{"id":13567,"date":"2013-01-08T17:53:34","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T17:53:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-01-08T17:53:34","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T17:53:34","slug":"al_jazeera_buys_algore_s_hoax_machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/01\/08\/al_jazeera_buys_algore_s_hoax_machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Jazeera Buys Algore\u2019s Hoax Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Now, as you know, Algore has sold his TV network, Current TV, to Al Jazeera. A couple things about this. Yesterday morning, the staff, the still shell-shocked staff at Current TV, was called to an all-hands staff meeting at their headquarters in San Francisco, and that meeting was teleconferenced to their offices in Los Angeles and New York City, where the staff at Algore\u2019s network could meet their new bosses from Al Jazeera. <\/p>\n

Al Jazeera sent two of its top guys, Ehab Al Shihabi, the executive director of international operations, and Muftah AlSuwaidan, the general manager of the London bureau of Al Jazeera. Algore was not there. His partner, Joel Hyatt, was. Joel Hyatt, just so you know, is the son-in-law of the late senator from Ohio, Howard Metzenbaum. And the story in the New York Post about this is about how the staffers at Algore\u2019s network were not happy. They\u2019re disillusioned. They can\u2019t believe that Algore would sell the network to Al Jazeera. They can\u2019t believe they\u2019re working for Al Jazeera. <\/line><\/p>\n

Al Jazeera, now, stop and think about this, by the way. Al Jazeera was made possible by oil money. It\u2019s owned by the emir of Qatar. And Qatar has money for one reason — oil — which Algore hates, at least publicly. Algore is almost, from what I\u2019m told, almost a billionaire based simply on his positions on global warming. He has monetized a fraudulent, hoax position on global warming to the tune of nearly a billion dollars. Al Jazeera was purchased for $500 million, and of that $500 million, Algore got $100 million. Al Jazeera has 75,000 viewers. There is no way this network is worth $500 million. There is no way it\u2019s worth a hundred million to Algore, not in the standard ways using multiples, billing, audience, the standard ways that you would measure value of a media property. <\/p>\n

There is no way Al Jazeera or anybody else would pay $500 million for a network that nobody watches. And yet they did. And there\u2019s a reason why they did. By the way, at this staff meeting, Jennifer Granholm, who, you know, I wondered the other day if Jennifer Granholm and Joy Behar, who also has a show there, are now gonna be made to wear burqas and what impact that might have on audience ratings. If Granholm and Behar wear burqas, it might improve ratings<\/a>. But former Vice President Algore has almost called for terrorism against oil companies. This is no small thing, folks. <\/p>\n

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Let me tell you the reason that $500 million is not really the audience. It\u2019s the number of homes that the network reaches, it\u2019s the potential audience that might justify $500 million. But even that\u2019s a stretch. Algore succeeded in getting this network on a bunch of Big Cable systems so that theoretically Al Jazeera reaches 80% of the eyeballs in the country, via cable. Not that that many watch it, but that it\u2019s on their cable systems. Now, many of these cable systems took the network simply because of Algore. They\u2019d love to get rid of it. They don\u2019t want to pay anything for it. They don\u2019t want it occupying space, and they\u2019re using this as an opportunity to get rid of the network, which is where Algore comes in and why he was paid $500 million for this. <\/p>\n

Look at it this way. Think about it this way. If you were going to sell yourself for millions of dollars to a movement that has as its goal to infiltrate and overcome the United States of America, who better than Algore to partner with? If you\u2019re Algore and you have value, here is a way to demonstrate it. Look at what\u2019s happening, folks, in our country. We\u2019re currently using light bulbs, compact fluorescent light bulbs that are filled with mercury. They have now been found to cause skin cell death and cancer and of course there\u2019s the hazmat danger.<\/p>\n

If one of these things breaks in your home you\u2019ve got to call hazmat people to come and have it removed. There\u2019s no reason that we should have compact fluorescents mandated. There\u2019s no reason to ban the incandescent light bulb other than the political pressure brought to bear by the advancement of a hoax issue, i.e. global warming, saving the planet, saving the climate. <\/p>\n

Algore has succeeded in profound ways in furthering this hoax. <\/p>\n

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He\u2019s got people convinced that driving is bad, all because of the movie that he made that\u2019s filled with things in it that are not true. In fact, you could say (and I will say) that as far as many children are concerned — and susceptible, gullible adults — the fraudulent picture in Gore\u2019s movie, Earth in the Balance, of a polar bear on a small sheet of ice probably has had more impact and more effect and more success in “convincing,” quote, unquote, people that there\u2019s global warming. <\/p>\n

