Al Gore's Jazz Era

The right-wing tin-foil hat brigade and Fox News are all atwitter because Al Gore sold his shitty tee vee outfit to Al-Jazeera and not to Glenn Beck.  It's not sad that Gore sold to Al-Jazeera since Al-Jazeera is a better news channel than anything else in the United States.  Al-Jazeera is apparently emulating the BBC and doing its best to be an excellent news source regardless of the source of the money.  So, if Al-Jazeera was actually on the tee vee in America, we would be better off than we are with just the current (get it?) "news" choices we have right now.  I'm pretty sure we won't have to worry about that, though, since I doubt Al-Jazeera America will get any exposure or viewers at all.  Instead, what's sad is how badly Al Gore fucked this up, too.  Gore is quite possibly the biggest failure in America today.  Born into astounding privilege and wealth, and given the Vice Presidency after an embarrassingly useless Senate tenure, Gore proceeded to profoundly fuck up what should have been the easiest Presidential election in modern history.  Certainly Gore is so very, very happy that Mittens was an amazingly huge failure as a Presidential candidate; that has to sooth the sting of 2000 just a bit for Gore.  Sure, Gore was the worst candidate in human history, but Mittens was pretty fucking bad, too, and Gore will be more than willing to bring that fact up the next time he's getting a happy-ending massage.  Now, Gore has destroyed his reputation again with the failure of Current TV.  Gore is cashing out after only seven years.  Of course, he and Joel Hyatt wrecked their own network when they failed to allow the man they hired, Keith Olbermann, to build their programming into something that people would actually watch.  Rupert Murdoch didn't give up after only a few years.  Rupert Murdoch didn't turn on Roger Ailes and abandon his plan.  But Rupert Murdoch is no Al Gore.  Rupert Murdoch is a rancid piece of human filth, but he is not a feckless loser like Al Gore.