Al Gore

Charlie Rose Talks to Gore for 30 Minutes Without Mentioning 15 Year Halt to Rising Temperatures
By Noel Sheppard | September 25, 2013 | 3:24 PM EDT

With the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change about to release its much-anticipated fifth assessment report Friday, all eyes have been focused on how contributors will address the fifteen year halt to temperature increases despite rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide.

It was therefore preposterous of PBS’s Charlie Rose to spend almost 30 minutes talking to former President Bill Clinton and former Vice President Al Gore Tuesday - exclusively about climate change, mind you! - without once asking either of them about the temporary cessation to "global warming" or the problem this raises for the IPCC as well as adherents to this theory.

Al Gore Calls MSNBC's Chris Hayes 'This Generation's Edward R. Murrow'
By Noel Sheppard | August 17, 2013 | 2:49 PM EDT

Readers are strongly advised to remove all fluids, flammables, and sharp objects from their computers' proximity as the following is likely to cause uncontrollable fits of laughter! You've been warned!

Al Gore on Friday called MSNBC's Chris Hayes "this generation's Edward R. Murrow":

Keith Olbermann Booed for Making Fun of Al Gore
By Noel Sheppard | August 10, 2013 | 11:42 AM EDT

Keith Olbermann on Friday was booed for making fun of Al Gore.

Potentially even funnier, this happened moments after CBS’s Craig Ferguson mocked Olbermann for owning “a little dog that fits in your purse as you go around to your outspoken liberal meetings” (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):

David Shuster, ABC News Executive Join Al-Jazeera America for August 20 Arab Propaganda Launch
By Tim Graham | July 24, 2013 | 8:02 AM EDT

David "Karl Rove Will Be Indicted" Shuster is the latest cable-news host to join the Al-Jazeera America team. CNN's Ali Velshi signed up early, and Soledad O'Brien will be a special correspondent providing documentaries. The channel launches and replaces Current TV on August 20, the channel Al Gore sold (out) to the emir of Qatar in January for a reported $500 million (and maybe more). Current TV is presently available in 60 million homes, and seen by much, much less.

As part of its ongoing campaign to buy all the "mainstream" TV news veterans it can to rub prestige on itself, the Arab "news" channel also hired a new president in ABC News executive Kate O'Brian, a 30-year veteran of ABC. ABC News chief Ben Sherwood called the news "exciting and bittersweet." In the official press release, O'Brian, like other new hires, praises the al-Jazeera brand as synonymous with excellence, not Jew-baiting, America-bashing propaganda:

Al Jazeera Employees Quit Over Egypt Bias
By Matt Philbin | July 9, 2013 | 3:05 PM EDT

Well, The Washington Post sure knows how to bury a lead. It’s hardly news that someone is accusing Al Jazeera of having an anti-Western slant – it does and plenty of people have taken public exception to it. But when 22 of the network’s own employees quit because they can’t stomach the pervasive pro-Islamist bias, it’s something to write home about.

On July 9, the Post ran a straightforward “Style” section article about the latest charges of bias against Al Jazeera, this time about its pro-Muslim Brotherhood, pro-Morsi coverage of the Egyptian unrest. It seems the Egyptian military, with the hearty approval of gathered Egyptian journalists, banished some Al Jazeera reporters from a news conference.

Al Jazeera America Cable News Channel Set to Launch on August 20
By Randy Hall | July 4, 2013 | 12:45 AM EDT

The transition from Al Gore's low-rated Current TV cable channel to Al Jazeera America will conclude on Tuesday, August 20, when the newest addition to the Qatar-based international news network will be sent into about 40 million homes in the U.S.

Ever since the purchase was made public in early January, Ehab Al Shihabi -- the channel's executive in charge -- has been attempting to hire high-profile staff members, including long-time Cable News Network reporters Ali Velshi and Soledad O'Brien, to draw viewers to the new network, even though it doesn't yet have a chief executive or chief programmer.

Soledad O'Brien Joins Al Jazeera
By Noel Sheppard | July 1, 2013 | 10:52 AM EDT

This is just WAY too funny.

Soledad O'Brien, who failed miserably at CNN, is actually going to Al Jazeera.

The Wrap reported moments ago:

Gore Accuses Koch Brothers of Being 'Purveyors of the Dirtiest Energy on Earth'
By Noel Sheppard | June 11, 2013 | 7:17 PM EDT

Former Vice President Al Gore made some disgraceful statements about the Koch brothers Tuesday.

Participating in a Google+ Conversation, Gore accused two of the nation's largest employers of being "purveyors of the dirtiest energy on earth" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

New York Times Shocker: Global Warming Plateaued Last 15 Years Despite Rapid CO2 Rise
By Noel Sheppard | June 10, 2013 | 11:26 PM EDT

Al Gore must be a very, very unhappy man.

The New York Times published a piece Monday evening to appear in Tuesday's paper that exposed the really inconvenient truth that despite a rapid rise in carbon dioxide the past fifteen years, global warming has plateaued (emphasis added):

Former NBC Anchor Brokaw Confesses ‘I Watch Al-Jazeera’
By Lauren Enk | May 30, 2013 | 6:10 PM EDT

Al Jazeera continues to find friends among the American news media. Former NBC anchor Tom Brokaw plugged the anti-western, Qatar-owned news network during a May 30 appearance.

Brokaw commented during a HuffPo Live interview by host Alicia Menendez about his many years as a journalist. When Menendez mentioned that Al Jazeera, which recently purchased Gore’s Current TV, “is going on one of the biggest hiring binges in the U.S., media-hiring binges,” Brokaw interrupted her to announce: “I watch Al Jazeera.”

Dennis Miller Slams 'Phony,' 'Detestable' Al Gore, 'Everybody Should Shun'
By Brad Wilmouth | May 8, 2013 | 5:35 PM EDT

Appearing for his regular "Miller Time" segment on FNC's The O'Reilly Factor on Tuesday, comedian Dennis Miller denounced former Vice President Al Gore as a "detestable cat" and "a phony," as he recommended that "everybody should shun Al Gore" after he sold Current TV to Al-Jazeera.

After host Bill O'Reilly joked that Gore was a "personal friend' of Miller's, the comedian made a point of denying any friendship with the former Vice President as he began his response:

Ex-CNNer Jon Klein, Ex-NBC News Chief Steve Capus Reportedly Among Finalists to Head Al Jazeera America
By Ken Shepherd | May 6, 2013 | 12:58 PM EDT

Former CNN president Jon Klein and former NBC News president Steve Capus are reportedly among the finalists to take the helm of Al Jazeera America.

"One of the biggest jobs in media is a new position and a high-risk opportunity: running Al Jazeera America," Sharon Waxman of TheWrap.com reported this morning (emphasis mine):