After the sale of Current TV to Al Jazeera was announced earlier this year, Cenk Uygur, one of Current TV’s political pontificators, told POLITICO that he wouldn’t mind staying with the network when the dust settles: Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks told POLITICO that unlike some of his Current TV colleagues, he’s open to […]
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Chairman of House Homeland Security Committee not making Al Gore’s sale to Al Jazeera a priority
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), the new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, doesn’t appear to be interested in making Al Gore’s sale of CURRENT TV to Al Jazeera a priority. Accuracy in Media’s Cliff Kincaid was told as much in no uncertain terms from an aid to McCaul. Via AIM: Despite this looming threat […]
Censored by Conservative Media for accusing Al Gore of Treason?
Cliff Kincaid, of America’s Survival, recently did an interview with Brent Bozell’s Media Research Center (MRC) about the sale of Al Gore’s CURRENT TV to Al Jazeera. Toward the end of the interview, Kincaid accused Al Gore of treason (rightfully so). However, after talking to the folks at MRC, Kincaid was basically informed that his […]
Video: Al Gore tells Letterman that sale to Al Jazeera ok because Qatar working on Green Energy
There is a reason that Al Gore agreed to appear on David Letterman’s show. That reason is that Letterman has been swimming in the liberal tank for a long time. That said, the hypocrisy of Al Gore – the man at the tip of the fraudulent Global Warming spear – is so blatant that even […]
How did Al Jazeera cover the Huma Abedin controversy?
As the controversy over the sale of Al Gore’s Current TV to Al Jazeera continues, one of the things being argued by apologists for the deal is that Al Jazeera English is not like its Arabic counterpart. Al Jazeera English, we’re told, is a legitimate news operation that plays it straight and actually covers international […]
Walid co-signs letter calling on House Homeland Security Chairman to hold hearings on Al Gore / Al Jazeera deal
The new Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) – who replaced Rep. Peter King (R-NY) this month – has been sent a letter by Cliff Kincaid of America’s Survial and Accuracy in Media, which has several signatories, including Walid, Pamela Geller, Brent Bozell, Frank Gaffney, Steven Emerson, Larry Grathwohl, and […]
Video: CNBC’s Larry Kudlow interviews USA Survival’s Cliff Kincaid about Al Jazeera deal
While appearing on CNBC’s ‘The Kudlow Report’, Cliff Kincaid, of Accuracy in Media and USA Survival, talked about the sale of Current TV to Al Jazeera. It was nice to see Kincaid not mince words at all. In fact, he made the claim that Al Jazeera is an extension of the Muslim Brotherhood. It was […]
George Bush’s Dubai Ports World deal vs. Al Gore’s Al Jazeera deal
Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a mere 236 miles east of Doha, Qatar, where the headquarters of Al Jazeera is located. After the sale of Al Gore’s Current TV to the Arabic news network, Al Jazeera America is expected to broadcast from New York. Via World Atlas: In 2006, the Dubai Ports World (DPW) […]
Propaganda from the Arabian Peninsula and Hollywood’s willing accomplices
West Texas has been experiencing an oil boom for quite some time. Midland, Texas is an oasis of economic activity amidst a desert of economic inactivity. One of the reasons for the boom has been the success of fracking, which seems to be spooking oil producers in the Middle East. Via the Texas Tribune: Today […]
Audio: Michael Savage interviews Ben Barrack
On January 4th, Ben Barrack appeared on the Savage Nation with Michael Savage to talk about the sale of Al Gore’s Current TV to Al Jazeera. Savage also makes mention of the fact that he’s in Barrack’s book as the man who first had Walid Shoebat on the air way back when. Audio below…
Al Jazeera’s Doublespeak
A common refrain we hear from those who defend Al Jazeera’s purchase of Current TV is that over the last decade, it is an entity that has decided it wants to become a legitimate news organization and that Al Jazeera English is nothing like Al Jazeera Arabic. Is that not the recipe for doublespeak, where […]
(Sharia) Law and Order, Egypt-style
Ah, the rule of (Sharia) law. Via CNS News: Egypt’s convoluted presidential election campaign became even more muddled at the weekend with an official electoral body’s decision to disqualify 10 out of 23 candidates, including three tipped as strong possibilities to win. The move brings further uncertainty over the future of the Arab world’s most […]
Iraq’s Sunni Vice President flees to Qatar; Shiite Prime Minister Al-Maliki demands he be returned
Syria is not the only place where the Sunni / Shiite divide is heating up. It’s also manifesting itself at the highest levels of government in Shiite-controlled Iraq. Last December, it was learned that an arrest warrant had been issued for Iraq’s Sunni Vice President – Tariq al-Hashemi – who fled to northern Iraq to […]