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The War on Terror Spectator
Al Gore’s $500 Million Trojan Horse
A boost for jobs (for journalists with no moral scruples).
Finally there is good news on the jobs front for the Obama administration. Al Jazeera, or “Terrorism TV,” as it used to be known for celebrating the three thousand Americans killed on 9/11 and other exploits by Osama bin Laden, announced plans to create some 200 jobs in the United States over the next six months — in its headquarters at the UN in New York, in Washington, D.C., and in bureaus in Detroit, New Orleans, San Francisco, and other cities.
“Imagine six or seven years ago, trying to find real estate for Al Jazeera in Washington,” gushed Rob Wheelock, the former ABC executive who is in charge of establishing Al Jazeera in the United States. “We’re going to have signage just like CBS, ABC, CNN, CBN, just like everyone else. We’re psyched.”
Perhaps the signage will include skull-and-crossbones, or some other fitting image of human slaughter.
Yes, as Mr. Wheelock said, it is hard to believe the cable network enterprise that did so many fawning interviews with the late terrorist leader — and others chanting “Death to America” — would have stood any chance of putting up its own news rooms in New York, Washington, D.C., or any other American city during the George W. Bush administration.
And that is another sign of how far our nation has regressed over the past four years.
Even now, with the beginning of the second Obama term, Sheik Hamad bin khalifa Al Thani, the ruler of Qatar, must be rubbing his goatee in disbelief at how easy it is to open a large propaganda network in the United States of America (which, at the outset, will include seven “investigative reporters” in the D.C. office for the presumed purpose of vilifying legislators who oppose Islamic extremism or support Israel).
He spent $500 million to acquire the money-losing and low-rated Current TV — owned by Al Gore and friends — which is still a great catch because it has the potential to reach 41 million homes in the U.S. on cable channels.
Half a billion dollars may sound like a lot of money, but it was no more than a scrap from the oil sheik’s table. Still, it was more than enough to compensate Gore for abandoning his green friends and his green principles — in striking a deal with one of the princes of Big Oil. His portion of the proceeds was one-fifth, or $100 million. Pobre hombre, even though he tried his hardest, he didn’t act fast enough to protect his share of the loot from the higher U.S. taxes that took effect at the beginning of 2013.
Still, Al Gore is doing a great job of following in his daddy’s footsteps to greener pastures in the purely monetary sense. After losing his Senate seat from Tennessee in 1970, Albert Gore Sr. used his political connections to help oil baron Armand Hammer, the head of Occidental Petroleum, which struck it rich in Libya with the help of visas that the elder Gore helped to procure when he was a U.S. senator.
Al Jazeera has two faces. There is the Doha-based broadcast center that has ceaselessly celebrated Islamic extremists (and is also home to Al Jazeera English); and there is newly established Al Jazeera America. Now we are supposed to believe that the face which has always been contorted in the most violent rage is false (or at least receding), while other represents the transition to a peaceful and democratic future.
To believe that, you have to believe that the lion will lie down in peace with the lamb. That is to say, you have to believe that all it will take to quell the Islamist extremists who hate westernization in all its forms — most especially, the emancipation of women and open acceptance of homosexuality, but also including an in-built hatred of democracy and representative government — will be to break bread on a regular basis with politically correct progressives, who share their distaste for free markets and limited government, but nothing else beyond that.
And Obama is clearly one of those believers in the lion lying down with the lamb. Said Obama to a group of political donors: “He [the Emir] is a big promoter of democracy all through the Middle East. Reform, reform, reform — you’re seeing it on Al Jazeera.”
Unfortunately, that is false, false, false.
In fact, on Obama’s watch, Egypt, the largest and long one of the most westernized and open countries in the Arab Middle East, has fallen under hard-fisted and increasingly intolerant Islamist rule — and other countries are following.
While the Qatari Emir is rich beyond belief — and able to host major tennis and golf events — he is also using his money to foment unrest around the region — contributing to Hamas, Hezbollah, and others who regard America as the “Great Satan.”
Illustration: Chip Bok for The American Spectator.
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Andrew B. Wilson, a frequent contributor to The American Spectator, writes from St. Louis.
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Robbins Mitchell| 2.20.13 @ 6:25AM
anAL GOREtentive
TLP| 2.20.13 @ 8:03AM
Perhaps their Signage could include Danny Pearl's Severed Head. Or the Acid Burned Faces of little girls who tried to go to School. Or a Woman buried in the ground up to her shoulders because she could've get 4 Male Witnesses to testify that her Husband had his Friends GANG RAPE her.
Answer this question: Who loves Money (and little Boys and Girls) more than Liberals? Who has the Most Money in Congress? Who has the most Millionaires and Billionaires? How many Million$ has Ex President Rapist collected, since leaving office, after being Impeached? Who are the White Politicians that Demand Special Treatment for Minorities from inside their Mansions and their Compounds, in towns like Chappaqua and Hyannisport, where the only Minorities you'll find are the ones Mopping the Public Toilets, and the ones on the Wanted Posters at the Post Office.
