A Message From Lucianne
 Now More Than Ever
Get Your Eagles Up!
Lucianne Tees - in
Black or White
Click to Buy
|
|
Al Jazeera completes
deal to buy Current TV
Los Angeles Times, by Joe Flint
|
|
Original Article
|
|
Posted By:loosbolt, 1/2/2013 9:19:52 PM
|
| Current TV, the small cable news channel that was co-founded by former vice president Al Gore, has been sold to Al Jazeera, the Qatar-based media company. The acquisition gives Al Jazeera, which is funded by the Qatar government, the opportunity to establish a footprint in the United States, where it already has an English-language version of its Qatar service -- called Al Jazeera English -- but only limited reach. Just buying Current does not guarantee instant distribution, however. Time Warner Cable, which offered Current in roughly 10 million of its homes, is dropping the channel.
|
 
Reply 1 - Posted by:
fhancock, 1/2/2013 9:34:37 PM (No. 9095646)
If Al Jazeera gets all of Current TV´s viewers that means they will start with 17...and that is including Big Al and Michael Moore
|
Reply 2 - Posted by:
jl80863, 1/2/2013 10:13:19 PM (No. 9095679)
From one propaganda organ to another.
|
| |
|
Reply 3 - Posted by:
hot coffee, 1/2/2013 10:19:21 PM (No. 9095686)
Looks like Current TV will become a little less left-wing and radical.
|
Reply 4 - Posted by:
Axeman, 1/2/2013 10:33:24 PM (No. 9095703)
More, or less, anti-American?
Or the same hateful anti-American slant?
Who will watch to find out?
|
Reply 5 - Posted by:
bob913, 1/2/2013 10:36:37 PM (No. 9095706)
A vice president of the United States selling out to a pro terrorist supporter like Al Jazeera!!!!
9/11 was not that long ago. I remember the democrats being supportive of the United States afterward for about 1 week then Bill Clinton started criticizing us in a speech over in Europe. The democrats have been stabbing us ever since.
|
Reply 6 - Posted by:
snakeoil, 1/2/2013 11:06:35 PM (No. 9095746)
Would love to see The Gorbot´s face when he finds out they´re paying him in Carbon Credits.
|
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Newtsche, 1/2/2013 11:37:54 PM (No. 9095781)
An odd world gets a little odder.
|
| |
|
Reply 8 - Posted by:
Videodrone, 1/2/2013 11:40:44 PM (No. 9095782)
or could this be the only merger in broadcast history that lost viewers?
|
Reply 9 - Posted by:
Donna M, 1/2/2013 11:44:48 PM (No. 9095786)
Over the holiday week Current TV was running spots on The Military Channel running on NJ Cablevision...there´s a coincidence here somewhere.
It should also be noted that the other co-founder is another hard leftie, Joel Hyatt (Hyatt Legal Services now part of MetLife, not Hyatt Hotels). And that both the Gorebot and Hyatt will be on AlJazeera America´s advisory board. These two truly hate their country.
|
Reply 10 - Posted by:
killerbee, 1/3/2013 12:24:08 AM (No. 9095814)
So Gorebot has been paid millions upon millions of dollars that come from a network funded by oil producing nations. On top of that hypocrisy, he -- Progressive Democrat extraordinaire -- pushed the deal to be completed by by midnight December 31 so as to avoid being hit by the tax increase.
It must be nice to have your perfidy smoothed over by the media machine.
|
Reply 11 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 1/3/2013 5:24:40 AM (No. 9095926)
Typical demonrat. Taxes for you; none for me.
|
Reply 12 - Posted by:
Old Army Vet, 1/3/2013 8:59:21 AM (No. 9096170)
Just another example of how the left hates America.
|
| |
|
Reply 13 - Posted by:
MattO, 1/10/2013 6:34:58 AM (No. 9108343)
Had to sacrifice the "Golf Channel" to trim down my DISH subscription so I would not be paying for MSNBC, Current, MTV, etc. I refuse to pay for this garbage even if I have to give up some channels I like. It is a matter of principle. If everyone would do this they would get the message and throw the rats off the ship!
|
Below, you will find ...
