Nobel Laureate Al Gore's cable news channel Current TV announced Wednesday it's reducing its staffing by 80 people.
The company said in a press release that these layoffs weren't about cutting costs, but instead a reshifting of priorities.
The website Gawker exposed the foolishness of such a claim:
Which means everything is totally awesome and on track, according to a Current press release:
Financial stability leads to sad job layoffs glorious resource re-allocation, gotcha.This re-organization was not the result of a need to cut costs. Current Media will have its most profitable year. This financial stability will allow the company to re-allocate resources in order to put further emphasis on areas of the business believed to best position Current Media for continued long-term growth.
Exactly. I mean, when a company cuts 80 employees from a total staff of 380, it's pretty absurd to claim this 21 percent payroll decrease isn't about reducing costs, especially after the network cut 60 jobs a year ago.
On the other hand, maybe Gore's accountants use the same precarious mathematics employed by those advising the Global Warmingist-in-Chief on the connection between carbon dioxide and rising temperatures.
Where's Leo Bloom when you need him?
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Gore's math works the same
November 11, 2009 - 16:56 ET by KJ_sezGore's math works the same way in finance as it does for his Bravo Sierra AGW numbers.
foolishness?
November 12, 2009 - 10:17 ET by Patriot IIEverything about this lying clown is foolishness!! Never forget the "father of the internet" lol what a buffoon!! His glob all wurming is flying back in his face because scientists are showing its all cyclical...as most of us had figured out a long time ago.....something called "common sense" but I realize, thats a term long forgotten in this p.c. era!!
How amusing...the left
November 11, 2009 - 17:03 ET by bigtimerHow amusing...the left can't even tell the truth about something as simple as this.
Btw...80 employees eh.... Doesn't that about shut the stupid network down?
It's one of the most pathetic things I've ever witnessed...talk about a waste of money, unless he can write it off somehow, after-all he's the biggest scammer we've had in a long time that pockets his jingle daily using it...Cap&Trade will really enrich his fortunes...at our expense again.
Still paying the Umiversal phone tax folks...that was imposed on us until every school had computers...that was how may years ago now...and we are still paying it.
Once a tax is imposed, it's with you til the grave.
Thank you Al Gore and the rest of you congress-critters.
'Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart
"Staff, listen up! In honor
November 11, 2009 - 17:11 ET by BKeyser"Staff, listen up! In honor of our record-breaking year last year, and our prospects for increasing financial gain for years to come, I've got vacations in South Korea for 80 of our best employees. Thank you, and enjoy your stay."
BK... ROFLMAO! 'Doubling
November 11, 2009 - 17:15 ET by bigtimerBK...
ROFLMAO!
'Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart
DIE ALREADY...
November 11, 2009 - 19:19 ET by danybhoyI love how I get jammed with this turd of a channel on my DishTV lineup. It can go away, like yesterday, & replace it with saaaay, Sentana Sports. I want to watch Aussie Rules again. It would beat being lied to about how Al Gore is trying to save the world from something that is not happening.
"...How blind can you be, don't you see...
...that the gambler lost all he does not have..."
Nightwish
As a Dish Network
November 11, 2009 - 19:54 ET by jdhawkAs a Dish Network subscriber, I agree with you. The only channel that is even worse than so-called - Current TV - is FSTV. FSTV stands for Free Speech TV. It is one socialist and radical social view program after another. Take them both after the air, yesterday.
I wish I could buy the channels that I like to watch - a la cart. There are a whole bunch of channels that suck. Yet, I am stuck paying for.
Yup. I can't wait until it's
November 11, 2009 - 22:23 ET by rbosqueYup. I can't wait until it's off the air. I TRIED to watch a program on that channel once but I turned it off. (I didn't want to catch a bad case of 'stupid'.)
FSTV...
November 12, 2009 - 02:19 ET by danybhoyAs much as FSTV sucks, I do tune in every so often, for it's news programming & speeches. If you have DishNetwork, check it out, they have news from the middle east on something called "Mosiac". Mostly from muslim nations, usually state controled.
Also, they air speeches from authors, pundits, & "important academic types" who tell you what the far left progressives really want to do & what they really think. Almost like a "progressive" C-Span. It can be boring, & it does suck, but it can be usefull to knowing the enemies of America as we have known it.
"...How blind can you be, don't you see...
...that the gambler lost all he does not have..."
Nightwish
dany... I understand
November 12, 2009 - 02:31 ET by bigtimerdany...
I understand exactly where you are coming from, you want to know from their own lips, not some bits and pieces sound bite someone else will use for their agenda in whatever form/venue.
We always have to know exactly where what why the enemy within is coming from...not spin.
Certainly...NOT there agenda.
...and the fight goes on...march we will
'Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart
Profits? Layoffs? Bo
November 11, 2009 - 17:35 ET by bse5150Profits?
Layoffs?
Bottom line?
What, is this some kind of neocon idea or something? What about the little guy? What about the working poor at that channel? Can't Gore reach into his very deep pockets and help bail the channel out?
21% is a skewed number. We
November 11, 2009 - 17:38 ET by Another Dead Kennedy21% is a skewed number. We don't know the level of these employees who were laid off, nor the salaries of said employees. For all we know, the low-level production assistants were laid off, in which case the payroll decrease could be as low as 5%. Speaking from experience, production companies often have too many redundancies in certain positions. Layoffs are necessary to run a business properly, especially when employees are sitting around the office watching movies, reading magazines, or sleeping on the sofas. I'm watching a few right now in fact.