How is it that the Pols screaming Loudest for Global Warming, are the ones with the Biggest Cars, the Biggest Private Jets, and the Most Mansions?
How is it that the Pols screaming Loudest for "Worker's Rights" and UNIONS, own the most Restaurants and Vineyards that only employ Non-Union Illegals?
And, of course you have the Heroes of The Women's Movement. Guys like The Rapist, Serial Misogenyst, Serial Molester, Serial Groper, Indecent Exposer, Sex with an Intern, and a Lifelong Spousal Abuser of his Wife - Bill Clinton. Along with Robert - "Is that your Daughter? How old is she? Nine, ya say? She's really pretty. HOW MUCH?" - Menendez.
Jack in Wi| 2.20.13 @ 7:31PM
Al Gore and his Jewish partners, among them, socks on rubbers off Eliot Spitzer, have made a fortune bilking the Emir of Kuwait. The whole deal has been blessed by Ben Stein of this site, a dear personal friend of Spitzers. All the fellows who sold the network are firm Zionists. If the Emir of Kuwait supports terrorists and I agree he does, why do we use his ports and other facilities? If terrorism is so bad, why do we support the racist and terrorist regime in Tel Aviv? I start the morning everyday reading at this site. I go during the day to Drudge, Haaretz, The Milwaukee Urinal, The London Telegraph, Arutz Shiva, Free Republic. Lew Rockwell, Antiwar.com, human eveents and others that take my fancy. I on occasion vist Al Jazeera. Read around and think you guys, it does the brain good.
Jack in Wi| 2.20.13 @ 7:40PM
I ment the Emir of Qatar, not Kuwait who is another American stooge. It is hard to keep all the stooges separate what with the stooges in Yeman, Iraq, Saudia Arabia, Bahrein, Dubai, etc.
nathan| 2.20.13 @ 6:42AM
First no one is going to forced to watch. Second, it never hurts to know how others see you. You can learn a lot that way. Sean in particular could learn a lot. He can talk "American exceptionalism" all he wants on his show, but given our actions abroad that doesn't play well to a lot of people overseas. A book I'm reading sums it up nicely by the way, "torture is always something the other guy does to your people, it's never what you do to others." How very true.
With regards to Hamas, remember folks, Israel was one of the initial supporters. They gave money to them thinking that a religious group would be effective against the PLO. They were wrong but maybe if they hadn't supported Hamas to start with? . . .
Egypt. I would once again ask Mr. Wilson and all of you, to tell us what say Reagan if he had been president would have/could have told the million demostrators in the streets of Cairo that would have made a difference, that would have ended the demonstration and kept a kleptomaniac (70 billion dollars stolen, much of it OUR money) human rights abusing dictator in power. Please any of you tell the class what any American could have done/said that would have changed things especially since the demostrators themselves said they simply didn't care what we said or did they were determined to act. Go ahead, tell us what YOU would have done. And if you can't come up with anything, then quit complaining about what HE did.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 2.20.13 @ 7:56AM
“…it never hurts to know how others see you. You can learn a lot that way…”
Since you are announcing that you feel this way, Nathan, I will take this as an invitation to tell you that this other sees you.
The article by Wilson is about 15 small paragraphs long, with the subject being Al Gore’s deal to sell Current TV to Al Jazeera. Your response was almost as many sentences as the article had paragraphs. By your fifth sentence you brought up the pet subject of torture, which the article does not deal with at all. A single word mention of Egypt and Hamas as they relate to the subject of the article was all you needed to go out on your tangents to criticize the US and Israel.
Clearly, the arrival of Al Jazeera in an additional 41 million homes (the subject of today’s article) through Al Gore’s sale of Current TV to them is an opportunity for you. I highly recommend that you take your version of Blame America First to their airwaves, where Jack in Wi can cheer you on as you bash the US, Israel, Reagan and neocons.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 2.20.13 @ 7:57AM
When it is found that the ratings for that are even lower than what Keith Olbermann got on Current, I’m sure that there is an audience for your thoughts in the Middle East. I wouldn’t recommend that you broadcast from there, though; while they might applaud your criticism of the US and Israel, your thoughts on their torture might merit you getting to do a little investigative reporting in an up close and personal manner, a little less academic than your books on the subject.
CJW| 2.20.13 @ 8:28AM
It is amazing at the absence of any commentary from the MSM about a former VP and senator selling out to Terrorism TV, and all these executives from MSM who will now work for AljazeeraGoreTV. Ther is absolutely no shame in the current Dem party. I cannot imagine Truman or FDR or Jack Kennedy selling out to Pravda or the Goebbels NaziNetwork. Maybe we call him Al Goebbels.
The old movies used to mention Tokyo Rose and Axis Sally as traitors, now we have Algore being applauded for making 500 mil selling to the terrorist network.
