He Wasn't Born In The USA! Yet, He Dominates Our Politics and Media With His Extremist Views!

That is right, I am talking about Rupert Murdoch who is the real leader of the Republican party and Tea Party Movement. Rupert Murdoch was born in Australia (which has universal health care by the way), and through News Corp, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, and his control of various other media outlets and Fox News personalities and pundits, Rupert Murdoch is perhaps the most powerful political voice in the U.S. today.

This is Rupert Murdoch:

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And these are the people who work for him:

Glenn Beck

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Sean Hannity

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Bill O'Reilly

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Karl Rove - GOP Strategist and Fox and WSJ Pundit

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Mike Huckabee - Former GOP Presidential Contender

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Roger Ailes - Fox News Boss and Former GOP Strategist

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I mean, if you had a picture for the dictionary definition of evil, it would look like Roger Ailes. Unless Dick Cheney was there first.

About Ailes and Cheney, I mean. :fistbump:

"No, Mr Bond. I expect you to die!"

hahahahahahahahahaha :rofl:

The reverse is true of Dick Cheney

makes him despicable

Posted by someone who didn't necessarily receive the beautiful gene either :D

I don't know why people have not figured this out. The America they truly love is Bank of America.


Saying they are a mouth piece for the Republican Party is giving them too much credit.

Who runs the Republican party then? I would say that the one single person who has the most influence over the Republican party is Rupert Murdoch. Also, with the growing influence of Glenn Beck, Rupert Murdoch exercises even more influence on the right wing than Rush Limbaugh. Let me put it this way. Would the tea party protests even got off the ground without Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and other Fox News personalities actively promoting such protests, and encouraging their listeners to attend? Maddow and Olbermann may occasionally express outrage, but they never encouraged their listeners to actually take any specific political action. In sharp contrast, Rupert Murdoch has shown no reluctance to use Fox News as an organizing tool to promote right wing causes. With Glenn Beck added to the Fox News stable, Rupert Murdoch's control over the Republican party continues to grow, which is ironic given the xenophobia of the right wing that its agenda for America is being dictated by a native of Australia.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/27282.html

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GOP media strategist Mark McKinnon thinks there are two people in the world who fear Glenn Beck — even if "neither will admit it."

The first is Barack Obama.

The second is Rush Limbaugh.

Beck is on a huge roll. Over the last month, the right-wing Fox News talker has claimed the scalp of the president's green jobs czar; motivated thousands of conservatives to turn out for town hall meetings and a Sept. 12 march on Washington; pummeled Democrats over ACORN and Obama's czars; and landed himself a spot on the cover of Time magazine.

"Beck is the man of the moment," says the Weekly Standard's Michael Goldfarb. "Everybody in town is watching him, waiting to see what he'll do next, who he'll take down next."

But if Beck is the man of the moment, where does that leave Rush?

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and protested him?

ACORN did itself in by giving advice to a "prostitute".

If it weren't for the Internet people like Glen Beck and Fox News would have alot of power.

Fortunately, websites such as Democratic Underground can also help shape public option.

before a knock-down, drag-out fight over at Faux. I doubt Faux's golden boys like being shown up by a relative newcomer.

His media reach in the UK is even broader than the USA, but the counterbalance is much better. Their media laws are different than ours as well as their slander/libel statutes. He owns the primary satellite system and has multiple entertainment channels in addition to the news. Sky News is more like CNN with a center-right thread. He has clearly taken advantage of the US media deregulation to entrench his operations and uses it to further his corporate agenda by callously abusing the airways to poison the public discussions.

There is a reason that they based the media baron villain in the Bond film on Murdoch. If you could create the news, you will have the scoop each time. It's only a matter of degrees and not too sure there are six degrees of separation between the film and the real man.

Nazi? I mean, what is his motive if it isn't ideologically fascist? Surely the old coot has all the money he will ever need. I just don't get it.

He's an avowed Neo-CON

5 years old and could do with an update but still very insightful...

Who is Rupert Murdoch?


In recent years, Australian-born billionaire Rupert Murdoch has used the U.S. government's increasingly lax media regulations to consolidate his hold over the media and wider political debate in America. Consider Murdoch's empire: According to Businessweek, "his satellites deliver TV programs in five continents, all but dominating Britain, Italy, and wide swaths of Asia and the Middle East. He publishes 175 newspapers, including the New York Post and The Times of London. In the U.S., he owns the Twentieth Century Fox Studio, Fox Network, and 35 TV stations that reach more than 40% of the country...His cable channels include fast-growing Fox News, and 19 regional sports channels. In all, as many as one in five American homes at any given time will be tuned into a show News Corp. either produced or delivered." But who is the real Rupert Murdoch? As this report shows, he is a far-right partisan who has used his empire explicitly to pull American political debate to the right. He is also an enabler of the oppressive tactics employed by dictatorial regimes, and a man who admits to having hidden money in tax havens. In short, there more to Rupert Murdoch than meets the eye.

In 2003, Rupert Murdoch told a congressional panel that his use of "political influence in our newspapers or television" is "nonsense." But a close look at the record shows Murdoch has imparted his far-right agenda throughout his media empire.

MURDOCH THE WAR MONGER: Just after the Iraq invasion, the New York Times reported, "The war has illuminated anew the exceptional power in the hands of Murdoch, 72, the chairman of News Corp… In the last several months, the editorial policies of almost all his English-language news organizations have hewn very closely to Murdoch's own stridently hawkish political views, making his voice among the loudest in the Anglophone world in the international debate over the American-led war with Iraq." The Guardian reported before the war Murdoch gave "his full backing to war, praising George Bush as acting 'morally' and 'correctly' and describing Tony Blair as 'full of guts'" for his support of the war. Murdoch said just before the war, "We can't back down now – I think Bush is acting very morally, very correctly."

