Al Gore Finds His Niche

Imagine that.

Al Gore a hypocritical bull shitter?

Hey, I tried to tell you...

True story. In the building where I worked one of the offices was some climate change activist group that was promised some grant from some Al Gore sponsored program.

One of the women who worked there was smoking outside one day and talking about how her office was abandoned by Gore. Her disappointment was palpable. "Bunch of liars" as she put it.

Duh.

An Inconvenient Truth was a Convenient Lie to billions, you know.

Anyway.

“Of course Al didn’t show up,” said one high placed Current staffer. “He has no credibility.
“He’s supposed to be the face of clean energy and just sold [the channel] to very big oil, the emir of Qatar! Current never even took big oil advertising—and Al Gore, that bulls***ter sells to the emir?”

"The displeasure with Gore among the staff was thick enough to cut with a scimitar.
“We all know now that Al Gore is nothing but a bulls***ter,” said the staffer bluntly.
We do stories on the tax code, and he sells the network before the tax code kicked in?
“Al was always lecturing us about green. He kept his word about green all right—as in cold, hard cash!”

The ultimate insult to people is he chose to sell it to Al-jazeera.

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Since we're hammering liberal hypocrisy, it's a nice time to remind George Soros is a convicted felon.

Funny. Liberals obsess of the criminal entity known as Rumsfeld-Cheney-Bush. Yet, their roster is no better. Worse in fact. Obama-Clinton had no problem with war too.

You have in the liberal ranks men of remarkable bull shitting skills. Look, I don't give a shit. What bothers me is these are the people busting our balls about "social justice."

Please.

From Wiki:

"In 1989, the Commission des Opérations de Bourse (the French stock exchange regulatory authority) conducted an investigation of whether Soros' transaction in Société Générale should be considered insider trading. Soros had received no information from the Société Générale, and had no insider knowledge of the business, but he did possess knowledge that a group of investors was planning a takeover attempt. The COB concluded that the statutes, regulations and case law relating to insider trading did not clearly establish that a crime had occurred, and that no charges should be brought against Soros.

Several years later, a Paris-based prosecutor reopened the case against Soros and two other French businessmen, disregarding the COB's findings. This resulted in Soros' 2005 conviction for insider trading by the Court of Appeals (he was the only one of the three to receive a conviction). The French Supreme Court confirmed the conviction on June 14, 2006, but reduced the penalty to the minimum.

Punitive damages were not sought because of the delay in bringing the case to trial. Soros denied any wrongdoing, saying news of the takeover was public knowledge^[ and it was documented that his intent to acquire shares of the company predated his own awareness of the takeover.

His insider trading conviction was upheld by the highest court in France on June 14, 2006. In December 2006, he appealed to the European Court of Human Rights on various grounds including that the 14-year delay in bringing the case to trial precluded a fair hearing.  On the basis of Article 7 of the European Convention on Human Rights  stating that no person may be punished for an act that was not a criminal offense at the time that it was committed, the Court agreed to hear the appeal.In October 2011, the court rejected his appeal in a 4–3 decision, saying that Soros had been aware of the risk of breaking insider trading laws.

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Again, I don't think anyone would take issue of what the people in the article do to take advantage of legal tax exemptions available.

The difference is that we don't go around demanding other people pay higher taxes like they do.

I think it's fair to point this out as Victor Davis Hanson does here.

"Senator John Kerry, who will soon become secretary of state, is a tireless advocate of higher taxes while enjoying his multimillionaire wife’s multiple estates. In 2010, Massachusetts resident Kerry docked his new $7 million yacht in nearby Rhode Island in order to avoid paying about $500,000 in taxes to his home state. Should not Kerry have welcomed the chance to chip in half a million to an insolvent treasury, given his advocacy for higher taxes? Could Kerry not have purchased a smaller yacht for $4 million in order to budget for the necessary taxes? Gore, Obama, and Kerry, after all, tirelessly boast that the taxes they advocate would fall mostly on people like themselves — omitting the fact that, as we see from Kerry’s boat deal, Gore’s TV deal, and Obama’s adjacent-lot deal with Tony Rezko, politicians not only mostly live on the public dole without the expenses that the rest of us incur, but also have miraculous ways of avoiding the sort of taxes they harangue others about."

I blame Bush for their actions. Obviously they were coerced into it.