Johnson:<\/strong> This is the ultimate Lear Jet liberal who’s lost his mind. He is richer though. They made a half billion dollars on it. And you know the reason he said it’s a good sale? “I’m not gonna sell to Glenn Beck. I’m not gonna sell to American media folks. I am gonna sell to Al Jazeera. You know why? Because they’re the best at discussing climate change.” That’s like saying “I’m gonna sell it to the NRA because they’re the best at discussing gun control.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\nSetting aside the fact that Johnson thinks Gore, who just made $100,000,000, has lost his mind, the case he is making defies logic. If it is, as Johnson says, like selling to the NRA who cannot report objectively on guns because they are proponents of guns, then Johnson is asserting that Current cannot sell to Al Jazeera and expect objective reporting on climate change because Al Jazeera is a proponent of climate reform measures. Except that Johnson just got finished criticizing the sale because Al Jazeera’s oil-rich Qatari base would oppose such measures.<\/p>\n
So which is it? Is Gore a hypocrite for selling an environmentally conscious network to a bunch of fossil fuel fanatics? Or is he handing off his company to a news outlet that is going to advocate for alternative energy rather than cover the issue objectively? Johnson wants to characterize Al Jazeera as beholden to oil interests and biased against them at the same time. And he has the nerve to say that Gore has lost his mind?<\/p>\n
It’s bad enough that Fox News is the public relations arm of the Republican Party. And it’s all the worse that they brazenly lie to fulfill that role. But do they have to be so staggeringly stupid while they’re at it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This morning on Fox & Friends, the kindergarten crew welcomed Rupert Murdoch’s personal attorney, Peter Johnson, Jr. (the man with three euphemisms for penis in his name), to engage in yet another round of bashing Al Gore for selling his Current TV network to Al Jazeera. 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Followers of the Fox Nation vs. Reality series have probably already guessed\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10324,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10324","url_meta":{"origin":8998,"position":4},"title":"BREAKING: Obama Does Something, Fox News Opposes It","author":"Mark NC","date":"8\/7\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"This just in from our Washington bureau. The White House has announced that President Obama will be taking decisive action on a critical foreign and\/or domestic policy matter effective immediately. Be Sure To \u201cLIKE\u201d News Corpse On Facebook The American people are paying close attention and we will be monitoring\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8282,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8282","url_meta":{"origin":8998,"position":5},"title":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: Al Gore Going Up The River?","author":"Mark NC","date":"10\/23\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"With the multitude of disreputable sources that Fox News has to chose from, it is still somewhat surprising that they frequently chose to embrace the utterly demented WorldNetDaily as a source for news stories that they republish on Fox Nation. 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