Posted on 05/04/2010 4:25:49 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Stunning Pictures of Al Gore's New $9 Million Mansion Media Totally Ignored By Noel Sheppard Created 05/03/2010 - 23:45
Nobel Laureate Al Gore purchased a $9 million mansion in the luxurious hills of Montecito, California, recently, and with the exception of the Los Angeles Times and Fox News, America's media couldn't care less.
You think it might be because the Gore-loving press wouldn't want people to consider the possibility that all of his global warming hysteria was really about lining his wallet and not saving the planet?
Formulate a response to that question as you look at what all that money the former Vice President is making off of spreading this myth can buy (h/t Doug Ross [1]):
Sweet, wouldn't you say? (Readers are encouraged to view more pictures of this fabulous estate here [2].)
Certainly not bad for a guy he supposedly [3] was worth between one and two million dollars in 2000.
Were the "Always Fascinated by the Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" press interested?
Heck no.
According to LexisNexis, apart from the Los Angeles Times that broke [4] this story last Wednesday, and Fox News's Sean Hannity who spoke about this on consecutive nights last week, America's media were totally mum.
Why might that be?
You think Gore's adoring press don't want folks to know how much money he's making off this scam?
Before you answer THAT question, consider what the Nobel Laureate told [4] Congress last year as the House was deliberating cap-and-trade legislation:
AL GORE: Every penny that I have made, I have put right into a non-profit deal, Alliance For Climate Protection, to spread awareness of why we have to take on this challenge. And Congresswomen, if your, if, if you believe that the reason I have been working on this issue for 30 years is because of greed, you do not know me.
Now, imagine for a moment there were actually journalists still in America and not advocates pretending to be journalists.
A former Vice President who last year told a House committee he was putting all of his earnings into a non-profit company to "spread awareness of why we have to take on" global warming a year later buys a $9 million mansion with six fireplaces, five bedrooms, and nine bathrooms for him and his wife.
Don't you think SOMEBODY should have reported it other than Fox News, the LA Times, and conservative bloggers?
Where'd the money come from? Was this purchased by his non-profit corporation, and if so, how does he get away with that?
Did he sell some of his Google or Apple stock?
And how about some questions about how green the house is? Are there solar panels and windmills to power this facility? If not, what are their plans?
Forgetting all of that, if the Clintons, Bushes, or Cheneys bought such a place, do you think the media would cover it, at least as a human interest story?
For over three years, Gore's adoring press have followed virtually every move he's made since becoming the voice of global warming.
He buys a STUNNING villa as the unemployment rate stands at almost 10 percent and Americans are struggling to regain their footing after 2008's financial crisis, and the media are suddenly disinterested in him?
On exactly which planet, be it cooling or warming, does THAT make any sense?
Alliance For Climate Protection IS Al Gore. He donated to himself.
Very interesting Moorish details however. Hat tip to the Arabs, Al?
Mostly it’s screaming California nouveau (riche). Half Spanish grandee, half shack. Way too close to the neighbors and the road. Convenient to looting revolutionary mobs who will come in the name of the People. (Of Aztlan.)
Actually, no, it's not italianate, in the Spanish Colonial Revival style designed by the very yankee doodle dandy popularizer of that style George Washington Smith, originally a painter from the East, but studied architecture at Hahvahd & set up shop in Santa Barbara. His houses are highly prized by architecture buffs, myself included.
This house is on Mesa Road, and I've had my eye on it for a while. It's undergone extensive renovations and it looks like (if the story is correct) the Gores got a couple of mil knocked off the tab.
Dayum. I can't believe that fat tacky huckster stole my dream house!AAARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!
As for those millions of young people who actually believed Gore’s fictional film An Inconvenient Truth and run around turning out lights and conserving water: “Let Them Eat Cake!”
I hope nobody misunderstood. When I wrote, “it’s called Italian style,” I meant it was called that in the blog linked at the original link. I have better eyes.
You like it...To each his own.
Yes, I’m sorry. I gathered that you knew better since you pointed out that its moorish elements negated any italian influence, but I realized I was unclear in my response to you after I submitted the post. The source was mistaken, not you.
Swimming pools and movie stars!
It has a whale pen?
No thats the CEEEEment Pond where he can keep the critters.
Pray for America
I thought it might be a pen for him and the wife. They are looking pretty big.
bttt
Let’s hope Tipper takes him to the cleaners in the divorce :-)
“Hypocrite......”
Yes, here’s an interesting example - if the oceans are going to rise 12 feet soon, as AG’s piece of fictional cinema pointed out, then why would he buy a home on the ocean and move to the coast???
Death wish? I think NOT :-))))))))))
Bring that one up next time you’re in the right conversation with a liberal. I watched Andrew Breitbart’s speech at the Right Online conference earlier on cspan, and he said something really important, that we’ve got to stop preaching to the choir and start taking it to the enemy where they are.
Those pics should be posted on as many big left-wing blogs as possible. (’cause you can bet the pics of Glenn Beck’s new residence in Texas will be.)
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