Al Gore happy about China attempting the steal.

Ah, keeping the Communist tradition alive!

Golden moments from the Smokey Mountains.

https://www.nbcnews.com/video/al-gore-speaks-about-biden-inauguration-presiding-over-2000-election-vote-certification-99726405580

chip off the ol' block….

Al Gore’s petrodollars once again make him a chip off the old block

Former Vice President Al Gore trashes the oil industry, but cashes their checks. (Reuters)

By

Melinda Henneberger

Jan. 8, 2013 at 3:24 p.m. PST

So much has been written — some of it by me — about how poor Al Gore was all but forced to follow in his daddy the senator’s footsteps, eventually succumbing to pressure to take up his line of work, and take on his unfulfilled ambitions.

Yet now that the former vice president is without any question writing his own script, and can follow any path he likes, the one he’s chosen with the sale of his Current TV network to Qatar-funded Al Jazeera is not just hypocritical, but awfully familiar to those who remember what his father did after leaving public life.

Albert Gore Sr. lost his Tennessee Senate seat in 1970 for the noblest of reasons — standing up against the war in Vietnam, and for civil rights. Even then, Republicans apparently thought they had to cheat to best him; Watergate investigators later found Nixon operatives had illegally contributed to the race. He was also the victim of such vicious race-baiting that the man who defeated him later apologized for an ad meant to appeal to white George Wallace voters with the assurance that “Bill

Brock believes in the things we believe in.”

After Gore Sr. was defeated, though — and dramatically declared in his fiery concession speech that “The truth shall rise again!” — he went to work for the oil baron Armand Hammer, whose Occidental Petroleum broke into the big leagues after it started doing business in Libya in 1965 — on visas then-Senator Gore had helped his old pal obtain. (Hammer, too, was convicted of making illegal campaign contributions, to Gore’s old adversary Nixon, though he was eventually pardoned.)

Before any of that, however, in 1972, Gore Sr. went to work as chairman of Occidental’s coal subsidiary, Island Creek, which on his watch committed a slew of environmental violations, some involving strip mining — a practice young Congressman Al

campaigned against.

To his credit, Gore Sr. was at least honest about cashing in: “Since I had been turned out to pasture,” he told the Washington Post in 1980, “I decided to go graze the tall grass.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2013/01/08/al-gores-petrodollars-once-again-make-him-a-chip-off-the-old-block/