Al Gore’s Petrodollars Once Again Make Him a Chip Off the Old Block
9th January 2013
So much has been written — some of it by me — about how poor Al Gore was all but forced to follow in his daddy the senator’s footsteps, eventually succumbing to pressure to take up his line of work, and take on his unfulfilled ambitions.
Yet now that the former vice president is without any question writing his own script, and can follow any path he likes, the one he’s chosen with the sale of his Current TV network to Qatar-funded Al Jazeera is not just hypocritical, but awfully familiar to those who remember what his father did after leaving public life.
Of course, had he been named ‘Bush’ he’d have been crucified in the press and investigated by the Justice Department.