Often, on this blog, I post the Nielsen ratings
for cable news. Current is never on that comparative list. Why?
Because it's daily viewership seldom rises above 50,000 viewers.
Seriously. All other cable news outlets run averages in the "millions."
Current has been a joke from it's very beginnings.
It's first format was a well produced series of programs put together and
published [mostly] by young adults on the radical Left. During this time,
viewership averaged 18,000 per day. A little more than a year ago, the
format was changed to appear more as a news outlet. Its characters were
burn-outs from CNN, a liberal and poorly qualified female radio
host, a failed New York prosecutor, and a failed [female] governor.
While viewership rose to a nominal 50,000, it remained a failed business
effort.
Yesterday, the news hit the line: the radical
news agency, Al-Jazeera, a representative of America's No. 1
enemy, Jihadist Islam, has purchased Current TV. The deal put
a 100 million dollars in the back pocket of the committed socialist,
Alvin Gore, and gives another foothold in this country to those who want
to destroy this nation.
Glenn Beck tried to buy Current, but his efforts were rejected by Al Gore and Company, on the grounds that Al-Jazeera had more in common with Gore's ideology than Beck. In one of the incredible news story of the past four years, Newsmax gives us this summation:
“Other suitors who didn’t share Current’s ideology were
rebuffed,” reporters Keach Hagey and John Jannarone wrote in the Wall Street Journal. “Glenn Beck’s TheBlaze approached
Current about buying the channel last year, but was told 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,’” according to a person familiar with the
negotiations.”
The former vice president confirmed the sale Wednesday that
reportedly netted $100 million, saying in a statement that Al-Jazeera shares
Current TV’s mission “to give voice to those who are not typically heard; to
speak truth to power; to provide independent and diverse points of view; and to
tell the stories that no one else is telling.”
Executives at Current told the Journal they decided to sell
to the Arab broadcaster because “al-Jazeera was founded with the same goals we
had for Current,” which included “to give voice to those whose voices are not
typically heard” and “to speak truth to power,” according to the Journal.
You probably are not familiar with "Current
TV." It was the "brain" child of Fat Al Gore,
another of his failed ideas.
Immediately, Time-Warner, the carrier of
Current, made it clear that it will no longer carry Current TV as part of
its service to the cable community. It wants nothing to do with
Al-Jazeera America.
We applaud their decision.
Make note that Al "Its patriotic to pay taxes" Gore, closed this deal before December 31, to avoid paying hundreds of thousands in additional taxes, taxes he claims to support.
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