Posted on 07/23/2006 10:17:23 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
Will Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton get Rupert Murdoch's vote if she runs for president in 2008?
Don't count on it.
Appearing on "The Charlie Rose Show," the media mogul said that if the 2008 presidential contest came down to a choice between Clinton, D-.N.Y., and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., he would "probably support McCain. If it was happening today, I think so."
According to the Financial Times, Murdoch's comments came just days after he hosted a New York fund-raiser for her Senate re-election campaign.
Murdoch's media holdings include the New York Post and Fox News.
His surprising decision to host a fund-raiser for Clinton was seen as a warming of relations between the two and an indication that Clinton's attempt to soften her liberal reputation was working, at least on him, according to the Times.
But Murdoch, the chairman and chief executive of News Corp., insisted that the fund-raiser was based on her performance as a senator.
He called her "a very impressive, able woman" but said he remained uncertain of her political philosophy. "Has she suddenly become a moderate and a centrist in everything or is she the old Hillary Clinton? I don't know."
According to the Times, Murdoch has been a strong supporter of Tony Blair, the British prime minister; the decision by the Sun, one of his British newspapers, to back Blair in the 1997 general election is considered to have contributed to Blair's electoral success.
Asked if he was keeping the door open to giving similar support to Clinton in 2008, Murdoch said: "I'd be very surprised if I found myself doing that." But he said Mr McCain "would be a fine president".
"I like him very much. I think he's a great natural hero, and I think he's talking a lot of sense," Murdoch said.
If it came down to that I'd support Abe Lincoln, or possibly Bob-The-Builder, or Sponge Bob Square Pants, or Dr. Lemming of the BDA. If we are going to talk about absurd fictitious scenarios we might as well float some absurd fictitious candidates.
""I like him very much. I think he's a great natural hero, and I think he's talking a lot of sense," Murdoch said."
Just wants his bread buttered on both sides. A lotta money at stake. FCC contracts too.
NOBODY could last that long with SUPERMARXISTBITCH : )
Agreed. Mr. Murdoch is quite the businessman and I wouldn't trust anything he does without a thorough examination of facts and an analysis of how he'll profit off it. Not that there's anything wrong with an honest profit off dishonest people....:)
It was over in the first ten minutes.
Hillary is president in 2008. Everyday brings it closer.
Are you trying to give me bloody nightmares???
WHY MCCAINIAC????
why is he the straw????? I really resent all the attention being brought ot McCain and Rudy...they are not acceptable to the conservative base and will not be the republican candidate.
So is King Rupert saying that if Tancredo or Allen are the Republican candidate, that he will back the Hildebeaste???
if so will Roger Ailes back her too.....
What a crock of sh*t
Oh, just go open a vein somewhere.
Bob the Builder gets my vote, but he should marry Wendy first. It would strengthen him with family values issues.
Ahhhhhhh, the benefits of being a new dad at 47 (I also have two teenagers). Nathan's now 4 1/2, and I'm as well versed about Dora, Bob, and Sponge Bob, as I am about the dangers the Left pose to our country.
That balance is necessary to maintain one's sanity.
ROTFL!
I had my five from 1994-2004 so while I'm up on the latest, I also remember the has-beens of the 90s that you never knew, Barney, Teletubbies, The Bear in the Big Blue House, Blues Clues, Arthur...all just nostalgia now.
The Bobs are my favorites though. Jimmy Neutron is pretty cool too.
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