Thank God that Ralph Nader ran a third party in 2000, and the 600 votes in Florida, to defeat this traitor.
TLP| 2.20.13 @ 8:48AM
Is it just me?
Or, shouldn't Al Gore's face be at the other side of the Horse.
Joellen| 2.20.13 @ 9:02AM
So now I leave for work with a smile on my face because of Al, CJW and TLP, the three wise men always with the most astute and clever comments.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 2.20.13 @ 9:09AM
Glad to be of service, Joellen (...though why does TLP get to carry the gold? Who wants frankincense-it smells. Myrhh-ahhh, whattayagonnado?).
TLP| 2.20.13 @ 11:07AM
I think we all KNOW why I get the Gold, and you two get the Smelly Crap.
What I don't understand is how CJW made the cut. Really?
Then again.............She IS an Italian, and she DOES live in New Jersey.
CJW| 2.20.13 @ 12:09PM
TLP, TLP, what have I done to deserve this insult?
Joellen is smart and classy, obviously.
TLP| 2.20.13 @ 12:55PM
I'm thinking that she's too clever by half, and Drunk off her Asss.
Drunken Sailor| 2.20.13 @ 1:42PM
My kind of girl!!
TLP| 2.20.13 @ 2:12PM
A prominent member of Chicago’s homosexual community claims Barack Obama’s participation in the “gay” bar and bathhouse scene was so well known that many who were aware of his lifestyle were shocked when he ran for president and finally won the White House.
“It was preposterous to the people I knew then to think Obama was going to keep his gay life secret,” said Kevin DuJan, who was a gossip columnist in Chicago for various blogs when Obama was living in the city as a community organizer and later a state senator.
“Nobody who knew Obama in the gay bar scene thought he could possibly be president,” said DuJan.
Chicago Tribune.
DRed| 2.20.13 @ 3:36PM
Amusingly, if you Search for that text On, the Chicago tribune websIte, you Get no results.
TLP| 2.20.13 @ 3:57PM
My mistake.
WND.
Google: Barack Obama Gay Bathhouse Story.
GOOGLE IT!
Then, get back to me.
DRed| 2.20.13 @ 4:28PM
Timmy, you need to learn how to evaluate sources better. Let's look at your WND story. Now, the fact that it's on WND instead of the Chicago Tribune doesn't mean it's not true. So-what sort of evidence is presented? Well, this guy DuJan says Obama is gay. Do you think that's a strong evidence?
Pecos Pete| 2.20.13 @ 6:00PM
Wayne Madsen, investigative journalist, also says Obama's visits to local gay bars and bathhouses was "common knowledge" in the community.
TLP| 2.20.13 @ 6:08PM
You're confusing him.
He, of the "Twisty" Source.
DRed| 2.20.13 @ 6:15PM
Saying something is common knowledge is not exactly good evidence. Does Wayne Madsen (who is probably more accurately described as a conspiracy theorist) have a number of credible witnesses to say that they saw Obama in these bathhouses? Does he have any witnesses at all?
TLP| 2.20.13 @ 6:12PM
And, thanks for having my back, Pesco.
TLP| 2.20.13 @ 6:10PM
As I recall........Harry Reid saying that "I got a call from somebody who said that Mitt Romney hasn't paid any Taxes for 10 Years", was good enough for you.
Isn't that right?
TLP| 2.20.13 @ 6:11PM
Well............ISN'T IT?!
Of course it is.
TLP| 2.20.13 @ 6:13PM
Those last two are for DRed.
DRed| 2.20.13 @ 7:08PM
Harry Reid is a guy who would be out of a job if you people had picked anyone but a total nutter to run against him. He's like exhibit A when it comes to why people hate Congress. I thought his grandstanding about Romney's taxes was funny, but it certainly wasn't credible.
What does that have to do your 'proof' that Obama is a secret homosexual? Nothing.
TLP| 2.20.13 @ 8:28AM
He can be the next Danny Pearl.
Another Idiot who refused to see them for The Subhuman Animals, that they are.
TLP| 2.20.13 @ 8:26AM
I have a better idea.
Perhaps young nathan would be nice enough to put his Airfare where his Mouth is?
I suggest that this Idiot - and that's what you are, nathan - hop a flight on Aluahu Akbar Airlines, and make his way over to Israel. (Maybe through one of Hamas' Tunnels?) Spend some time living along the Borders. Ride the Buses. Check out the Pizzerias. Take in some of the Daily Firework Displays that target Israeli Hospitals and Elementary Schools.
Everybody like nathan has a Shitt Fit, every time something like Newtown happens. Yet the Subhumans fire Rockets at Women and Children in Israel, EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK, and these people drop outta sight.
Why is that, nathan?
And, when is your Flight?
c. j. acworth| 2.20.13 @ 8:53AM
.....and what skyscraper will it crash into on the way?
Albert Constantine Jr.| 2.20.13 @ 9:11AM
Inshallah (and I'm thinking of some good ones in Qatar).
