Murdoch Funds a War on Obama

[babylonsister]

http://ajliebling.blogspot.com/2010/09/murdoch-funds-war-on-obama.html

Murdoch Funds a War on Obama


They used to call the party out of power "the loyal opposition," but Australian-born billionaire with Neanderthal politics and no journalistic scruples has changed all that.

Rupert Murdoch became an American citizen in 1985 so he could own TV stations here, and now as proprietor of Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, New York Post and more has turned his adopted country's mass communications powerhouse into a source of sleazy political power as well as profit.

As Glenn Beck's Dr. Frankenstein, Karl Rove's rehabilitator and Sarah Palin's sugar daddy, Murdoch has defined media deviancy down to the point where it matches the now rock-bottom ethical standards of politics.

One gauge of his dual motivation is reflected in the antics of the Journal, which Murdoch has put behind a pay wall online, but which in recent weeks has made freely available to all its most virulent attacks on Obama.

In today's edition alone, one columnist calls Barack Obama "kind of a jerk," another parses his "disastrous fall" and still another explains why "Connecticut voters want a smackdown of the president's policies."

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http://ajliebling.blogspot.com/2010/09/murdoch-funds-war-on-obama.html

[RandomThoughts]

1. He will pay.

[COLGATE4]

3. Wishful thinking. Maybe in some undefined afterlife, but

in this life he just keeps accumulating more money and power.

[impik]

4. I wish, but i fear that in our world, evil wins

[RandomThoughts]

7. Interesting, you used fear in that comment.

[DemocraticPilgrim]

2. The right never, never quit so only response is to always be ready with the truth.

[young_at_heart]

5. Is his motivation strictly money or is there something sinister?

In my 71 years on this earth I have never seen such nasty political rhetoric.

[babylonsister]

8. Good question. The power to sway public opinion any way he

damned well pleases? We know, he doesn't need the money. I'd love to know his motivation, too.

[democracy1st]

6. K & R