That picture of a polar bear on a small sheet of ice conveyed that the ice is melting, that the natural habitat for the polar bear is melting, and it\u2019s melting because of us. It\u2019s melting because of the cars we drive, the light bulbs that we use, the amount of fossil fuels that we use. It\u2019s all there in Gore\u2019s movie. The problem is stuff isn\u2019t melting. The polar bears are not threatened, their population\u2019s exploding, and that picture was fraudulent. Polar bears can swim 60 miles. Polar bears frolic on those little slivers of ice. <\/p>\n

But it was portrayed as its home. <\/p>\n

That picture\u2019s been everywhere, not just in Algore\u2019s movie, but it was prominently there. So because of that picture, you could say — and all of Algore\u2019s movie and the 20-plus years that make up this hoax — we\u2019ve got light bulbs that are threats. We got light bulbs that are not nearly as effective as the ones they were mandated to replace. Now, if you\u2019re Al Jazeera and you have as an objective to have your chance at influencing the American people to accept your worldview of things, who better than the guy like Algore to buy to do it? <\/p>\n

Look at all he succeeded at doing! We have been forced into these crappy light bulbs. We have been forced into a number of lifestyle choices, and there will be more coming. We are forced into manufacturing and buying automobiles nobody wants under the false premise that we\u2019re destroying the planet and these new light bulbs and cars will save the planet. We are being forced into accepting higher taxes<\/a>, bigger government.<\/p>\n

Because we must pay the price for our extravagant lifestyles which have led to the death of the polar bear and the destruction of the climate. We\u2019re forced into all of these laws by our elected officials, passed after being lobbied by environmentalist wackos. That image of a lost polar bear floating on the last remaining piece of ice on earth, which was the message behind that picture? All of this fraud is based on a made-up hoax, global warming, climate change, and sold to us by Algore who\u2019s become almost a billionaire in the process. <\/p>\n

He has been a relentless advocate and promoter of this thoroughly disprovable concept of manmade climate change and global warming. So if you pull yourself away from it, you have to say, in an objective way, he\u2019s done a hell of a job promoting this hoax that he believes in. He\u2019s done one hell of a job making it accepted. He\u2019s done one hell of a job convincing entire governments and populations that his hoax is real. <\/p>\n

If he\u2019s that effective for the environmentalist wackos at spreading countless numbers of lies, you gotta think that Al Jazeera has gotta be asking themselves, “What could this guy do for us?” And so, they\u2019re thrilled to pay him $500 million for a network that nobody watches. You might say it\u2019s a brilliant move on their part business-wise. Look who they\u2019ve got as a lobbyist now! Look at how effective he is, and look at the credibility he still has projecting a hoax.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: No, seriously, folks, stop and think of this. Here\u2019s Algore, who has become extremely wealthy perpetuating and personifying a hoax that is in large part based on the dangers of oil. Oil and fossil fuels are destroying the climate. Our use of these fuels is destroying the climate, is creating global warming, and there\u2019s nothing good about that in Algore\u2019s view. Yet who does he accept money from? <\/line><\/p>\n

He sells his network for $500 million to the grand pooh-bahs of Qatar, which only have that money to give or to buy it with because of oil. You could say, “Well, he\u2019s taken them to the cleaners, Rush! He sold them something that\u2019s not worth anything.” No, no. That\u2019s not what\u2019s happened. That is not what happened. Algore has accepted money from an industry, a nation state and industry that he tells everybody else needs to be shut down. And what did he sell them? <\/p>\n

He sold them a propaganda arm! <\/p>\n

He sold them a cable network that does reach 70% or 80% of the eyeballs in this country. So he took oil money. Anybody think that that\u2019s not on the up and up? Why would Algore want to have anything to do with Big Oil? He hates \u2019em. They\u2019re the reason that we are threatened. They are the reason that we\u2019re endangered. They\u2019re the ones that have been lying to us. They\u2019ve been the polluters! I think the reason they bought him is because he\u2019s obviously good at spreading propaganda. <\/p>\n

Al Jazeera obviously has a worldview. Al Jazeera, like any other news network, would love to be able to persuade everybody that watches it to agree with their worldview. Their worldview is not one friendly to us as a country rooted in Western Civilization. Al Jazeera doesn\u2019t have much to say about Western Civilization that\u2019s good. And yet they partner with Algore, who supposedly hates oil. <\/p>\n

