In
2013, Gore sold his Current TV network to the Qatar-funded Al
Jazeera for a reported $100 million. The sale inspired this
headline at my Climate Depot website: “AlGorjeera—It’s Official:
Al Gore Is by Far the Most Lavishly Funded Fossil Fuel Player in
the Global Warming Debate Today.”
I
asked if the media would now accurately label Gore an
industry-funded activist every time they reported on him. Gore had
literally sold out to big oil and gas: Al-Jazeera “received its
initial funding through a decree from Emir of Qatar, and Qatar
gets its wealth from its vast oil and natural gas reserves.”
The
freshly laid off staffers from Current TV did not hesitate to lash
out at Gore. “Gore’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?” declared one former staffer,
according to the New York Post. Another staffer commented, “He
[Gore] has no credibility.”
Not So
Smart
Warren Buffett’s vice chairman
Charlie Munger told a small meeting of investors in 2017 that
Gore is “not very smart” and “an idiot” but he was still able to
amass a personal fortune in the investment world. “Al Gore has
hundreds of millions [of] dollars in your profession. And he’s
an idiot. It’s an interesting story.” Munger added, “he’s not
very smart. He smoked a lot of pot as he [coasted] through
Harvard with a gentleman’s C.”