CJW| 2.20.13 @ 10:42AM
nathan is upset that KSM had some water poured on his face, probably the first shower he ever had. After all, what did KSM do to us, only kill 3,000 Americans.
nathan is upset that we did not prove TV remote controls for the terrorists at Club Gitmo. It was real torture that they had to get up to change the channels.
And the coffee was cold and the music too loud.
TLP| 2.20.13 @ 12:58PM
And, there's no Goat Whore House on the premises.
Jacob McCandles| 2.20.13 @ 1:37PM
Iran. The protesters were actually MORE pro-west than their theocratic leaders. Obama sat silent. He cheers Muslim brotherhood protests, but not even verbal encouragement to freedom-seekers in Iran. Now with every month that passes Iran is closer to turning the middle east on its head. Obama is a lying, gutless, POS.
markenoff| 2.20.13 @ 5:12PM
"torture is always something the other guy does to your people, it's never what you do to others."
What if it's something you also do to your own people? Air Force pilots were waterboarded as part of SERE training.
Stephie| 2.20.13 @ 6:58AM
It's the idiots that WILL watch this network that worry me. How about if teachers and liberal pastors watch and start sharing the wonderful world of oppression with the heads full of mush and the low information voters. But then our schools have already been infiltrates with the ideology of the left. Hate America, destroy America. Become Europe or worse.
CJW| 2.20.13 @ 10:45AM
Why watch Aljazeera when there is MSNBC? Now MSNBC will have competition for the loony left traitor audience.
Stephie| 2.20.13 @ 7:00AM
I forgot, I don't give a rats behind what the rest of the world thinks of us. They sure as hell like us when they're begging for our money.
I wonder if the current administration was encouraging algore to do this sale to help with his destruction of our once great nation.
Jack in Wi| 2.20.13 @ 7:08AM
Excellent comments Nathan. The racist and terrorist regime in Tel Aviv controls 90% of the media in this country. Let the other side have a little say. The Emir of Qatar is an American stooge anyhow. From what I can see of Al Jazeera English, it is more balanced then most American media. It also has a quite free comment section, like this site. So let there be many opinions. It is disgraceful that we don't have a real debate about Middle East policy in this country. Gore and his pal Eliot Spitzer are both firm Zionists. Zionists should be happy for them, that they made a fortune.
Robbins Mitchell| 2.20.13 @ 7:42AM
How long have you been worshiping at the Church of Hitler's Dick anyway?
TLP| 2.20.13 @ 8:46AM
You have to understand that Jack has a conflict of interest when it comes to these people.
Apparently, his Wife's Niece is 'The Whore of Africa' and was worshipping at her Black African Muslim King's dick, for a while. It's true. Her "Boyfriend" was a Black African Muslim King. At least that's what Jack said.
Now, apparently, she's shacked up with another African. An African American. He's not a Muslim. But he is a King. He's the King of Crack (Her's, and the Cocaine kind) of 42nd Street.
And, why do I think his name is Leroy Brown, and that he's bad?
Drunken Sailor| 2.20.13 @ 10:17AM
Is he badder than old king kong and meaner than a junkyard dog? And just where in the hell is Slim?
TLP| 2.20.13 @ 11:13AM
All I know is that he has a Drop Top Cadillac.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 2.20.13 @ 12:23PM
Willie McCoy aka Slim messed around with Big Jim. Leroy Brown was left looking like a jigsaw puzzle with a couple of pieces gones as a result of messin' with the wife of a jealous man (aka Doris' husband).
Drunken Sailor| 2.20.13 @ 1:47PM
Al, That was deliberate. I realize it is two different songs. Just always wondered how a match between Leroy and Slim would turn out. Seems Croce like to sing about guys who thought they were bad only to find someone meaner and tougher.
Fond memories of listening to him and Freddy Fender on 8 track in my mom's el-camino (what can I say she was "Joy" before Earl was cool).
Albert Constantine Jr.| 2.20.13 @ 1:52PM
I have a tough time keeping the two separated (I was going to say Leroy Brown was cut in about a hundred places and shot in a couple more, then I remembered that was Jim's fate).
I recall the first 8 track player I saw in action was in my uncle's AMC Gremlin.
TLP| 2.20.13 @ 2:36PM
Who's Doris?
Albert Constantine Jr.| 2.20.13 @ 4:11PM
The girl at the edge of the bar (and boy that girl looked nice).
Drunken Sailor| 2.20.13 @ 4:25PM
Well he cast his eyes upon her
And the trouble soon began
Leroy Brown learned a lesson
'Bout messin' with the wife of a jealous man
More lyrics: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/j/jim_croce/
markenoff| 2.20.13 @ 5:16PM
Neither one of them ever tussled with a boy named Sue.
CJW| 2.20.13 @ 8:29AM
Jack and Nathan can go to work for AljazeeraGore, maybe get paid to post here.
