Hypocrisy At Its Best: Al (Jazeera) Gore Is Now Richer Than Mitt Romney

Al Gore Now Richer Than Mitt Romney

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Al Gore is now richer than Romney, due to his sale of his Current TV network to Al-Jazeera. Gore has spent his time over the last two decades railing against oil companies while profiting from them, and who is part of a party that vilified Mitt Romney for his wealth. ​

Gore grabbed $100 million from the sale, which added to his own vast personal wealth. This puts his fortune at over $300 million, more than Romney. (Don’t even mention the people who lost their jobs as a result of the sale; unemployment is not a primary Democratic concern.)​

Read more: http://nation.foxnews.com/al-gores-wealth/2013/01/11/al-gore-now-richer-mitt-romney#ixzz2HmONeg2D​

 

Oh, now you hate capitalism.

 

You are so hypocritical that you cannot see your own hypocrisy.

 

This story has nothing to do with capitalism and everything to do with hypocrisy.

 

Explain how creating a business and selling it at a profit is hypocritical in a country dominated by capitalism.

 

Explain how Al Gore was an acceptable (or good?) presidential candidate for the Democrats but Mitt Romney was too rich to be acceptable to the Democrats.

 

Because Al feels your pain. No, wait, wrong guy.

 

As much as I hate to jump in on this one it's pretty simple rlm.

First not all Democrats thought real highly of Al Gore.

The second one is pretty easy to follow.

Mitt Romney is a Republican which history shows has not been real acceptable to Democrats. (It works in reverse as well).

 

That explains why Romney was not the Democrats choice. Fine. That does not explain how the Democrats could put up campaign ads saying Romney was too rich to be president. Without the ads, I would have no comment. In fact, I would be happier to vote for a successful person rather than a failure. But that is not what the Democrats were saying it their ads. It was the exact opposite.

 

I say "more power" to Al-Jazeera Gore for making a profit, but don't be hypocritical about it. Actually, given his stance on the environment which basically compared the oil companies to Satan, I'm surprised he took a dime from the oil companies. Well, being the hypocrite that he is (and who hasn't seen it all along?) I'm actually not surprised.

From the article:

"Gore has spent his time over the last two decades railing against oil companies while profiting from them". TRUE (and that's extremely hypocritical of Al-Jazeera Gore, you must admit).​

"[Gore] is part of a party that vilified Mitt Romney for his wealth". TRUE (but, will they vilify Gore? Strangely, I'm hearing nothing coming from the Lefties...).​

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You're grasping at straws rlm.

Ads are just that ads. They are designed to sway people's opinions. It happens on both sides and gives fodder for "silly" arguments on sites such as this amongst other venues.

I've never thought of any candidate as "too rich" personally. Hell, they're all basically too rich if you get down to it.

I would not vote for someone because they "were successful" unless I really thought they could help this country. That's why I DIDN'T vote for Romney. He's successful but scary.

Al Gore? I didn't vote for him. Voted for George Bush actually. I think both have been pretty successful.

Ross Perot I considered voting for. He was successful but not the reason I would have voted for him.

 

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Also, clever use of the term successful, as if pecuniary compensation were any measure of success.

 

Them "straws" are the size of the Empire State Building to me! I am surprised you don't remember how Romney was "too rich to understand the common people". Oh, and I will give you three guesses how Gore is avoiding taxes (and the first 2 don't even count).

 

Yes I'm sure those straws are prodigious, under a microscope, perhaps.

So Gore is also a douche-bag, what's your point? I have no party affiliations, they both suck.

 

Damn shame that those straws are so big to you rlm. Really.

You're leaning so far right these days I'm afraid you'll fall off the planet.

All you do is attack those on the left these days it seems. Fine. Many on the left do it as well but a meaningful chat with you seems to have disappeared amigo. I miss those days actually.

Romney and Gore both lost dude.
I would consider both successful and both too rich (by my standards anyway).

 

Yes, I listened to BO complain about what the right was doing wrong and make all his promises and then turn around and do exactly what he accused the right of doing (and that is what got him elected) while he totally ignored all his promises. And then in his "open government", we have Fast and Furious, Benghazi, Black Panthers, Windsor, etc that no one seems to have a clues what really happened. I'll admit that I have gotten quite bitter about the tactics used.

 

For "no one seems to have a clue(s) what really happened," you express some very strong opinions, presenting them as if they were facts. (not here, elsewhere, think: Benghazi)

 

Please clear this up. The always unbiased Fox News stated that, "Gore has spent his time over the last two decades railing against oil companies while profiting from them....", how has Gore profited from oil companies? Specifically, in what way has Gore profited from oil companies? Anybody?

 

I seems to me that I remember a little film that Gore made "railing against oil companies". Do you really think he made that for free?

 

That was never said by Democrats. That is your take. Here is why Democrats said Romney was out of touch.


Ann Romney picked the wrong week to complain that her husband "has been demonized in many ways as being heartless." As a video released Monday from a recent big-dollar donor event once again confirmed, "heartless" doesn't begin to describe Mitt Romney. After all, the same man who said last year that the president "reminded me of Marie Antoinette" essentially told his moneymen that Obama voters are lazy freeloaders undeservedly feeding at the trough of government. Mitt may love America, but Americans no so much.

But slandering half the electorate is hardly Mitt's first "let them eat cake" moment. It's just the latest sure sign that Mitt Romney is terminally out of touch.

For example, you know Mitt Romney is out of touch when he says President Obama "demonizes some" while "his campaign strategy is to smash America apart and then cobble together 51 percent of the pieces" after having accepted Birther Donald Trump's endorsement because "I need to get 50.1% or more and I'm appreciative to have the help of a lot of good people."

