Before Al-Jazeera bought Current TV, Glenn Beck had tried to acquire the Al Gore’s underperforming cable network.
Beck’s offer was rejected, as he himself tweeted: "we were rejected by progressive owners."
The conservative media personality's TheBlaze approached Current last year but was told 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," according to a source familiar with the negotiations.
Current's new pan-Arab owner may not align with everyone's point of view, either: Time Warner Cable yanked Current from its lineup within hours of the sale, right in the middle of Eliot Spitzer's nightly show.