Pecos Pete| 2.20.13 @ 9:35AM
CJW: I have been assuming that Jack and Nathan and Purp and Awnie and vtwin and Jack Of London, and maybe even PK, are now and always have been employees of AljazeeraGore/Soros, etc. Could I be wrong and they are just now getting jobs based on their performance a TAS?
Bob Grant| 2.20.13 @ 10:22AM
Yes, you could be.
They have low standards.
CJW| 2.20.13 @ 10:54AM
Senor Pete and Bob
I think arnie and purpie are the same. They/he/it are Soros trolls, now maybe they will get a raise to $12/hour from Algore since Al has 500 million.
nathan had a mental breakdown when we gave KSM, that harmless little cleric, a cold shower, cold coffee, stale donut, and no TV remote.
commie jack is irrelevant.
TLP| 2.20.13 @ 1:02PM
They'll be charged with Gathering the Rocks, for the Nightly Stoning Segment of the Program.
Occam's Tool| 2.20.13 @ 8:42PM
Yes, because we are JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS! Now, it's off to my JewCave in Bermuda's extensive cave system to control the world's money supply! Jack, you have found me OUT!
(Roger Ailes isn't Jewish, by the way. Hemophiliac, yes; Jewish, no.)
Note how pro-Israel George Soros is! And Noam Chomsky!
Gore is not a pro-Zionist. Thank you.
Joellen| 2.20.13 @ 7:21AM
Yesterday I stated Joe Biden is insane. Today I expand that statement to include Al Gore, and the whole leftist party and their followers, i.e, Perp, Nathan, Arnie, etc., and that not only are they insane they are truly evil.
Although I hate to waste space, Nathan tries to justify Gore's evil transaction with justifications of why it is ok to allow ISLAMIC TERRORIST to lay down with lambs.
They DO know that there will be no good ending to this appeasment.
They DO understand exactly that these terrorist have declared "Death To America" over and over, and have demonstrated with 9/11 that they are resolute and as Mr. Wilson stated, elated to know they have such a willing people right here in the USA to assist them in their goal.
Yet Nathan above, makes the most INSANE comment "it never hurts to know how one sees you".
Nathan, take a good look at the footage of 9/11 - that will tell you exactly "how they see us";
and listen up Nathan, they are NOT going to warn you when they plot their next attack.
USEFUL INSANE, EVIL IDIOTS.
nathan| 2.20.13 @ 7:55AM
Oh please Munich again? It's never, Benes didn't mass his tanks at the border and defend HIS country, no it's always Chamberlain who had no real obligation to do anything, always him. So we have to have "appeasement" thrown at us for another 80 years. It would be nice if we learned the REAL lesson of Munich?
That aside, Madam, tell me, would you have blocked the sale, and if so pray tell on what basis? Does the First Amendment remotely enter into this discussion? If I bring Madison into this debate, will you still call me names? Or is this another, you like the Constitution until you don't like it, up to the point where it becomes inconvenient for you? What laws did he break by doing the sale madam? What laws does that network currently break? Care to name one? If you can't, then they do have rights do they not? I mean if you think they're violating any laws, by all means let's Fifth Amendment them and go from there. But short of that what would you propose to do?
jothepro| 2.20.13 @ 8:16AM
I would propose a law that makes it a federal offense to read any more posts from girls like nathan..
Bob Grant| 2.20.13 @ 9:35AM
Nathan,
No one with a brain suggested the sale should be blocked. We are simply pointing out Al Gores' hypocrisy of selling to a Big Oil magnate and the odd (almost comical) union of Liberalism USA/Islamic fundamentalism.
Quit posing your straw man arguments as legitimate questions.
JP| 2.20.13 @ 11:33AM
Actually, Great Britain and France were obligated by the Versailles Treaty in enforcing a number of points - all of which Hitler broke.
And you seem blissfully unaware that General Beck (Chief of Staff of the German Army) already had a coup planned in the event that Great Britain and France invaded the Reich in response to Hitler's invasion of Czecheslovakia. Chamberlin not only betrayed the Czechs, he also betrayed the Germans, who had one last shot in overthrowing Hitler.
TLP| 2.20.13 @ 1:04PM
And yet, nathan seems to have No Problem with how WE see him.
Interesting.
Occam's Tool| 2.20.13 @ 8:38PM
My Man, TLP.
markenoff| 2.20.13 @ 5:21PM
Nathan you are historically ignorant if you automatically equate appeasement with Munich.
The west during the '30s ignored the militarism and expansionism of the Japanese and Italians long before Munich. If the west had supported China and Ethiopia Hitler might not have had the balls to threaten Czechoslavakia.
Though I'm no expert on Hitler's balls. We'll have to ask Jack in WI his opinion as the resident expert.
Bob Grant| 2.20.13 @ 8:50AM
Al Gore's not insane, Joellen. He's a hypocrite. He has no integrity. It's really that simple.
