First, a flashback. Could Obama or his advisors have brokered this deal?
- Obama Hosts Boss of Terror Channel Al-Jazeera
- Obama admin official urges cable companies to carry Al-Jazeera
Most disturbing about the sale of Al Gore
and Joel Hyatt’s Current TV to Al Jazeera are the reported sanctimonious
remarks about the character of the Current Network and the comparable
frame of mind of Al Jazeera. Qatar’s leadership, according to Gulf analyst Kristian Coates Ulrichsen,
would like to propagate “a Qatari sponsored narrative of events in the
Middle East and elsewhere,” and be “able to shape that narrative and and
how it is seen.” Al Jazeera regularly promotes its superstar, Muslim
Brotherhood leader Yousuf al Qaradawi, who is barred from entering the
US and other Western countries. He has for years said such things as :
“The last punishment [against the Jews] was carried out by Hitler. Allah
willing, the next time will be at the hands of the believers,” and “Oh
Allah, do not spare a single one of them [Jews].
Oh Allah, count their
numbers, and kill them, down to the very last one”. Given Al Jazeera’s
record of backing the Islamist revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, one can
see why Qatar’s leadership would “like to be able to shape that
narrative and how it is seen.” Al-Qaradawi has also said, according to
the peerless MEMRI.org, that Islam’s “conquest of Rome” will save Europe
from its subjugation to materialism and promiscuity, and that Islam
will return to Europe as a conquerer.
Al Jazeera has also, according to MEMRI,
“continued to call for the Muslim world to to damage the U.S. economy by
boycotting American products.” In justifying the sale, Gore apparently
explained to the The Blaze: “the legacy of who the network goes to is
important to us and we are sensitive to networks not aligned with out
point of view.” His partner, Joel Hyatt, added: “Al-Jazeera was founded
with the same goals we had for Current,” and that the Qatari network
intends to “invest heavily” in new programming. Got it. Most moving is
to hear that Al Gore finds these statements as “aligned with our point
of view.”
More via Al-Jazeera’s “Alternative Viewpoint” in Qatar’s Paradise :: Gatestone Institute.Al-Jazeera, which bought Current TV from Al Gore, is not a communications medium in the Western sense. It is a psychological warfare medium, a fundamentalist terrorist communications base operating under Qatari cover. It sets its sights on changing regimes.
Al-Jazeera TV, located in and financed by
Qatar, which just bought Current TV from former presidential candidate
Al Gore for a reported $500 million, “is providing an alternative
viewpoint on domestic news,” according to Cathy Rasenberger, “a cable
consultant who has worked with Al-Jazeera on distribution,” as stated by
the New York Times of January 3, 2013.
What sort of alternative viewpoint?
Anyone regularly watching
Al-Jazeera TV in Arabic cannot help being aware of its Islamist agenda,
inspired by the Muslim Brotherhood’s Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, wo is
currently a resident of Qatar.
Regular viewers are familiar with the
network’s biases — also apparent in its otherwise different
English-language programming — in covering events in the Middle East.
Its reports are stunning in their lopsided descriptions of the cruelty
and oppression of Arab leaders who, because they became weak and thus
vulnerable, were called by Qatar’s opportunistic rulers, “oppressive
dictators whose time had come.”
Here and there are points of light, when
we become aware of regional events about which we might otherwise never
have known. For example, the recent exposure of Iranian terrorist cells
in Yemen and the Gulf States, the accelerated progress of Iran’s nuclear
agenda in the Persian Gulf, and Iran’s naval exercises designed to
challenge the United States.
Al-Jazeera is not, however, a
communications medium in the Western sense; it is a psychological
warfare medium. Its cameras are always turned outward; they never
criticize Qatar’s tyrannical, dictatorial, corrupt, plutocratic leaders
or their exploitation of foreign workers, who have neither the status
nor rights of Qatari nationals. Al-Jazeera’s ongoing propaganda campaign
against the Arab states in the Middle East is a move chosen by the
rulers of Qatar to deflect Arab, Western and effervescent local
attention from what is happening in the corrupt Al-Thani family’s dark,
closed emirate of wealth.
Although it promises aid to financially
needy Islamic countries, it sends just the occasional pittance when t
feels a need to bolster its popularity. Meanwhile huge unreported sums
go to support Islamist terrorist organizations such as Hamas in the Gaza
Strip and Jabhat Alnusra Al Islamiya in Syria. The rest of country’s
enormous oil revenues are channeled into the coffers of the rulers and
their close associates, and are used to pay for their entertainment or
for building enormous towers. The rest of the population — most of which
are foreign workers whose labor they exploit and who have no civil or
social rights — is not invited to join the party.
Although Al-Jazeera incites Muslim masses
around the world to revolt against “repressive regimes,” while calling
for “democracy,” “pluralism,” and the ousting of totalitarian rulers,
Qatar itself does not hold elections, has no political parties, has no
democratic institutions, and its citizens have no political or social
rights. What Qatar does have, with the help of Sharia [Islamic religious
law], is a strong, family-run system of enforcing internal security and
suppressing opposition. Al-Jazeera is the well-oiled and well-funded
machine of a family employing armed mercenaries who call themselves
“media personnel”: Propaganda warriors who use cameras and microphones
as weapons. Qatar therefore has every reason to hide what happens within
its borders and look for defects in other places.
…
As a TV channel, Al-Jazeera does not
operate under accepted Western norms. It is a fundamentalist terrorist
communications base operating under Qatari political cover, with a
pretense of pluralism. While in the other Arab countries, to reach the
Islamic paradise, people need to kill Jews and be killed in wars, dying
as shaheeds [martyrs] in the battles of Islam, according to
Al-Jazeera only Qatar is already a genuine paradise on earth. Everything
there is perfect, so there is no need to report the news.
And the liberal tree huggers at Current TV aren’t too happy with boss Gore and his air-polluting Islamist owners, Staffers talk about first meeting with Al Jazeera:
Yesterday morning, the still shell shocked
staff at Current TV was called to an all hands staff meeting at its San
Francisco headquarters, which was teleconferenced to their offices in
LA and NYC, to meet their new bosses.
That would be two of Al Jazeera’s top
guys: Ehab Al Shihabi, executive director of international operations,
and Muftah AlSuwaidan, general manager of the London bureau.
Ominously missing was the creator of
Current, the self proclaimed inventor of the Internet and savior of
clean energy, Al Gore, although his partner, Joel Hyatt, stood proudly
with the Al Jazeera honchos.
“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 meeting, while not contentious, was, according to staffers who spoke on the condition of anonymity, miserable.
The mostly left-leaning group—some still in denial —weren’t buying what Al Jazeera was selling.
The “new” American Al Jazeera will,
according to Shihabi, appeal to the American audience with a mixture of
national and international news—and, of course, entertainment.
But you won’t be getting that Middle East merriment until April, which is when the network says it will be ready to take over.
“Sometime within three months—no more, no less—we were told,” said the Current staffer.
One person at the meeting, who has already
announced that she’s leaving, former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm,
tried to ask about severance packages for those who wouldn’t be staying.
“This isn’t the place to discuss this!” Hyatt barked at her.
“After that, everyone kept their questions pretty much to themselves,” according to the staff member.
“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!”
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