Murdoch's daughter hosts fundraiser for Obama (The Guardian)

[Apollo11]

The Guardian (website), Wednesday April 2 2008

Murdoch's daughter hosts fundraiser for Obama

Owen Gibson, media correspondent

The Murdoch family are used to people trying to decode their political stance and its implications from their public actions. Now Elisabeth Murdoch, Rupert's daughter who runs a large independent production company, has thrown them a curveball by hosting a London fundraiser for Barack Obama.

In the most high-profile example yet of glitzy fundraising bashes for the US presidential hopefuls spreading across the Atlantic, a string of notable US ex-pats with jobs in media, the arts and finance will gather at the Notting Hill home Murdoch shares with her husband, PR guru Matthew Freud.

So-called "event chairs" at the fundraising evening include actress Gwyneth Paltrow, the wife of Coldplay singer Chris Martin, Warner Brothers UK chief Josh Berger and Julia Moffett, the director of strategy for the BBC World Service Trust.

Hosts at the bash, VIP tickets for which cost $2,300 (£1,160), include Joanna Shields, the international vice-president of social-networking site Bebo, which was recently sold to AOL.

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp media empire includes the rightwing Fox News, alongside a host of other properties including the New York Post, the News International stable of UK newspapers including the Sun and the Times, Twentieth Century Fox, BSkyB and the Wall Street Journal.

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www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/02/barackobama

[GarbagemanLB]

1. ....and? At least she isn't her dad, who did help HILLARY with a fundraiser...

[rodeodance]

2. Ha HA---LAME---joke is the BO fans now who constantly throw Murdy at us. ha ha

[GarbagemanLB]

4. You always post, yet never say anything of meaning.

[rodeodance]

6. i posted some positive Hillary threads lately--BO fans craped on them--that

was meaningful to me. It tells me that many BO fans say one thing and do
another.

Several BO fans --post positive stuff about your candidate
We do and they come on the threads with disruptor, snarks, name-calling.

I almost to the post of giving up.

[GarbagemanLB]

8. The one Hillary supporter on here who I can respect is Bigtree (I think is her name). She is at leas

t fair to both candidates and always stays positive with her threads. I see you kicking and recommending bullshit threads that use Newsmax and The National Review as sources.

[rodeodance]

9. Sorry to disappoint you. Guess even my trying sucks to you.

[TheWraith]

15. You know that there's no evidence his daughter shares his political views, right?

Oh, silly me. You were just trying to smear Obama. Nevermind.

[rodeodance]

3. REC

[Hutzpa]

5. So?

she is still a Murdoch, its in her genes "fool me once shame on me, fool me twice shame
on you, a fool me can't get fool again"

[featherman]

7. Maybe there is hope for NewsCorp when Rupert dies?

[KoKo]

11. I've read that Murdoch is all about who brings in BUSINESS....so

maybe his daughter is an apple fallen off the same tree. It's just about business...supporting the candidate who has best chance of winning. Whether it's a Dem a Repug or even both at the same time.

It's always interesting to watch the "power players" move in to gain favor with the eventual new King.

[Hutzpa]

14. My thought exactly n/t

[thewiseguy]

10. Daddy will not be happy! Hahaha

[Vinca]

12. Great! It's the daughter, not the father, after all.

My father was a Republican, too.

[DerekJ]

13. Watch where you going with this, because I have some really ..well.. not nice comebacks

Watch where you going with this, because I have some really ..well.. not nice comebacks It involves the three Clintons, and Chelsea
I have nothing to do with my father, and I don't want anyone to put me in the same basket as him.