Posted on 01/04/2013 5:49:07 AM PST by SJackson
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Unholy Alliance Comes Out of the Shadows and Into Your Living Room
Posted By Robert Spencer On January 4, 2013 @ 12:58 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage | 6 Comments
Al Gore has sold his failing Current TV network to Al Jazeera, which plans to rename it Al Jazeera America and so the Leftist/jihadist alliance is now official. While the American Left has been cooperating and collaborating with forces of the global jihad and Islamic supremacism for years, now their alliance is open and indisputable. Gore is even slated for a spot on Al Jazeera Americas advisory board.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Current TVs co-founder and CEO, Joel Hyatt, explained that Al Jazeera was a perfect fit for the sale. Al Jazeera, he said, was founded with the same goals we had for Current. Among those goals were to give voice to those whose voices are not typically heard and to speak truth to power.
Some of the voices that would not typically have been heard but for Al Jazeera have included some of the worlds foremost jihad terrorists. Pamela Geller has noted that Al Jazeera has for years been the recipient of numerous Al Qaeda videos featuring bin Laden, Zawahiri, and American traitor Adam Gadahn. Yet they never seem to be able to trace where these videos are coming from. They have repeatedly been set up at the point of attack right before a bomb went off, so that they could take the picture of the slaughtered, dismembered bodies.” Whats more, Al Jazeera is the leading terrorist propaganda organization in the world. Jihad murder mastermind Anwar al-Awlaki has praised Al Jazeera, and several years ago one of its most prominent reporters was arrested on terror charges.
Judea Pearl, father of the journalist Daniel Pearl who was murdered by jihadists in Pakistan, has dubbed Al Jazeera “the most powerful voice of the Muslim Brotherhood.”
This is the organization that Joel Hyatt says has the same goals we had for Current. Meanwhile, another group had also approached Current with an offer to buy the struggling network, but was refused according to the Journal, they were told on initial calls that [Current] wouldnt sell to someone they werent ideologically in line with. A Current official explained that the legacy of who the network goes to is important to us and we are sensitive to networks not aligned with our point of view.
The group that was not ideologically in line with Current was Glenn Becks media company, The Blaze, which, the Journal said, would have replaced Current programming with The Blaze programming.
So a Qatari network that consistently presents a favorable view of jihad terrorists who are sworn enemies of the United States is ideologically in line with Al Gores network, but a conservative American one is not. Transforming Current TV into Al Jazeera America is so satisfying to Gore that he is going to serve on its advisory board; turning it into The Blaze would have been an unacceptable ideological deviation, a betrayal of its core principles.
Gore and Hyatt have thus confirmed the charges that conservatives have made against the Left for years, and that Leftists, when they have deigned to acknowledge them at all, have dismissed as baseless slanders: above all, that the Left hates America and traditional American values so much that it will sooner ally with the sworn enemies of this nation and its guiding principles than with any group that is dedicated in any way to preserving and protecting them.
This peculiar and suicidal impulse results from a variety of factors. Chief among them is the likelihood that Leftists generally underestimate their Islamic supremacist friends and allies, believing that once the Right and traditional American principles have been destroyed, the jihadis will be easy enough to control. This in turn rests on several false assumptions: one is that Islam is a Religion of Peace that has been hijacked by a tiny minority of extremists, who themselves are merely reacting to the evils perpetrated by the American imperialist war machine. Once that imperialist machine is irreparably damaged and put out of action, and its client Israel is destroyed, Muslims grievances will all be assuaged, and they wont have any reason to commit acts of terror.
Or at least so goes the Leftist reasoning, or substitute for reasoning, which completely fails to take into account the martial teachings of the Quran, the Sunnah, and all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence, which teach that Muslims must wage war against and subjugate Infidels not because of the ills of their foreign (or domestic) policies, but simply because they are Infidels.
The second false assumption undergirding the Leftist assumption that they will not be co-opted and swallowed up by their Islamic supremacist friends is that religious people are ignorant and easy to manipulate. They believe this more about Christians than they do about Muslims, but Leftists generally underestimate the strength and power of the religious impulse, and believing their own unexamined dogmas about Islams peacefulness, believe that that impulse doesnt really matter, anyway.
And as Jamie Glazov details in his superb United In Hate, there is an ideological kinship between the two allies as well: both Leftists and Islamic supremacists share a taste for authoritarianism, and a distaste for the freedom of speech and political dissent.
In any case, first the great foe of both must be completely defeated: the American Right, constitutional principles of free speech, and the values of freedom that have been the foundations of American society up to now. Al Jazeera America is certain to be on the front lines of that battle. And thats just the way Al Gore wants it.
Not in MY living room.
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This is good in a lot of ways:
1. It exposes the “Unholy Alliance” between the Left and Jihad, which, up till now, has only been admitted by Conservatives and readers of David Horowitz’s book of the same title.
2. Only ‘somewhat” liberal Americans who are only democrats because of demographics or family history might actually WAKE UP.
3. Current TV will no longer be broadcasting endless reruns of Michael Moore movies, and all of its employees will be out of a JOB! (hehehe)
4. Al Jazeera is already on DISH and Cable, so they are spending a lot of money just to be redundant.
5. Algore has become deprived of his “outlet”.
6. Liberals who may have watched “Current” will be less likely to tune into Al Jazeera, if only because it is “over there” and not “over here”.
Probably just wishful thinking on my part.
News flash - politicians love money and they don’t care if it hurts anyone’s feelings if they step on a few toes. No surprise here.
News flash - politicians love money and they don’t care if it hurts anyone’s feelings if they step on a few toes to get it. No surprise here.
What’s this word “cable” that I’ve been hearing about refer to?
Why did Canada Jenny quit?
Don’t the Arabs pay as well as Algore?
I’m surprised that Al Gore didn’t sell it to Ria Novosti, the owners of Russia Today tv, or to the CCTV (Chinese Communist TV), who own CCTV English.
It isn’t just one channel but them all. Did anyone watch “Elementary” last night? The episode centered around a Russian spy family. Sherlock said the American born daughter of the Russians could one day become POTUS. Sure, it’s tv, but this is the sort of thing that the uninformed remember. People are influenced and learn from tv. Hussein knows this and Hollywood is pimping for him. Back during the campaign, “Eureka” kept showing a picture of hussein every few seconds again and again and again so much that that show will never even be background noise in this house.
Von Ribbentrop meet Mr. Molotov. As Mark twain said, history may not exactly repeat, but it rhymes.
I’d like to be able to watch it mainly because then I would know what it really was, instead of what others tell me it is.
True, but better news than the MSM could ever deliver.
Al Gore’s dad would be pleased with his choice.
The German politicians thought the same about Hitler.
True. :-)
Well, of course. The media are the Lyin’ King’s lapdogs.
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