Apparently, Al Gore Didn't Want to Sell Current TV to Oil-Rich Al Jazeera
Did you really believe that Al Gore would get away with selling Current TV to Al Jazeera for $500 million without getting sued? Silly optimist.
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Al Gore will always be known for suffering one of the most gut-wrenching losses in Electoral College history, but at least he's found a very nice way to cushion the blow.
Did you really believe that Al Gore would get away with selling Current TV to Al Jazeera for $500 million without getting sued? Silly optimist.
Al Gore is a complicated, accomplished man. Sometimes, he's misunderstood, while other times he's misunderestimated. But Al Gore is not disingenious. At least, according to Al Gore he's not.
Rebecca Dana on Current TV, Paul Krugman on budget bickering, Jeremy Warner on robotic economic growth, Tim Padgett on Venezuela's ailing leader, and William Pesek on India's rape case.
Within hours of CurrentTV officially being sold to Al Jazeera—netting Al Gore a cool $100 million—Time Warner Cable pulled the network from its channel lineups.
Every once in a while a tweet appears that's so silly, it must be a joke. Like this one from Glenn Beck: Before Al-Jazeera bought Current TV, TheBlaze looked into buying it but we were rejected by progressive owners.
The Guardian on Al Gore, The New York Times on an "Indiana Jones," Grist on post-election optimism, ClimateWire on snowpacks, and Co.Exist on fishing.
Hours after the tragic shooting deaths in Aurora, Colorado advocates on both sides of the gun control debate began reciting the same talking points they've reiterated for years.
Today: Rufus Wainwright has a few Catholics angry, Al Gore is steppin' out, and Elin Nordegren is looking for love.
For 24 hours, people cared so much about a mean thing Hilary Rosen said about Ann Romney that more people searched for "Ann Romney" on Twitter than "Justin Bieber," the tween Twitter god. This fake outrage -- the "Umbrage Wars"! -- is a terrible thing, according to lots of hand-winging reporters. They're wrong.
The former Vice President comes out against the Stop Online Piracy Act.
Senior officials at the State Department cheered the company's quest for approval
The Apple board member let slip the new phones were coming next month
The vice president gives Uygur his own 7 p.m. week night show on Current TV
What did the president expect?
Oh, how the Internet loves a good gaffe!
The former vice president takes on the Obama in a Rolling Stone essay
The deposed MSNBC host's debut on Current was awfully familiar
One kind word from Barbra Streisand and he'll have a GOP bogeyman trifecta
Revelations in a new interview: he doesn't talk to Rachel Maddow, bad-mouthed Jeff Zucker
The former vice president is furious that News Corp. dropped Current TV in Italy
Data featured in Al Gore's film turns out to be more complicated than simple graphs
The new 'Countdown with Keith Olbermann' will premiere on Current TV on June 20
The representative's visual aids look strikingly familiar
It took him some time, but he's finally found the ideal project at Random House
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