Most Recent Articles posted by "loosbolt"
and
Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)
|
Most Recent Articles posted by "loosbolt"
|
A sign from above? Lightning
strikes Vatican hours after
Pope´s shock resignation
|
|
Mirror [UK], by Paul Cockerton
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: loosbolt- 2/12/2013 12:31:55 AM
Post Reply
|
|
This was the moment lightning struck the Vatican today - hours after Pope Benedict XVI´s bolt-from-the-blue resignation. The lightning touched the dome of St. Peter´s Basilica, one of the holiest Catholic churches, after the Pope´s shock admission he lacks strength to do the job. The Vatican stressed that no specific medical condition prompted Benedict´s decision to quit - the first pontiff to do so in 600 years. The move surprised even his closest aides, even though Benedict, 85, had made clear in the past he would step down if he became too old or infirm.
|
Bill Clinton to receive
Father of the Year award
|
|
USA Today, by Catalina Camia
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: loosbolt- 1/10/2013 2:30:37 AM
Post Reply
|
|
Former president Bill Clinton can add Father of the Year to the many awards he´s garnered in his decades of public service. The National Father´s Day Council, which has been giving out such an honor for 72 years, has named Clinton one of its recipients for 2013. "With the profound generosity, leadership and tireless dedication to both his public office and many philanthropic organizations, President Clinton exemplifies the attributes that we celebrate through the Father of the Year award," said Dan Orwig, chairman of the National Father´s Day Committee.
|
Ex-Burglars Say Newspaper’s
Gun Map Would’ve Made
the Job Easier, Safer
|
|
Fox News, by Jana Winter
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: loosbolt- 1/5/2013 1:58:37 AM
Post Reply
|
|
Reformed crooks say the New York newspaper that published a map of names and addresses of gun owners did a great service – to their old cronies in the burglary trade. The information published online by the Journal-News, a daily paper serving the New York suburbs of Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties, could be highly useful to thieves in two ways, former burglars told FoxNews.com. Crooks looking to avoid getting shot now know which targets are soft and those who need weapons know where they can steal them. “That was the most asinine article I’ve ever seen,” said Walter T. Shaw,
|
| |
|
Al Jazeera completes
deal to buy Current TV
|
|
Los Angeles Times, by Joe Flint
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: loosbolt- 1/2/2013 9:19:52 PM
Post Reply
|
|
Current TV, the small cable news channel that was co-founded by former vice president Al Gore, has been sold to Al Jazeera, the Qatar-based media company. The acquisition gives Al Jazeera, which is funded by the Qatar government, the opportunity to establish a footprint in the United States, where it already has an English-language version of its Qatar service -- called Al Jazeera English -- but only limited reach. Just buying Current does not guarantee instant distribution, however. Time Warner Cable, which offered Current in roughly 10 million of its homes, is dropping the channel.
|
Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)
|
McCain: ´I don´t understand´
GOP filibuster on guns
|
|
Politico, by Jennifer Epstein
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: JoniTx- 4/7/2013 12:18:14 PM
Post Reply
|
|
Sen. John McCain says he doesn´t understand the threats from some of his Republican colleagues to filibuster a bill on background checks to buy guns. "I don´t understand it," the Arizona Republican said on Sunday of the threat coming from Sen. Rand Paul,Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Mike Lee and nine other Republicans. "The purpose of the United States Senate is to debate and to vote and to let the people know where we stand.” "What are we afraid of? ... If this issue is as important as we all think it is, why not take ... it up and debate?"
|
´My bangs are getting
a little irritating´: Michelle
Obama admits she already regrets
her high-maintenance hairdo
|
|
Daily Mail (UK), by Margot Peppers
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: pineledger- 4/7/2013 7:43:42 AM
Post Reply
|
|
Michelle Obama has admitted that she is already tired of the bangs she first sported in January. The First Lady said in an interview with Entertainment Tonight: ´Bangs are a day-by-day proposition. They´re starting to grow out, get a little irritating.´ Still, she hasn´t let her hairdo woes get her down. ´It´s okay,´ she said after her initial complaint. ´We´ll be good.´ The first indication that her hairstyle was becoming a burden came about last weekend, when Malia, 14, was spotted adjusting her mother´s hair during the White House Easter Egg Roll.
|
Former British prime minister
Baroness Thatcher dies peacefully at the age
of 87 after suffering a massive stroke
|
|
Daily Mail [UK], by James Nye
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/8/2013 8:55:39 AM
Post Reply
|
|
Margaret Thatcher, the first female British Prime Minister who gained worldwide renown as the Iron Lady has died aged 87. Developing a formidable partnership with President Ronald Reagan during the 1980s, Mrs. Thatcher stood up to the ´Evil Empire´ of the Soviet Union, eventually witnessing its collapse. [Snip] Responding to her death, Buckingham Palace said, ´The Queen is sad to hear the news of the death of Baroness Thatcher and Her Majesty will be sending a private message of sympathy to the family, Buckingham Palace said today.´ British Prime Minster David Cameron said on hearing of her passing, ´It was
|
| |
|
Christians, here´s why we´re
losing our religion
|
|
Fox News, by Craig Groeschel
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: STLstudent- 4/7/2013 5:13:55 PM
Post Reply
|
|
Recent research indicates that the number of people who do not consider themselves a part of an organized religion is steadily on the rise. Interestingly enough, though the number of those religiously unaffiliated is increasing, there is little to no trend in the number of those who express atheist or agnostic beliefs. People aren’t saying they don’t believe in God. They’re saying they don’t believe in religion. They are not rejecting Christ. They are rejecting the church. This begs the question, “Why are we losing our religion?”