MURDOCH THE NEOCONSERVATIVE: Murdoch owns the Weekly Standard, the neoconservative journal that employed key figures who pushed for war in Iraq. As the American Journalism Review noted, the circulation of Murdoch's Weekly Standard "hovers at only around 65,000. But its voice is much louder than those numbers suggest." Editor Bill Kristol "is particularly adept at steering Washington policy debates by inserting himself and his views into the discussion." In the early weeks of the War on Terror, Kristol "shepherded a letter to President Bush, signed by 40 D.c= opinion-makers, urging a wider military engagement."

MURDOCH THE OIL IMPERIALIST: Murdoch has acknowledged his major rationale for supporting the Iraq invasion: oil. While both American and British politicians strenuously deny the significance of oil in the war, the Guardian of London notes, "Murdoch wasn't so reticent. He believes that deposing the Iraqi leader would lead to cheaper oil." Murdoch said before the war, "The greatest thing to come out of this for the world economy...would be $20 a barrel for oil. That's bigger than any tax cut in any country." He buttressed this statement when he later said, "Once is behind us, the whole world will benefit from cheaper oil which will be a bigger stimulus than anything else."

More: http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2004/07/b122948.html

ties and support. He influences much of our foreign policy favoring Isreli government policies through his control of the RW media. Perhaps because his mother was a Jew. Murdock is a supporter of Zionism. http://www.wrmea.com/archives/june2003/0306024.html

I mean, just look at their front pages:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/

Apart from being a newspaper, the other difference between Faux and the Sun/TNOTW is that the girls they use to sell it go topless.

It's been said that whichever party the Sun backs during a British national election wins.

From 1997 when Tony Blair 1st became Prime Minister:

It's the Sun wot's switched sides to back Blair
Murdoch turns out the lights on tabloid's support for the Tories
Roy Greenslade
Tuesday 18 March 1997 10.55 GMT

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Conservative Central Office played down the importance of the Sun 's endorsement. But only five years ago the paper boasted 'It Was The Sun Wot Won It' after John Major's victory. The Sun was responsible for a vitriolic, personalised campaign against Labour's former leader Neil Kinnock, culminating in a front page that superimposed his head on a lightbulb with the headline: 'If Kinnock wins today will the last person to leave Britain please turn out the lights'.

Sun readers were important to Mr Major in 1992, comprising more than a fifth of the electorate and more than a third of the don't knows.

Polling evidence suggests their main characteristic compared with Mirror readers is that they are less interested in politics and less committed to one party.

The paper's change of allegiance is made more striking by the fact that owner Rupert Murdoch has always taken a direct part in the decision-making at every election.

The Sun became an enthusiastic supporter of the Conservatives when Margaret Thatcher was elected leader in 1975. Attracted by her anti-union stance, it then threw its weight behind her three successive election victories.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/1997/mar/18/past.roygreenslade

Hard to fight

All that evil on one page damned near broke my monitor! :scared:

like some nativist xenophobe birther wingnut about him not being born in 'murka.

FWIW, he wasn't born in the UK either, and he dominates our media too!

Though I think an irony emoticon would be more appropriate. Here are the birthers and the right wing going absolutely bat shit insane over the President, Justice Sotomayor, and giving health care to immigrants, and all this hate is being stirred up by (gasp!) an immigrant!

I do think it is fair game to ask right wingers how they can be so obsessed about President Obama's place of birth, yet they happily repeat Fox News generated talking points without question.

I'm gonna miss hearin' Keith Olbermann do 'is impression! Arrrh!

Arrrhg

Blast me to the depths. Who be the rum soaked scalawag who failed to parlay this to me?

So this won't end when Rupert dies.

No, not the guy who played Jodie on Soap........




Editor of the Murdoch-published "Weekly Standard", frequent "contributor" on FAUX Noise, and a founding member of the treasonous, anti-American neoconservative criminals known as Project for a New American Century (PNAC). Also takes credit for "discovering" Sarah Palin.

government by means of dubious constitutionality at best imv. Great job Rupert et al :P

:puke:

Prince al-walid bin Talal who likes to brag about his influence at Fox. Just do a Google search if you're not familiar with him.

The grand irony of all the Fox stoked anger against African Americans and Hispanics is that the person on top of the Fox News pyramid is (1) an immigrant and (2) came from a country that offers universal health care (Australia). I would love to see Democrats and liberals start raising Australia more often, and put Rupert Murdoch's network in the position of denouncing Australia as socialist.

bunch of evil fucks?

If not Murdoch- it would be someone else (in fact, about a dozen of someone else's).

And that's how it will remain unless and until the administration and Democrats in congress decide to behave responsibly and take care of the culture of lies that they've helped create.

probably the most appropriate one:

i apologise for posting these links too many times, but I think its important as Faux is an abomination

Read the following diaries from Daily Kos:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/9/18/780918/-An-Auss ...

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/9/19/781718/-An -...

The first one very clearly outlines what Rupert Murdoch's NewsCorp seems to engage in countries other than the US. Down here in Australia as well, they manufactured a fake controversy to harrass and potentially bring down a democratically elected progressive (to some extent) government.

The second one is an amazing blow-by-blow of Faux's disrespect for and politicization of 9/11