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Coyotl

(15,262 posts)
Sun Dec 15, 2013, 04:24 PM Dec 2013

Murdoch’s NYPost Today Backs Michael Moore Bush-Saudi Claims from “Fahrenheit 911″

Murdoch’s NYPost Today Backs Michael Moore Bush-Saudi Claims from “Fahrenheit 911″
Roger Friedman - Dec 15, 2013
http://www.showbiz411.com/2013/12/15/murdochs-nypost-today-backs-michael-moore-bush-saudi-claims-from-fahrenheit-911


Shock: today’s Murdoch owned highly conservative New York Post features an opinion piece backing Michael Michael Moore’s Bush-Saudi claims from “Fahrenheit 911.” It’s the main story on the Post’s website with a huge photo and prominent placement. The story is also featured in a color block headline on the front page of today’s paper.

Moore must get a lot of satisfaction out of this. It’s only taken a decade for a conservative pundit writing in a conservative newspaper to endorse his movie.

Indeed, Paul Sperry’s editorial is a direct echo of a 2003 Vanity Fair story by Craig Unger, author of the book that was the underlying information for the Oscar winning movie. That book was called “House of Bush, House of Saud” .................

Sperry writes:

“President Bush inexplicably censored 28 full pages of the 800-page report. Text isn’t just blacked-out here and there in this critical-yet-missing middle section. The pages are completely blank, except for dotted lines where an estimated 7,200 words once stood (this story by comparison is about 1,000 words).

A pair of lawmakers who recently read the redacted portion say they are “absolutely shocked” at the level of foreign state involvement in the attacks.” ..............
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Murdoch’s NYPost Today Backs Michael Moore Bush-Saudi Claims from “Fahrenheit 911″ (Original Post) Coyotl Dec 2013 OP
What gives? Whats the Post's game here? Jackpine Radical Dec 2013 #1
maybe to sell newspapers and hike website page views? nt msongs Dec 2013 #2
Because this is back in the news Coyotl Dec 2013 #3
But what's their interest in pushing the story? Jackpine Radical Dec 2013 #4

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)
1. What gives? Whats the Post's game here?
Sun Dec 15, 2013, 05:17 PM
Dec 2013

I don't particularly doubt the truth of certain allegations that are generally relegated to the CT Forum, but why is a Murdoch rag pushing it?

Any ideas? Theories?

 

Coyotl

(15,262 posts)
3. Because this is back in the news
Mon Dec 16, 2013, 02:29 AM
Dec 2013

Maybe there is a story we don't know yet, but they do? Murdoch has ears, you know!

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)
4. But what's their interest in pushing the story?
Mon Dec 16, 2013, 10:46 AM
Dec 2013

They don't run stuff that doesn't advance their grander scheme.

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