Posted on 07/11/2007 7:13:40 AM PDT by MrArbitrage123
Call me a cynic but I find Al Gore’s emergence as this hundred-millionaire, successful businessman as a bit of a farce. I can understand the Oscar. When considering who gives out those trophies, I believe he would have won the Oscar if his “documentary” were shot by himself on a $300 camcorder.
I remember when the 2,000 election was over and officially decided, one of my dear conservative friends (who shall remain nameless) actually said to me that she feels sorry for Al Gore. She felt sorry for him after hearing how after all those years in office, he was leaving the Vice Presidency deeply in debt and with his home mortgaged to pay for his campaign… Whether that was true or not at the time - did anyone out there think for one split second that the Al Gore story was going to end any other way than we are now seeing?
This new found success in the business world stinks to high Heaven. A few years after the election, Gore conveniently became an insider at two of the hottest companies on the planet: at Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), where he signed on as an “ADVISER” in 2001, pre-IPO (and received stock options now reportedly worth north of $30 million), and at Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), where he joined the board in 2003 (and got stock options now valued at about $6 million). reference: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/117/features-gore.html
Now folks, I have been working in the financial world for enough years to know that those opportunities are not easy to come buy. PRE-IPO shares in GOOGLE?????? You have got to be kidding me! He received these shares because he is an “ADVISER” to Google????
Listen, this is AL Gore we are talking about here. Just what “ADVICE” do you suppose he has given the folks at Google that they couldn’t have gotten elsewhere that wouldn’t have come at a much cheaper price than $30 million worth of stock? At the risk of alienating some of you, so there is no room for interpretation of my opinion - I am going to say flat out that if you believe that this stock contribution was merit based - you are an unmitigated dim wit. Early on we heard about one of Al Gore’s BRILLIANT business ideas that I believe is more likely to have been original to him. I’m referring to the idea of making a left wing, liberal TELEVISION NETWORK! Now that was an original concept. Who ever heard of a liberal television news network before Al Gore came up with this gem??? Where do I sign up? Let me give you a blank check Al; you just fill in the amount!
Now I’m not saying there is anything illegal about this nor should there be. If he was given the GOOG stock POST IPO, then that would have been a different story. In that case I would contend that this stock compensation was a severe breach of fiduciary responsibility by the Google board and misuse of company funds. But if a bunch of silicon valley socialist kooks want to give a block of their personal equity to own a piece of AlGore, more power to them.
The bottom line is this. The Manchurian Candidate, a film that was originally an anti-communist movie starring Frank Sinatra was recently re-made by pro-communist Hollywood to attack Republican President George W. Bush as being a new type of “Manchurian candidate”. Only this time instead of the bad guys being communist, the bad guys were “big business”, portrayed by a company called “Manchurian Global”.
I see tremendous irony in the fact that this is what I believe to be happening in the case of AL Gore! This is a guy born with a silver spoon in his mouth, “born to be President” and made his living off the public tit. Do you really believe that AlGore has the business acumen to plop a few grand on GOOG and turn it into $30 million? If you listened to the media hype, you would think that is what happened. No my friends, this is the REAL Manchurian candidate who has effectively become a hundred-millionaire by donations made to look like sagacious business practices. I contend this years version of Al Gore, like the Manchurian candidate is a hand-puppet for some powerful left-winged interests in Silicon Valley who I’m sure share the same delusions as he - making them a nice couple indeed. But make no mistake about it, they are re-manufacturing this guy to look like a success so that he might look more appealing to the masses. We are seeing the college crowd to no surprise, eating the pap right out of his hand.
Following is a link to a video piece I made featuring some Al Gore clips which I edited and following that is some additional commentary from yours truly. You may need to crank up the volume on the Gore part because it is 3rd generation video. My commentary comes in after about a minute of Gore’s pabulum so stay tuned.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9EGy6KM2gSs
Below is an interesting map showing the incestuous relationship between Google & Apple. Some common links that show up are Eric Schmidt, Arthur Levinson, Al Gore & venture capital firm Sequoia Capital. As they were not yet public when Al Gore received his Google shares, one can only speculate where they came from. They may have diluted the outstanding shares and authorized the issuance of more, or perhaps they came from Sequoia or Levinson. This ISN’T the type of compensation one gets for merely sitting on a board so I would love to know what valuable “consulting” Al Gore brought to the table. It’s not like he actually invented the Internet. http://www.scribd.com/doc/96425/Apple-and-Google
MrArbitrage
I remember when the 2,000 election was over and officially decided, one of my dear conservative friends (who shall remain nameless) actually said to me that she feels sorry for Al Gore. She felt sorry for him after hearing how after all those years in office, he was leaving the Vice Presidency deeply in debt and with his home mortgaged to pay for his campaign… Whether that was true or not at the time - did anyone out there think for one split second that the Al Gore story was going to end any other way than we are now seeing?
This new found success in the business world stinks to high Heaven. A few years after the election, Gore conveniently became an insider at two of the hottest companies on the planet: at Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), where he signed on as an “ADVISER” in 2001, pre-IPO (and received stock options now reportedly worth north of $30 million), and at Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), where he joined the board in 2003 (and got stock options now valued at about $6 million). reference: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/117/features-gore.html
Now folks, I have been working in the financial world for enough years to know that those opportunities are not easy to come buy. PRE-IPO shares in GOOGLE?????? You have got to be kidding me! He received these shares because he is an “ADVISER” to Google????
