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Rupert Murdoch (Fox News Chief): Michael Bloomberg should run for president
The Hill ^ | 08/24/15 | Jesse Byrnes

Posted on 08/24/2015 12:03:15 PM PDT by Enlightened1

Murdoch followed up with a pair of tweets a couple of hours later, saying, "I did not say I would vote for him! Just a friend I admire," and, "Far away from world's troubles here on Great Barrier Reef swimming and reading. Seems irresponsible."

Murdoch is the head of News Corp., which owns newspapers including the New York Post and The Wall Street Journal, and until recently oversaw Fox News and other networks as CEO of 21st Century Fox.

The Australian billionaire's apparent desire to draft Bloomberg — the Democrat-turned-independent who left office in 2013 and has sent no signals he's interested in a 2016 White House bid — followed a tweet apparently indicating newfound respect for the bid of Donald Trump.

Earlier this summer, Murdoch hit out at GOP presidential front-runner Trump — himself a billionaire real estate tycoon — as "wrong" regarding his remarks about Mexican immigrants committing crime and for "embarrassing his friends," after Trump questioned Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) status as a war hero.

He also sent a tweet suggesting Trump could emerge "unscathed" from the first GOP debate earlier this month and another saying his popularity is “based on frustration with DC and endless regulations over people's lives."

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bloomberg; disarmamerica; foxnews; murdoch; president
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Murdoch thinks Bloomberg is a great mayor, and should run for President against Trump.

Remember this is the same leftist RINO mayor that tried to regulate how much soft drinks people can drink.


1 posted on 08/24/2015 12:03:15 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1

He wouldn’t even carry NYC


2 posted on 08/24/2015 12:03:57 PM PDT by samtheman (2014: Voters elect Repubs to congress... 2015: Repubs defund NOTHING... 2016: Trump/Cruz)
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To: Enlightened1

Why, so that we can have a Federal Department of Soda Cup Size?


3 posted on 08/24/2015 12:04:02 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Enlightened1

Well, this explains why Fox is so extreme left-wing.


4 posted on 08/24/2015 12:05:04 PM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: samtheman

Go ahead Bloomberg, waste your money, see if I care.


5 posted on 08/24/2015 12:05:25 PM PDT by wetgundog ("Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is No Vice" -AuH2O)
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6 posted on 08/24/2015 12:05:54 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Enlightened1

Bloomberg The Anti-Trump. ROFL. Bring it on you chumps.


7 posted on 08/24/2015 12:06:26 PM PDT by McGruff (Trump/Cruz 2016 - My Dream Team)
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To: Enlightened1

Shut up Rupert!


8 posted on 08/24/2015 12:06:31 PM PDT by sarasota
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First thing Trump should do is say “I’ve decided not to do anymore interviews with Fox News”. Let them interview Doomberg instead. See how many he can put to sleep.


9 posted on 08/24/2015 12:09:30 PM PDT by McGruff (Trump/Cruz 2016 - My Dream Team)
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To: Enlightened1

Me thinks that there are two billionaires who are kind of sweating this one out. He wont them buy his influence. This has never happened to them before.


10 posted on 08/24/2015 12:12:01 PM PDT by kempster
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To: samtheman

Because one billionaire New Yorker is in the Presidential race, it doesn’t mean that a second billionaire New Yorker should jump in.

Michael Bloomberg is just not as likable or as focused as The Donald, and to the degree he gets involved in any legal or social issues, Bloomberg is almost always on the wrong side of the debate.


11 posted on 08/24/2015 12:13:37 PM PDT by alloysteel (If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers.)
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You know the elites are looking for someone to cast as this election’s answer to 1980’s John Anderson, the RINO moderate put up as an “independent” to steal votes away from the conservative Republican they couldn’t defeat in the primary and hand the election to the Democrat.


12 posted on 08/24/2015 12:13:43 PM PDT by JediJones (The #1 Must-see Filibuster of the Year: TEXAS TED AND THE CONSERVATIVE CRUZ-ADE)
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“Remember this is the same leftist RINO mayor that tried to regulate how much soft drinks people can drink.”

Even worse, he wants our guns.


13 posted on 08/24/2015 12:14:20 PM PDT by grumpygresh (We don't have Democrats and Republicans, we have the Faustian uni-party)
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To: Enlightened1

Onset dementia???


14 posted on 08/24/2015 12:14:41 PM PDT by Leep (Cut the crap!)
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To: Enlightened1

Sure thing Ruppie. Let him get in there and waste money on advertising and everything else associated with running for Prez.

At least that would leave less money for bloomie to spend on his virulent anti-gun campaigns.

If bloomie has any good qualities; he has kept them well hidden for a long time.


15 posted on 08/24/2015 12:18:24 PM PDT by Boomer (Politically Incorrect and proud of it. "Live Free Or Die" is not just a slogan.)
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To: Kartographer

LMAO....how true this is!!!!


16 posted on 08/24/2015 12:20:57 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ("It's the hard working, tax paying citizens of the United States that are suffering...")
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To: Enlightened1

Yes! He may take 2% of the RINO axis vote.


17 posted on 08/24/2015 12:21:05 PM PDT by rhinohunter (Freepers aren't booing -- they're yelling "Cruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuz")
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Dear Rupert:

If I wanted a fascist to run America, I'd want Bloomberg too.

One day, I hope that rope and lamp posts go up in price.

5.56mm

18 posted on 08/24/2015 12:25:03 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Enlightened1

Photos of two worthless pricks! Bloomberg would never make it, we don’t elect dwarfs.


19 posted on 08/24/2015 12:25:30 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: alloysteel

I think the GOPe is slowly losing rationality now that their strategy to manipulate a Jeb win is unraveling.


20 posted on 08/24/2015 12:25:51 PM PDT by samtheman (2014: Voters elect Repubs to congress... 2015: Repubs defund NOTHING... 2016: Trump/Cruz)
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