{"id":3966,"date":"2013-01-09T08:29:38","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T12:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=3966"},"modified":"2013-01-09T08:29:38","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T12:29:38","slug":"al-gore-sells-out-to-big-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/energy\/al-gore-sells-out-to-big-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Gore sells out to Big Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Al Gore, the patron Saint of the Algore cult of Global Warming,<a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2013\/01\/08\/report-current-tv-staffers-not-thrilled-with-gore-over-this-al-jazeera-sale\/\"> sold his &#8220;Current TV&#8221; business to<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/business-is-good-current-tv-deal-in-the-bag-gores-net-worth-set-to-surpass-romneys\/\">Al Jazeera, which is owned by the\u00a0Emir of Qatar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar is one of those oil producing OPEC nations.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that some of the &#8220;true believers&#8221; on the Current TV staff, who are all being fired, are a bit miffed over this.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course Al didn\u2019t show up,\u201d said one high placed Current staffer. \u201cHe has no credibility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s 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\u2014and Al Gore, that bulls***ter sells to the emir?\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do stories on the tax code, and he sells the network before the tax code kicked in?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2013\/01\/08\/report-current-tv-staffers-not-thrilled-with-gore-over-this-al-jazeera-sale\/\">To quote Allahpundit<\/a>: &#8220;Oh, the schadenfreude.&#8221; Perhaps now Algore can afford yet another giant, energy\u00a0guzzling, mansion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Gore, the patron Saint of the Algore cult of Global Warming, sold his &#8220;Current TV&#8221; business to\u00a0Al Jazeera, which is owned by the\u00a0Emir of Qatar. Qatar is one of those oil producing OPEC nations. It seems that some of the &#8220;true believers&#8221; on the Current TV staff, who are all being fired, are a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38,43,7,19],"tags":[84,92,251,480,621],"class_list":["post-3966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barking-moonbats","category-culture-of-corruption-politics","category-energy","category-politics","tag-agw-cult","tag-algore","tag-culture-of-corruption","tag-leftist-hypocrisy","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-11Y","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}