Posted on 01/10/2013 5:40:20 PM PST by jakerobins
Someone finally has done all the math on the recent sale of Al Gore's Current TV to the Arabic language channel Al-Jazeera for $500 million. Jobs were lost, buzz created, employees angered, but the former vice president had little to say about it. He did walk away with a reported $100 million — a tidy sum for a man who had less that $2 million in assets when he ran for president more than a dozen years ago, says Forbes magazine.
"Taking into account taxes to be paid on the deal, possible earlier debt and the fact that Gore's representatives declined to comment, Forbes conservatively estimates the former vice president's net worth to be at least $300 million, making him wealthier than unsuccessful Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney," says Ryan Mac, a Forbes analyst
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Treason does pay for libs.
Look Romney may be a lot of things.
But 100 million ain’t one of them.
Nice try though.
We’re still expecting to hold an election in 2016?I think that Obama has other plans.
That is to say, I am guessing about two and a half times that, at least.
And they say the right has deep money ties. It looks to be it pays very handsomely to be in the bed of radicals and people he claims to distrust as causing problems to his country. The good thing about Mr. Tree Hugger, (sorry) he can never buy stability because he took the country hostage or being selfish driven to steal an election basically. They tried really hard for him, to steal it, didn’t they.
The Republicans in the Senate should demand that Al Gore release the specific equity trading history and records from the time he was worth $2 million until today. What a scammer!
Okay, I'm already bored.
YOU ARE WRONG. I DO NOT BASH ROMNEY. I BASHED GORE.
YOU ARE WRONG. I DO NOT BASH ROMNEY. I BASHED GORE.
Sorry. :D
My mix-up.
When you reply to yourself-it is time for professional help.
When you reply to yourself-it is time for professional help.
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