So he gets even richer, gives them a propaganda arm, and remains involved perhaps as a consultant. And then Jennifer Granholm? What\u2019s funny about this staff meeting is Jennifer Granholm asked about severance packages for people like her who are quitting. And Joel Hyatt, Algore\u2019s partner, told her to shut up. “We\u2019re not talking about the at this meeting! Bring it up later.” Total, total, disrespect. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Palm Coast, Florida, with Alex. Welcome, sir. Nice to have you here with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. Listen, I\u2019d like to touch in on this issue about Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. First off, I would like to say that I am a Republican. I recently took a trip, my first trip to Europe. The only English channel that I was able to watch was the Al Jazeera network. I had my preconceptions from the United States on the credibility of the network and everything, and I kind of took it with a grain of salt when I started watching, but the more I started watching, the more I started realizing it wasn\u2019t the terrorist network that I think that Americans think that it is. They take a very hands off —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hang on just one brief moment.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You started out by saying that you are a Republican.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, that\u2019s cool, but why is that important?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think that particularly the Republican Party has these views. I think that the people who are more liberal don\u2019t have as hard a line on the idea that Al Jazeera is a terrorist network. I think that\u2019s kind of pushed more by the Republican side of our country.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It is? Okay. Republicans push the idea that Al Jazeera is a terrorist network?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, particularly conservative people like Bill O\u2019Reilly. I\u2019ve seen his show, you know, pushing the idea that it\u2019s more of a terrorist network and that it can\u2019t be taken seriously.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I haven\u2019t seen so much of that on CNN. But I would like to just touch on the issue that I think that they are a very credible network. I think that they\u2019re more along the lines of BBC World News in the way that they portray news. So the fact that —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Uh —<\/p>\n

CALLER: — Algore would —<\/p>\n

RUSH: BBC?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Is as almost admittedly now far left as you can get.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, far left, I mean, look, there is a conservative and liberal point of view. But at the same time, you know, Algore is a Democrat. He sold it to somebody that he thought was in line with his, you know, beliefs, which is, you know, more of a liberal ideology. But to say it\u2019s anti-American is to say something different than saying that it\u2019s liberal. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute, who says they\u2019re anti-western? Do you really want to make the case that Al Jazeera is objective, un-opinionated, that they don\u2019t represent a worldview?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, look, everybody represents a worldview. Every network that you\u2019re gonna watch is gonna represent a worldview. I just think that the way that they portray news, you can be from either side of the aisle, you can be in the United States and you can watch their news and you can judge it fairly. You can watch it like you can watch any other network. I don\u2019t think that it\u2019s anything ridiculous that they are coming to the United States. I think that they do have a worldview, but, you know, viewers can tune in, they can assess, but they\u2019ll —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Have you ever heard of a journalist named David Marish?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, I have. And I saw him on CNN after — I remember, he was a journalist for the network after he quit.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He was. And after he quit, he resigned from his position as the Washington anchor for Al Jazeera English —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — in 2008. He cited reflexive, adversarial editorial stances against Americans and anti-American bias as the reason that he resigned.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. I watched him, too. I remember he went on Fox News, he went on CNN, and he talked about that and, you know, he said a couple things. One thing that he said was that some of — first off, there has been a power shift in the network recently, you know, since the time that he started there and all that, and he said that it wasn\u2019t so much American bias, it\u2019s not like they injected it in the news. He just felt that in the newsroom and, you know, you can still take that, whatever.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, wait, see, he did say that. You\u2019re taking what he said and you\u2019re telling me that he didn\u2019t say it or that he didn\u2019t mean it, and he did say it. But that\u2019s not my point with this. You said it: Algore shares a worldview, Democrat-Democrat with Al Jazeera, and you\u2019ve called here to make the case it\u2019s no big deal. They\u2019re fairer and better and more balanced than American news. That\u2019s not my point. That was not the point at all. I think it\u2019s fascinating, though, that you wanted call and defend Al Jazeera editorially. <\/p>\n

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But that\u2019s not what I was talking about. My whole monologue on this has to do with the fact that Algore has demonstrated himself to be a class AAA propagandist. Al Jazeera has a vested interest in the part of the world they represent triumphing. That is undeniable. They\u2019ve hired a guy, they bought a guy who will now become a lobbyist for them to help expand their footprint or their influence. <\/p>\n

Now, here\u2019s Algore, who has made his name post-politics as being anti-oil, anti-fossil fuels, anti-conventional energy who just got in bed with conventional energy. He just got in bed with oil wells. He has gotten rich condemning them, and yet he\u2019s now taking their money to further enhance his own wealth and to help them expand their footprint, whatever their footprint is, whatever it ends up being. <\/p>\n

Now, all I\u2019m trying to do is explain, you know, because people said why would they pay $500 million for a network nobody watches? That\u2019s not what they were buying. They were buying distribution of this network. They\u2019re buying an opportunity to program it the way they want, and they\u2019re buying Algore as a means of helping them. So Algore is going to end up, already has, offered considerable assistance to a bunch of people he\u2019s gotten rich condemning, is my only point. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: I\u2019m gonna go back to Al Jazeera for a second because of the call we had. I don\u2019t think the caller that we had on Al Jazeera is a disconnected consumer of news. I think he was calling here to defend Al Jazeera on the merits as a news network, as a news organization. He was calling to defend them. He compared them to BBC. They\u2019re better than CNN and so forth. A number of people agree.<\/p>\n