He loves money more than saving the Earth because if he truly believed the AGW garbage he puts forth (being the self-appointed prophet figure on the subject), he wouldn't dare to entertain the thought of making such a deal.
Why conservatives aren't making more of an issue of this boggles the mind. Oh, I know why. They're too busy going after each other. Yea, I almost forgot.
Joellen| 2.20.13 @ 8:24AM
Jothepro - as a lady/girl/female, please dont put Nathan in the same class; he is not a girl, he is a COWARD.
He thinks he is protected from whats coming, so he is not just a coward he is a fool.
Nathan and his ilk will never bring into the equation MORAL TURPITUDE when it applies to the lefts agenda.
He is the epitomy of "USEFUL IDIOT".
jothepro| 2.20.13 @ 8:38AM
Sorry Joellen, Girls like you are what this country needs more of. Girls like nathan piss me off...
TLP| 2.20.13 @ 1:06PM
Don't you mean: Useless Idiot?
Occam's Tool| 2.20.13 @ 8:38PM
Nathan has no clue of what evil exists in the real world. None. No Clue.
As the former Psychiatrist for Alabama's Death Row, I have a somewhat better idea...
Joellen, you are correct again. As usual. Kind of like watching Stan Musial play ball (not that you look like Stan, just the brilliance, coupled with the decency of character).
Hardcard| 2.20.13 @ 9:08AM
fat algore has massage envy, and a penchant for the happy ending, he does not like to pay the person rubbing his fat rolls and hangers, just like boobie menendez. algore is just another used Trojan (rubber). We have many paid trolls on this site, we must be annoying, soros and buffet to attract so many of these punks.
Bob Grant| 2.20.13 @ 9:24AM
It's amazing how Scrooge-like they become (the caricature they've created of conservatives) when they have to fork over money from their own pot of gold to pay for goods, services, and ....happy endings.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 2.20.13 @ 9:29AM
...even a crazed sex poodle needs to be groomed...
drake1456| 2.20.13 @ 9:13AM
Funny how the Dems were up in arms about Big oils' 4 billion dolar tax credits last year,but nary a whisper about Facebook getting a 1 billion dollar write off to avoid ALL taxes. I dont know how many people Facebook employs, but they dojnt make a damn thing. At least oil is something we all need to live our lives. I dont see how Zucker and his data mining he shres with Obama can get away with this farce.
SUBVET| 2.20.13 @ 10:35AM
Drake..........facebook is just another deversion, one more thing to occupy the "sheepel" as their liberties are taken away. Zucker is making millions with no tax liability.....he is truly part of the progressive agenda.
markenoff| 2.20.13 @ 5:23PM
Many of the humans were entertained until the very end. - Anonymous Cylon
Hardcard| 2.20.13 @ 9:15AM
Keep the pressure on the left/socialists, TLP, Joellen, Albert and even Bob, the more trolls we see around here, the more you are making the worms squirm in their rotting dishonest slime.
TLP| 2.20.13 @ 1:08PM
I notice that you didn't include CJW.
Interesting.
Anthony| 2.20.13 @ 9:28AM
Al Jazeera is considering a reality show with a polar bear and Algore on an ice floe to see which one will survive the ravages of anthropogenic global warming.
I'm betting on Algore, as his insulation is far more substancial than that of the poor polar bear's, not to mention, his head is so hard, it can bash through a foot of ice to grab a fish.
markenoff| 2.20.13 @ 5:24PM
I heard it was Al Gore and Manbearpig.
N8tivTxn| 2.20.13 @ 9:48AM
For Al Jaz's logo, I propose a headless horseman...
Will there be late night reruns of their best attack America footage...
T.I.C.: Although real "investigative reporters" should be refreshing... and offer something for our MSM lapdogs to aspire to.
In looking for the positive... I see an interesting scenario to come for some non-Muslim employment and hiring lawsuits.
nathan| 2.20.13 @ 10:03AM
My my. Since when is name calling a "conservative" trait? Such bad manners really. Obviously no real "southerners" here. Sad.
Of course the "reverand" Al is a hypocrit. You have to love the house he has that uses more electricity than a city block, he buys offsets from a company he conveniently owns. Everyone knows this. I don't defend him in the least. But I don't defend "conservative" hypocrisy either.
TLP, the book I'm reading (I've asked you before, what books if any do YOU read?) documents how the Israelis systematically tortured Palestinians, and in the case the author documents they got lit up in an Israeli court for it. And the people they abused? Innocent of any wrong doing like most everyone who gets abused. Now defend that behavior all you want. Defend the policy makers who told the soldiers to do it and the soldiers who carried out patently illegal orders. Feel free. Whatever is being done to them does not justify that kind of behavior. Or does it?
Gore and others like him are jokes. Never said anything different. But if people do not break laws, have not, until they do they have rights which cannot be taken from them. Unalienable rights doctrine anyone? When I see you and others here walk on water, then I'll pay more attention. Until then . . .
