OH, THAT'S RICH!

It's pretty hard to take serious advice from posers.

Two specific examples come to mind lately of folks who can't match their sayin with their doin.

Perhaps you've seen the star-studded YouTube where Hollywood stars urge us to "demand a plan" about gun violence.  Someone has put together an answer in this LINK.  It's pretty illustrative, but very graphic.  Be warned.

But no one takes movie stars seriously, right?  How about a public servant like Al Gore, rich with advice for others?

Remember how the former VP lectured others about environmentalism while living in multiple houses (including the 10,000 square foot McMansion in TN sucking a huge electricity bill) and riding around in private jets that gobble nasty fuel?  Remember how he told us the seas were rising...while he was buying a seaside resort home?  That inconvenient truth is a little hard to choke down.

Now the former VP pockets $100 million from the sale of his failing company, Current TV.  That's his cut of the oil-rich Qatar dollars from the $400M sale to Al Jazeera.  To who?  AL JAZEERA???  Is that just purely business?  Is anything WRONG with that sale?

1.  Glenn Beck had tried to buy the channel, but his offer was refused because of Current TV's mission statement.  Fair enough.  The mission statement spoke of "shared goals" and certainly Beck/Gore do not share goals.   But then when Al Jazeera bought, they had to get out an eraser for those words.  Now their mission statement reads "to give voice to those who are not typically heard; to speak truth to power; to provide independent and diverse points of view; and to tell stories that no one else is telling".  That's rich to think the new buyer will promote independent thinking.

2.  When VP Gore sold to Al Jazeera, that meant oil (his nasty nemesis) bought him out...and THAT drips with irony.

3.  Al's Jazeera has now bought a way into 40 million American households with their anti-American bent.  How is this helpful for our country?  We are now experiencing "homegrown" terrorists and wouldn't this feed such hatred?  It is breathtakingly insincere for VP Gore to speak pro-Israel words while his actions are 180 degrees away.  And there's more...

4.  The NYTimes has reported that the former VP pushed to close this deal in December (it was signed on January 2nd) so as to avoid the changes in the tax system.  That is just good business sense, but it would conflict with his earlier words about being SO willing to do a little more and pay his fair share.

Whether it is Hollywood or Al Gore, it is hard to abide with posers.