Al Gore Hates Oil But Loves Oil Money

I used to think Al Gore was full of it when he went on and on about global warming.  Then he co-founded Current TV and I changed my mind.  There’s enough hot air coming out of the mouths of their left wing commentators to raise the temperature of the entire earth by a few degrees all by themselves.

You’re forgiven if you have no idea what I’m talking about.  Unless you’re one of the 12 people who watch Current TV there’s a good chance you never heard of it.  Let’s just say that politically Current TV is so far out there in left field that it makes the libs on MSNBC almost sound reasonable.

Because Current was such a financial flop, Gore and his business partners decided to sell.  (These are the same geniuses, by the way, who once paid Keith Olbermann $10 million dollars and got nothing but trouble in return.) But they wanted a very special buyer, one who shared their values, they said.

Turns out Glenn Beck wanted to buy Current but no way Gore and his team would ever let that happen.  They refused to take an offer from Beck because, as one source put it, “the legacy of who the network goes to is important to us and we are sensitive to networks not aligned with our point of view.”

Instead, they sold out to al Jazeera.  Seriously.

If you think that’s funny wait until you hear the rest of the story.   The government of Qatar owns al Jazeera (which claims to be independent from the government).  Qatar makes about a bazillion dollars a week selling oil to the gas-guzzling world.   So if you connect the dots you can easily see that money derived from oil bought Current TV – from the same Al Gore who has spent the past decade or so railing against oil, unless it’s being pumped into the private jet which hauls his considerable rear end all over the place.

Can you say irony?  But wait.  Don’t say it yet.

It also turns out that Gore – whose picture you see if you look up the word “liberal” in the dictionary -- wanted to close the deal before December 31.  Why?  Because he reportedly is making about $100 million on the sale and … (wait for it) … wanted to avoid the higher tax rates on people like him that went into effect on January 1 of this year.  (He missed by a day; the deal wasn’t done until January 2nd.)

Don’t you love those sanctimonious liberals who tell us the rich need to pay their “fair share,” that raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans is the patriotic thing to do … and then do their best to make sure they themselves don’t actually have to pay higher taxes.

“I believe the rich do need to pay higher taxes.  But that shouldn’t include me,” Al Gore told a news conference after making the deal.  No he didn’t.  I just made it up.  But it’s a safe bet that he said it to somebody, like his lawyer and accountant.

There’s another word you can look up in the dictionary and find Al Gore’s picture right beside it.  The word is “hypocrite.”