Posted on 02/27/2023 7:12:21 PM PST by marcusmaximus
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"Fox News very busy pivoting ... We want to make Trump a non person," Murdoch wrote in another email, in January 2021, according to the filing.
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In another instance, Murdoch texted Paul Ryan, saying, "Trump on Saturday sounded really crazy."
The text was in response to a Dec. 6 message from Ryan saying that "we are entering a truly bizarre phase of this where [Trump] has actually convinced himself of this farce and will do more bizarre things to delegitimize the election," according to the filing.
"I see this as a key inflection point for Fox, where the right thing and the smart business thing to do line up nicely," Ryan said, according to the filing.
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According to the L.A. Times, Murdoch became a U.S. citizen on September 4, 1985. He had lived in the U.S. since 1973. Murdoch had to give up his Australian citizenship. Changing his citizenship allowed Murdoch to complete some lucrative business deals. The L.A. Times stated that not having U.S. citizenship got in the way of Murdoch acquiring independent American media outlets. Laws prevented him from owning more than 20 percent of a broadcast license or permission to use a radio frequency in a specific area.
After becoming a U.S. citizen, Murdoch bought 50 percent of 20th Century Fox Film Corp. He sold the acquisition to Disney in 2017 for about $71 billion,
I did Nazi that coming!
So do a handful of FR Desantis trolls....
My wife makes me watch it ( Faux Snooze ). It is unending stream of lies, TDS, blackrock, Ed Rollins Desantis campaign support and fake Jesus commercials.
It was no surprise to me Arizona was the first state to declare for Biden 2020. In a recent interview with Brannon, attorney John Thaler starts with the observation that the Trump administration failed to consider the impact of the billion-dollar-a-year Mexican drug cartel’s smuggling income from illegal aliens, drugs, money laundering, and now we must add election-interfering.
Mexican drug cartel money buying off swing-state election officials to defeat Trump, ‘the wall builder, provides yet large moneyed entity willing to do anything to defeat Trump.
In the summer before the election, Rupert Murdoch was boasting to his fellow oligarchs that Biden was going to win in a landslide. The fix was in and Murdochs is facing the consequences of his actions as more Fox viewers leave.
He’s not nuts. He’s very shrewd, totally unprincipled and now very rich.
I was following on espn cricket and sports talk 2 out of UK.
Fantastic match. Harry Brook carried them in the 1st innings and crapped the bed yesterday.
Now for IPL
https://www.radio-uk.co.uk/talksport-2
Fantastic match. The Root-Brook partnership was a blast to listen. The Barmy Army was on fire that day.
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