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http://www.nationalmemo.com/murdoch-empire-colludes-with-liberal-media-to-promote-clinton-cash/Murdoch Empire Colludes With Liberal Media To Promote Clinton Cash
Todays New York Times reports that the paper of record along with the Washington Post and Fox News will follow story lines from a forthcoming book to be published by Rupert Murdochs HarperCollins imprint titled Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich. Strange bedfellows, those two liberal media outlets and the Murdoch empire except for the smoldering grudge that both newspapers have nurtured against the Clintons ever since their Whitewater is Watergate obsession crashed and burned almost 15 years ago.
Still, the partnership between HarperCollins, Fox News, and the nations two leading newspapers amounts to an open declaration of war in a presidential election, and the consummation of an alliance with a totally disreputable news conglomerate. This is the journalistic equivalent of the Hitler-Stalin pact and a very disturbing decision by Times and Post executives.
The Times describes the papers agreement with author Peter Schweizer as exclusive, although it is hard to see how exclusive it can be if the Post and Fox are chasing the same accusations. The Times article also flatters Schweizer, a Breitbart contributor and former George W. Bush speechwriter, for the books focused reporting. Since the paper has agreed to promote Clinton Cash with that exclusive arrangement, however, it isnt easy to accept at face value the judgment of the reporter, Amy Chozick, who was assigned to hype it.
Naturally I look forward to reading Clinton Cash, but in the meantime readers may want to consider some of Schweizers earlier journalism, including a 2008 work suggestively titled Makers and Takers, in which he claims to have proved the following assertions about red and blue Americans:
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samsingh
(17,571 posts)right wing bullshit and some support for the Clinton's.
it's going to be fun to watch fox falling over itself.
Good for the Clinton's to make this happen.
LondonReign2
(5,213 posts)Sure wish we had one
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)How bad do things need to be for us to see the light and say, "Hell, no. She ain't worth all this drama."?
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)You can write the same thing over and over, but it isn't going to make it happen.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Oh hell no she doesn't!
Those who hate her will come out in droves while many registered Dems will just sit it out in disgust.
Her negatives are too great, the skeletons (even if half are untrue) in her closets are a trainwreck waiting to happen.
If she really loved her country more than her own ambitions, she would withdraw and get behind Warren.
pnwmom
(108,925 posts)NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Gman
(24,780 posts)I think that's over next to the unicorns.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)KoKo
(84,711 posts)misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)Conason is aware of the lie that media is liberal. A lie often told by Fox News.
In quotes is saying, ya sure, liberal media..haahaa.
I believe that is what he intended.
Conoson knows our media is far from liberal, thus the quotes.
How I read it anyway.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)I was a big fan of his in the days when the Clintons were under attack from the RW and through the Monica stuff. I guess he's back to defending them again against whatever this new book says. I always agreed with him in the Clinton years when he exposed so many of the RW's lies about the Clintons. He was a regular read here at DU.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)I am so happy to see him again this time around.
I like the stuff he writes & Conoson is quick to debunk the lies of the RW.
Am a big fan of his.
pnwmom
(108,925 posts)This is consistent.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Liberal media... AS IF.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Response to OKNancy (Original post)
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