Colin Powell, ladies, the titular head of the GOP, says he watches Al Jazeera. Hillary and Obama have both said they watch Al Jazeera and they praised it. They\u2019ve said that it is great. Hillary said Al Jazeera is the model of news reporting, and that\u2019s exactly what Al Jazeera wants people to think. Now, in addition to the connection that I\u2019ve made between Algore and Al Jazeera — and I think that\u2019s the big story here, not what kind of news network Al Jazeera is.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m gonna get into that here, but the real thing that people wonder is, “Why would they pay $500 million?” Literally, folks, they\u2019ve got 64,000 or 65,000 viewers tops. You don\u2019t pay $500 million for that. You do pay $500 million to get a good lobbyist, and that\u2019s what they got with Algore. Look, whatever you think of Algore, objectively we have to say the guy is pretty good at what he does. He has perpetrated a hoax. He\u2019s gotten rich off of it. He has persuaded millions of people that it\u2019s true. <\/p>\n

If you are Al Jazeera and you are seeking similar success in having people think that you are what you want them to think, who better than a guy like Gore? He comes already with (to a lot of people) credibility. He does that movie, he does that book, he puts that fraudulent photo of the polar bear up there on a little sheet of ice and little kids all over the country (impression), “Mommy! Mommy! We got to stop killing polar bears!” <\/p>\n

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And parents go out and buy cheap little cars and light bulbs, and people start blaming themselves for climate change when there isn\u2019t any manmade climate change. They start blaming themselves for global warming, start accepting big government, accepting tax increases, accepting the notion that they gotta buy things they don\u2019t want in order to save the planet. I mean, it\u2019s really been successfully well done. The irony is, Gore has become what he has become targeting Big Oil!<\/p>\n

Big Oil, fossil fuel! It is the number one enemy. It is who Algore has attempted to get everybody to hate. And yet who did he just get in bed with? The important thing is what Gore is going to do for Al Jazeera going forward. Now, about Al Jazeera. To understand Al Jazeera, you have to understand the difference between “Islamist” and “Islamist” terrorist. An Islamist is not “a Muslim.” You must understand this. Terms are specific and they have meaning.<\/p>\n

Words mean things. An Islamist is any Muslim person or institution that wants to impose Sharia law. An Islamist terrorist wants to do it via terrorism. An Islamist terrorist will accomplish the objective, or seek to, by pursuing radical objectives through terrorism. Now, Al Jazeera is not Islamist terrorist, but they are openly Islamist. They\u2019re not who they\u2019re not. They\u2019re not an island in the world of Islam that\u2019s not Islamist. <\/p>\n

They are who they are. <\/p>\n

Now, you may not be comfortable hearing it, you might not want to hear it, but it is what it is. Remember, I\u2019m the mayor of Realville. The most popular show on Al Jazeera is called Sharia and Life. It is hosted by a sheik, Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi. And he happens to be the top jurist in the Muslim Brotherhood, which is now running Egypt, who, by the way, Mr. Morrissey has now gone public again with demanding back the blind sheik, Omar Abdel Rahman, who\u2019s in jail here. <\/p>\n

That was the first thing that he said when he was elected president, in his campaign. The first thing he was gonna do is demand tax return of the blind sheik. That will happen. Mark my words. We will release the blind sheik, and we\u2019ll do the under the guise, “The poor guy\u2019s diabetic! He can\u2019t see. He\u2019s blind. He\u2019s wasting away.” Just like the Brits gave away the Pan Am bomber, we\u2019ll give away the blind sheik.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s supposedly the last days of his life. So he can live \u2019em out at home with family and friends,” blah, blah. I know this is gonna happen. But I am wandering off course a bit here. Al Jazeera is openly Islamist. Their most popular show is Sharia and Life, and it\u2019s hosted by Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who\u2019s the top jurist in the Muslim Brotherhood. The network, just like the Muslim Brotherhood, pretends to be opposed to terrorism. But they support Hamas; they support Hezbollah. They do it by rationalizing that these are just resistance and political organizations, not terrorist groups. <\/p>\n

Now, I don\u2019t want anybody to think that I have just said that every Muslim is an Islamist. They\u2019re not. It\u2019s why I\u2019m making the point here. The difference here is between “Islamist” and “Islamist terrorist.” Islamists and Islamist terrorists have the same objective. They just go about it different ways. Al Jazeera wouldn\u2019t get on one cable network if they\u2019re openly advocating terrorism to achieve their objectives. So they\u2019re doing it under the guise of news. <\/p>\n

You can\u2019t blame them! <\/p>\n