Posted on 01/03/2013 7:20:52 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Al Jazeera is coming to America — courtesy of former Vice President Al Gore and entrepreneur Joel Hyatt. The Arab network, funded by Qatar, has just bought Current TV — the low rated liberal cable station Gore and Hyatt founded — for a reported $500 million. The deal gives the anti-Israeli Arab network access to 40 million homes in the United States.
Beyond bringing anti-Israeli propaganda into these new American outlets, Al Jazeera has a long record as the chosen news outlet for Al Qaeda and other terrorist cells. It was through them that Osama bin Laden would regularly post videos attacking the west and calling for renewed acts of terror. Having this network available in the US might also afford terrorist groups a new method of communicating with one another. At the very least, it will help whip up enthusiasm among Islamic viewers in America for jihadist terrorism. Some fear that its message will actually cause an uptick in domestic terrorism.
To its credit, Time Warner Cable announced that it will cancel its contract with Current so it will not have to show Al Jazeera’s propaganda on its system. Their action keeps the station off 12.5 million homes. Thank you Time Warner.
Gore, who consistently postured himself as a friend of Israel, shows now how unreliable the Jewish State’s “friends” are when the chips — or the money — is down. It is estimated that Gore, who owns 20% of Current TV, will get $100 million for his share from the deal. Media reports indicate that the former VP was eager to close the deal before the higher income tax rates he supported kick in on January 1, 2013.
Indeed, it was the height of hypocrisy that Al Gore spoke warmly of Al Jazerra saying its mission was similar to that of Current TV, to give “voice to those who are not typically heard, to speak truth to power, to provide independent and diverse points of view and to tell the stories that no one else is telling.”
Among these “diverse” points of view might be terrorists. Fox News reports that “Al-Jazeera has been criticized for having a pro-Islamist bent, and accused of working with members of Al Qaeda.” Fox noted that “one of its journalists was arrested in Israel in 2011 on suspicion of being an agent of the Palestinian group Hamas.”
Not that Current TV is a world-beater. Its average prime time viewership is about 42,000 households. But, it remains to be seen if the pro-Israel former Governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer, will continue with the network under the new management. And the Islamist bias of the new network might pose a problem for women’s rights advocates such as former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm who also hosts a prime time show on Current TV.
Thanks to “friends” of Israel like Gore and Hyatt, the Islamist movement has a new voice in the US.
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I thought that name (Joel Hyatt) was familar.
Another inconvenient trurthsssssss my preciousssssss
.................It’s 40 million households. Not 42,000.........
From the article:
Not that Current TV is a world-beater. Its average prime time viewership is about 42,000 households”.
From Al to Al.
This shows the true colors of the “progressives.”
Please call your TV provider and ask them to drop Current, as Time Warner has. Ask them to fill the channel with Blaze TV.
Who was a known Communist.
DirecTV Channel 358
Comcast Channel 107
Dish Network Channel 215
Verizon FiOS Channel 192
AT&T U-Verse Channle 189
If you have one of these TV providers, please ask them to drop Current, as Time Warner has. Suggest that they fill the channel with Blaze TV.
It would be one thing if he had sold out even that nutcase smear merchant Markos Moulitsas. But Al Jazeera is nothing but a propaganda outlet for the enemies of America.
Michale Savage said it well, and I agree with him:
That's the almost zero-rated TV channel that was founded by that quisling Al Gore and his business partners seven years ago.
Current TV will now provide the Arab news giant with something it has looked for years to acquire: a pathway into American living rooms.
Al Gore's Current TV is now available in about 60 million of the 100 million homes in the U.S. that have cable or satellite TV.
How do you feel about an Arab network buying Al Gore's Current TV?
How does the FCC allow such a sale? Should they block such a sale?
Absolutely.
What does this tell you about the so-called "progressives"?
"Progressive" is a code word for anti-American.
DirecTV Channel 358
Comcast Channel 107
Dish Network Channel 215
Verizon FiOS Channel 192
AT&T U-Verse Channle 189
If you have one of these TV providers, please ask them to drop Current, as Time Warner has. Suggest that they fill the channel with Blaze TV.
It would be one thing if he had sold out even that nutcase smear merchant Markos Moulitsas. But Al Jazeera is nothing but a propaganda outlet for the enemies of America.
Michale Savage said it well, and I agree with him:
That's the almost zero-rated TV channel that was founded by that quisling Al Gore and his business partners seven years ago.
Current TV will now provide the Arab news giant with something it has looked for years to acquire: a pathway into American living rooms.
Al Gore's Current TV is now available in about 60 million of the 100 million homes in the U.S. that have cable or satellite TV.
How do you feel about an Arab network buying Al Gore's Current TV?
How does the FCC allow such a sale? Should they block such a sale?
Absolutely.
What does this tell you about the so-called "progressives"?
"Progressive" is a code word for anti-American.
There can be no mistaking the Left's alliance; and ideological sympathies with the worst of our planets enemies and that it is not a 'new' alliance; but an old one. And America; and voting citizens; must understand what it means; to have Leftist in power - and in control - of our lives; our Country and America's future.
Al Gore is a connect-the-dots, lesson per the truth of the Left; and their simpatico with the 'worst' of the world. . .
I’d let loose a fatwa on them, especially if I’d recently had some chili and beer!
Call YOUR cable company and tell them to drop Current TV now that Al-Jazeera bought them. Don’t just talk to the first level people who handle complaints. Go UP the ladder of authority. Time Warner dropped Current TV as soon as the sale was made public. All other cable providers should as well.
Al-Jazeera is anti-American, anti-western, anti-Israel, and anti-Jewish. The English version appears less radical than the Arabic version, but the goals are the same. The tone is moderated as as not to frighten the viewers with their real intentions.
Tell them you do NOT want Current TV coming into your home, that merely blocking it is not enough. It may be part of a package you get. They will tell you to drop the package, but there is no reason to drop stations you still want. Just get them to remove Current TV. Call, call, call in protest!
Tell them Time Warner dropped them, and they should too! If you don’t want Al-Jazeera’s influence in this country, share this.
Links with background information are below:
Info about Time Warner dropping Current TV at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/02/time-warner-al-jazeera-current-tv_n_2399370.html
The Implications of Al Gore Joining at al-Jazeera: http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/analysis/rubin-reports/the-implications-of-al-gore-joining-al-jazeera/2013/01/07/0/
Back in the 1950's or so, science fiction writer Robert Heinlein had a short story about a Soviet propaganda satellite designed to beam TV programs at the US. In the story, the satellite was very successful - the programming lineup was a few minutes of Pravda propaganda alternating with a few minutes of porn.
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