{"id":767,"date":"2009-04-26T18:57:56","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T18:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=767"},"modified":"2009-04-26T18:57:56","modified_gmt":"2009-04-26T18:57:56","slug":"why_was_this_article_only_in_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=767","title":{"rendered":"Why Was This Article Only In The Canada Free Press?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/canadafreepress.com\/index.php\/article\/10567\">Canada Free Press<\/a>,&nbsp; Al Gore lied about his financial interest in &#8216;global warming&#8217; legislation during his Congressional testimony.&nbsp; During the house Energy and Environment Subcommittee hearing on the Waxman-Markey climate bill, the former Vice-President stated that all the money he made from his business activities went into non-profit efforts.&nbsp; Not quite true.&nbsp; According to a March 6, 2008 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=a7li9Nhmhvg0&amp;refer=home\">Bloomberg <\/a>Report:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<blockquote itxtvisited=\"1\">\n<p itxtvisited=\"1\"><em>&#8220;Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore left the White House seven years ago with less than $2 million in assets, including a Virginia home and the family farm in Tennessee. Now he&#8217;s making enough to put $35 million in hedge funds and other private partnerships. <\/em><\/p>\n<p itxtvisited=\"1\"><em>Gore invested the money with Capricorn Investment Group LLC, a Palo Alto, California, firm that selects the private funds for clients and invests in makers of <\/em><a class=\"iAs\" style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: normal! important; FONT-SIZE: 100%! important; PADDING-BOTTOM: 1px! important; COLOR: darkgreen! important; BORDER-BOTTOM: darkgreen 0.07em solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent! important; TEXT-DECORATION: underline! important\" href=\"http:\/\/canadafreepress.com\/index.php\/article\/10567#\" target=\"_blank\" itxtdid=\"8390049\"><em>environmentally friendly<\/em><\/a><em> products, according to a Feb. 1 securities filing. Capricorn was founded by billionaire Jeffrey Skoll, former president of EBay Inc. and an executive producer of Gore&#8217;s Oscar-winning documentary film on global warming.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p itxtvisited=\"1\">Tennessee Representative Marsha Blackburn confronted Mr. Gore&nbsp;about his&nbsp;profiteering from global warming legislation and obvious conflict of interest concerning his testimony before the subcommittee.&nbsp;&nbsp; Combined with the rescinding of the invitation to UK&#8217;s Lord Christopher Monckton (a global warming skeptic) to speak before the committee, I&#8217;d say that Mr. Gore&#8217;s obvious unreported conflict of interest is a pretty good indication that this subcommittee isn&#8217;t really interested in pursuing the truth on global warming.&nbsp; I suspect they have already drawn their conclusions without having to deal with any inconvenient facts.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Canada Free Press,&nbsp; Al Gore lied about his financial interest in &#8216;global warming&#8217; legislation during his Congressional testimony.&nbsp; During the house Energy and Environment Subcommittee hearing on the Waxman-Markey climate bill, the former Vice-President stated that all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=767\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}