Posted on 01/10/2013 5:40:36 PM PST by jakerobins
Someone finally has done all the math on the recent sale of Al Gore's Current TV to the Arabic language channel Al-Jazeera for $500 million. Jobs were lost, buzz created, employees angered, but the former vice president had little to say about it. He did walk away with a reported $100 million — a tidy sum for a man who had less that $2 million in assets when he ran for president more than a dozen years ago, says Forbes magazine.
"Taking into account taxes to be paid on the deal, possible earlier debt and the fact that Gore's representatives declined to comment, Forbes conservatively estimates the former vice president's net worth to be at least $300 million, making him wealthier than unsuccessful Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney," says Ryan Mac, a Forbes analyst
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AlgoreJeezera is now one of the Mothers of All One Percenters! Go Al. Gotta love that “green”! Ain’t capitalism great?
AlgoreJeezera is now one of the Mothers of All One Percenters! Go Al. Gotta love that “green”! Ain’t capitalism great?
And he so hated bh0 and loves money that he made sure the sale was closed before Dec 31, 2012, so that he avoided the tax increases on the rich that bh0 campaigned for and got.
He's just like a Michael Moore character.
Those Current TV true believers were mugged by Gore - maybe in ten years they’ll be conservatives...
Gore’s mansion - a place that used more power than some small towns - should have been a tip-off to the useful idiots at Current TV...
Ain’t it a bitch that he won’t be able to take all that wealth with him when he kicks the bucket?
Death is the great equalizer.
He can’t take it with him, and where he’s going will make “global warming” a picnic.
I’ll bet his tax returns still show a couple hundred bucks worth of charitable contributions..the cheapskate
If “Honor is the gift a man gives himself,” Gore and Clinton will both show up at Hell’s gates with their pockets turned out.
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