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Current situation: Staffers talk
about first meeting with Al Jazeera
New York Post, by Linda Stasi
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Posted By:Drive, 1/8/2013 9:02:14 AM
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| Just call him Al Gorezeera. Yesterday morning, the still shell shocked staff at Current TV was called to an all hands staff meeting at its San Francisco headquarters, which was teleconferenced to their offices in LA and NYC, to meet their new bosses. That would be two of Al Jazeera’s top guys: Ehab Al Shihabi, executive director of international operations, and Muftah AlSuwaidan, general manager of the London bureau. Ominously missing was the creator of Current, the self proclaimed inventor of the Internet and savior of clean energy, Al Gore, although his partner, Joel Hyatt, stood proudly with the Al Jazeera honchos.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
voxpop, 1/8/2013 9:09:10 AM (No. 9104628)
To think this maroon was close to being president. What a disgraceful idiot.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Northern Redman, 1/8/2013 9:11:10 AM (No. 9104631)
I was once a manager with a company that was acquired by a organization from Bahrain. My advice to these staffers is to get out quick, you´re going to be worked to death and then fired.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
lilo, 1/8/2013 9:12:37 AM (No. 9104634)
The staff is surprised by Al´s hypocrisy and call him a BSer. Why am I not surprised that they are surprised?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Halfvast Conspirator, 1/8/2013 9:14:39 AM (No. 9104636)
Hey y´all -- how does it feel to be used and thrown away by Al Gorezeera?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
jackie, 1/8/2013 9:18:38 AM (No. 9104643)
I love it...the fool ex Gov wanted to know about severance. There will be little if any.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl, 1/8/2013 9:18:55 AM (No. 9104644)
Excuse my schadenfreude.
I suppose it is too much to hope these morons will reevaluate their political views.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Udanja99, 1/8/2013 9:23:54 AM (No. 9104654)
Methinks that the author must be an Ldotter. The name Al Gorezeera has been in use here since this news first appeared last week.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Seething Citizen, 1/8/2013 9:28:36 AM (No. 9104660)
That this master fraud won the popular vote in 2000 and with Obama winning re-election, what hope whatsoever is there for this nation?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
NorthernDog, 1/8/2013 9:29:58 AM (No. 9104663)
One additional benefit will be a heavy wool Burqa the women can wear while on TV. No need to ´waste time´ getting dolled up for the camera!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
secondtimelucky, 1/8/2013 9:33:10 AM (No. 9104671)
9 - look at the money they´ll save on hair and makeup!!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bob913, 1/8/2013 9:36:32 AM (No. 9104677)
Al Gore is a traitor
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
MisterDickens, 1/8/2013 9:37:34 AM (No. 9104680)
#9, with democrats being the masters of the illegally cast vote and the stuffed ballot box, I seriously doubt AlGone won the popular vote in 2000. Just as likely, Zero didn´t either.
We are now a third world country led by an illegally elected president who hates the country he was illegally elected to lead.
Worst news of all: democrats are okay with that.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
45_Auto, 1/8/2013 9:42:55 AM (No. 9104696)
Al Gore is just being Al Gore. These Idiots would still vote for him even though what the rest of us has known all along has hit them right in the face!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Calvinesq, 1/8/2013 9:47:32 AM (No. 9104703)
To female Current staffers, such as Jennifer Granholm: shut up and put on your hijab.
Give multi-culturalism a chance. After all, you bought and drank Al´s kool-aid didn´t you?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Grambo, 1/8/2013 9:49:13 AM (No. 9104707)
I’d be careful about that severance stuff. Their idea of severance and yours might not be the same.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
coldoc, 1/8/2013 9:49:56 AM (No. 9104709)
Now we have a real live propaganda organization based in the USA for obama´s people. I know, CNN beat them to it, but now we will be licensing an arab news organization that openly advocates our demise. So much for the gorebot having any principles. The previous poster is right. He is a traitor, and a greedy one to boot.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Lcomstaff, 1/8/2013 10:02:31 AM (No. 9104738)
#7. We are everywhere. 
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
hershey, 1/8/2013 10:02:50 AM (No. 9104739)
Didn´t watch Current before, so nothing changes for me....
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
hershey, 1/8/2013 10:03:30 AM (No. 9104742)
As an after thought....I wonder if they will rename it ´Jihad´....????
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
skedaddle, 1/8/2013 10:39:47 AM (No. 9104814)
Leave it to a politician to be brazen enough to ask her new Arab owners for a "severance" package.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
comstock, 1/8/2013 10:40:45 AM (No. 9104816)
Why don´t they go on strike? After all, their combined efforts have resulted in a failed network. The evil bosses sold out to line thir own pockets leaving the workers with nothing. They even outsourced management!
Throw a picket line up in front of their building. That ought to amuse their new employers.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl, 1/8/2013 11:02:32 AM (No. 9104910)
I will be interesting to see how many Jewish staffers Current TV had and how many will still be there a year from now.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Fiesta del sol, 1/8/2013 11:06:11 AM (No. 9104922)
How many if these idiot Current staffers went all in on Romney´s ´binders full of women´ comment? How many went bat guano believing Romney would outlaw tampons? And their Dear Leader just sold them into servitude to real oppressors of women.
I´m eating it up with a spoon. Own all of this, you commie libs!
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec, 1/8/2013 12:08:09 PM (No. 9105082)
Will Christanne Aman(papadopalopacropolous)pour be hired as Al-Jazeera`a point woman in the U.S.?
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
gillyo, 1/8/2013 12:59:07 PM (No. 9105208)
San Francisco leftists live in an alternate universe where they say one thing and do another and somehow justify it. I´m absolutely loving how Al Gore and the Hyatts screwed them. Al Gore is nothing but a money grubbing hillbilly with the personality of a head of lettuce, and Joel Hyatt and his wife are both elitist hypocritical jerks who love to "help" people with one hand while they screw them over with the other.
I´ve always been amazed by the support the typical SF leftie gives to Islam. It makes no sense as they are against everything the feel gooder liberals stand for. Isn´t it interesting that we haven´t heard anything from the gay community about this? You´d think the fact that Muslims publicly execute gay people just for being gay would upset some of these folks.
Just proves the point I´ve been making for years, these people talk one game about tolerance, and peace, and love, but what they really want to know is how much money they´re going to get. It will serve them right when they all lose their jobs. What will be interesting is to hear who they blame for it. Bush anyone?
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