The Leftist/jihadist alliance becomes official. I discuss it at FrontPage today:
Al
Gore has sold his failing Current TV network to Al Jazeera, which plans
to rename it Al Jazeera America — and so the Leftist/jihadist alliance
is now official. While the American Left has been cooperating and
collaborating with forces of the global jihad and Islamic supremacism
for years, now their alliance is open and indisputable. Gore is even slated for a spot on Al Jazeera America’s advisory board.The Wall Street Journal
reported that Current TV”s co-founder and CEO, Joel Hyatt, explained
that Al Jazeera was a perfect fit for the sale. Al Jazeera, he said,
“was founded with the same goals we had for Current.” Among those goals
were “to give voice to those whose voices are not typically heard” and
“to speak truth to power.”Some of the voices that would not typically have been heard but for
Al Jazeera have included some of the world’s foremost jihad terrorists. Pamela Geller has noted
that Al Jazeera has “for years been the recipient of numerous Al Qaeda
videos featuring bin Laden, Zawahiri, and American traitor Adam Gadahn.
Yet they never seem to be able to trace where these videos are coming
from. They have repeatedly been set up at the point of attack right
before a bomb went off, so that they could take the picture of the
slaughtered, dismembered bodies.” What’s more, “Al Jazeera is the
leading terrorist propaganda organization in the world. Jihad murder
mastermind Anwar al-Awlaki has praised Al Jazeera, and several years ago
one of its most prominent reporters was arrested on terror charges.”Judea Pearl, father of the journalist Daniel Pearl who was murdered by jihadists in Pakistan, has dubbed Al Jazeera “the most powerful voice of the Muslim Brotherhood.”
This is the organization that Joel Hyatt says has the “same goals we
had for Current.” Meanwhile, another group had also approached Current
with an offer to buy the struggling network, but was refused — according
to the Journal, they were “told on initial calls that [Current]
wouldn’t sell to someone they weren’t ideologically in line with.” A
Current official explained that “the legacy of who the network goes to
is important to us and we are sensitive to networks not aligned with our
point of view.”The group that was not ideologically in line with Current was Glenn
Beck’s media company, The Blaze, which, the Journal said, “would have
replaced Current programming with The Blaze programming.”So a Qatari network that consistently presents a favorable view of
jihad terrorists who are sworn enemies of the United States is
“ideologically in line” with Al Gore’s network, but a conservative
American one is not. Transforming Current TV into Al Jazeera America is
so satisfying to Gore that he is going to serve on its advisory board;
turning it into The Blaze would have been an unacceptable ideological
deviation, a betrayal of its core principles.Gore and Hyatt have thus confirmed the charges that conservatives
have made against the Left for years, and that Leftists, when they have
deigned to acknowledge them at all, have dismissed as baseless slanders:
above all, that the Left hates America and traditional American values
so much that it will sooner ally with the sworn enemies of this nation
and its guiding principles than with any group that is dedicated in any
way to preserving and protecting them.This peculiar and suicidal impulse results from a variety of factors.