The Judith Regan Firing: Can you Say Lawsuit?

[Cheney Killed Bambi]

Rupert Murdoch personally ordered the dismissal of Judith Regan, the publisher of a widely criticized O. J. Simpson book, after he heard reports of a heated conversation Ms. Regan had with a company lawyer on Friday that included comments that were deemed anti-Semitic, according to two people familiar with the News Corporation’s account of the firing.

Mark Jackson, a lawyer with HarperCollins, a division of the News Corporation that includes Ms. Regan’s imprint, reported the alleged comments from a phone conversation with Ms. Regan to Jane Friedman, HarperCollins’s president and chief executive.

“And then Jane called Rupert and Rupert said he won’t tolerate that kind of behavior,” said one of the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Despite the success Ms. Regan brought Mr. Murdoch’s publishing business since he established her imprint in 1994, their relationship had soured in recent weeks as she became involved in a controversy involving the Simpson book and companion television special she had championed.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/18/business/media/18regan.html?ei=5094&en=c9fced1f36c5e7ab&hp=&ex=1166418000&adxnnl=1&partner=homepage&adxnnlx=1166418330-GaucMkUH4Zs0PORzAvI3Zw

Given Regan's combative personality, and the fact that she has a lot of money, it's pretty clear she's going to sue Murdoch and News Corporation. This will be one of those lawsuits where I won't know who to root against!

And this from Drudge:

JUDITH'S REVENGE: 'They've chosen war and they will get exactly that,' Judith Regan's newly hired attorney Bert Fields tells the WALL STREET JOURNAL. 'She won't take this lying down.' Developing..

Oh well I guess it's time for some

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[Jim Sagle]

1. She not only spewed antisemitism in the workplace, she

published antisemitic tripe. She won't get far if she does sue.

[Cheney Killed Bambi]

2. what antisemetic stuff

did she publish?

[Jim Sagle]

3. Some crap by Jim Marrs.

[trumad]

4. 'She won't take this lying down.'

LOL--- Perfect.

[GreenZoneLT]

5. Now, THIS should be on court TV

Didn't she and her husband take nine years, six lawyers and $1 million-plus just to get divorced? This oughta top that, easy.

Couldn't happen to two nicer people than her and Murdoch.

[elehhhhna]

6. She took Bernie Kerik "lying down" and really, isn't that all one needs to know

about Ms. Regans sense of taste and refinement?

[Scurrilous]

11. LOL

Bernie says otherwise.

[SpiralHawk]

7. Go for it. Fight to the death. Reagan and Murdoch deserve each other

Let the mud flinging commence, and may it cost all of you a fortune and destroy the Murdoch right wing hate-and-prpaganda republicon Corporate Crap Catapult.

[UTUSN]

8. Just to flesh out REGAN's combatative personality

SOME of her men (NOTE, the 4th image is an abstract rendering of LIMBOsevic). LIMBOsevic is included because she published his first two, ghost written by John FUND (at least the first one) books:



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http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/media/columns/medialife/152/

.... Then Judith and Rupert found each other -- and ReganBooks was born. Not only did their commercial instincts mesh, but Judy's what's-the-world-ever-done-for-me politics were highly compatible with the Murdoch view.

And then the sex part. It's a one-woman show.

I have never heard anyone talk about sex the way Judy does. I have never heard anyone talk about their sexual partners the way Judy does. I have never heard anyone analyze individual motivations, the workings of the marketplace, and politics, too, in such precisely sexual terms. The other day, on her show, she kept interrupting her tempered guests on the subject of why women like Bill Clinton, and, voice rising, saying: "They want to have sex with him -- that's why they like him!"

Early in her career at Simon & Schuster, she published a book called The Rogue Warrior and fought tooth and nail for a full-face cover photo of the author. "Don't they understand?" she stormed to me. "Women will buy this because they want to fuck him!" She got the full face and a best-seller.

http://www.zianet.com/insightanalytical/newlow.htm (by DUer Gloria: )

Regan looked straight into the camera and for almost 10 minutes, delivered a pseudo stream-of-consciousness poetry riff mocking Clinton. Referring to his sad boyhood, she mocked his loneliness, then proclaimed that he built himself up and called himself KING, because "I am rich and I can do what I want!" She likened him to the cast out Socks, and envisioned him an old man meeting up with Socks at 125th street, both holding tin cups. ....

It was incredibly vicious. What was especially appalling was how she took the most painful aspects of Bill's background--his truly grievous childhood--and twisted them, using them to mock him. If this wasn't the "politics of personal destruction" I don't know how else you could describe this horrific display. ....

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And I (the poster) will claim credit for insight. Back when KERIK's book for REGAN was debutting, she hosted him on her Faux interview show. His tale was of his missing mother, who inexplicably abandoned him as a tot. She never showed up for a custody hearing. The premise of the book was that this tough uber-male had this hole in his heart, thereby setting the pants on fire of tough wingnuts of all genders. As she probed him about the book, she and KERIK locked smouldering, HOT gazes. Once the mother-thing was done, she moved on to his heroics (which were what?) on 9-11. She asked WHERE HE WAS when the planes hit. Without missing an eye-lock, he said, "Stepping out of the shower." She swallowed and held a long breath. The image of nekkid KERIK was plainly etched on the Faux camera lens during the LONG pause. He added, "In my office." Another LONG pause. He added, "After WORKING OUT." There was another swallow. I suspected BACK THEN that something was cooking between publisher and author, and it weren't spaghetti. Only 2 or 3 years later, when KERIK's many other past deeds floated to the surface like dead bodies did it become official that there was indeed WILD WINGNUT HOT LOVE between the two, that the two of them alternated their WILD WINGNUT HOT LOVE sessions with WORKING OUT together, that he had used NYPD to track down what happened to his mother, that he used NYPD to provide security for his personal WILD WINGNUT HOT LOVE sessions, that the WILD WINGNUT HOT LOVENEST was a city-paid apartment near the WTC intended as a rest site for rescue and recovery workers. The REGAN-KERIK Faux interview was pure musk in the air. Why don't Shrub's handlers hire some of US for intelligence work?

[npincus]

9. Murdoch has (way) deeper pockets

har har... 2 hyenas go to court.

[H2O Man]

10. She won't get far.

Employers can fire employees. There are few exceptions to that general rule. She fits none of them.