Drunken Sailor| 2.20.13 @ 10:23AM
Nathan, you are a one trick pony. Torture, torture, torture. That's all we ever hear from you. You love to point out what torture you believe the US and Israel used but not a peep out of you about the methods of Hamas, Hezbollah, are any other nation.
WE GET IT, YOU ARE AGAINST TORTURE. Can we move the F*ck on now?
Bob Grant| 2.20.13 @ 10:33AM
"Israelis systematically tortured Palestinians,"
Ask any Palestinian within the safe (and functional) confines of Israel and they'd tell you a different story. The conversation would be "confidential", of course.
You see, SANE Palestinians love living in Israel because of the opportunities it provides themselves and their families. That is, provided they don't do something stoooopid like put on a vest and walk into a crowded mall or onto a bus.
These Silent Majority Palestinians you will never read about in that book or yours.
CJW| 2.20.13 @ 11:01AM
The Arabs residing in Israel have more civil rights and freedom than any Arab living in any Arab country. Ask any Arab whether he would prefer to live in Israel or Libya, Egypt, Iran, Sudan, etc. And ask the young Arab women whether they would like to reside in Israel or stay in Iran,etc and get killed for wearing makeup or going out on a date.
Bob Grant| 2.20.13 @ 11:17AM
CJW,
Pride is a bitter pill to swallow.
SUBVET| 2.20.13 @ 10:39AM
nathan........what was the name of that book ??
George S| 2.20.13 @ 10:46AM
I'd like to read that book, it would add to my scholarly collection that includes the origin of what some falsely call 'blood libel': "Jews need the blood of a Christian child, maybe, to mix in with their Matzah."
Since I read that and the author "documents" it, it must be true. To think that Jews have been using their own blood as a weapon in their quest for global commercialization. Now defend that behavior all you want.
markenoff| 2.20.13 @ 5:26PM
Put it right next to "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" and "Mein Kampf". Wait, that's Jack in WI's bookshelf.
TLP| 2.20.13 @ 1:20PM
Maybe if the Palestinians weren't spending all of their time trying to KILL ISRAELIS.
They wouldn't have to worry about that kind of stuff.
Maybe if the Palestinians weren't Killing Israeli Women, their Kids, and the Unborn Baby in their Wombs, while driving in their Cars to the Store. They wouldn't have to worry about that kind of stuff.
Maybe if the Palestinians weren't breaking into Israeli's Homes, in the middle of the night, and Killing them in their sleep, and taking pictures of themselves DECAPITATING Three Month Old Little Girls. They wouldn't have to worry about that kind of stuff.
Maybe if the Palestinians weren't Firing Thousands of Rockets into Israeli Cities, every year. They wouldn't have to worry about that kind of stuff.
Shall I continue?
Cause, I know how Stupid you are.
Frekki| 2.20.13 @ 1:39PM
"and in the case the author documents they got lit up in an Israeli court for it"
Well, well, you admit then that Israel has fair courts. Name anytime the Palestinian courts have prosecuted their own for killing Israelis. Anytime.
Occam's Tool| 2.20.13 @ 8:35PM
Nathan: Palestinians torture and kill their own as a matter of government policy. Israeli courts prosecute those who torture Palestinians. You see no difference between these two forms of government?
Blithering idiot.
Citizen Jerry| 2.20.13 @ 10:47AM
Journalists with no moral scruples? Isn't that kind of like saying the Pope is Catholic?
Occam's Tool| 2.20.13 @ 8:32PM
Journalists have morals very similar to those of Jackboot Jack on child molestation: none.
nathan| 2.20.13 @ 10:59AM
Subvet, George: The book is "Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People, The Dynamics of Torture" by John Conroy. I also routinely suggest Ghost Plane, and also Torture and Impunity.
I'm more than aware of the stuff Christians three at Jews about sacrificing babies. This ain't it.
Why focus on America in particular? Because we were the ones who demanded Nuremburg and Tokyo. We helped draft and signed Geneva. We are the ones who light up others over human rights abuses. Now, if we're going to talk it, we simply have to walk it. I can't control others, however ghastly they are, and no question they really are just as the nazis were, I don't control them. But my country, well I live here, and I want MY country to play by the rules we established. I don't want OUR principles violated for any reasons. Look at the congressional report, pay attention to the 30o page summary. THEN defend Cheney, Bush and the rest. Read McCoy's b0ok and then defend what we did. In Conroy's book he takes three cases, a Chicago police case, the Israeli case, and a Northern Ireland case. He does a detailed look at Milgram. Based on what I read on this site, a lot of you would be in the 60 percent that complied with the guy in the white coat in that experiment.
I'll make a deal with you all, I'll stop when I see people quit defending such nonsense. But I refuse to be Martin Niemollor.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 2.20.13 @ 11:34AM
“I don't want OUR principles violated for any reasons”
It sounds like you’re saying, Nathan, that the Constitution is a suicide pact, despite what Justice Jackson (who also performed at Nuremburg) said.
