Posted on January 8, 2013 at 1:17pm
  I spelled c h i t ….it’s like a ticket or a tab Blaze. Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez. Aren’t we getting a little quick on the censor button?
  
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