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Al Jazeera America going dark after less than three years on-air
Canada Free Press ^ | 01/14/16 | Robert Laurie

Posted on 01/14/2016 6:13:46 PM PST by Sean_Anthony

Can't imagine why you weren't watching.

When fossil fuel-phobic Al Gore sold his “Current TV” network to Al Jazeera, we noted the oil-based irony and mourned the passing of our favorite primetime lineup. After all, Current had been home to crackpots like Keith Olbermann and Dating Game contestants like Jennifer Granholm for the better part of ten years. That kind of crazy is hard to come by and we knew that we wouldn’t see anything quite like Current again. MSNBC does it’s best to fill the void, but it’s just not the same.

Anyway, Al Jazeera America premiered a little over two years ago, and it was hailed by the left as a breath of fresh air. Finally, unbiased individuals would be doing serious news about serious international affairs. Folks like Hillary Clinton had long been suggesting that Al Jazeera’s U.S. viewership was skyrocketing because unlike American media, they did “real news.”

Here she is in 2011, arguing that Americans simply can’t get enough Al Jazeera:


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1 posted on 01/14/2016 6:13:46 PM PST by Sean_Anthony
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To: Sean_Anthony

I guess the Muzzies weren’t supplying enough breaths of fresh air for the commie libs.


2 posted on 01/14/2016 6:19:32 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Being an American isn't a piece of paper from the State Department. It's an attitude.)
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To: Sean_Anthony

Isn’t this the outfit sold by Al Gore to the oil-rich Arabs for over ONE BILLION DOLLARS..?

Maybe this bankruptcy was PLANNED and it was a stealthy BRIBE?

Just being paranoid, here...


3 posted on 01/14/2016 6:21:40 PM PST by gaijin
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I think this was originally Al Gore’s “Real TV”...?


4 posted on 01/14/2016 6:22:21 PM PST by gaijin
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To: gaijin

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2013/01/03/al-gore-nets-reported-100-million-in-sale-current-tv-to-al-jazeera/


5 posted on 01/14/2016 6:23:15 PM PST by gaijin
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It was. It was pegged ‘AlGoreZeera’.


6 posted on 01/14/2016 6:23:36 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm fed up.)
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To: Sean_Anthony
I got interviewed by Al-Jazera at the last CPAC. The gal overheard me say to someone shortly after it, "So who watches Al-Jazera?"

They cut my interview. Waaaaa!

7 posted on 01/14/2016 6:24:51 PM PST by Slyfox (Ted Cruz does not need the presidency - the presidency needs Ted Cruz)
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8 posted on 01/14/2016 6:25:10 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Sean_Anthony

Gee... What a shame...
/s


9 posted on 01/14/2016 6:25:40 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: gaijin
Al Gore's personal Jet:

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10 posted on 01/14/2016 6:26:15 PM PST by gaijin
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ONE of Al Gore's houses in Montecity (Santa Barbara, Calif):


11 posted on 01/14/2016 6:28:34 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Sean_Anthony
Champagne corks are poping.
12 posted on 01/14/2016 6:36:08 PM PST by CPT Clay (Hillary: Julius and Ethal Rosenberg were electrocuted for selling classified info.)
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To: gaijin

Al Gore has a lot of faults, but he isn’t stupid.


13 posted on 01/14/2016 6:37:52 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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He won a Nobel prize for saying the earth was doomed in ten years. Every prediction and model the IPCC used to show the near future was grossly wrong. If those were so off, imagine how much more off they are with the future.

Sorry, Gore is stupid, but liberals like what he gets accomplished.


14 posted on 01/14/2016 6:49:44 PM PST by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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Gore was like this close || to making you buy the air you breath on his carbon exchange. He is the king of the lilly whites.


15 posted on 01/14/2016 6:59:09 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: gaijin

His channel was called “Undertow TV”. It lasted 7 years otr so befor the Sand people bought him off.


16 posted on 01/14/2016 7:10:56 PM PST by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: Sean_Anthony

Good. Now that the channel is vacated, we can get carriage for One America and The Blaze.


17 posted on 01/14/2016 7:34:09 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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Good. Now that the channel is vacated, we can get carriage for One America...

I really am looking forward to One America on Comcast and The Dish...

Any way to get rid of Megyn Whatshername and Geraldo and Juan Williams...

18 posted on 01/14/2016 8:17:53 PM PST by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW! evil ignorant stupid or crazy-doesn't matter!)
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To: Sean_Anthony

moozlum FAIL.


19 posted on 01/14/2016 8:20:37 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Sean_Anthony

Too bad.

I actually liked some of their programming a few years back but, somehow lost interest...


20 posted on 01/14/2016 9:30:28 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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