You know Mitt Romney is out of touch when he tells his guests in the Hamptons that "I spend a lot of time worrying about those that are poor" after previously declaring, "I'm not concerned about the very poor."

You know Mitt Romney is out of touch when repeatedly makes false charges about welfare policy while never mentioning his father was "on welfare relief for the first years of his life."

You know Mitt Romney is out of touch when one of his Hamptons donors explains "the common person" and "the lower income" voter "don't understand what's going on."

You know Mitt Romney is out of touch he expresses his disdain for those common people who wear polyester and plastic rain ponchos, while praising his friends who own NASCAR and NFL teams.

You know Mitt Romney is out of touch when he criticizes President Obama's call to let the Bush tax cuts expire for only the top two percent of earners as a "massive tax increase" for "on families, job creators, and small businesses," while proposing an average $264,000 annual windfall for the top 0.1%.

You know Mitt Romney is out of touch when his tax cut proposal supposedly focused on "the people in the middle" could save his own family tens of millions of dollars and his billionaire backers billions more by ending the estate tax.

You know Mitt Romney is out of touch when his surrogate Haley Barbour says Mitt's tax returns don't "amount to diddly," the same expression he used to describe slavery after his state of Mississippi omitted mention of it in its Confederate Heritage Month declaration.


You know Mitt Romney is out of touch when defends his supposedly blind trust's investments by claiming, "I don't even know where they are" after having accused Ted Kennedy in 1994 of running a "an age-old ruse" with a "blind trust that appeared to be not quite so blind."
You know Mitt Romney is out of touch when his supposedly blind trust transferred 12,000 shares in a Bermuda company to his wife's blind trust the day before he was sworn in as governor in 2003, closed a $3 million Swiss account in 2010 and invested $10 million in son Tagg's new firm, Solamere Capital.

You know Mitt Romney is out of touch when he tells college students to "borrow money if you have to from your parents, start a business."

You know Mitt Romney is out of touch when he tells high school students to "get as much education as you can afford" or "if you can't afford it, scholarships are available, shop around for loans, make sure you go to a place that's reasonably priced, and if you can, think about serving the country 'cause that's a way to get all that education for free."

You know Mitt Romney is out of touch when he announces his five sons serve their nation by "helping me get elected because they think I'd be a great president."

You know Mitt Romney is out of touch when he joined pro-Vietnam War protesters at Stanford, only to then secure multiple deferments to perform his church mission in France.

You know Mitt Romney is out of touch when his wife Ann explains in 1994 that when Mitt was at Harvard, she was able to avoid the "dignity of work" because "Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time. The stock came from Mitt's father."

You know Mitt Romney is out of touch when he has wife Ann omit his stock portfolio from her 2012 Republican National Convention speech describing how the young couple "moved into a basement" and "ate a lot of pasta and tuna fish."

You know Mitt Romney is out of touch when the Harvard law and business school graduate repeatedly accuses Barack Obama of spending too much time in the Harvard faculty lounge.

You know Mitt Romney is out of touch when he explains his refusal to release his tax returns by declaring, "I don't put out which tooth paste I use either. It's not that I have something to hide."

You know Mitt Romney is out of touch when his father released 12 years of tax returns, he himself gave John McCain 23 years' worth in a failed attempt to become his 2008 running mate and subsequently demanded 10 years' worth from his own number two, Paul Ryan.

You know Mitt Romney is out of touch when the estimated 14 percent tax rate he paid the IRS is lower than many middle-class families.


You know Mitt Romney is out of touch when his tax cut proposal supposedly focused on "the people in the middle" delivers two-thirds of its benefits to millionaires—including Mitt Romney.
You know Mitt Romney is out of touch when he claims that his donations to his church and other groups mean his "tax rate is really closer to 45 or 50 percent."

You know Mitt Romney is out of touch when he has his wife Ann do interviews in 2002 and 2006 touting his pro-choice credentials and his "essential" individual health insurance mandate in Massachusetts, only to have her claim in 2012 that "I'm not going to talk about the specific issues."

You know Mitt Romney is out of touch when his wife Ann laments "unfortunately" the world now knows how "successful in business" her husband has been, but that nevertheless wants to "remind you where our riches are: our riches are with our families."

You know Mitt Romney is out of touch when his wife Ann insists they won't travel abroad as first couple because "our vacations and our happiness come from being with our children and our grandchildren," and adds that she and her husband "own places for that."

You know Mitt Romney is out of touch when he jokes he never intended to run for office again after 2008 because "I went back and bought a home which was far too expensive and grandiose for the purposes of another campaign."

You know Mitt Romney is out of touch when he apparently forgets which state he lives in, votes in and pays taxes in—twice.


You know Mitt Romney is out of touch when he sells two of his four multimillion dollars mansions because he and his wife are, according to an aide, "downsizing and simplifying."
You know Mitt Romney is out of touch when his advice to struggling American homeowners is "don't try and stop the foreclosure process. Let it run its course and hit the bottom, allow investors to buy homes, put renters in them, fix the homes up and let it turn around and come back up."

You know Mitt Romney is out of touch when he says Democrats are "the party of the monarchists."

You know Mitt Romney is out of touch when his wife Ann jokes that "Mitt doesn't even know the answer to that" when asked how many dressage horses she owns.

You know Mitt Romney is out of touch when one of those often seven-figure horses is on the U.S. Olympic team, and the Romneys' potential $77,000 tax deduction for horse-related expenses exceeds the average household income in America.