Fat Albert’s done it again. Surprised the hell out of a hell
of a lot of people, including the ones who worked for him at his television
station. Some of them cried. Some of them sued.
Why? Maybe you haven’t heard. You don’t hear much. Fat Al
sold his TV station to Al Jazeera.
That’s right.
For a second there, you got the horrors. Al Jazeera? Isn’t
that Arab television? Aren’t they, sort of, our enemy? But no, no, then you
remember. You’re multi-national. You’re global. You don’t have feelings like
that.
And it’s true that Al Jazeera sometimes tells us more of the
truth than our own besotted newsmen, who spend their time mooning over Obama. Never
mind that. Al Jazeera is the propaganda arm of another government.
The government Fat Al sold his station to is Qatar. Qatar
used to be poor as dirt, until they discovered natural gas under their sand. They
are now (per capita) the richest country in the world. Why shouldn’t they have
a propaganda arm in America? A nice little TV station to unite the Arab
community. Maybe because many of the Qatar royals are friends of Al Queda, and
to introduce logic, which I know you don’t like, “A friend of Al Queda ain’t no
friend of mine.”
The station was having troubles; principal among them was no
audience. Even you didn’t watch it. But the price fetched was half a billion
dollars. What did Qatar get for these big bucks? Why, they got Big Al himself. In
case you don’t remember he was once the most popular man in America; he won the
popular vote.
So here’s Gore and Jazeera - Al and Al – skirting the
Foreign Agents Registration Act which requires that if you represent the
interests of either friend or foe in a "political or quasi-political
capacity" you’ve got to register and jump through all kinds of full-disclosure
hoops. Do you think Big Al has done this? No, he just sold a TV station and is
advising the new owners.
You know that natural gas I mentioned? All of a sudden we’re
farting, er fracking, huge amounts of that mostly methane substance, out of our
previously useless shale and into commercial use. The White House is
considering whether or not to allow its liquefied form to be exported – slipped
into the world’s energy mix.
Sounds good – money for us on top of the Holy Grail of energy
independence. No more kissing OPEC ass. And a few strategic bonuses: freeing
Europe from Russian gas gouging, allowing India to finally give their Iranian
suppliers the finger, and other friends, like Japan, to end their energy
crises.
Yes, liquefied natural gas, a new era of cheap clean energy.
And right now the world's leading exporter of this product is, you guessed it,
Qatar. If we enter the market they’ll still be in business, but at half the
price, maybe less. Billions upon billions of lost revenue. Then Qatar won’t be
rich, at least not as rich.
Al Gore’s a great lobbyist. He’s got friends in high places.
If it weren’t for W and the Supremes he’d have been the highest. Here is my
gorey proposition. Look for Al Gore stepping up to keep the U-nited States of
America from passing their gas in the world marketplace. Maybe even slow down
all that fricking fracking for our own use.
One more connection: Last year’s Doha UN climate change
conference. All about Al and his fraudulent polar bears. But what is Doha? Why
Doha is the capital of Qatar. The plot is thicker than crude oil.
