2fer: GALLOWAY vs Popinjay & AILES vs Lachlan MURDOCH

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It transpires that AILES, intentionally or not? was a factor in Lachlan's abdication from the empire. This is separate from AILES, afterwards, taking over the 35 t.v. stations.

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http://www.nypost.com/gossip/pagesix_u.htm

SHARP TONGUES

TWO rapière Brit wits will cross blades on Wednesday over the war in Iraq. George Galloway, the former boxer and member of Parliament, will debate caustic Vanity Fair scribe Christopher "Hellbound" Hitchens at the Baruch College Performing Arts Center. In May, Galloway appeared before the Senate oil-for-food investigation subcommittee and used the occasion to launch a blistering tirade against America and the war in Iraq. Hitchens described him as a "renegade member of Parliament who has been Saddam Hussein's chief propagandist in Britain" with an "ugly mouth," while Galloway countered the writer was nothing but a "drink-sodden former Trotskyist popinjay."



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.... Then, unexpectedly, Rupert changed subjects. He brought up the company’s 35 TV stations. Lachlan ran those as well, along with the New York Post and HarperCollins. As Lachlan learned, Roger Ailes, the feisty CEO of Rupert’s beloved Fox News, had grabbed a minute with the boss. Lachlan knew the elder Murdoch adored Ailes, with whom he shared an affinity for hard-right politics. Also, Ailes was Rupert’s programming genius, the guy who had CNN on the run. Ailes liked to hatch programming ideas for Lachlan’s station group. The latest brainstorm was a news-based police series tentatively called Crime Line. Lachlan had resisted. He ran the stations, and he’d decided to hold off on Crime Line for a few months. “It was a 100 percent right decision if you want to save tens of millions of dollars,” Lachlan told his staff.


But Ailes had made a little fuss—“a whinge,” Lachlan called it, using the Australian term. “Why can’t I do the show?” Ailes asked Rupert.


“Do the show,” Rupert told Ailes. “Don’t listen to Lachlan.”


Lachlan had encountered meddling before—that was how his dad always operated. And the incident itself wasn’t a big deal. Still, on the plane ride back to New York, Lachlan couldn’t get it out of his head. He stewed; it recalled other small incidents. He loved his father, but he felt undercut, maybe humiliated. The feeling mushroomed. Lachlan began to brood not just about Crime Line but about his identity, in the company and out. Where was the respect due a successor, a deputy COO, a son? ....

Then there was Roger Ailes. “Roger’s the single biggest ego I’ve ever met,” said one former News Corp. executive. He was also a gifted bureaucratic operator as well as Rupert’s designated programming whiz. “You go to a programming meeting with Rupert and Ailes and you just don’t know if Rupert’s had a religious experience,” explained one insider. And lately, Ailes had ideas about what should run on Lachlan’s stations.

Some viewed Ailes as the kingdom’s Machiavelli. “Lachlan and I have a good relationship,” Ailes boasts. “He’s a nice, smart kid.” It was true, sort of. Lachlan took the view that Ailes couldn’t help himself. He importuned Rupert, he circumvented Lachlan, all was forgiven. “A leopard can’t change his spots,” Lachlan thought, and he didn’t hold it against him.


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1. First linky no worky nt

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2. I've Had Trouble Clicking-in

to the wingnut NY Post for a week now---the LogIn prompts up but doesn't work, and the re-Registration sez I'm already registered. They didn't respond to a "Contact Us" e-ltr either.

But as for the link, no worree, the item is quoted in its entirety.

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3. I was hoping it would be broadcast

but it doesn't appear to be

"Mr. Galloway, debating against the war, is a highly respected Member of Parliament who recently electrified the U.S. with his appearance at the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations responding to charges related to Iraq’s oil-for-food program. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer described Galloway’s speech in the Senate as “a blistering attack on U.S. senators rarely heard.” He penned “Mr. Galloway Goes to Washington” based upon his recent Senate Subcommittee hearings. Mr. Hitchens, debating pro-war is a widely published polemicist and frequent radio and TV commentator. He is the author of “Love, Poverty and War,” and “Blood, Class and Empire.”
Moderated by Amy Goodman, WBAI radio host “Democracy Now” and author of "Exception to the Rules." Presented by The New Press, International Socialist Review, Center for Research and Social Change, and cosponsored by Nation Books. Both panelists and commentator will be selling and signing their books at this event."

http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/bpac/calendar/event.php?id=142