Maybe you should quit
November 11, 2009 - 20:00 ET by FeynmanFanMaybe you should quit surfing the 'net and get back to work. ;)
"Reason and persuasion are the only practical instruments against error. To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged" - Thomas Jefferson
Oh, it's a very slow paced
November 11, 2009 - 20:12 ET by Another Dead KennedyOh, it's a very slow paced gig these days. I'm looking forward to a busier show, but I'm locked into this one until March, perhaps May if the network picks up more episodes.
Using Obama-math, that's 80
November 11, 2009 - 17:47 ET by RMRUsing Obama-math, that's 80 jobs "saved".
or Created
November 11, 2009 - 18:59 ET by CarlosSYou must intone the full mantra..., "Saved or Created" while facing Washington, DC
5 times a day. "Beauty
November 11, 2009 - 21:07 ET by HockeyKid5 times a day.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Reducing Current's carbon
November 11, 2009 - 17:50 ET by Dan DiegoReducing Current's carbon lifeforms, er, make that footprint. The bad news, we have to let you go. The Good news, Congress just extended unemployment benefits, so you got that going for you.
Maybe
November 11, 2009 - 17:57 ET by Thinking.ManMaybe he is just angling for a bailout
T.M... Lol...I wouln't
November 11, 2009 - 18:04 ET by bigtimerT.M...
Lol...I wouln't put anything past this schemer.
'Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart
I heard...
November 11, 2009 - 18:18 ET by TheCynicActually what happened was Al Gore walked in one day and discovered that it was too warm in the office. The only logical explanation was that there was too much carbon dioxide in the air and the solution to that was to fire some people.
Charlatans
November 11, 2009 - 18:36 ET by iveseenitallAlgore, Jesse Jerkson, Sharpie Sharpton, Barry Obama, the Rev. Wrong--et. al. All are Demos, "liberals" and snake-oil selling charlatans. None is an honest broker of anything. Puke!
NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"
former prisoners/hostages
November 11, 2009 - 18:32 ET by jon_torlinAnyone know if those two ladies that were "prisoners" (I prefer the term hostages as they were held for ransom till released) were among the people let go?
Wouldn't that be a twist.
-Jon
Current TV - Stupid Channel with Stupid "Reporters"
November 11, 2009 - 19:26 ET by Free StinkerI still can't figure out why DirecTV caries this stupid channel.
I saw one home-made (literally) news report a few years back. (first last and only time I've watched) The "report" was about Bush tarvelling to Brazil and how there was "a major uprising in the streets" as the "reporter" called it. But watching the video, you could see it was the merely same-old-same-old anti-G7 crowd.
خال
Greedy Al
November 11, 2009 - 20:00 ET by JakeMoThere needs to be a Congressional inquiry to find out if these layoffs are due to greed on the part of Gore or Current TV.
If greed is found to be the cause, Gore should have his income taxed at 100% and his house should be given to a random homeless person.
There's a way Current can
November 11, 2009 - 20:05 ET by fitzfongThere's a way Current can cut 300 lbs. of ugly fat right away...remove humanity's greatest liability, Al Gore.
"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered." -George Best
Gore is a liberal which makes him a lousy liar
November 11, 2009 - 20:58 ET by holeinthehullHoleinthehull
"Current Media will have its most profitable year "
Just like a idiot liberal to say, "we are making so much money that we need to take our incredible profits and fire everyone that had anything to do with making our company money and go do something else"
Give me a break in, fact give the whole country a break and hold your breath for 20 minutes, which in Obama's health plan is a remedy for anything that ails you, including making too much money!!!
THE EARTH'S GOT A FEVER
November 11, 2009 - 23:56 ET by thedailyzingDid you all want to know how Albert's home compares to W.'s home?? Click here: http://thedailyzing.com/356/an-inconvenient-zing/ PS- This is funny! Make sure to double click on the image! HAHA!!
Liberal Lies
November 12, 2009 - 02:52 ET by Teamcheeser"This re-organization was not the result of a need to cut costs." - Al Gore
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman!" - Bill Clinton
"The kid is not my son!" - John Edwards
And who gets all the heat? The conservative that actually yells out "You lie!" right in the midle of another liberal lie.
...or macaca.
November 12, 2009 - 02:56 ET by bigtimer...or macaca. (sp)
'Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart
Ooh!
November 12, 2009 - 02:59 ET by TeamcheeserDon't even spell that word or you'll be ostracised. (sp?)
We should have a whole thread where everyone must use a word they are not sure how to spell.
I heard the Kos Kids tried it once. Lots of "adn", "teh", etc.
didn't even know
November 12, 2009 - 08:16 ET by spepperI didn't even know Al Gore HAD a TV channel-- on Dish Network? Any other networks/lineups? Just curious......well I'm sure existing ones like HBO would be more than happy to carry some of his propaganda-- er-- programming--
BTW, some historical trivia: when ALGORE was veep under Bill Clinton, and during winter snows there at the time, there used to appear in the snow at the White House lawn, the words "HILLARY SUCKS"-- it was determined from DNA analysis that the words were formed from ALGORE's urine-- but it was in Bill Clinton's handwriting!
Al Snore
November 12, 2009 - 10:45 ET by IndyJohnWait a second! Al Gore believes in spreading the wealth, doesn't he? He is a multi-millionaire as a result of his environmental scare campaign and spends 10X more on the utilities for his home than the average American. Al! It's time to cut back! Make some sacrifices for the sake of the working man. Save some jobs by investing some of your ill-gotten gains. Put your money where your mouth is. Oops, I forgot. You're one of those 'Do as I say, not as I do' guys. Sorry.
Grrrr
November 12, 2009 - 10:48 ET by StarAZBetter not fire my Rotten Tomato Show people!
Is it a pay channel?
November 12, 2009 - 10:55 ET by general companyCause if it is, that should tell a few folks something. Heck it's pretty pathetic either way.
My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful
"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg