NEWS: Hillary and Her Demon Pal

POLITICS: Hillary and Her Demon Pal

Last week Rupert Murdoch purchased the publisher of the Wall Street Journal for $5 billion. Many reporters at the paper are upset and worried that Murdoch will have a negative effect on the paper. He certainly does not have a very good track record when it comes to running newspapers. The New York Post loses between $30 million and $50 million a year while cranking out a daily load of crap. The Times of London lost $89 million in 2004. But the huge loses mean little to Rupert because he uses the papers as propaganda machines for his right wing agenda.

I know very little about the business world, but it is safe to say the Wall Street Journal is the news source for whatever is happening on Wall Street – hence the name. It wasn’t hard for me to figure out. The Journal’s business reporters are highly regarded but the papers editorial board may be dumber and more biased than the idiots at the Fox News Channel.

So, fuck ‘em. Murdoch’s takeover will destroy the credibility of the paper and the editorials will become as meaningless as the ramblings of Bill O’Reilly. For someone like me, who fights evil, it is a win-win. Yet, some people are quite upset.

Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd is concerned.

Fair and balanced, get it? He is quite the naughty minx. John Edwards also took a shot at the takeover.

Sounds good to me. Edwards was not done there, however. He took the moment to go after Hillary Clinton because she has only one master: Corporate dollars.

That would be why Hillary has not said a word about the Wall Street Journal takeover. Murdoch has already purchased her with personal donations, News Corp executive donations and by hosting a fundraiser for her campaign.

News Corp executives have donated $20,900 to Clinton so far in this election cycle. Murdoch’s family has donated $9,000. In July 2006, Murdoch held a fundraiser for Hillary at the News Corp building in New York. Clinton managed to pull in $60,000 from the event. Now Hillary keeps her mouth shut while other Democratic candidates voice their concern. But that is to be expected from the biggest corporate hustler in the race. If Hillary wins the election, expect her to give away the country to corporations, just as Bill did.

Hey, how did that stuff work out?

It says a lot about Hillary that she would cozy up to the man whose News Channel and newspapers led the charge against her husband during his impeachment. She has zero integrity.

Murdoch has been cozying up to both Clintons for several years now, actually. Neither Bill nor Hillary are exceptionally inclined to bear grudges against men with money.

Ooooh, cozy up? You make it sound like a sexy, political menage a trois. Rrrrrrar.

I must hereby declare eternal Holy War upon you and all your works for inflicting that image upon my brain.

A...sexy holy war?

could i get a little back story, please?

If everything he owns looses millions, where did the money come from?

Probably not.

It's just the print media.

right, maybe we can get together and buy it from him,
the wall street suicide girls journal, or some such.

i've got $47 bucks

O thats the guy In 2000, produced a television program about a terror attack on the World Trade Center.hmmmm

"The Lone Gunmen
The pilot episode of %u201CThe Lone Gunmen%u201D depicted the hijacking of a passenger aircraft by a hostile computer hacker who takes control of the plane computer flight system and directs it to fly into one of the towers of the World Trade Center. "

hands thrown up in despair

Edwards/Obama perhaps

it makes me sad that our first female presidential candidate is someone that i could not fathom voting for.

Same. =/

That should be the mantra for this entire thread.

murdoch is hedging his bets with clinton. she a jerk, by the way.

Well, thanks for using the space to illuminate us, rather than making some dipshit comment.

But, then, at least you are consistant.

Everything he owns looses money upon what? Oh, you meant "loses" money.

I only jerkishly call attention to that common misspelling because in this case it changes the meaning of your sentence entirely.

Yeah, you are too. Writing "news" items about things you don't know anything about. Keep up the good work.

You do realize that the first female presidential candidate was back in the 1880s? And that there were women running to be the nominee for BOTH MAJOR PARTIES in 2000? And that there was a woman running for the Democratic nomination as recently as 2004?

And that there have been female presidential candidates on the actual election ballots for decades (albeit for minor parties like Right to Life and Socialist Workers Party)?

Hillary has done nothing Shirley Chisom didn't do back in 1972 (outside of poll considerably higher). Oh yeah, there is an old story that Shirley received contributions from Nixon's CREEP. Which kind of ties into the O.P. a fair bit, no?

Are you kidding me? Four years of President Hillary is Fox News' wet dream. Rush Limbaugh's too, for that matter. A four year ratings bonanza.

Imagine all the ads for backwards-running clocks and the like.

Shhhh, this isn't about you.

Murdoch pulled the same trick on Tony Blair. Despite Murdoch's undoubted rightwing agenda he did a deal, and supported Blair, when it looked like the Conservatives would lose an election - in return for no controls over his cross-media ownership in the UK. But at least Australian-born Murdoch is an American patriot? Just read the shit he gets his British papers to print about the US. The man would pimp his own grandmother.

So get ready for a marriage made in heaven - Hilary Clinton supported by Fox News. (And although individual newspapers do post losses, his global corporation remains very profitable, although a lot of the money is in off-shore funds, where Murdoch doesn't have to pay taxes to the UK government.)

In the grand scheme of things, he could give a fuck about the apple-pie image of America that is in the heads of most Fox News viewers. The man is simply about obtaining power.

I lol'd

Murdoch is a neocon/Tory. He gets his newsmedia to report with that bias. In the UK, it's not as big a deal, because everyone knows that the UK newspapers are biased. They don't even try to hide it. Here, we have a tradition of respecting objectivity. Murdoch poorly hides his pro-Republican bias and tries to pass it off as "fair and balanced". I see him doing this with the Journal (which, while a conservative rag, was only conservative on the editorial pages).

As for Hillary, I think that Murdoch is trying to play her. He, as well as the rest of the Republican party, seem to think that she's the easiest candidate to beat. They figure that a ticket that Clinton leads will drive conservative voters to the polls to vote for "anyone but Hillary", no matter who that person is. They could be batshit crazy Ron Paul, for all anyone cares. Hillary only sees the horse race with Obama, and so doesn't care where the money comes from.

If I had extra money lying around, I'd open a chequing account under the name "North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA)", write $200 cheques to each presidential candidate, and then see who actually cashed the cheques. Why? The other Democratic candidates might talk outrage, but I'm willing to bet that they wouldn't say no to any donation, no matter who it came from.

This doesn't mean that I think that Hillary should have accepted the money or fundraising help, but I've already lost hope that she would turn into a candidate I could vote for. She's as sleazy as Bill, but without the slickness to at least make you feel good about voting for him. They're all sleazy. Obama is a bit too close to Tony Rezko for my liking. Edwards, if he is being truthful in his stump speeches, wants to be a "Robin Hood" president. As mush as I would like to help the poor, it's not the government's job to give handouts. It's the government's job to provide the means for each and every person who wants to to become self sufficient.

It looks like I shall be following my grand tradition, started in 2004, of voting for the most batshit insane person from the Dems or GOP. So far it looks like Kucinich or Ron Paul, with Ron Paul being most likely, as he's more my kind of crazy.