How did Murdoch fast track his US citizenship?

[HipChick]

good question tweety.anyone know?

[eppur_se_muova]

1. Just guessing ... FOB?

That is, Friend of Bu**sh** ?

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Reagan expedited his citizenship approval in 1985.

[eppur_se_muova]

4. Friend of Neocons, then.

I can find any answer if I'm given three guesses. ;)

[malaise]

5. What about this?

http://gawker.com/5814150/
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Republican media strategist Roger Ailes launched Fox News Channel in 1996, ostensibly as a "fair and balanced" counterpoint to what he regarded as the liberal establishment media. But according to a remarkable document buried deep within the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, the intellectual forerunner for Fox News was a nakedly partisan 1970 plot by Ailes and other Nixon aides to circumvent the "prejudices of network news" and deliver "pro-administration" stories to heartland television viewers.

The memo—called, simply enough, "A Plan For Putting the GOP on TV News"— is included in a 318-page cache of documents detailing Ailes' work for both the Nixon and George H.W. Bush administrations that we obtained from the Nixon and Bush presidential libraries. Through his firms REA Productions and Ailes Communications, Inc., Ailes served as paid consultant to both presidents in the 1970s and 1990s, offering detailed and shrewd advice ranging from what ties to wear to how to keep the pressure up on Saddam Hussein in the run-up to the first Gulf War.
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http://gawkernet.com/ailesfiles/ailesfiles.html
The Ailes Files

[proud patriot]

2. who did he pay off ?

[tsuki]

7. Newt.

[tsuki]

6. I want to see the loooooong form. nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Expedited during the Reagan Admin

nothing really out of the ordinary. special petition and it is done regularly.

[PoliticAverse]

9. He received US citizenship by an Act of Congress. n/t

[provis99]

10. He's fithy rich and right-wing. that explains it.

[kenny blankenship]

11. Newt Gingrich

Murdoch gave Newt a sweetheart deal on his book "How To Give America Herpes And Pretend You Never Met Her" through his publishing arm, HarperCollins. A virgin was sacrificed to Be'elzebub, an FTC review of Murdoch's FOX ownership was held off until Handsome Rupert got his US citizenship expedited, some powdered batwing was sprinkled on his paperwork, and the thing was done.