|
Kim Jong-un Wants Phone
Call from Obama - report
|
|
Korea Broadcast Service, by Staff
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/8/2013 6:56:50 AM
Post Reply
|
|
North Korea’s young leader Kim Jong-un is waiting for United States President Barack Obama to make a phone call to Pyongyang to discuss easing tensions on the Korean peninsula, according to Russia’s news agency Itar-Tass. The report cited United Kingdom diplomats, saying Pyongyang was demanding the U.S. president personally call Kim Jong-un as one of the conditions to relieve the current conflict at hand. Itar-Tass also quoted the U.K.’s Sky News as saying North Korea currently has eight nuclear warheads.
|
Broadcasters worry
about ´Zero TV´ homes
|
|
Associated Press, by Ryan Nakashima
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Ribicon- 4/7/2013 2:43:40 PM
Post Reply
|
|
Los Angeles — Some people have had it with TV. They´ve had enough of the 100-plus channel universe. They don´t like timing their lives around network show schedules. They´re tired of $100-plus monthly bills. A growing number of them have stopped paying for cable and satellite TV service, and don´t even use an antenna to get free signals over the air. (Snip) Last month, the Nielsen Co. started labeling people in this group "Zero TV" households, because they fall outside the traditional definition of a TV home. There are 5 million of these residences in the U.S., up from
|
´Mickey Mouse Club´ star
Annette Funicello dies at 70
|
|
Los Angeles Times, by Dennis McLellan
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: JoniTx- 4/8/2013 1:18:00 PM
Post Reply
|
|
Annette Funicello, the dark-haired darling of TV´s “The Mickey Mouse Club” in the 1950s who further cemented her status as a pop-culture icon in the ´60s by teaming with Frankie Avalon in a popular series of “beach” movies, died Monday. She was 70. Funicello, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1987 and became a spokeswoman for treatment of the chronic, often-debilitating disease of the central nervous system, died at Mercy Southwest Hospital in Bakersfield, Walt Disney Co. spokesman Howard Green said. Funicello and her husband, Glen Holt, had moved from
|
Mother Of Slain Benghazi
Officer To Sean Hannity:
‘They Want Me To Shut Up’
|
|
Mediaite, by A.J. Delgado
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: StormCnter- 4/7/2013 5:00:16 AM
Post Reply
|
|
On Friday, Sean Hannity brought Pat Smith, mother of the late Sean Smith, on his radio program. The 34-year-old information management officer was one of four Americans murdered in the Benghazi embassy attack on September 11, 2012. In the chilling interview, a distraught Ms. Smith, in tears, pleaded for answers and spoke of the efforts to silence her. Ms. Smith first relayed how her son, prior to the attack, requested additional security in advance and warned the State Department: He did tell them, ahead of time, he typed it into his little typewriter over there,
|
Vanishing workforce
weighs on growth
|
|
Washington Post, by Jim Tankersley
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/6/2013 11:28:59 PM
Post Reply
|
|
Put out an all-points bulletin: Millions of Americans have gone missing from the workforce. Every month that those would-be workers are gone raises the odds that they might never come back, dimming the prospects for future economic growth. The vanishing trend is more than a decade old, but it accelerated during the Great Recession. Throughout 2012, economists held out hope that it had stopped. But then came Friday’s jobs report, and hopes were dashed. The Labor Department reported that the U.S. labor force — everyone who has a job or is looking for one — shrank
|
The Secrets of Princeton
|
|
New York Times, by Ross Douthat
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Oblio- 4/7/2013 8:08:09 AM
Post Reply
|
|
Susan Patton, the Princeton alumna who became famous for her letter urging Ivy League women to use their college years to find a mate, has been denounced as a traitor to feminism, to coeducation, to the university ideal. But really she’s something much more interesting: a traitor to her class. Her betrayal consists of being gauche enough to acknowledge publicly a truth that everyone who’s come up through Ivy League culture knows intuitively —
|
Chelsea Clinton doesn´t close
door to public office
|
|
USA Today, by Catalina Camia
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: jackson- 4/8/2013 10:23:20 AM
Post Reply
|
|
Chelsea Clinton has raised her profile in the last few days, which sparked the inevitable question about the former first daughter´s future: Will she ever be like Mom and Dad and run for office? Clinton, 33, essentially said "maybe" in an interview that aired Monday on NBC´s Today show. "Right now I´m grateful to live in a city, a state and a country where I strongly support my mayor, my governor, my president and my senators and my representative," said Clinton, whose father, Bill, was president from 1993-2001 and her mother, Hillary
|
| | |
|