Listen, this is AL Gore we are talking about here. Just what “ADVICE” do you suppose he has given the folks at Google that they couldn’t have gotten elsewhere that wouldn’t have come at a much cheaper price than $30 million worth of stock? At the risk of alienating some of you, so there is no room for interpretation of my opinion - I am going to say flat out that if you believe that this stock contribution was merit based - you are an unmitigated dim wit. Early on we heard about one of Al Gore’s BRILLIANT business ideas that I believe is more likely to have been original to him. I’m referring to the idea of making a left wing, liberal TELEVISION NETWORK! Now that was an original concept. Who ever heard of a liberal television news network before Al Gore came up with this gem??? Where do I sign up? Let me give you a blank check Al; you just fill in the amount!
Now I’m not saying there is anything illegal about this nor should there be. If he was given the GOOG stock POST IPO, then that would have been a different story. In that case I would contend that this stock compensation was a severe breach of fiduciary responsibility by the Google board and misuse of company funds. But if a bunch of silicon valley socialist kooks want to give a block of their personal equity to own a piece of AlGore, more power to them.
The bottom line is this. The Manchurian Candidate, a film that was originally an anti-communist movie starring Frank Sinatra was recently re-made by pro-communist Hollywood to attack Republican President George W. Bush as being a new type of “Manchurian candidate”. Only this time instead of the bad guys being communist, the bad guys were “big business”, portrayed by a company called “Manchurian Global”.
I see tremendous irony in the fact that this is what I believe to be happening in the case of AL Gore! This is a guy born with a silver spoon in his mouth, “born to be President” and made his living off the public tit. Do you really believe that AlGore has the business acumen to plop a few grand on GOOG and turn it into $30 million? If you listened to the media hype, you would think that is what happened. No my friends, this is the REAL Manchurian candidate who has effectively become a hundred-millionaire by donations made to look like sagacious business practices. I contend this years version of Al Gore, like the Manchurian candidate is a hand-puppet for some powerful left-winged interests in Silicon Valley who I’m sure share the same delusions as he - making them a nice couple indeed. But make no mistake about it, they are re-manufacturing this guy to look like a success so that he might look more appealing to the masses. We are seeing the college crowd to no surprise, eating the pap right out of his hand.
Following is a link to a video piece I made featuring some Al Gore clips which I edited and following that is some additional commentary from yours truly. You may need to crank up the volume on the Gore part because it is 3rd generation video. My commentary comes in after about a minute of Gore’s pabulum so stay tuned.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9EGy6KM2gSs
Below is an interesting map showing the incestuous relationship between Google & Apple. Some common links that show up are Eric Schmidt, Arthur Levinson, Al Gore & venture capital firm Sequoia Capital. As they were not yet public when Al Gore received his Google shares, one can only speculate where they came from. They may have diluted the outstanding shares and authorized the issuance of more, or perhaps they came from Sequoia or Levinson. This ISN’T the type of compensation one gets for merely sitting on a board so I would love to know what valuable “consulting” Al Gore brought to the table. It’s not like he actually invented the Internet. http://www.scribd.com/doc/96425/Apple-and-Google
MrArbitrage
Gore himself is a “sham”. People should be embarrassed to be around him. This guy is a joke beyond jokes and the Dem’s are sending him their money. He has to be laughing all the way to the bank.
Al Gore never really wanted to be president. His father wanted him to be president and Al thought he should live up to what he was raised for. Al’s real life’s dream was to be a fire-and-brimstone revival preacher like Jimmy Swaggert.
This enviro-messiah gig he’s got now has him living out his real dream. The money’s not too bad either, apparently.
What is your blog website?
“Human-caused hot, foul air” — at last, the real source was revealed.
No different than a Swagart or any other Mega Church scam artist.
Click on any of the images below to see the video.
Al Bore invented the Internet.
Putfile Version (Higher quality)
The moonbats have been voting down the first video "Inconvenient Hypocrisy", be sure to vote it back up to the top of the heap of videos about Al Bore.
Good anti-Global Warming video that picks apart Gore's stupid film.
Albert Arnold Algore, Jr. — A Legend in his Own Mind
Good article.
and the Clintons are only worth 50 mil.
Compared to the Clinton’s Gore is an amateur at scamming. Bill and Hill were paid millions for ghost written books that quickly ended up in the bargain bins of local Wal Marts. Slick Willie gets paid 6 figures plus for just showing up and smoozing at some event and will likely stiff his hosts with a bar and hotel tab. While in the White House, Bill got money from the Chi-coms, sold nights in the Lincoln bedroom and White House coffees and eventually sold pardons on his way out the door. Hill got her Chapaqua mansion as a “gift”. Daughter Chelsea got a job with a 6 figure income without any experience and with plenty of time to be jet setting around the world with the Hollywood elites and her nit wit boyfriend.
Great points by The Great R.J.
Bill and Hill are probably much more creative in their scamming than Gore and and their chicanery portfolio is much more diversified.
I guess Gore wins with the biggest numbers - “on the books” because we can’t really quantify how much a pardon for a drug kingpin or a pardon for a billionaire financier might fetch on the open market.
One can postulate that pardons for such highbrow criminals might trade in the tens of millions (or more); however, as far as I know, only homeland security could get a peak into the offshore accounts and they weren’t around back then and any such money would have been pretty well laundered by now.
MrArbitrage
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