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2010-06-25 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by lord garth 2010-06-25 12:08|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Note the "sale talks with Google" angle. This is crony capitalism in action:

Google seeks favorable regulatory treatment

Google hires ex-VP Al Gore to sit on its board, showers him with stock options

Gore latches on to BS internet startup

Gore's BS internet startup flounders

Google buys Gore's BS internet startup [attempted, not consummated].

All of these transpired, save for the last step in the crony capitalist circlejerk-- or in Gore's case, maybe we should say, handjob.

Meanwhile, Gore's BS electric car startup gets a $531 million sweetheart loan from Obama's Dept of Energy.

Gore isn't a democratic politician; he's a OC version of a Russian oligarch.

Posted by lex 2010-06-25 13:15|| 2010-06-25 13:15|| Front Page Top

#2 correction: Gore's a PC version of a Russian oligarch.

Posted by lex 2010-06-25 13:15|| 2010-06-25 13:15|| Front Page Top

#3 I presume PC stands for polecat, lex.

(For our foreign readers, polecat = skunk.)

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-06-25 13:20|| 2010-06-25 13:20|| Front Page Top

#4 For all the brilliance he has displayed grasping the meteorological dynamics governing the globe
Well that's one way of describing what a crazed sex poodle gets up to.

Posted by tipper 2010-06-25 13:23|| 2010-06-25 13:23|| Front Page Top

#5 I was thinking that the "rotund" massage client in his hotel robe must have looked more like a "crazed sex polar bear". No doubt depraved on accounta he's deprived of ice floes due to AGW.

Posted by lex 2010-06-25 13:27|| 2010-06-25 13:27|| Front Page Top

#6 even though it is owned by Gore Current actually has some pretty interesting documentaries on every once in awhile.

Posted by chris 2010-06-25 13:58|| 2010-06-25 13:58|| Front Page Top

#7 chris - the communist LinkTV is a million times more interesting and honest than Current TV...

Posted by 3dc 2010-06-25 14:05|| 2010-06-25 14:05|| Front Page Top

#8 Beached Sea Manatee would have been my first guess.

grasping the meteorological dynamics governing the globe
I don't understand, is that betadork for tush?

Posted by swksvolFF 2010-06-25 14:39|| 2010-06-25 14:39|| Front Page Top

#9 ummm 3dc I'm old enough too think for myself , Current doesn't just do politically mpotivated stories. They go different places in the world and show kind of like a National Geographic stuff . Like recently I watched a docu about Madagascar on there and it was pretty ointeresting. Sometimes we all need a break from just bitching about what goes on in politics and the wars.

Posted by chris 2010-06-25 15:35|| 2010-06-25 15:35|| Front Page Top

#10 "Current actually has some pretty interesting documentaries on every once in awhile."

Chris, where in the hell do you get it? Do you have to pay for it? (And why would you?)

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-06-25 16:00|| 2010-06-25 16:00|| Front Page Top

#11 How does its numbers compare with PJTV, which I think is sort of its competition, isn't it?

Posted by Mitch H. 2010-06-25 16:27|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2010-06-25 16:27|| Front Page Top

#12 The web has tons of interesting content, but almost none of it makes money. The issue with Current TV and Google is that Gore was monetizing his political reputation through a non-arms length financial transaction.

This is the essnece of crony capitalism. Shades of Berlusconi in Italy or Slim and the Mexican political class or Putin-Abramovich et al in Russia.

Posted by lex 2010-06-25 17:27|| 2010-06-25 17:27|| Front Page Top

#13 ..shopping the network with a price tag that wildly overestimated the company's worth,

rofl

Posted by Mike Hunt 2010-06-25 19:41|| 2010-06-25 19:41|| Front Page Top

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