TLP| 2.20.13 @ 1:24PM
And, who the Hell is John Conroy?
That's like DickRed sighting "Twitchy" as his Reputable Source, yesterday.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 2.20.13 @ 1:56PM
I was going to say it was the guy who wrote "The Great Santini" and "The Prince of Tides", but I think that it Pat Conroy (if we all were lined up alphabetically, either would like be right in front of me, though).
markenoff| 2.20.13 @ 5:29PM
But its not torture when SUSPECTED terrorists and their families are killed by missiles launched from drones. You see, they don't suffer.
Yes, killing suspected terrorists and their families with missiles launched from drones is entirely within the framework of our principles as far as Nathan is concerned.
JP| 2.20.13 @ 11:29AM
"I don't want OUR principles violated for any reasons. Look at the congressional report, pay attention to the 30o page summary. THEN defend Cheney, Bush and the rest."
Err....Obama has been President going on 5 years. Reid has run the Senate going on 7 years. The Dems have expanded everything Bush/Cheney have done. Yet, you persist in calling the WOT a GOP thing. Go back to Koz, Huffpo, or whatever rock you call home.
TLP| 2.20.13 @ 1:26PM
They've not only Expanded them.
They've Expanded them EXPONENTIALLY.
Dimitry_Aleksandrovich| 2.20.13 @ 2:48PM
Al Jazeera is a propaganda tool of the Qatari government and their fellow Wahhabist gulf Arabs in Saudi Arabia. Al Jazeera has been doing America's bidding in Syria and Libya acting as a propaganda tool to rally Wahhabist/Salafist fanatics against the regimes of Ghaddafi and Bashar al Assad. What Fox News is to corporatism and neoconservative blowhardism that's what Al Jazeera is to the Sunni Muslim world. It's a Qatari and Saudi propaganda machine. There shouldn't be a problem with Al Jazeera setting up shop in the states nowadays since the US government now aligns itself with Sunni fanatics in Libya and Syria.
Marc Jeric| 2.20.13 @ 3:02PM
That gallery of far-left rogues manning the new Obama administration – Kerry, Brennan, Hagel, etc. will complete the “transformation” of America. They are intent on implementing the unfinished portion of Obama’s April Spring program of installing jihadist governments all over Northern Africa and the Middle East, thus leading to a lasting piece there after the annihilation of Israel and the 2nd Holocaust. “Negotiations” with Iran and North Korea will end up by these acquiring full complement of nuclear arms and necessary rocketry. The second Nobel Prize for Peace for our Marxist Muslim President will surely follow after these “accomplishments”.
Occam's Tool| 2.20.13 @ 8:31PM
Gold is dipping to under $1600.00/oz. Good time to buy. After the USA is hit with a WMD, I don't expect the good times to last.
Note: I look at these days we have now as the GOOD TIMES. My biggest investment is PM, which is entirely overseas. This is partly because I don't trust the US economy, and partly because I want to see certain people die of Lung Cancer.
Dimitry_Aleksandrovich| 2.20.13 @ 10:41PM
Gold and silver...I intend to invest. Times are not easy, at least I have a roof over my kids right? I also don't expect the US to survive in its current form but I don't think it will be do to a suitcase bomb. Our political and business elites have wittingly or unwittingly made their own WMD of sorts and when the federal government can no longer function because they can't barrow another buck from China to keep it running it will collapse and so will the union of states. Texas will be in pretty good shape as will California (resource wise at least) other less resource rich parts of the country may not fair that well.
PCC| 2.21.13 @ 8:42AM
First, I've been watching Al Jazeera English for years, and it is a serious, high quality news operation on a par with any of the US networks.
Second, its international news coverage is more in-depth and more balanced than any of the US networks. For example, you'd never hear a US news program utter the words "and now, for the Iranian view".
Third, I think the Republic will survive an alternative viewpoint, and may be the better for it.
WaffenSS| 2.21.13 @ 9:57AM
Good call PPC, I agree, an alternative view is needed in the media. Even if it's wahabi, etc., etc.. Up to the eighties, there were multitudes of news outlets, giving readers the opportunity of exposure to view points not avialable in todays media. The U.S. has major military presence in Qater, major military presence. We, (the U.S.), run operations in the lower Arab Peninsula from Qater. Qater is, of all the shiekdoms in the Emirates, is the most progessive. Allowing women to be human beings. Without fear of being genitialy mutilated.
bluecollarbytes| 2.21.13 @ 4:37PM
I expect al jazeera to refine its American broadcasts with the special lies it tells the West.
PhysicsBear| 2.22.13 @ 12:09PM
The cartoon shows them coming out of the wrong end.
Jim Adcox| 2.22.13 @ 8:16PM
Al Gore. . . . Al Gore? Hmm . . . the name's familiar. Oh, yeah! Now I remember! Wasn't he the guy that tried to steal the 2000 U.S. presidential election?