Bias that makes FOX news look almost fair and balanced

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

Rupert Murdoch's SUN tabloid is a prime taste of fair-and-balanced UK style.

Shameless Brown woos Clegg in bid to stay at No 10

By GRAEME WILSON
Deputy Political Editor

Published: 07 May 2010

GORDON Brown defied the people of Britain today — and made clear he will not leave Downing Street without a fight.
The PM also made a shameless attempt to woo the Liberal Democrats in a statement on the steps of Number 10.

Despite his humiliating pasting in the polls, Mr Brown made clear he was going nowhere.

He said he "understood and completely" respected Nick Clegg's decision to hold talks with the Conservatives first about forming a coalition.

He said: "They should be entitled to take as much time as they need."

But if their talks fail, he made clear he is ready to do a deal to cobble together a new Lib-Lab pact.

In a blatant attempt to win over Mr Clegg, the PM promised "immediate legislation" so people can vote in a referendum on changing our voting system — a pivotal Lib Dem demand.

Mr Brown also made a desperate attempt to create the illusion of business as usual by saying he was focused on tackling the economic crisis.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2963994/Brown-offers-Clegg-deal.html

I defied the people of DU by shamelessly posting this in a blatant attempt to make it available to be read. I included a link in desperate attempt to create the illusion of posting etiquette.

[PM Martin]

1. 36% is a commanding mandate to govern.

George Bush lost the popular vote and that was a mandate to govern too.
Labour + Lib Dem + National parties with 56% of the popular vote, no mandate whatsoever.
Welcome to Rupert's world! :argh:

[MadBadger]

2. Well the Sun is owned by Rupert, isnt it?

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

3. Yes.

[HughMoran]

4. Labour + Liberal Dem = 52% of popular vote

In forming a coalition, perhaps one should consider the will of the majority.

[Hutzpa]

5. Gordon Brown better negotiate proper

to prevent that prep boy from taking power and ruining the hard work these past years.

Labour + Lib Dem = Majority.

So says I.

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. “It is my job to see that Cameron fucking well gets into Downing Street” - Sun's Political Editor

James’ very public confrontation last week with Simon Kelner, boss of the London newspaper, the Independent, over the paper’s attack on the Murdoch organization’s coverage of the British election, apparently hasn’t helped his cause with his father, either.

James, and his number two in London, Rebekah Brooks—a key confidant of the Murdoch children who was also involved in the confrontation with Kelner—had convinced the elder Murdoch, long sympathetic to Labour Party leader, Gordon Brown, to let them endorse the conservative leader, David Cameron, in the race. Alarmed by Cameron’s fall in the polls, the two have pressured their papers to pull out all the stops in an effort to aid the Conservatives and undermine Labour and the Lib-Dems.

“It is my job to see that Cameron fucking well gets into Downing Street,” proclaimed Tom Newton Dunn, political editor of the Sun, to a group of journalists from rival papers, recently.

Even Murdoch Sr. has lectured his son on such overt partisanship—and on the lack of any pretense otherwise. James, in his heated exchange with Kelner, threatened to investigate Evgeny Lebedev, the son of the Independent’s new owner, Russian businessman, Alexander Lebedev (also the owner of the Evening Standard). Murdoch Sr.—long of the view that it is ill-advised to personally attack other publishers, lest there be a ricochet effect—is said to have remonstrated that it is especially out of bounds to threaten family members.

http://www.newser.com/off-the-grid/post/450/murdoch-chronicles-is-rupert-pissed-at-james.html

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

7. Ha! Thanks for that link. I wish FOX folks were that up front about their agenda